
{"id":22268,"date":"2011-12-08T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22268"},"modified":"2011-12-08T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:31:04","slug":"carrboro-remains-lovetown-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/12\/08\/carrboro-remains-lovetown-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrboro remains Lovetown finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\nAs the selection of towns in the running to become the setting for Lovetown USA is whittled down, Carrboro remains among the finalists, and producers plan to come to town next week. <\/p>\n<p>Lovetown USA is a new reality show produced by the Oprah Winfrey Network and the BBC that seeks to guide singles on the quest for love over a 30-day period, while examining the effects it can have on a community. <\/p>\n<p>Producers are looking for a picturesque town with a population of about 15,000 and a strong sense of community, and contacted town officials last month expressing interest in Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, producers will host a town hall-style meeting at Carrboro Town Hall from 6 to 8 p.m.; all residents are invited.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They want to have a conversation with the community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Annette Stone, Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economic-development director. <\/p>\n<p>Stone said producers want to find out if Carrboro is a place where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be accepted, adding that they also want to hear from businesses that have services that might be employed during production.  <\/p>\n<p>Producers are also still looking for applicants who would like to be on the show. Stone said they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve received about 20 applications from Carrboro singles thus far. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153[Producers] say Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the most unique places they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come across,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. However, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do them any good if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got all this character and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any applicants.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>For an application, visit townofcarrboro.org\/ecd\/default.htm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the selection of towns in the running to become the setting for Lovetown USA is whittled down, Carrboro remains among the finalists, and producers plan to come to town next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22269,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268\/revisions\/22269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}