Two Town of Chapel Hill sanitation workers banned from town property while they are under investigation protested with members of several local organizations on Friday in front of Chapel Hill Town Hall. Solid-waste operators Clyde Clark and Kerry Bigelow were joined by members of UE Local 150, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP Labor Committee and UNC…
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Oil spill
The strong smell of oil reported by residents near the intersection of Robert Hunt Drive and North Greensboro Street was traced to a spill from an unused 275-gallon underground storage tank, town officials reported. Carrboro crews were not able to determine how much oil leaked out the tank; it was flushed out with groundwater. The…
Hillsborough picks chief
The Town of Hillsborough selected Duane Hampton, a lieutenant with the Durham Police Department, as its new chief of police last week. Hampton will start Nov. 1.
Quiz time for governments
Members of the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen will match wits tonight (Thursday) at the WCHL Quiz Bowl at The ArtsCenter. The competition starts at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast live on WCHL-1360 AM. Neither elected body has taken an official position on the trivia contest; however, one member…
Carrboro, DOT strike deal on Smith Level Road widening
If you would have told the Carrboro Board of Aldermen circa 1980 that it would take 30 years before their successors and the state Department of Transportation struck a deal on a plan for improvements to Smith Level Road, you might have gotten a few quizzical looks. But it did.
Remembering ice flowers
Thankfully, that near-100 degree first day of fall has been followed by needed rain and cooler temperatures. I’m relishing thinking of those dreadful freezing mornings in January.
High school sports reports
FOOTBALL: Carrboro 22 – Chapel Hill 20; Jordan 36 – East Chapel Hill 7.
Voices, faces, stories and souls
Talking Sidewalks is a literary magazine, one among many in these wordy parts. What sets it apart though is its prerequisite for authorship in this particular magazine — homelessness.
Local ties still bind
For a guy who’s now residing in Raleigh, John Ensslin sure has kept up his Carrboro bona fides.
Council hears pros, cons of Northside sidewalk
The Town Council has yet to settle on a final priority list for its update to a 2008 master list for sidewalk construction, but members already know there’s at least one tough choice ahead.
North & South
Balancing the roles and responsibilities of overlapping governments has always been a challenge and from time to time, there is considerably more tension in the task than at others.
A few facts to consider
Now that the barrage of misleading political ads is popping up on your television screen and fliers with absurd claims from candidates are filling up your mailbox, here are a few facts to keep in mind when you hear all the hyperbole about issues like health care, taxes, the state budget and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the federal stimulus plan.
Time to commute N.C.’s death sentences
Across North Carolina, newspapers, defense lawyers, crime victims and even prosecutors are calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.
Letter: Meeting space costs too much
Sometimes you just have to say “NOâ€! That was my reaction to an agenda item before the county commissioners at their Sept. 21 meeting, which, if approved, would have permitted bidding on a proposed board of county commissioners’ meeting room.
Letter: Use park site for new library
I am writing about the front page article of The Carrboro Citizen dated Sept. 16, 2010, “Commissioners postpone library discussion.†There does not seem to be a site owned by the county that would be appropriate or a site that could be leased or purchased for a location of the proposed Southwest Orange County Library.




