The late Jim Shumaker, longtime editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, used to say that about every decade or so the paper had to run a major story proclaiming that “the village†is dead. We suppose that was the general point of the ruckus caused by notorious hipster and former economic-development director to the OC Ted Abernathy who told a group of local leaders that Chapel Hill has lost its cool. Headlines ensued. The town manager begged to differ.
The story ended there and, gladly, no actual cool people were harmed in the process.