If you would have told the Carrboro Board of Aldermen circa 1980 that it would take 30 years before their successors and the state Department of Transportation struck a deal on a plan for improvements to Smith Level Road, you might have gotten a few quizzical looks. But it did.
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County candidates gear up for election
As Election Day nears, some candidates for local office are putting their campaigns into high gear, while others are running in uncontested races.
Some history of hurricanes
In our local history, the glorious weather we experience in late summer and early fall is sometimes interrupted by calamitous winds and rain.
Board rethinks its position on Veridia
In 2008, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen said it was willing to waive affordable-housing requirements for the 39 home project on property now occupied by Pine Grove Mobile Home Park.
Tuesday night at Town Hall, board members said they are not so willing to do so given recent changes in the plans.
Election season starts this Friday
The fall election season gets rolling Friday, when voters will be able to begin to request absentee mail ballots. The last day to submit ballots by mail is Oct. 26.
One-stop absentee voting begins Oct. 14 at the board of elections office in Hillsborough and on Oct. 18 at Morehead Planetarium on the UNC campus and the Seymour Senior Center on Homestead Road.
Board postpones library discussion
The Orange County Board of Commissioners decided on Tuesday against pursuing the Skills Development Center on West Franklin Street and a site at Twins Creek Park as potential locations for a Southwest Orange County branch library.
Carrboro dedicates new fire station
The colorful combination of red fire trucks, Carolina Blue skies and a very green structure marked the dedication of Carrboro’s first new building in four decades on Tuesday.
Town picks a new bank, delays Smith Level vote
Just before a break in a lengthy meeting Tuesday night at Town Hall, Mayor Mark Chilton looked out at those assembled, smiled and said, “The bankers are getting quite a civics lesson.â€
Big Earl draws attention
While residents here are slowly dropping their guard now that the threat appears to be passing, emergency management officials in Orange County are continuing with preparations to handle any emergency the rest of the season throws at them.
Here’s to ‘the strength and esprit de corps’
For some of us, the approach of Labor Day is somewhat depressing, signaling the end of the heretofore seemingly endless lazy days of summer, filled with rivers and rope swings, front-porch beers, evening ice cream and days by the Carolina coast.
Perry Deane Young’s return
The distance from Phnom Penh to Saigon has diminished. Actually, you no longer can go from Phnom Penh to Saigon, as there no longer is a Saigon. But the last time Perry Deane Young was in the region, in 1972, the distance from Phnom Penh to what’s now called Ho Chi Minh City seemed considerable. War has that effect on distances.
Board deadlocked on banking services
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen returned to Town Hall Tuesday night with the top item on the agenda a lingering discussion of whether to switch banking services from Bank of America to either BB&T or Harrington Bank, but wound up deadlocked 3-3 after about 40 minutes of discussion and once again tabled the issue for a later meeting.
What’s on the table?
This fall, Chapel Hill and Carrboro face series of critical decisions
Here’s a look at some of the items driving the towns’ agendas
Sales tax increase should fund economic development, residents say
County residents told the Orange County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday that they would like to see funds from a possible quarter-cent sales tax go toward economic development, if such a tax is approved by voters in November.
On the road to November
A little downtime might have come earlier had Mills’ top client, N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, not been faced with a runoff against former state Sen. Cal Cunningham in the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.






