Chapel Hill Town staff invited community members to share their thoughts on the current and future design of Franklin Street in an online survey. Over half of the survey respondents, about 350 community members in total, are neutral toward or like the current design of Franklin Street.
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Orange County Planning and Inspections Director Cy Stober said that once the plan is signed by all of the jurisdictions, planning for the Tract will continue to progress, but that there is no known prediction on a time for further progress.
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Gov. Roy Cooper proclaimed October to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which is dedicated to the promotion of public awareness of internet safety and the threat of cybercrime against users’ identities, data and privacy.
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At its Oct. 11 meeting, the Carrboro Town Council revised and adopted the Grant Project Ordinance for allocated funds received from the American Rescue Plan Act’s Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
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Following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, District Court Judge William Osteen Jr. lifted an injunction that blocked North Carolina's ban on abortions performed past the 20th week of pregnancy. Since, there have been discrepancies in how restrictions are enforced. This includes the ability to investigate a loss of pregnancy resulting from noncriminal acts, as well as the ability for prosecutors to decide whether to accept abortion cases.
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The Orange County Schools Board of Education approved a request to create a new position, the Federal Programs Director, for the school system in a meeting on Monday. Board member Jennifer Moore moved to approve the position, and it was passed in a 4-3 vote.
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During National Principals Month, schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area are appreciating the leaders who are at the center of elementary, middle and high schools.
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The Freedom House Recovery Center is one of the largest behavioral health care centers in the region that focuses on person-centered care for all ages, according to their website. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services provided $4 million in grant funds to eight community-based organizations across the state, including $1 million to Freedom House.
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On Oct. 10, people in Chapel Hill and across the state of North Carolina celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day. At the University, several organizations — including the Carolina Indian Circle and the American Indian Center — came together to celebrate community.
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Melody Kramer, a writer for Triangle Blog Blog, wrote a piece on the pickleball demonstrators and examined the current state of the Town's Parks and Recreation needs that could be met through the use of the American Rescue Plan Act funds.
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The Orange County Department on Aging is currently hosting an art exhibition at the Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center to feature works by Gary Owens. His collection showcases a variety of painted caricatures that depict influential cultural, historical and religious figures of the last century. The exhibit began with a reception last Friday.
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Fire departments participating in Fire Prevention Week seek to educate children, adults and teachers about how to stay safe during fires. This year, the campaign — “Fire won’t wait. Plan your escape.” — aims to teach about the things people can do to protect their homes from fire.
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Our goal with The Abortion Issue is to highlight the significant medical, financial, legal and political implications of birth control and abortion access in the North Carolina.
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The ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade gave individual states the power to set their own their own laws on abortion access, with almost half of U.S. states expected to ban or severely restrict abortion. North Carolina is one of the only Southern states where abortion is still legal — for up to 20-weeks of pregnancy. Here's a breakdown of abortion and reproductive health care resources in the state.
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In the wake of North Carolina reinstating a 20-week abortion ban, doctors and lawyers are attempting to define what constitutes a medical emergency severe enough to warrant an abortion past this time frame.
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North Carolinians' access to abortion could be further restricted if anti-abortion legislators are elected to the state's General Assembly in the upcoming midterm elections. Republican legislators need three seats in the state House of Representatives and two seats in the state Senate to gain a supermajority in each chamber.
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In the first election post the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many pro-life and Christian groups are working to limit or end access to abortion across North Carolina.
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Shannon, who is referred to only by her first name for safety concerns, began volunteering as an escort at one of the busiest abortion clinics in North Carolina over three years ago. According to Planned Parenthood, volunteer clinic escorts help patients get through the front door with as little harassment from protesters and picketers as possible.
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"The regulation of women’s bodies has a long history in the United States, not only regarding abortion, wherein women exercise the autonomy to make decisions, but also the forced sterilization of women in which the state made decisions on their behalf."
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“I think that a lot of the rhetoric that we're hearing right now is talking about the struggles of restricted abortion access for women,” Izze Steinke, a nonbinary UNC student, said. “By societal definitions, women are not the only people who are going to struggle with this limited access.”
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