Good Morning, Clayton! Glad to be back after a week off! I had a great time in Hollywood. Got to recharge the ol' creativity battery, catch up with some friends, and watch some classics — such as Friday the 13th Part VI! — on film in old movie theaters. Which is
Good morning, Clayton. Action-packed dispatch this week. I’ve spent a lot of the past couple of weeks digging through documents, asking questions, and trying to make sense of a story that started with one person telling me I needed to look into Clayton’s water agreement with Novo
Good Morning, Clayton! Lots going on this week, including part 2 of what I'm sure will be a multi-part series following the progress of the BM Robertson Mule Building. If you need a refresher on part 1, check it out here. We went over how the town
After nearly two years away, Denetra Witherspoon Jackson has reopened Patty Cake’s Littlest Cupcakes in Downtown Clayton — returning to the same storefront where an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis forced her plans to change almost as soon as they began. Each Sunday, we're sharing a small bright spot
Good Morning, Clayton! How about that traffic? As someone who worked on Capital Boulevard in Raleigh for most of the oughts, I can tell you things aren’t as bad as they could be. But we’re getting there. Clayton Boulevard — I really do hate that name — is definitely messy
Each Sunday, we're sharing a small bright spot from the previous edition of The Weekender UPDATE: We initially had MIDSOMMAR scheduled for October 3. That was an error and has now been corrected. MIDSOMMAR is showing on Saturday, October 10. Sorry for any confusion. After getting absolutely bullied
Good morning, Clayton! It’s a pretty light week, so instead of doing a big lead, I’m using this space to let you know The Clayton Dispatch now has a mailbag. Is something happening in Clayton that you feel the need to speak on? Go for it. Have a
Each Sunday, we're sharing a small bright spot from the previous edition of The Weekender Joel Fitzgerald turned a free record player, a stack of somebody else’s records and a lifelong need to make things into Four Track Records, Clayton’s little traveling record shop. Joel Fitzgerald
Good Morning, Clayton! So... this past week I spent most of it chasing a story about stormwater, construction sites, retaining walls, erosion control, and a ton of emails containing the words "100-year storm." And honestly, that story is still cooking. One thing I'm trying really
Each Sunday, we're sharing a small bright spot from the previous edition of The Weekender There are plenty of places around Clayton where you can buy produce. There are considerably fewer places where the person selling it to you can probably tell you what farm it came from,
Good Morning, Clayton! Last week’s story about Clayton Fitness was, by far, the most-read thing we’ve published since starting The Dispatch. And I don’t think that’s because everybody suddenly developed a burning interest in municipal recreation facilities. People care about Clayton’s seniors. After the
For the last few Clayton Time Warp columns we have been exploring what life was like in Clayton in 1936 using the recently digitized Clayton News. The project is focused on promoting this publicly available resource on Digital NC, Aug. 13, 1936. The main focus will be clippings that come