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Overview

Visitors Centers

Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Center
501 West Franklin St (Downtown); Chapel Hill; toll-free (888) 968-2060; phone (919) 968-2060. Open Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5pm; Sat., 10am-2pm.

Orange County Visitors Center
Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
150 East King St (Downtown, in the Alexander Dickson House); Hillsborough; toll-free (877) 732-7748; phone (919) 732-7741. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm; Sat., 10am-4pm; Sun., Noon-4pm.

UNC Visitors’ Center
250 East Franklin St (West Lobby, in the Morehead Foundation building), UNC campus; Chapel Hill; phone (919) 962-1630. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm; closed major holidays.

Travel & Tourism

North Carolina Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus
1800 Camden Rd (Suite 107, #213), Charlotte, NC 28203; phone (704) 333-8445. A network of destination-marketing organizations, which work cooperatively to promote North Carolina as a destination for meetings, conventions and leisure travel.

North Carolina Division of Tourism, Sports and Film Development
301 North Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC 27699-4301; toll-free (800) 847-4862 (VISITNC); phone (919) 733-4171. The division is responsible for promoting North Carolina in tourism, sports and film, and publishes a number of publications for travelers, including attractions and accommodations, golf, outdoor recreation and events and festivals guides.

Triangle Family of Communities
A Collaboration of Triangle Area CVBs, Chambers, Cities, Towns and Counties

Business Development & Relocation

Orange County Economic Development Commission
110 East King St (Downtown), Hillsborough; phone (919) 245-2325. Open Mon.-Fri., 8am-5pm; closed major holidays. Strives to make Orange County a smart, innovative place in which to live and work. It encourages public-private investments to provide jobs for county residents and to increase the non-residential tax base. Through these investments, it enhances the county’s financial well-being, the ability of local governments to provide high-quality services and the quality of life for county residents.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
104 South Estes Dr, Chapel Hill; phone (919) 967-7075. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm; closed major holidays. Provides brochures and personal assistance to newcomers seeking information about the Chapel Hill and Carrboro areas, especially for family relocation and business start-up and relocation. Parking.

Hillsborough/Orange County Chamber of Commerce
102 North Churton St (Downtown), Hillsborough; phone (919) 732-8156. Open Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5:30pm; closed major holidays. Represents the best sources for goods and services in the Hillsborough area, and is organized to advance the growth and prosperity of its business community, and to provide information to visitors, locals and those planning to relocate to the area.

Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership
308 West Rosemary St, #202 (Downtown), Chapel Hill; phone (919) 967-9440. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm. This organization was created to bring the resources of the Town, the University, and downtown community together to maintain, enhance and promote downtown as the social, cultural and spiritual center of Chapel Hill through economic development.

Newspapers & Media

The Carrboro Citizen
309 West Weaver Street (#300); Carrboro, NC 27510; phone (919) 942-2100. Local weekly newspaper established in 2007 that covers the greater Carrboro area and is published on Thu.

Carrboro Free Press
P.O. Box 1407; Carrboro, NC 27510; phone (919) 357-6948. Local weekly newspaper published on Wed. that features news, features and miscellany.

The Chapel Hill Herald
106 Mallette St (Downtown); Chapel Hill, NC 27516; phone (919) 967-6581. Section of The Herald-Sun (Durham), which is published every day for Chapel Hill-area readers.

Chapel Hill magazine
104-B North Elliott Rd; Chapel Hill, NC 27514; phone (919) 933-1551. Bimonthly magazine serves residents of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and northern Chatham County.

The Chapel Hill News
505 West Franklin St (Downtown); Chapel Hill, NC 27516; phone (919) 932-2000. Local newspaper, founded in 1923 and now owned by The News & Observer (Raleigh), is published on Sun. & Wed.

Community Sports News
123 Barclay Rd; Chapel Hill, NC 27516-1402; phone (919) 968-8741. Published monthly, CSN is a free tabloid newspaper that covers adult sports and recreation in the Orange County, north Chatham and south Durham County areas. It also publishes several special guides.

The Daily Tar Heel
CB# 5210, Carolina Union; Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5210; phone (919) 962-1163. Official campus newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published Mon.-Fri. when school is in regular session and weekly during the summer session.

