Every month we spotlight the people and local businesses who make this city feel like home. Pull up a chair and meet your neighbors.
October 2026
Founder, Southeast Raleigh Garden Collective
“A garden is the easiest way I know to get neighbors talking to each other.”
Denise turned a vacant lot on her block into a community garden that now feeds forty families every summer, and she is just getting started.
Read the StoryFamily-owned bakery on Hillsborough Street
“We bake for the people who walk through our door, and we want everyone to feel like a regular.”
Husband-and-wife team Marcus and Jo Bennett bake every loaf from scratch, and every Sunday they donate whatever is left to a local shelter.
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Independent bookstore and reading room
Bloom Street Books stocks local authors, hosts free story times, and has quietly become one of the coziest corners in…
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Youth Track Coach, Chavis Park
For twelve years Coach Andre has run a free youth track program out of Chavis Park, sending more than thirty…
Read the StoryA neighbor doing good, a small business with heart, a regular with a story — tell us who deserves the spotlight next.
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