• Durham Mayor William V. Bell was elected as chair of the North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition, a group committed to advancing North Carolina's urban centers.
• The city of Durham secured a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Communities Showcase grant program to expand its Neighborhood Energy Retrofit Program.
• Al Gore will give the 2010 spring Duke Environment and Society Lecture at Duke University on April 6.
• Seth Wescott, born in Durham, won the gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in the snowboard cross event; his second Olympic gold in the event.

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