By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer Chapel Hill — The swearing in of the new mayor and council members takes place in early December, but the constitution of the town’s governing body will be incomplete until they take up the vacancy left by the resignation of Bill Strom early in the campaign season. Strom, whose term…
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Voller returned to office in Pittsboro
By Taylor Sisk, Staff Writer PITTSBORO – Randy Voller won a third term as mayor of Pittsboro Tuesday night, saying a burgeoning diversity in the community makes this a pivotal moment in defining the town’s future, one that he hopes to shape with smart growth and inclusion. Voller received 392 votes to challenger Bill Crawford’s…
OWASA mistake
OWASA said that it made an error in bills sent on Oct. 16 to 500, or about 2 percent, of its customers. Water use by the 500 non-residential customers in early October was incorrectly charged at the peak seasonal water rate of $7.09 instead of the new off-peak seasonal rate of $3.73, which went into…
UNC Homecoming this weekend
The UNC Homecoming parade will be held on Saturday, Nov. 7 on Franklin Street. The parade, which will last for approximately 45 minutes, will begin at 11 a.m. at Columbia and Franklin streets. It will proceed east on Franklin Street past the Morehead Planetarium and then turn south onto Raleigh Road and continue into campus…
Veteran’s Day at UNC
More than 100 ROTC cadets and midshipmen will assemble in dress uniforms at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11 for the annual Veteran’s Day ceremony at UNC. The free public ceremony will be outdoors at the Carolina Alumni Memorial in Memory of Those Lost in Military Service on Cameron Avenue. The memorial honors university alumni killed…
UNC American Indian Heritage Month
Performances and crafts will take over the Pit on Carolina’s campus midday on Mondays in November, as American Indian Heritage Month is celebrated on campus. Activities throughout November, organized by UNC’s American Indian Center, will range from lectures to films to samplings of foods native to the Americas. Events next week include: • “The ‘Identified…
Kleinschmidt, Chilton win races for mayor
Mark Kleinschmidt barely beat out his fellow Town Council member Matt Czajkowski in the Chapel Hill mayor’s race, while Mayor Mark Chilton handily won another term in Carrboro. Full results after the jump
Election results
Polls have closed in the municipal and school board races in Orange and Chatham Counties. Turnout was typically light, but may prove slightly higher than in the last municipal cycle. Driving turnout are the large number of open seats and a hotly contested mayor’s race in Chapel Hill.
Towns’, schools’ leadership in the balance
By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer Voters in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district and residents of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough will have their say Tuesday, with the outcome of only the uncontested Hillsborough mayor’s race certain going into Election Day. Early voting ends this weekend with the close of balloting on Saturday. Results so far…
Historic Varsity Theatre to reopen
The Varsity Theatre is set to reopen in late November under new management. Chapel Hill residents Paul and Susan Shareshian are the new owners. “We believe the Varsity is a historic landmark in Chapel Hill, and we were sad when we heard it was closing,†Susan Shareshian said. “We decided we would reopen it and…
Aldermen meetings canceled
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen will not be meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The next meeting will be a work session on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Feedback requested on greenhouse strategies
The Town of Carrboro has completed a joint greenhouse gas-emissions inventory and forecast and is seeking community feedback on the greenhouse gas-reduction strategies described in the report. The inventory and forecast also address emissions in Orange County, Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. The town is hosting a feedback session this Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30…
Economic summit
Have African-Americans been disproportionately affected by the recession? And, if so, what can be done about these negative impacts? These will be the questions on the minds of black economists and other experts at an African-American Economic Summit, Nov. 1-2 at UNC and Duke. The summit is presented by UNC’s Institute of African-American Research and…
Emergency lights now active
Blue emergency call boxes in downtown Chapel Hill are now operational at 407 Merritt Mill Road, the corner of Church and Short streets and Mallette Street at Colony Court. Although the university has numerous call boxes throughout campus, these are the first installed on town streets.
Farai Chideya to speak
Author, journalist and cultural critic Farai Chideya will speak at UNC on Nov. 5. Chideya, who hosted the former National Public Radio program “News and Notes,†will discuss “Digital Drum or Digital Divide: Race, Responsibility and Representation in the New Media.†The free public talk will be at 7 p.m. in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room…