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Community

Waste transfer station community meeting

Re: The Waste Transfer Station community meeting in White Cross scheduled for tonight. Here’s a note sent out this morning by Laura Streitfeld at Preserve Rural Orange:

We are planning on holding the waste transfer station meeting tonight as scheduled, and hope to see you there unless there is ice or snow. We’re hoping for the best, but because there is a winter storm forecast, we’ll make a decision by 3:00 pm and post a notice on the Preserve Rural Orange website at preserveruralorange.org
(PLEASE NOTE: If there is ice or snow and we need to reschedule, the meeting will take place in two weeks on Sunday, March 15th at 7:00 pm, at the White Cross Rec. Center)

Here are the specifics on the meeting:

WASTE TRANSFER STATION
COMMUNITY MEETING
Sunday March 1st, 2009
7:00 p.m.
White Cross Recreation Center
1800 White Cross Road, Chapel Hill, NC
Discussion of Orange County’s proposed site on NC 54 West for a transfer station
Updates on recent developments in UNC airport and county waste transfer station issues, and Preserve Rural Orange committees
Speakers including Orange County Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson
For more information please contact us at: info@preserveruralorange.org
or call (919) 801-7294

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Miscellany

March 2009 Issue of MILL

Here’s the link to the pdf file of MILL.
We’re testing out how to present MILL, a very image-heavy publication on our site.

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Weather

Snow, sleet for Sunday

What is perhaps the last gasp of winter is headed our way. It’s the same old story — two fronts are colliding, one cold, one wet. Where they smack into each other determines who gets the snow and sleet and who gets the cold rain. Anyway, Sunday looks messy.
Now this from our friendly forecasters at the Raleigh NWS:

THIS SINGLE-LOW SURFACE PATTERN COUPLED WITH STILL-MILD AIR ALOFT IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE CORRIDORS OF PREDOMINATE PRECIP TYPE ACROSS CENTRAL NC… AND SEVERAL HOURS OF SLEET OR A SLEET/FREEZING RAIN MIX/TRANSITION IS LIKELY LONG/WEST OF HIGHWAY 1 SUNDAY MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON… BEFORE THE APPROACHING VORTEX ALOFT AND STRONG LIFT COOL THE MID LEVELS ENOUGH TO CHANGE IT ALL OVER TO SNOW BY EARLY SUNDAY EVENING. THE GFS SHOWS SOME POTENTIAL FOR SNOW BANDING SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH CROSS SECTIONS SHOWING ZERO TO NEGATIVE SATURATED EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL VORTICITY SLOPING ABOVE LOWER LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS.

That’s right, he said frontogenesis.

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Miscellany

Revaluations in Orange County

From this week’s issue — Reporters Margot Lester and Rich Fowler offer a detailed look at the revaluation issue.
• Main Story: Revaluations squeeze home, business owners
• How revaluations are calculated
• How to appeal your revaluation
• Neighborhoods with the biggest gains and drops.

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Miscellany

Superintendent won’t take pay raise

Don’t know the specifics of the system, but it shows some leadership to turn down a raise hard-wired into your contract. If the entire top tier of local and state gov decided to do this we’d see some real savings.

The News & Record of Greensboro reported Friday that Guilford County school superintendent Maurice Green told the school board that giving him the 3 percent raise during the poor economy would create a hardship for the school system.

N&R story

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Weather

Take the day off

If you’re one of those people who’ve been Jonesin’ for Spring, you may want to spend as much of today as you can outside as it will be, um, springlike. Winter’s last gasp (crossing fingers) is coming this weekend. (Insert usual panicked comments about slight possibility of snow here.)
Wunderground’s Thursday weather by the hour.

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Miscellany

Day in 100

TPM has really been doing a bang up job with their day in 100 seconds. Here’s Tuesday, which was, er, kinda big.

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Miscellany

Documentary Screening: “You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow”

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26TH
The documentary “You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow” will be screened, sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. There will also be a discussion with filmmaker Robin Washington.
The event will take place at the Horace Williams House, 610- E. Rosemary St., 7 p.m.
You can read more about this documentary here.
http://www.robinwashington.com/jimcrow/3_doc.html
You can read more about the filmmaker, Robin Washington here.
http://www.robinwashington.com/

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Sports

Duke walking

Kinda like moonwalking only the ref don’t see nuthin’.

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Miscellany

SXSW Triangle meetup

If you’re going to SxSW this year, join other Triangulites at a pre-fest meetup on March 10 from 6-9 PM at Capstrat (1201 Edwards Mill Road, Raleigh). And if you’re giving a talk or leading a session, you can even preview it at the meeting. To RSVP or reserve your preview slot, contact Evan Carroll at ecarroll@capstrat.com or visit www.lovediesubmit.com.

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Miscellany

Coffeehouse exhibitions announced

Coffeehouses announce exhibitions
Painter Kathy D. Miles-Morgan is showing her paintings at Caffe Driade on Franklin Street during the month of March. She studied art at UNC and is a realist who loves nature themes, as well as portraits and abstract art. Kathy works in other media, including hand-beading and crocheting jewelry.

Painter Jamie Nervo is the featured artist for March at the Open Eye on N. Greensboro Street in Carrboro. Her work depicts life’s everyday events and characters with a twist, masking the harsh realities of life and focusing instead on the positive and light-hearted issues we encounter each day. Jamie studied art at the Fashion Institute of Technology in N.Y. and fine art at Old Dominion University. Another painter, Kal Fadem, will exhibit his work in the Side Room.