Every once in a while, we get a strong reminder of why we call Carrboro home.
BIG CITY: Postcard from a disaster area
Took a little wrangling, but I got my ferry ticket.
Passion runs deep in UNC-ECU rivalry
This week’s football game for Carolina does not count in the ACC standings, but there will be passionate play on the field Saturday night in Greenville.
High school football scores
from around the county.
Chapel Hill defeats Carrboro, 22-9
The Chapel Hill High School football team defeated Carrboro High, 22-9, last Friday at CHHS.
LETTER: Support the quarter-cent sales tax
When Orange County created its Economic Development Districts in the early 1990s, the purpose was to designate non-residential zones that would serve “for the next 50 years.â€
LETTER: Misguided amendment
We, the Vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Advocate, deplore the decision of the North Carolina General Assembly to place a so-called “Defense of Marriage†constitutional amendment on the ballot next May.
LETTER: More stuff?
Yesterday, I read in the Carrboro Visitors’ Guide that Carrboro Plaza is completely and diversely occupied, and that the Food Lion there is one of the top-grossing Food Lion groceries in the state.
LETTER: Come to the table
Recently, Mark Peters of A Better Site characterized the committee working to create a Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) for the IFC’s new Community House at 1515 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. as “biased†and lacking transparency.
LETTER: Proposed project too dense
As a resident and cross-street neighbor of the proposed development at 500 N. Greensboro St., I find myself conflicted regarding that particular piece of property.
LETTER: In favor of the quarter-cent sales tax
We urge all Orange County citizens to vote in favor of the tax referendum that will be on the ballot this November.
LETTER: Vote Johnson for Aldermen
I am pleased to write in support of Michelle Johnson for Carrboro Board of Aldermen.
LETTER: Support the PTA Thrift Shop
As this community faces drastic budgetary constraints, we must work together to find ways to offset the impact this has had and will have on our educational system.
Obituary: Mary Theresa Duvoisin
Mary Theresa Duvoisin, 84, died Sunday evening Sept. 25 at the University of North Carolina Women’s Hospital of cancer of the throat complicated by a heart attack. A native of the Bronx, New York, she was the first-born child of James McGaw and Mary Nugent McGaw. A graduate of Cathedral High School in New York…
Chapel Hill asks residents to bring in trashcans
On Monday, the Town of Chapel Hill launched a pilot program to encourage residents to bring in their roll-cart trashcans from the road after trash pickup.