When Chapel Hill Town Council passed an ordinance last week to allow food trucks in town regularly, they also passed what some owners say is a cost-prohibitive fee schedule.
Recent Chapel Hill Town Council meetings have kept officials and attendees up past their bedtimes — but officials hope a regulation on public petitions could improve time management.
The Orange County Family Resource Centers has provided after-school programs to local children for 18 years, but now budget cuts have decreased the services the group can offer.
While UNC students prepare for the mile-and-a-half run to Franklin Street after Wednesday night’s Duke basketball game, the Chapel Hill Police Department is also gearing up for the night’s festivities.
On Saturday afternoon, a group of about 50 protesters known as Carrboro Commune set out to make the proposed site of a controversial CVS drugstore in Carrboro a community space.
Occupy Police RaidSunday evening, law enforcement officers carrying guns arrested protestors occupying the former Yates Motor Company building at 419 W. Franklin St. People involved with Occupy Chapel Hill were arrested and put on Chapel Hill Transit buses while residents from Carrboro and Chapel Hill watched.
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