By Rich Fowler Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council kicked off its fall term without longtime council member Bill Thorpe Monday night. Thorpe is taking some time off from the council for health reasons. The council dealt with a number of planning issues, including:
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News brief: Planning workshop
The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization will hold a final public workshop on the proposed long-range regional transportation alternatives today from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Durham County Main Library. The plan includes options for future transportation projects, including highways, bus transit, light rail, bicycles, pedestrian traffic and other transportation projects that would be…
News brief: Block party
The Northside, Pine Knolls and McCauley-Cameron neighborhoods will celebrate the Good Neighbor Initiative with a block party on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Hargraves Center. UNC, the Chapel Hill Police Department, Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation and EmPOWERment Inc. will host the block party to encourage students and permanent residents to meet…
News brief: County watchdog partnership
Public employees from Orange County towns will become the eyes and ears of law enforcement in a new partnership between Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and OWASA entitled the Community Safety Partnership. The partnership will train public workers already traveling through town on the job to watch out for infractions like car accidents, reckless driving, illegal…
News brief: Free health examinations
UNC Health Care urologists will offer free prostate examinations to members of the public at the UNC Hospitals Urology Clinic Sept. 17 and 18 from 1 to 7 p.m. Appointments are not required but those interested are encouraged to make an appointment by calling 966-1316. The urology clinic is located on the second floor of…
News brief: Transfer site meeting
The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a transfer station siting work session to receive site recommendations for further evaluation and hear public comment on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:15 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road. The board will discuss sites recommended for community-specific criteria evaluation, including 11 sites recommended…
Noticias en breve 9/11/08
Fin de semana El fin de semana pasado vio la fiesta del Pueblo y el festival internacional en Raleigh, esta semana no tiene tanto para hacer, pero hay unas opciones para las personas quienes les gustan la música y el arte. Por ejemplo, el viernes hay música en el Carolina Inn de 5 a 7p.m….
Obituary: Wayne A. Bowers
Wayne Alexander Bowers, 89, died peacefully at his Chapel Hill home on Thursday, Aug. 28, following a period of declining health. Wayne was born on March 1, 1919, in Bilbao, Spain. He spent his childhood in small towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, as his minister father moved the family from parish to parish. He…
Chickenpox strikes Carrboro Elementary
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer After a case of chickenpox was diagnosed in a student at Carrboro Elementary School, unvaccinated students in kindergarten through second grade are being told to stay away from school for three weeks.
Community Calendar 9/11/08
Special Events Arts at the Meadow — Sept 13-14, 10am—5pm. Arts, crafts, music and kids activities. Meadowmont Village, Chapel Hill. Asthma Walk — Sept. 27, 10am, registration 8am. NCSU Centennial Campus. 832-8326, www.asthmawalk.org
The Eater 9/11/08
Bayou lunch An eater had lunch at Crawdaddy’s Cajun Café recently, and was pleased by the shrimp creole. Generous portion, flavorful sauce that was plenty spicy but not overly so, and shrimp that were cooked just right. Side salad was nice and cold (room temperature salads are a big turn-off to this particular eater) and…
Land & Table brief: CEFS lecture
Judy Wicks, a national leader in the local living-economies movement, will present the Center for Environmental Farming Systems’ 2008 Sustainable Agriculture Lecture on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh. Wicks is the co-founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and the founder of Philadelphia’s…
Land & Table brief: OWASA lakes
Tropical Storm Hanna raised OWASA’s lakes from 79 percent full on Friday to 95 percent full on Monday, well above normal for this time of year. The Cane Creek Reservoir, the primary water source for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community, rose from about five feet below full Friday to 13.5 inches below full Monday morning. University…
Land & Table brief: Urban farm tour
Sustainable agriculture isn’t just found on the farm fields, say the organizers of the Urban Farm Tour. This unconventional farm tour will take participants to ten sites inside of town to see backyard sustainable farming like beekeeping, raising chickens and vegetable and herb gardens. The tour also includes workshops to teach comers about sustainable gardening…
