In listening to all this talk about the new CVS project on Greensboro and Weaver streets, I am dumfounded as to why no one is talking about the site CVS currently occupies next to Harris Teeter behind Carr Mill. What is to become of this space?
Category: Opinion
Letter: Why are the police stifling First Amendment rights in Carrboro?
On Nov. 15, around 4 p.m., local Earth First! Activists gathered outside of the Royal Bank of Canada in Carrboro to protest the bank’s investment in the world’s most destructive project, the Canadian Tar Sands.
EDITORIAL
Real pull; VIP treatment
Common decency in common spaces
When my girlfriend and I went to Cameron Village Mall in Raleigh recently, we were expecting to have lunch. What we got instead was an instruction to leave for being out as lesbians, holding hands and kissing each other on the cheek.
A Brandis-Manley boardroom at Lincoln Center
In late-summer of 1960, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools became the eighth school district in North Carolina to host the early stages of school integration, when three black first-graders enrolled at Estes Hills Elementary School.
Letter: Disregard on road decision
The Smith Level Rd Extension Plan has been bothering me for some time now.
Letter: Fall noise
Recently, I wrote our local politicians, along with one government official, suggesting that we leave our tree leaves on the ground so as not to disturb nature’s process.
For country
On Wednesday, 20 young people now serving took the oath of citizenship at a veterans’ recognition ceremony in Hillsborough.
A memorandum to town council regarding Obey Creek
In 1992, the Town of Chapel Hill developed a Small Area Plan that created zoning and development parameters for the area south of U.S. 15-501. The process included all stakeholders in that area of town.
FOR THE RECORD
A Resolution of Orange County, North Carolina to end the expenditure of our citizens’ tax dollars for excessive and unaffordable warfare funding by the U.S. Congress.
Call your favorite superintendent … now!
Citizens of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, your school district needs you! With 11 weeks until the application period closes on the superintendent search, we have zero candidates to choose from because the application was only recently posted.
Letter: Dear County Commissioners
As we all know, with the failure of passage for the quarter-cent sales tax the effect of drying up monies from both the state and federal governments will be felt even more.
Dust yourself off
It sure was a pretty day for the end of civilization as we know it, or whatever description you’ve settled on to define the historic takeover of the state General Assembly and various other whuppins delivered to Democrats through the collective will of people who cared to vote.
No time to quit
This was an election of negative votes, not a question of people voting for very much.
Get involved in CVS development
This development is obviously of great interest to everyone who lives in Carrboro, since the corner of Weaver and Greensboro streets is the gateway to the rest of our community and a critical component to a vibrant Carrboro of the future.