In a July 11 press release, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the new state budget allows the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) to have the same pandemic response flexibility as it had under the state of emergency.
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The Chapel Hill Town Council approved the $129.3 million budget for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023, 8-0, and $546,500 funding for human services agencies, 5-0, in its meeting on Wednesday.
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The Chapel Hill Town Council discussed the petition requesting a plan for the American Legion Property to accommodate both public and private use in their meeting on Wednesday. If enacted, this plan would be the first use for the land since the town purchased it in 2017 for $7.9 million.
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Starting April 22, the festival will include two nights of live music at several venues including Cat’s Cradle. In addition, there will be a virtual lecture on sneaker culture, an exhibition of hip-hop scholarship and a public mural. “When you think about chronicling the South, I don’t think you can do that without considering the hip-hop South,” Christopher Massenburg (also known as Dasan Ahanu), an adjunct professor at UNC and one of the festival co-curators, said.
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Redevelopment would include affordable housing, fire station access, connections to Bolin Creek Trail, thousands of square feet of office space and a few hundred parking spaces, in addition to the police station currently housed in the lot.
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In recent weeks, Chapel Hill has seen an increase in bicycle and pedestrian accidents, and many community members have expressed concerns about safety in the Town. At last week's Town Council meeting, staff described different programs and initiatives Chapel Hill is employing to increase biker and pedestrian safety. “The goal that we have is to make the infrastructure and policy changes so that crashes, when they do happen, don't result in serious injury or death," Chapel Hill Transportation Planning Manager Bergen Watterson said.
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The refined OneOrange Countywide Racial Equity Plan was developed to uncover and address biases within Orange County institutions to ensure that race can no longer be used to predict life outcomes in the Chapel Hill community.
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The town's conservative budgeting, unexpected sales tax growth and personnel savings from the hiring freeze contributed to the extra $7.9 million.
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Lying in the shadow of presidential and midterm races, odd-numbered years aren’t usually remembered for their elections. This one, though, may prove quite consequential for Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
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From the implementation of a Climate Action Plan to the approval of the Greene Tract resolution after decades of discussion and local businesses bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels, 2021 was a formative year for the Town of Chapel Hill.
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UNC students and Chapel Hill residents respond to the raised rates amid concerns.
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"Those coming and those leaving the local political scene, the developments that will become destinations of our towns and most importantly the long struggle towards social justice cannot be forgotten."
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"With three new congressional maps recently approved in North Carolina, it’s worth breaking down which districts impact Orange County in what races and who is running for what."
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The Orange County Board of County Commissioners and the Chapel Hill Town Council both passed a resolution last week that will permit the development of a 167-acre plot of land in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area, providing room for affordable and mixed-income housing as well as a future school and outdoor recreational site.
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The Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously voted to approve over $660,000 in funding for affordable housing development at its Nov. 17 meeting.
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"While there is nothing inherently wrong with a desire for green space in our community, the issue of the Greene Tract is not simply about parks and trails, it’s about a historically marginalized community in Rogers-Eubanks being continually silenced — a silence perpetuated by the idea that Chapel Hill is somehow devoid of green space entirely."
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The Mayor’s Tree of the Year contest, a contest run by the Town of Chapel Hill to highlight important and meaningful trees in the community, is returning for a second year.
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UNC graduate 21-year-old Chris Suggs won a seat on the Kinston City Council on Nov. 2, per unofficial results, making him one of the youngest elected officials in North Carolina. When he was 14 years old, Suggs founded a nonprofit called Kinston Teens, an organization which attempts to empower teens through service, leadership and engagement with the community. Suggs said he will be sworn in early next month and that he is excited to get to work with the Kinston City Council.
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