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Black Friday brings millions to malls, outlets

Rather than taking business away from each other, new area outlets complemented the malls to serve an increased number of shoppers this year on Black Friday. Tanger Outlets, which launched in Mebane Nov. 5, gave shoppers another choice on Black Friday, opening on midnight after Thanksgiving. NOV 29

Chapel Hill celebrates Arbor Day with award

Students and town officials gathered Friday to plant a tree and celebrate Chapel Hill’s award-winning management of its canopies. Second-grade students joined Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and others to plant a Bald Cypress tree at Homestead Aquatic Center to celebrate both Arbor Day and Chapel Hill’s receiving the “Tree City USA” award for the 11th year in a row. NOV 22

Town officials plan upcoming budget

Chapel Hill officials are working to outline the coming fiscal year’s top priorities before the next budget session. Each town board and commission, including economic growth, public arts and transit, will submit goals to the mayor’s office in order to help the Chapel Hill Town Council form guidelines to keep in mind as they help lay out the budget NOV 19

Tanger Outlets holds grand opening for Mebane location

The opening of the Tanger Outlets created a traffic jam this weekend. Parking stretched past the lot onto the hills. Shoppers could still smell the fresh paint on the walls. The store provides another large retail option for UNC students, competing with Durham’s The Streets at Southpoint for their business while offering outlet prices. NOV 8

Downtown Chapel Hill plan to be revised

With the formation of a downtown development plan drawing to a close, town officials will meet Wednesday to review public comment and adjust it accordingly before the project’s next draft is released. After creating a Downtown Small Area Plan in 2000, the Chapel Hill Town Council decided to make a new Downtown Master Plan last year and hired KlingStubbins, a design firm with offices in Raleigh, to outline the plan’s framework. OCT 26

Weaver Street Market's seventh annual wine sale draws over 300

Amid sounds of Latin music, more than 300 hundred people enjoyed wine and sunshine Saturday at the seventh annual Weaver Street Market wine sale. OCT 12

Asian American Parent Advisory Council to educate parents on Asian students' emotional health, stress

Sarah Whang, chairwoman of the Asian American Parent Advisory Council, said parental and other societal pressures are major causes of depression among Asian-American teenagers. OCT 5

Town works to improve Franklin Street business climate

With just five percent of downtown business buildings unoccupied, town officials are saying Franklin Street is on the rise. SEP 29

Tanger Outlets helps, hurts local economy

A poor economy, lack of infrastructure and fierce competition turned what was supposed to be a 128-acre shopping center into a dead development. Plans for the Buckhorn Village project, located near the southeast corner of Interstate 40 and Buckhorn Road in Orange County, have been abandoned, said Roger Perry, president of East West Partners and one of the project’s former developers. SEP 21

Board of Trustees talk tuition

The UNC Board of Trustees spent this week’s meeting focusing on the details of the tuition increase and how to move UNC forward despite the economic downturn. The meeting, held on today and Wednesday, concentrated on tuition but still reviewed construction plans and other purchases. JUL 22

Laying the foundation: Medlin prepares for year

With classes starting in just 33 days, Hogan Medlin and his administration are working to accomplish their goals. Medlin, UNC’s student body president, ran under a 68-page platform that outlined what he hoped to achieve during his year in office. AUG 23

Hatchell donates to cancer fund

North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell isn’t the first head coach at UNC to give back to the community. JUN 30

Camp for the cure

To kids at the Eric Montross Father’s Day Basketball Camp, Eric Montross is just an extremely tall guy. JUN 24

UNC partners with Olympus

A new partnership between UNC and Olympus launched an imaging research center on campus designed to be one of the best in the world.

The UNC-Olympus Research Imaging Center was donated to UNC by Olympus America Inc., a camera manufacturer and world leader in imaging research and microscope manufacturing.
JUN 17

Spit wins UNC major grant

A fast and affordable idea for using saliva to diagnose diseases in developing countries helped UNC researchers receive a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

David Lawrence and Vyas Sharma, both professors in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, received one of 78 grants for $100,000. There were nearly 2,700 applications for the grants.
MAY 27

Tar Heel Treasure successful

Hundreds of people ran into the Smith Center on Saturday morning to get the good stuff that UNC students left behind after moving out for the summer.

“Have you even seen the Black Friday shopping?” said Robert Barker, a Granville Towers community director and volunteer at the event. “It was just like that.”

The doors opened at 7:30 a.m. with hundreds of people already waiting. MAY 20

UNC to get rid of coal by 2020

UNC will phase out coal use by May 2020, Chancellor Holden Thorp announced May 4 on the roof of Rams Head Center.

The announcement came after  a student-led campaign that began in August encouraging the University to accelerate ending its ties with coal.

“We are proud to be a leader in sustainability among American colleges and universities,” Thorp said.
MAY 12

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