I wanted to share information about a new policy pending adoption by OWASA, which would increase water/sewer connection fees adjacent to large pipelines installed after September.
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Despite all the work Carrboro has put into drafting a new development ordinance, the state legislature can erase it in an instant, a town contractor said in June.
This September, the North Carolina Botanical Garden welcomes back Sculpture in the Garden, its beloved annual exhibition pairing the work of local artists with the Garden’s own curated landscapes.
Never keep sour cream in your refrigerator more than six years. It’s a lesson to live by, along with avoiding ground wars in Asia or trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz. I have learned this lesson the hard way.
With all the rich visual art that’s available in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro area, one doesn’t immediately think of concert posters as an art form. Yet, they are widely recognized as art because of the unique craftsmanship involved in the practice.
GOVERNMENT Chapel Hill community, This past Saturday, our community came together to celebrate the life of Jamezetta Bedford, who passed away suddenly this summer. As part of that celebration, I…
A weekly roundup of crime reports from local police agencies.
Chapel Hill has a long tradition of preparing young people not simply for college and careers, but for lives of public engagement.
It is a community shaped by public schools, a major public university, civil rights activism, local government, journalism, the arts, and generations of residents who have believed that citizenship carries responsibilities as well as rights.
Opening Aug. 29 at Chapel Hill’s Robert and Pearl Seymour Center, “Looking Back: Where Memory Takes Root,” is more than an art exhibition. It is an invitation to see Chapel Hill through the eyes of those who lived its history and to understand why preserving community stories matters just as much as preserving historic buildings.
Families and children enjoyed mingling with town officials, police officers, and community partners at Chapel Hill’s “National Night Out” on the evening of Tuesday, August 4.
The Chapel Hill Police Department is assigning a dedicated team to investigate vehicle break-ins. The team is focusing on trends in times and locations of these crimes. Over the weekend, suspects broke into 14 vehicles across town.
Break-ins and thefts from parked cars were the single most common crime reported to Chapel Hill police over a recent two-week stretch, according to a review of daily police bulletins covering July 14 through July 27 — a pattern concentrated in a handful of residential streets even as the town’s busiest corridors, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and East Franklin Street, logged the highest overall incident counts.
Chapel Hill says the town’s Everywhere to Everywhere (E2E) greenways plan is something they’re doing for the public. Mendel Drive resident Edward Marshall says that paving a woodland pathway connecting Mendel to the Timber Hollow neighborhood is something Chapel Hill is doing to the public.
Flag football—an alternative to full-contact tackle programs—is having “banner years” as recreation departments and even state high school associations recognize flag football’s growing popularity.
With the arrival of August comes the start of fall sports practices around Chapel Hill, including football, volleyball, men’s soccer, and women’s tennis.
Quick pop quiz: how much is a university actually worth to a state? For UNC-Chapel Hill, the answer just got a lot more specific—and a lot more impressive. UNC alumni working in North Carolina generated more than $30 billion in total economic activity during fiscal year 2025.
ARTS & CULTURE By Pamir Kiciman Correspondent CHAPEL HILL — The 2026-2027 season of performances from Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) is themed around wonder. Across genres, traditions and disciplines, each…
Not everyone can go out to walk in nature and sometimes those of us who are usually mobile may be confined to home for some reason. But that needn’t mean we can’t start or continue watching wildlife through a window or from a balcony or porch.
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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education has voted to permanently close Glenwood Elementary School, marking the end of more than seven decades of history for one of the district’s oldest campuses.
I have some questions about my new phone bill, which my phone company, which prefers to be called my wireless carrier, prefers to call my billing statement, because it’s clearly too difficult for my communications company to communicate clearly.
“The drought has taken a toll on everything,” Finley, a Cedar Grove resident, told The Local Reporter. “It probably cut the small-grain yield — wheat, oats, barley — in half. It kept us from planting soybeans because there was no use.”
Chapel Hill doesn’t shy away from hard conversations. A couple of years ago, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni spoke to East Chapel Hill Rotary ahead of the release of The Beauty of Dusk, his memoir on vision, aging, and mortality
The Waste Line is a monthly column from Orange County Solid Waste Management. Each issue shares useful updates on recycling, trash, and composting, along with tips and news to help residents manage waste responsibly and stay informed.
Chapel Hill is not one town, it’s two. In summer it’s just a small, Southern settlement, quiet and slow, where there is no wait for anything, reservations are rarely necessary, and you always get the best parking spot.
Hundreds of runners hit the hot pavement in Carrboro on Saturday morning, July 4, many simply striving for a PR (personal record), some striving for an actual event record, and some just hoping to survive the heat.
At the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, we field a lot of requests — where to hike, where to stay, where the nearest coffee is when someone’s had a four-hour drive and a toddler in the backseat.
Observations From a Local Author By Corinna Fales Columnist The USA is turning 250. It is a biggie, and I wish I felt more celebratory. How do you feel? I…
After nearly four years on the Chapel Hill Town Council, Adam Searing has announced this week that he will not be running for another term on the local municipal elected board.
While there have been no reports of Sesame Street’s Big Bird in Orange and Durham Counties, our area has been blessed with some not very common, bigger birds appearing at local ponds.
Whatever sports team you root for, from Chapel Hill’s UNC teams in residence to your personal NFL, NBA, or MLB favorites—yes, even (God forbid) Duke—most fans will agree to one self-evident fact: whether you win, lose, or tie, the experience is better when shared with a crowd of like-minded fans.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners approved the Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget on June 16. The budget totals $327,066,083 and includes a property tax rate of 68.05 cents per $100 of assessed value, which is a 4.22-cent property tax increase over the previous fiscal year.