It’s Wild Out There, Drive Through This Zoo

You can now drive your car through Aloha Safari Park, meaning you can now entertain the human zoo inside your car with an actual zoo outside of it. The facility’s choose-your-own adventure [...]

NAV Ends Lease on Indoor Space

The National Athletic Village will lose its gym complex due to a “restructuring” of businesses that also rent space inside the campus warehouse, according to Director of Operations [...]

From Canned Cocktails to a Fresh New Look: SPBC is Doing All the Things

With two new taprooms / restaurants, a product launch, fresh branding and expanded distribution routes all expected to be complete by the end of 2023, Southern Pines Brewing Co. is taking its [...]

The Bell Tree Branches Out to New Owners

After 14 years at the helm of an important corner of the Barmuda Triangle, Con O’Mahoney has sold The Bell Tree Tavern to new owners who have no big plans to shake things up. Chase [...]

Instant Teams Lands in Southern Pines

Let’s Take This Offline If you’re fully remote but can’t stay on mute all day, touch grass on the way to the first IRL space by Instant Teams, a company [...]

Girls Create Cycle of Support

Mallory Gaddy, 16, and Carolyn O’Connell, 15, both sophomores at Union Pines High School, have launched Moore County Her Drive — the local chapter of the national nonprofit. They are [...]

A New Store to Root For: Rhizome Houseplants

Next time you’re looking for something to spruce up your space, stop into Rhizome Houseplants. You may recognize owner Chelsea Fields from her old store in Sanford, Eyelight Coffee. [...]

It’s Not Just You Getting Ghosted 

A team from the Rockingham organization Pee Dee Region Paranormal is hunting for literal ghosts at what’s left of an old brick jailhouse in Carthage. The group is filming its findings for a [...]

Local Vet To Climb Mount Kilimanjaro

A Cut Above the Everest Conquering Kilimanjaro. Say that five times fast. Ben Powers, a Pinehurst resident and Army veteran, is preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to [...]

Atlas Found Opens in Carthage

Find Yourself in Carthage A new business near the courthouse is a little all over the map — its name, Atlas Found, agrees. Owner Heidi Clarke, who is also the head baker at Buggy Town [...]