“On behalf of CHCCS, I apologize,” Superintendent Rodney Trice wrote in an August 28 Facebook post. “This should be an exciting and welcoming start to the school year, and for some of our families, we’ve failed to create that environment.”
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“My nightmares are nothing compared to the trauma some families in my community are going through,” Maria Palmer told the Chapel Hill Town Council at the Feb. 25 meeting.
One inch of rain falling on one acre of impervious surface can send 27,154 gallons of water running off the property, Carrboro Stormwater Manager Dylan Kirk says.
At a Feb. 11 Town Council work session, Business Management Director Amy Oland presented staff’s recommendations for spending $3 million in “unassigned” funds.
If you can’t prevent traffic congestion, find ways for people to avoid getting stuck in it.
The all-volunteer South Orange Rescue Squad (SORS) began helping people in crisis long before there was a 9-1-1 number to call. They haven’t stopped since.
Instead of Chapel Hill building bicycle lanes and sidewalks along the Estes Drive Extension this
fall, the state government has pushed the project start date to 2031.
A mix of factors — staff vacancies, higher than expected sales taxes, careful budgeting — left Chapel Hill with $3 million more than expected in its general fund at the end of Fiscal Year 2025.
It’s been more than half a year since Tropical Storm Chantal hammered Carrboro, but the town is still waiting on federal disaster relief.
With snow and ice finally melting away, this weekend will be the first day off for some of Carrboro’s Public Works staff in 26 days.
The front-page newspaper stories in 1923 Chapel Hill have a truly small-town feel.
Of 35 projects in its comprehensive plan, Carrboro has implemented 14, is working on 18, and hasn’t begun three.
When Tropical Storm Chantal approached Orange County last year, Carrboro’s South Orange Rescue Squad (SORS) knew trouble was coming with it.
Last week, Chapel Hill approved amended development rules that allow larger duplexes and shared driveways, eliminate minimum parking requirements and ease the rules on business signs.
For the second time, Chapel Hill has settled a lawsuit over short-term rentals (STRs)and preserved the town’s authority to regulate them.
Freezing rain. A couple of inches of snow. Ice.
Traffic circles can improve traffic flow, Carrboro Town Council member Jason Merrill said, but they pose safety concerns for cyclists.
Traffic circles can improve traffic flow, Carrboro Town Council member Jason Merrill said, but they pose safety concerns for cyclists.
CARRBORO – Anyone who attends the Carrboro Film Fest will discover how wide and diverse the South really is, festival director Bryan Reklis says.
It is sad when people live extraordinary lives, yet the world learns their stories only through an obituary, filmmaker and college professor Christopher C. Fisher said.
The biggest challenge of firefighting is also one of the job’s greatest rewards, Carrboro firefighter Luis Galdamez said.
Carrboro won’t make its 2030 goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 %, but that’s partly because the town set itself a high bar.
CARRBORO — Patrolling Carrboro’s streets at night exposes officers to a different side of town than during the day, Officer Hunter Tyson said.
As Carrboro updates its Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and pursues a long-term downtown development strategy, town leaders and residents are weighing how — and how fast — the town should grow.
Lost homes, lost health, fading dreams, fading pets. At Christmas, need and loss often hit harder than at any other time of year — and so does the desire to help.
The CARE Team — a partnership among Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County — was the first-ever recipient of the Rooted in Results Award, presented along with the other Golden Pinecones at a Dec. 4 ceremony.
CARRBORO — The appeal of municipal planning lies in its variety, new Carrboro Planning Director John Fussa says.
CARRBORO —The Carrboro Community Garden Club is not big on rules, member Marcia Mills says, but it loves tradition.
CARRBORO – Critics of Carrboro’s downtown redevelopment plan say it could worsen flooding, that it hasn’t received enough public feedback and that the downtown it creates wouldn’t really be Carrboro.
CARRBORO – Carrboro’s Randee Haven-O’Donnell remembers protesting at Stonewall, protesting against the Vietnam War, hitchhiking across America, and falling in love with North Carolina the first time she flew over it.
This Saturday, it will be 160 years since the Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the United States. James E. Williams Jr. would like people to pay attention.
CHAPEL HILL / CARRBORO – “There’s really two kinds of Chapelboros,” Sofia Edelman of PORCH says. “There is definitely the surface level assumption that it is a very wealthy community, but there is also an immense amount of need.”