North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein made a handful of appointments to state-run boards and commissions this week, including several Orange County community members.
A release from the governor’s office shared the latest additions to the Historic Hillsborough Commission, which keeps track of the Town of Hillsborough’s history and preserves its various historic sites. Among the nonprofit’s responsibilities are maintaining and preserving the Burwell School Historic Site on North Churton Street. Commission members, as selected by Stein, are meant to be representative of the greater community and serve six-year terms.
On Thursday, Stein made a trio of appointments: Ebony Bryant, Elizabeth Frankenburg, and Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood. Bryant and Frankenburg are both educators, with Bryant working 15 years with the Duke Law School and Frankenburg as a professor and the director of the Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Blackwood, meanwhile, is an Orange County native who has worked at the sheriff’s office for more than 45 years. He won the Democratic primary in March and is running unopposed in November for a fourth term as sheriff…