Orange County election filings have yet to show real race
By Sarah Glen | Jul. 1, 2011With six days left for potential public servants to file for November’s election, the field still lacks true competition.
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With six days left for potential public servants to file for November’s election, the field still lacks true competition.
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With six days left for potential public servants to file for November’s election, the field still lacks true competition.
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Although Chapel Hill officials chose to pull funding for the annual fireworks celebration at Kenan Stadium, a wide variety of local Independence Day activities still exist.
Read More »Randee Haven-O’Donnell remembers advocating for the worker movement in college as one of her most rewarding endeavors.
Read More »Cyetesse Cotton has been getting her teeth cleaned at the same place for more than 40 years.
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Michelle Johnson starts every morning with a session of meditation on her kitchen floor.
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The man who has become the face of comedy in Chapel Hill and Carrboro is moving up in more ways than one.
Read More »The Orange County Board of Commissioners took the first steps toward closing the county’s landfill by passing a $5 tipping fee increase Tuesday night. Revenue generated from the increase — which County Manager Frank Clifton said would be between $50,000 and $60,000 per year — will be used to fund remediation payments to the Rogers Road community that has housed the landfill for almost 40 years. Commissioner Valerie Foushee emphasized the need for the board to move forward rather than revisit past options. “(The Rogers Road residents) don’t have 30 more years to keep living through this,” she said.
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Renita Lee was always running out of eggs. After moving to Carrboro five years ago to enter a drug rehabilitation program, Lee said she has had trouble finding a job — even after being drug-free for more than four years.
Read More »The Carrboro Board of Aldermen endorsed the building of a new 39-unit solar-powered housing development.
Read More »Carrboro Town Manager Steve Stewart has announced to the Board of Aldermen that he plans to retire in late summer or early fall. Stewart is a native of Burlington and has been the town manager since September 2003.
Read More »Carrboro is one step closer to having its first parking deck after the Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved its design at a meeting Tuesday night.
Read More »Hopes of a free-standing library in Carrboro will become a reality in a matter of years after the project was approved by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night. Aldermen voted 6-1 to rezone property located at 210 Hillsborough Road to create the southwest branch of the Orange County Public Library system. The site will be rezoned from a residential to a business classification.
Read More »Carrboro issued two press releases last week stating that an investigation into dry cleaning solvent contamination near 408 W. Weaver St. is underway.
Read More »itting the memory of his giving spirit, Chapel Hill and Carrboro celebrated the completion of a stream restoration project Saturday at the park that shares Henry Baldwin’s name. Chapel Hill Town Council member Donna Bell said the project includes a community garden that will serve the towns in a variety of ways just as Baldwin, an active community leader, did.
Read More »The Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved a decision Tuesday night to move up discussion of a proposal that could bring a new library to Hillsborough Road.
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The face of the Orange County resident is changing. Since 2000, county population groups of all ethnicities have seen significant changes to their makeup, according to recently released data from the U.S.
Read More »Carrboro is set to introduce a program to provide residents with free prescription drug discount cards at no cost to the individual beginning April 4. The National League of Cities is sponsoring the program that will be administered by CVS Caremark.
Read More »The Carrboro annual kite fly was held Sunday, but the sub-40 degree weather significantly hampered the turnout. T.J. Carr, facility activity supervisor in the Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department, said in previous years up to 100 people have attended.
Read More »Past and present Carrboro residents voiced their opinions on the proposed location of a Orange County Public Library branch at a crowded public hearing Tuesday night.With the bulk of the opposition for the 210 Hillsborough Road site coming from surrounding neighborhood residents, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen requested more information on how a freestanding library could impact local traffic flows before the board makes its decision April 19.
Read More »Within the next few years, Carrboro could be the home of the new Orange County branch library.On Tuesday night, Carrboro’s Board of Aldermen will decide whether to continue considering a rezoning petition that would allow for the building of an Orange County branch library.
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