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Rich sat on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board from 2001 to 2007 and the Chapel Hill Town Council from 2009 to 2012, then served on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2012 to 2020, as vice chair and then chair. She is an assistant clerk of superior court.
Source: INDY Week: Orange County Register of Deeds, Penny Rich, 2026 Primary Candidates
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Background reading on COVID-19 in Orange County, 2020–2022. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Penny Rich. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
Residents and staff of Carolina Meadows, a retirement community in Chapel Hill, record their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 through poems, stories, memoirs, photographs and interviews. The volume was produced by the community in 2021 with the Southern Oral History Program at UNC. Subjects include older people's writings and the social life of retirement communities in Chapel Hill during the pandemic.
Seven posters from the Orange County Arts Commission's MaskUpOCNC campaign of 2020, made to encourage mask wearing in the county during the COVID-19 outbreak. The set is in color, in English or Spanish.
Artist's map of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus made by Bob Goldstein in 2020, screen printed in color and folded as a sculptural book in the Turkish map fold. Yellow dots scattered along the campus walking paths stand for the 1,112 people on campus with COVID-19 at one point that fall. Subjects include pictorial works for the pandemic in Chapel Hill.
William W. McLendon's reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic as it touched the University of North Carolina and its medical center, written at Chapel Hill and last revised on May 23, 2021. McLendon, a physician, frames the piece as the continuing education of a student of medicine. Topics include Chapel Hill physicians and the history of the university hospitals.
Photographs and related files from the Office of University Communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009 to 2022, roughly 20,000 items in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40482. Topics include administration, faculty, staff and alumni, football and basketball, campus buildings, awards, public relations work, and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 to 2023 in Chapel Hill.
Prints by Bob Goldstein, born 1967, made between 2004 and 2023, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40360. The posters concern Chapel Hill lectures, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 to 2023 and the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
An account of the Carolina Covid-19 Collection, the documentation effort the University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill built around the pandemic that began in 2020. Issued by the university in 2024.
Mandy Cohen, who led the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services during the pandemic years, spoke on what came next at the Department of Public Policy in Chapel Hill on March 23, 2022. Twenty pages with color illustrations and portraits. Topics include COVID-19 in North Carolina and public health administration.
Born digital material gathered by the University Archives and Records Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting the COVID-19 pandemic on campus between 2020 and 2022. About 800 items totaling roughly 34.7 gigabytes, University Archives 70097. Topics include coronavirus infections, student activities, students, and university faculty through those pandemic years.
Program for the installation of Kevin Guskiewicz as the twelfth chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill, held in Memorial Hall on Sunday, October 11, 2020, at three in the afternoon. Eight unnumbered pages with color portraits, published by the university.
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