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Join us for the “Hollywood-style” Rebranding Bash as the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce presents its Annual Business Awards and unveils its new logo. Keynote speaker: Susan Gravely, CEO Emeritus, Vietri. Dress in your best movie star fashion and walk the red carpet! Ticket includes dinner, dessert and cocktail.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"hillsborough-chamber-gala-business-awards-2","image":{"url":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gala-2025-graphic.jpg","id":21262,"extension":"jpg","width":1747,"height":1751,"filesize":692304,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":300,"height":300,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":29311,"url":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gala-2025-graphic-300x300.jpg"},"large":{"width":1022,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":163206,"url":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gala-2025-graphic-1022x1024.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":10866,"url":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gala-2025-graphic-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":770,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":111422,"url":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gala-2025-graphic-768x770.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"width":1532,"height":1536,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":289693,"url":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gala-2025-graphic-1532x1536.jpg"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-11-15 18:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"15","hour":"18","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-11-15 21:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"15","hour":"21","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-11-15 23:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"15","hour":"23","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-11-16 02:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"16","hour":"02","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/New_York","timezone_abbr":"EST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/www.hillsboroughchamber.com\/2025-annual-gala-business-awards\/","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Speaker","slug":"speaker","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":139,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw","id":139,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/139","collection":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":7774,"author":"2","status":"publish","date":"2021-01-17 18:05:55","date_utc":"2021-01-17 23:05:55","modified":"2021-01-17 18:05:55","modified_utc":"2021-01-17 23:05:55","url":"https:\/\/visithillsboroughnc.com\/venue\/the-colonial-inn\/","venue":"The Colonial Inn","description":"

For nearly two centuries, The Colonial Inn has stood as an iconic cornerstone of downtown Historic Hillsborough. The inn safeguards dear and irreplaceable memories of weddings and receptions, tranquil stay-overs, birthday, retirement and corporate parties, family-style brunches and historic field trips for travelers and locals alike. After years of waiting, the doors are finally open.<\/p>\n

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Before headlines and hashtags, news traveled by word of mouth, and in antebellum Hillsborough, gossip could change lives. Join historian Dr. Sylvia Hoffert for a captivating talk and reading from her new book, “Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town.”<\/div>\n
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