By Margot C. Lester Columnist The greater Carrboro metroplex has felt the recession’s pinch less than other areas of the state and nation. But we’re not totally immune. Just swing through Carrboro’s two major shopping centers: Carr Mill Mall and Carrboro Plaza. The empty spaces are evidence of the recession’s reach.
Two bats test positive for rabies
On Tuesday, Aug. 18, Orange County Animal Services received positive rabies results for two bats from the North Carolina Rabies Laboratory. These are the 11th and 12th confirmed rabies cases in Orange County for 2009. On Saturday, a resident in the vicinity of Davis and Orange Grove roads found two dead bats on her property….
Board nixes sludge forum
BY Kirk Ross Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH — After hearing a series of concerns raised about the issue of land application of biosolids, the Orange County Board of Commissioners decided not to go ahead with a public-education forum on the issue. The county’s board of health had suggested shifting $10,000 set aside for an evaluation of…
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We must change course on health care
Rep. David Price Our nation is the home of the world’s premier medical research and development enterprise and its most advanced medical technology. The Research Triangle is at the forefront of much of this work — to cure cancer, treat chronic diseases and train world-class health care providers. But our best efforts to prevent disease…
Schools will do more with less
Neil Pedersen Although the goals and major strategies of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will remain the same this school year, the environment in which we will educate children will be different. The district will be coping with reduced funding along with a number of other significant changes.
This is about more than health care
Chris Fitzsimon It’s not hard to figure out that much of the anger and rage on display at the town hall meetings on health care has little to do with the particulars of President Obama’s health care reform proposals. The signs bearing racist caricatures of African-Americans; references to Hitler, abortion and gun rights; and the…
The majority want health care reform
Barlow Herget To quote that old Republican Ronald Reagan, “There they go again.†I’m talking about the varied interests that are opposed to national health care reform. They know this is a critical time in the legislative process. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has adopted a plan and adjourned for summer recess. The Senate…
As economy stalls, so does Carrboro’s building boom
By Beth Mechum and Kirk Ross Staff Writers In late 2007, before swearing in newly elected Carrboro Board of Aldermen member Lydia Lavelle, the board and several citizens said so long to longtime board member Alex Zaffron, who had opted not to seek re-election. Zaffron, who helped guide a change in board policy that would…
Back to School
Beth Mechum Staff Writer By now, most students have met their teachers, scoped out their classrooms, and bought the perfect mixture of notebooks, pens and pencils — so there’s only one thing left to do: go to school. Alarm clocks are back in operation for both students and teachers next week, as schools all around…
County to meet on library services
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a work session tonight (Thursday) to discuss ways to improve and better coordinate library services. The board is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in preparation for a joint meeting with municipal leaders at the Sept….