Year in review: Quarter-cent tax increase fails for Orange County, but proposed again
Six months after winning three seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, officials said they are excited about the county’s progress.
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Six months after winning three seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, officials said they are excited about the county’s progress.
(Updated at 4:35 p.m. with information from Chapel Hill Fire Department)
UNC Dance Marathon leaves my head spinning from the power of a simple act — standing.
Chapel Hill will lose one of its biggest national brand stores when Borders closes in the coming weeks.
Orange County announced a new leader Tuesday who will fill a seat that has been vacant since December.
In Chapel Hill, the memory and dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. are alive.
The purchase of a vacant lot on Elliott Road has sparked renewed interest in a site that has sat empty for almost a decade.
Though local government is exploring moving a public library to a University Mall space currently occupied by Dillard’s, the retailer is showing no signs of going anywhere.
The ground breaking of a new UNC Hospitals facility in Hillsborough is planned to begin in February after the settlement of a major roadblock.Construction of the new branch’s physicians’ offices will precede that of the hospital portion of the facility, which won’t begin until as late as 2014 as a result of the settlement of an appeal, said Margaret Hauth, town of Hillsborough planning director.Concerned that UNC was encroaching on its territory by relocating 68 beds to the Hillsborough location, Alamance Regional Medical Center brought the hospital’s construction plans to a halt with its 2009 appeal against UNC’s state-approved Certificate of Need.The certificate verifies that the area needs UNC’s additional services.The appeal was resolved in July with UNC’s concession to delay receiving patients at the new facility until 2015, a year later than originally planned.The $228 million facility is set to be built off Interstate 40 Exit 261 in the Waterstone development, across the street from Durham Technical Community College.“We’re just moving existing licenses to decompress our main campus,” said Ray Lafrenaye, vice president of facilities and plant development at UNC Hospitals. “I don’t know what (Alamance’s) motivation was.”Alamance, a non-profit hospital with 218 beds, primarily serves patients from Burlington and Graham.“(The appeal) was settled amicably on both sides,” said Alamance spokeswoman Tracey Grayzer. “It was purely to protect business interests of the hospital.“We’ve always had a good relationship with UNC Hospitals.”Because the hospital can’t receive patients for five years, UNC is currently designing the physicians’ office building that will open in the fall of 2012, Lafrenaye said.When this design is complete, UNC will request building permits from the town of Hillsborough in order to begin construction in February.The idea of building the satellite clinic was first discussed in March 2009.“My understanding is that they want more single-patient rooms on campus,” Hauth said.“So they’ll move beds up here so they can renovate some of the rooms and convert them to one bedroom.”Lafrenaye said the only other challenges he could foresee for the new branch were economic ones.“Right now it’s a good environment for bidding,” he said.“But since it can only be opened in 2015, we don’t know what that economic environment is going to look like.”Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
Cooperation between the county and towns is the key to solving the area’s solid waste issues for the short and long-term, the Board of Orange County Commissioners said at their Thursday night work session.
Due to a source error, this story incorrectly states the graduation status of Brandon Pendergraft. According to the University Registrar’s Office, the only Brandon Pendergraft in the UNC registrar’s system attended from 1991 to 2004, and never graduated.
Residents voted against a quarter-cent sales tax increase slated to annually bring $2.3 million into county coffers.
A local hotel that doubles as a UNC sports hub has re-branded itself in order to sidestep complete reconstruction.
Retired people will not see social security benefits increase next year as the national inflation rate remains near zero.
Todd Wielar opened a wine store because he loves to drink.
Lula Alston came to Chapel Hill before the McDonald’s did.
An online marketing company moving to a Rosemary Street location hopes to redeem a building with a troubled history.
If you ask Mary Hunter Benton if she played sports in high school, she doesn’t know where to start with her answer.
Sales for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts’ Franklin Street location have been higher than their management expected — but competing stores have not noticed a drop in customers, owners said.
Orange County staff will post the latest update to a plan to reduce its solid waste on its website today — a year after it was due to the state.