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Mock car crash

Posted on March 25, 2010March 25, 2010 by Staff

With prom and graduation approaching, three local high schools will host mock car crashes in an effort to educate students about dangerous driving decisions.

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Carrboro planning board vacancy

Posted on March 25, 2010March 25, 2010 by Staff

The Carrboro planning board is seeking volunteers, to be appointed by the Orange County Board of Commissioners, for the currently vacant extraterritorial planning (ETJ) board position.

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New zoning rules could boost range of affordable homes

Posted on March 18, 2010March 18, 2010 by Staff

The Chapel Hill Town Council looks at an inclusionary-zoning ordinance aimed at expanding the range of housing stock and making more of it available to low- and moderate-income families.

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Morgan Creek Greenway reviewed

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Staff

CARRBORO — The Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night reviewed an extensive master plan for additional phases of the Morgan Creek Greenway, including a possible pedestrian bridge under Smith Level Road near Frank Porter Graham Elementary School.

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Greenways discussion continues

Posted on March 18, 2010March 18, 2010 by Staff

Tensions brewing over the proposed paved path along Bolin Creek broke out among members of the Carrboro Greenways Commission at Town Hall Monday night.

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Obesity impairs body’s ‘memory’ of how to fight flu

Posted on March 18, 2010March 18, 2010 by Staff

UNC study says obesity may limit the body’s ability to develop immunity to influenza viruses.

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Robinson memorial clinic inoculates 62 against flu

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Staff

Orange County health officials report that 62 individuals received 82 H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccinations at last weekend’s free flu shot clinic at Carrboro Town Hall held in honor of the late Tom Robinson. The county will continue to offer free vaccinations at the following times and locations: Hillsborough – 300 W. Tryon St. Tuesdays…

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March is chlorine month

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Staff

If you notice that your tap water tastes a little different, please note that March is the month when the Orange Water and Sewer Authority switches from it usual chloramination disinfection process to chlorine. The utility will switch back to its usual process on April 1, but residents may still experience the taste difference through…

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Wilson gets life without parole

Posted on March 18, 2010March 18, 2010 by Staff

Louis Ephraim Wilson III was sentenced Friday to life without parole after being convicted of first-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of Tracey Baldwin in May 2007. Baldwin, 38, was attacked and brutally beaten in her home in Chatham Subdivision. An autopsy revealed she had been sexually assaulted, strangled, bound with fishing line and bludgeoned…

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Towns, UNC agree on Google plan

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Staff

Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC will coordinate an application to Google to be a pilot area for the Internet search giant’s high-speed fiber optic project. The company is seeking local government partners to assist in the installation of a faster network infrastructure. The local partnership is one of several in North Carolina and dozens nationwide…

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Arrest made

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Staff

The Orange County Sheriff’s office announced the arrest Tuesday afternoon of Larry Johnson Edwards at #16 Alston Drive in the Dogwood Acres neighborhood. Edwards was wanted for two counts of second-degree sexual offense and one count each of assault with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious bodily injury and first-degree kidnapping….

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Major dorm project looms large on Short Street

Posted on March 11, 2010March 18, 2010 by Staff

CHAPEL HILL — For those trying to build a four-story residence for 140 students at the corner of Rosemary and Church streets, the third time is a charm. Those opposed to it say they don’t feel so lucky.

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A lifetime of civility

Posted on March 11, 2010July 14, 2011 by Staff

UNC Kenan Professor Emeritus Dan Pollitt died last Friday at the age of 88 after a brief period of declining health, characteristically gracious and kind through it all, reassuring his caretakers and warmly greeting the tide of friends and family who gathered at his side.

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Council seeks help on vacancies

Posted on March 11, 2010March 18, 2010 by Staff

When members of the Chapel Hill Town Council sit down to discuss issues with the local legislative delegation this morning, they’ll bring an additional request beyond the usual fiscal and planning matters.

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Affordable-housing changes studied

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Staff

Kirk Ross Staff Writer Carrboro — Affordable-housing rules changes being studied in Chapel Hill could lead to similar changes for rules in Carrboro. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen, in a meeting Tuesday night at Town Hall, agreed to look at Chapel Hill’s effort to enact inclusionary zoning and consider whether such a method might work…

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