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Board to discuss homeless shelters

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

The Chapel Hill Planning Board will consider a town council petition to prepare development standards for homeless shelters for council consideration. The meeting will be held in the council chambers at Town Hall on Tuesday at 7 p.m. A copy of the planning board agenda for the meeting will be posted on the town’s website…

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Census takers in Hillsborough

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

Census takers will begin blanketing the Hillsborough area on Saturday to collect information from households that have not returned census forms. The census takers, who are hired locally and trained by the Census Bureau, also will verify that housing units identified as unoccupied are vacant. The enumerators will ask only the questions that appear on…

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County receives $150,000 to protect farmland

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

Orange County has received a $150,000 grant from the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation (ADFP) Trust Fund to help the county protect 153 acres of farmland in the Schley community. The county hopes to conserve another portion of the Breeze family farm with an agricultural conservation easement, which will enable farm activities to continue…

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Atwater pleads guilty in federal court State likely to hold hearing next week

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Susan Dickson

Following Demario Atwater’s guilty plea in federal court, Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said the state would likely hold a hearing next week to answer questions regarding the state’s case against Atwater.

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Council mulls options for deer control

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

After three hours of hearing a wide range of opinions from citizens and a lengthy discussion of the alternatives before them, the Chapel Hill Town Council decided on Monday night that further research was necessary before making a decision on ways to control the town’s burgeoning deer population.

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Town, DOT forge ahead on Smith Level

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

For anyone coming into Carrboro on Smith Level Road, crowded crosswalks at the intersection with BPW Club Road are a familiar sight. That’s the point where the large and heavily student-populated neighborhoods west of Smith Level Road reach the bus lines that feed into town and campus.

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County funds Cedar Falls soccer field

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Susan Dickson

The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a partnership with Chapel Hill that would allocate county soccer funds for the construction of an artificial-turf soccer field at Cedar Falls Park.

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Club Nova awaits direction on its future

Posted on April 22, 2010December 15, 2011 by Taylor Sisk

When state Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler addressed the 32nd annual Legislative Breakfast for Mental Health held last Saturday at the Friday Center, he reiterated his belief that mental health care reform, which state government embarked on in 2001, has failed and that an entirely new system must be built.

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Bowles decries Perdue budget

Posted on April 22, 2010December 19, 2010 by Staff

UNC President Erskine Bowles had little praise for the state budget proposal released this week by Gov. Beverly Perdue.

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Board reviews lighting rules

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

The Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved changes to the town’s lighting standards Tuesday night.

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Students to protest Tancredo

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Staff

Tom Tancredo’s visit to campus last April caused a ruckus leading to the cancellation of a speech by the former Republican congressman and presidential candidate and the arrest of several protesters.

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CHHS student released on bond

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Staff

Chapel Hill High student Aaron Small was released on bail from Orange County Jail on Saturday after allegedly firing a gun on a school bus last Thursday morning.

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Hillsborough reports police

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Staff

Hillsborough Town Manager Eric Peterson announced last week that his office is completing an investigation into the backdating of the police department’s compliance records …

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Senate hopefuls visit campus

Posted on April 15, 2010April 15, 2010 by Staff

Six of the 11 candidates for U.S. Senate – four of the six Democrats, one of the four Republicans and the lone Libertarian – gathered at the university’s Stone Center for an issues forum sponsored by the center and the local chapter of the NAACP.

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Mental health changes move forward

Posted on April 15, 2010April 16, 2010 by Staff

The question raised by mental health care consumer advocates is whether fewer agencies providing a more comprehensive suite of services will better serve those with mental illness. And smaller agencies, a great many of which are minority owned, are concerned that they’re going to be driven out of business in this move to consolidate.

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