Fifteen501 magazine
5870 Faringdon Place (#200); Raleigh, NC 27609; phone (919) 870-1722. Published quarterly with 30,000 readers. Connects life in Durham, Orange and Chatham Counties, connected by US Highway 15-501.

The Independent Weekly
P.O. Box 2690; Durham, NC 27715; phone (919) 286-1972. The Triangle’s largest locally owned newspaper, published every Wed. Features extensive listings of arts, music, cultural, social and political events and activities.

The News of Orange County
109 East King St (Downtown); Hillsborough, NC 27278; phone (919) 732-2171. Published weekly on Wed. primarily for Hillsborough and the communities of northern Orange County.

The Peoples Channel (Cable Channel 8)
300-AC South Elliott Rd (The Galleria); Chapel Hill, NC 27514; phone (919) 960-0088. Provides citizens with the means and opportunity to produce and distribute news, political and cultural information and programming relevant to the community and its interests.

Southern Neighbor
P.O. Box 2014; Chapel Hill, NC 27515; phone (919) 967-4721. Monthly tabloid-size newspaper published for the greater Chapel Hill area, including more than 40 neighborhoods and communities.

WCHL Radio (AM 1360)
88 VilCom Cir (#100); Chapel Hill, NC 27514; phone (919) 933-4165. News and talk format includes a reporting partnership with The Chapel Hill Herald. Flagship station of the Tar Heel Sports Network. CBS affiliate.

WCOM Radio (FM 103.5)
201 North Greensboro St (Downtown); Carrboro, NC 27510; phone (919) 929-9601. A community radio station using low-power FM to broadcast various programs and issues of interest to the community, one third of which is in Spanish.

WUNC Radio (FM 91.5)
120 Friday Center Dr; Chapel Hill, NC 27517; phone (919) 966-5454. North Carolina Public Radio, aNational Public Radio (NPR) affiliate. News, feature, talk, music and the arts format.

WRAL-TV, Channel 5
2619 Western Blvd; Raleigh, NC 27606; phone (919) 821-8500. CBS affiliate.

WTVD-TV, Channel 11
411 Liberty St; Durham, NC 27701; phone (919) 683-1111. ABC affiliate.

WNCN-TV, Channel 17
1205 Front St; Raleigh, NC 27609; phone (919) 836-1717. NBC affiliate.

WLFL-TV, Channel 22
3012 Highwoods Blvd; Raleigh, NC 27604; phone (919) 872-9535. WB and UPN affiliate.

Senior Citizens

Orange County Department on Aging
300 West Tryon St; Hillsborough; phone (919) 245-2000. Open Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5pm. The department serves as the central resource for planning, advocacy and coordination of services for older adults in Orange County. It also coordinates a wide range of programs and activities at five senior centers around the county.:

• Carrboro Century Center (with the Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department); 100 North Greensboro St; Carrboro; phone (919) 918-7364. Hours vary.
• Cedar Grove Community Center (with the Orange County Recreation & Parks Department); 5800 NC Highway 86 North; Cedar Grove; phone (919) 732-8194. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-1pm.
• Central Orange Senior Center; 515 Meadowlands Dr; Hillsborough; phone (919) 245-2015. Open Mon.-Fri., 8am-5pm.
• Efland-Cheeks Community Center (with the Orange County Recreation & Parks Department); 117 Richmond Rd; Mebane; phone (919) 563-1130. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-1pm.
• Seymour Center, 2551 Homestead Rd; Chapel Hill; phone (919) 968-2058. Open Mon.-Thu., 8am-10pm; Fri., 8am-5pm; Sat., 8am-2pm. Combines the former Chapel Hill Senior Center in The Galleria on South Elliott Rd and the former Northside Senior Center on Caldwell St. (Named for Robert and Pearl Seymour.)

UNC Hospitals

UNC Hospitals
101 Manning Dr; Chapel Hill, NC 27514; phone (919) 966-4131 (operator). The UNC Health Care System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system, owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. It exists to further the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and to provide state-of-the-art patient care. Because of its close association with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, a nationally eminent research institution, UNC Health Care is a powerful pathway for moving the results of biomedical research from medical school laboratories to patient care settings.