Sports summer, buried creeks, and a dog named Biscuit

🏒 The Canes evened the Stanley Cup Final, and the Heels are Omaha-bound

⚽ Four days of World Cup watch parties take over Moore Square

🏡 Durham home prices dipped while inventory jumped 15% (see Market Pulse)

West Point on the Eno is closing for the year: Durham's beloved river park gets accessibility upgrades and reopens in 2027. Get your last hikes in now. (WRAL)

Canes even the Final: Jordan Staal's third-period goal sealed a 5–3 Game 4 win over Vegas. Series tied 2–2. (WUNC)

The Heels are Omaha-bound: UNC makes its 13th College World Series trip starting this weekend. Here's how to watch. (Chapelboro)

Budget season ended with zero drama: Morrisville held its tax rate flat at $0.35 per $100, Hillsborough skipped a hike, and Orange County's rates are final. (WRAL, Chapelboro)

School choice has cost Wake schools $500 million: that's the 15-year tab as families move to charters. (INDY Week)

The $2B WakeMed–Atrium merger inched forward: health leaders pitched county commissioners ahead of a key vote. (INDY Week)

Johnston County wants you to ease up on the sprinklers: voluntary water conservation as the drought drags on. (WRAL)

Duke Energy got grilled over data centers: state regulators questioned the utility's role in recruiting power-hungry server farms to NC. (WUNC)

Arts on East: Brandon Woody's UPENDO: Duke East Campus, 7 p.m. Free outdoor jazz from a trumpeter critics keep raving about. (Details)

Tar Heel Baseball Sendoff: Boshamer Stadium, Chapel Hill. Cheer the team off to Omaha. (Details)

Soccer Square Fan Fest: Moore Square, Raleigh. Four days of World Cup watch parties for opening weekend. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)

Duke Farmers Market: Duke Medicine Pavilion Greenway. Produce, local goods, sunshine. (Details)

TheatreFEST: The Mystery of Irma Vep: NC State. Two actors, dozens of characters, maximum camp. (Details)

"Til Íslands" opening reception: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. Meet photographer Emma Geiger. (Details)

2nd Friday ArtWalk: Ackland Art Museum stays open 5 to 9 p.m. while galleries across Chapel Hill and Carrboro throw open their doors. (Details)

Music at the Gregg: Mountain Walrus brings southern funk to the museum lawn in Raleigh. (Details)

Triangle Community Band Festival: Durham Central Park, 6 p.m. Free music from community bands across the region. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)

TheatreFESTival open house: Thompson Hall, NC State. Free backstage tours of sets, costume and light shops. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)

Raleigh Fire Museum free day: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It's only open one Saturday a month, and this is it. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)

Public tour of Duke Chapel: free, 12:15 p.m., right after Sunday worship. (Details)

Raleigh Really Really Free Market: give stuff, take stuff, no money involved. (Details)

Bike maintenance class + group ride: Lake Raleigh dock, 10 a.m. (Details)

Emancipation Tours at Historic Stagville, Durham: free, moving, worth your time. (Details)

20+ celebrations across the Triangle: parades, festivals, performances. (The full roundup)

Someone mapped the hundred-ish buried creeks running under downtown Durham, and the thread turned into a local history seminar. (Thread)

A new Triangle social club built around real connection hit 75 members in its first month. The founder's post about why struck a nerve. (Thread)

Durham County Library's directive to remove Pride Month displays sparked days of discussion, including a public response from the workers' union. (Thread)

The state Attorney General broke down his case against Duke Energy's proposed 15% rate hike. Locals had questions. (Thread)

Photos of a very low Falls Lake had Raleigh asking just how dry this stretch really is. (Thread)

Alleyway Bookstore is closing. The announcement hit r/triangle hard. Go say goodbye, and buy a book while you're at it. (Thread)

The Sweet Tea Hut on Mt. Moriah Road in Durham is winning hearts with knock-your-socks-off sweet tea from a gloriously rambly shack. (Thread)