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1200 MLK Project Highlights Need for Affordable Housing in Chapel Hill
The approval of a rezoning application on Martin Luther King Boulevard highlights a growing need for affordable housing in Chapel Hill and raises concerns about the ability of property owners to displace low-income residents.
Chapel Hill’s 1200 MLK project paves the way for a new gas station, convenience store and a 100,000 square foot self-storage facility while protecting an existing mobile home park.
Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger said if the rezoning application was denied, the developer, Stackhouse Properties, told the council they would have closed the Tar Heel Mobile Home Park – effectively displacing 73 families.
Protected in a refrigerator in the St. Augustine Historical Society s research library are 104 glass photographic negatives that tell the story of Lincolnville, the city s historic Black community, in the 1920s.
The photographer, Richard Aloysius Twine, was born in the city on May 11, 1896, and was the youngest of eight children.
Around 1917, Twine left St. Augustine for New York City. We have, through research, found he was living in New York City for several years from about 1917 to 23 or 24, and that would have been right around the time of the Harlem Renaissance, said Bob Nawrocki, St. Augustine Historical Society s chief librarian. So there s a possibility he may have learned to take photographs when he was up there.
People who are 60-years-old and up will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Florida starting Monday and Governor Ron DeSantis says he’s lowering the age now that supplies are going up.