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Renée Price
Renée Price served ten years on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, stepping down at the end of 2022 to represent House District 50 in the North Carolina General Assembly. On the board she pressed for affordable housing, school facilities, farmland preservation and racial justice. As chair she backed the county library's move to end overdue fines in November 2021, and she spoke at the May 2022 groundbreaking for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro.
Source: Orange County government: Commissioner Renee Price Honored for Service on Board of Commissioners
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- Gaps in vaccination among Black and Hispanic residents reported Chapelboro reported that Black residents were 12.4 percent of Orange County's population but 9 percent of those vaccinated, and Hispanic residents 8.6 percent and 5.5 percent. The county was working with church leaders and advocates in a Human Services Consulting Group and had held clinics at the Hargraves Community Center and in Cedar Grove. People: Renée PriceChapelboro: Orange County's Efforts To Equitably Vaccinate Minority Communities Show Early Success
- Orange County Public Library ends overdue fines Orange County commissioners approved a fine-free model for the county library, and overdue fines ended the next day. Library staff had found that fines fell hardest on residents facing economic hardship; charges for lost or damaged items continued. The recommendation came out of a strategic planning team organized by assistant library director Erin Sapienza. People: Renée Price, Erin SapienzaChapelboro: Orange County Public Library Goes Fine-Free (November 19, 2021); with Orange County news release, Orange County Names Sapienza as Library Director (July 18, 2022)
- Ground is broken for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro Carrboro and Orange County broke ground at 203 South Greensboro Street for the Orange County Southern Branch Library and civic building known as The 203 Project, after both boards gave final approval on March 15, 2022. Mayor Damon Seils led the program, with remarks by commissioners' chair Renee Price, County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Town Manager Richard J. White III and Nerys Levy of the Friends of the Southern Branch Library. People: Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Damon Seils, Renée Price, Bonnie HammersleyTown of Carrboro news: Groundbreaking for The 203 Project (May 2022)
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- Orange County Public Library Libraries, museums and media · Hillsborough · 2 events here
- Hargraves Community Center Community centers and organizations · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- Bonnie Hammersley 1 entry: Ground is broken for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro (May 5, 2022)
- Damon Seils 1 entry: Ground is broken for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro (May 5, 2022)
- Erin Sapienza 1 entry: Orange County Public Library ends overdue fines (November 16, 2021)
- Randee Haven-O'Donnell 1 entry: Ground is broken for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro (May 5, 2022)
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- NC LIVE: prepared search for Renée Price Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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