Carrboro police cracked down on prostitution last month after receiving dozens of calls from concerned residents of Abbey Court Condominiums.
Read More »Carrboro police cracked down on prostitution last month after receiving dozens of calls from concerned residents of Abbey Court Condominiums.
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DSI Comedy Theater has a new student demographic — middle school girls. The Carrboro-based theater is offering a new improvisation class called IMPOWER, designed for girls between the ages of 11 and 14.
Read More »UNC will celebrate its third annual First Amendment Day on Tuesday, Sept. 27, but its importance extends outside the campus.
Read More »Local officials are torn between preserving public safety and protecting First Amendment rights.
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Reina Galjour left her job in an El Paso, Texas, clinic to move to a village with no running water and no toilets. In February 2010, Galjour, a certified professional midwife and Orange County native, left the clinic she worked at for more than six years to move to Haiti, where she teaches midwifery to local women with the nonprofit organization Midwives for Haiti. She recently returned to North Carolina to raise funds for the organization, which provides services and trains Haitian women in prenatal care in an effort to reduce maternal and infant deaths.
Read More »Chapel Hill will encourage residents to leave their cars at home Thursday in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality.
Read More »Greenbridge faced foreclosure sale today for the second time in four months — but Bank of America has again postponed the date to give developers more time to repay debts. Tim Toben, one of the development’s partners, said he received a letter from the bank telling him that the sale had been delayed until Nov. 7.
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Some residents of Mebane may find themselves in a new county by 2012. After more than 150 years of dispute, Orange County and Alamance County could agree on where to draw 91 percent of their border.
Read More »The Carrboro Board of Aldermen had dogs’ — but maybe not the public’s — best interests in mind when it voted last week to ban tethering. While the ban will surely prevent some cases of inhumane treatment of dogs, it could have easily been fortified with a public hearing that the board decided to skip. The outright ban now runs the risk of acting as a tax on dog owners who must expand fences to keep their dogs unattended outside.
Read More »In lieu of a permanent stage, UNC’s Pauper Players have performed all over campus. But their Fall production of “Guys and Dolls” won’t be seen in Chapel Hill.
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With people pouring out of every stoop and porch, the Carrboro Music Festival brings over 180 bands from around the Triangle to 25 different venues on Sunday for a price sure to fit every student’s budget: free.
Read More »For day laborers in Carrboro, the corner of Jones Ferry and Davie roads is the gateway to finding work every day. And though workers can only linger near the intersection between 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. based on a 2007 ordinance, Carrboro’s Board of Aldermen discussed on Tuesday plans to change that.
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Dog owners can no longer tie their dogs to a stationary object after the Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously passed an anti-tethering ordinance Tuesday.
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Cray and Kathy Gunn eagerly supported plans for a free-standing library for Carrboro — until they learned the site rezoning would redirect traffic past their home. After they voiced complaints but failed to stop Carrboro’s Board of Aldermen from approving in April the lot’s rezoning, they hired a lawyer to represent their concerns.
Read More »Ricardo Palao is tired of talking about 300 East Main St. The Carrboro resident said he has been negotiating with developers of the large mixed-use project, which will be home to the town’s first hotel, for the past three years.
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As the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district plans for a new elementary school, the growing gap in the number of students who receive free and reduced-price lunches between schools could impact redistricting plans.
Read More »The Carrboro Board of Aldermen passed a resolution this week against the N.C. Defense of Marriage Act, a measure proposed in the N.C. General Assembly.
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Fifty years ago, a scared 12-year-old black boy entered the doors of Chapel Hill Junior High School for the first time. His name was Stanley Vickers.
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Carrboro government officials hope to have a new town manager by the end of the year. Former Carrboro Town Manager Steve Stewart retired Aug. 1 after holding the position for 8 years — prompting the search for a replacement.
Read More »The fate of a freestanding library in southwest Orange County remains unknown.
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