At the county’s quarterly public hearing on Monday, rural county residents urged the Orange County Board of Commissioners and Planning Board to reconsider portions of the Unified Development Ordinance.
Category: Top Story
Aydan Court still draws concerns
The last time developer Carol Ann Zinn’s Aydan Court project was reviewed in a public hearing, she and then-Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy engaged in a heated colloquy after the mayor and council appeared ready to reject a rezoning request for the project.
A whole new Whirld
Artists have always aimed to expand people’s creative horizons and challenge a culture’s standards and perspectives.
A do-it-yourself way
There are few residents with roots as deep in this town as Frances Lloyd Shetley.
Town passes on UMall deal
The exploration of moving the Chapel Hill Public Library from it’s Pritchard Park location to the spot now occupied by Dillard’s at University Mall ended Monday night before the Chapel Hill Town Council even began debating the idea.
A travel adventure – with birds
When non-birdwatchers think of birding, they probably don’t regard it as a competitive sport, but rather as an occasional hobby undertaken on casual walks through the woods.
Board reviews ‘diet’ for Main Street
Carrboro is considering a plan to slim down West Main Street along the road’s four-lane stretch near Town Hall, adding bike lanes and dropping the number of travel lanes for cars from four to two, plus a turning lane.
Reading under the sea
Linda Saah, an outreach instructor with the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, shows Frank Porter Graham Elementary School students an American alligator at the school’s Read-a-thon Night.
County approves legislative package
The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday to approve the county’s legislative package for the 2011 North Carolina General Assembly Session.
Council OKs long-range planning effort
The last time the Chapel Hill Town Council authorized an extensive rewrite of the town’s comprehensive plan, the president was Bill Clinton, the federal budget was showing a surplus, the local economy was booming and the population of Chapel Hill was around 48,000.
The message was renewal
CHAPEL HILL —In May of 1960, when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Chapel Hill – first on Sunday night at the Hargraves Center, then on Monday evening to a packed audience at Hill Hall on the UNC campus – “the movement,†as it is still known, was at a turning point.
Choosing to see the glass half full
There are moments in time that can forever alter the course of our lives, seconds that leave us perpetually wondering “what if?†and events that permanently change the way we look at the world.
Takin’ it to the streets
By Wednesday afternoon, it wasn’t hard to find some pretty exhausted people.
Grounds for justice
The playground is in many respects a microcosm of the real world. There are rules to be observed and hierarchies to reckon; infrastructure (bats and balls and slides and swings) is required.
It was on such grounds that Michelle Cotton Laws became an activist.
Snow fun
Drew Fogleman, 2, and his sister Eliza, 6, of Hampstead enjoyed the snow last weekend during a visit with their grandparents in Chapel Hill.









