The Orange County Commissioners voted 6-1 Tuesday to ban smoking in most public places, effective Jan. 1. The ban is aimed at cutting the effects of secondhand smoke, reducing cigarette butt litter and discouraging young people from smoking.
Published: Nov. 21, 2012 2:02 PM | Full story
The morning after voters approved a half-cent sales tax for bus and light rail, area officials were talking about how to put the plans into motion.
Published: Nov. 13, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Orange County voters approved a half-cent sales tax Tuesday to help pay for better bus service and a light-rail route connecting Chapel Hill and Durham, according to unofficial results.
Published: Nov. 7, 2012 12:00 AM | Full story
Three newcomers and one incumbent were elected Tuesday to the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
Published: Nov. 7, 2012 12:00 AM | Full story
The question for rural voters is whether it’s worth spending $661.1 million in local, state and federal money to support the local part of a regional transit plan.
Published: Oct. 30, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Hundreds of people lined downtown Hillsborough on Saturday for the annual Handmade Parade sponsored by the Hillsborough Arts Council.
Published: Oct. 23, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Regional leaders weighed their options for more than 15 years before choosing N.C. 54 for a dense light-rail corridor connecting Orange and Durham counties.
Published: Oct. 23, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Five minutes with Mayor Tom Stevens is all it takes to be captivated by his playful personality and exuberance. He wanted to bring this spirit to his new exhibit of eight oil paintings at Hillsborough’s Cup-A-Joe.
Published: Oct. 23, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Three years ago, historian Benjamin Filene plopped down with great intent at a table in the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library. When he left the library that day, Filene could barely contain his excitement over his discovery.
Published: Oct. 23, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
An alternative transportation network will be successful only if there are enough people living and working close enough to take advantage of it, officials say.
Published: Oct. 20, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
A two-part bus and light rail transportation plan – and the half-cent sales tax to help fund it – is the key to controlling and directing the effects of future growth, regional leaders say.
Published: Oct. 17, 2012 7:03 PM | Full story
Orange County sheriff’s deputies are investigating two shootings this week in Hillsborough.
Published: Oct. 12, 2012 5:45 PM | Full story
Orange County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a shooting Tuesday evening in northern Hillsborough.
Published: Oct. 10, 2012 3:20 PM | Full story
A memorial service will be held Saturday for one of two area men killed last week in a plane crash in south-central Colorado.
Published: Sep. 18, 2012 6:39 PM | Full story
County and school leaders are planning some hard, creative decisions to meet growing student enrollment and build on existing pre-kindergarten programs with limited money.
Published: Sep. 17, 2012 10:43 AM | Full story
Inmate numbers and maintenance issues are pushing Orange County toward building a new jail, justice officials said.
Published: Sep. 8, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
A 100-foot-wide swath of land winding across western and central Orange County one day could link to a statewide Mountains-to-Sea Trail.
Published: Aug. 18, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
The Buckhorn tract is a model for OWASA’s forestry management plan. All but 137 acres will be thinned or clear-cut over the next 20 years. The next harvest could be sometime next year.
Published: Aug. 11, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
The Hillsborough Tree Board has selected a flowering dogwood as its sixth treasure tree.
Published: Jul. 28, 2012 12:00 AM | Full story
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing his girlfriend at her northern Orange County home in January.
Published: Jul. 24, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Orange County has paid roughly $1.6 million to buy a downtown parking deck, resolve a 2010 lawsuit over restricted access and provide free public parking.
Published: Jul. 24, 2012 6:30 PM | Full story
On Business: Hillsborough’s West End: On a recent Friday night, the former Bellevue Manufacturing Co. buildings – standing in the shadow of the old mill itself at the corner of South Nash and Eno streets in West Hillsborough – hopped with beer, music and dancing, with a whiff of summer barbecue.
Published: Jul. 24, 2012 6:30 PM | Full story
This summer, interns like Cacich are working with staff and volunteers to inventory the Orange County Historical Museum’s 3,000 piece collection, a process that takes place every four years.
Published: Jul. 14, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Dwane Brinson has been named Orange County tax administrator.
Published: Jul. 6, 2012 3:59 PM | Full story
The Orange County commissioners have given the county’s Emergency Medical Services $9 million for the 2012-13 year, about $1 million more than last year, to improve its technology and communications systems and add paramedics and telecommunicators.
Published: Jun. 30, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Commissioners approved a budget for 2012-13 fiscal year that added $1.5 million to County Manager Frank Clifton’s $178 million spending plan. The increase includes $244,000 for some nonprofit initiatives plus an additional $1.28 million, or $12 per pupil, for both the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
Published: Jun. 23, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Electric car owners can avoid using gasoline with the placement of 16 electric-vehicle charging stations around Orange County, 12 of them already installed.
Published: Jun. 19, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Snipes, a 1982 UNC graduate, was a familiar sight behind the wheel of his specially outfitted Carolina Blue, fire-breathing 1974 hearse. He also played Santa Claus in the Hillsborough holiday parades.
Published: Jun. 16, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Jason Johnson, the principal of Gravelly Middle School from 2006-11, will replace Armond Hankins, who filed a grievance Tuesday over his May 14 demotion to assistant principal at an as yet unnamed school.
Published: Jun. 16, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
The Orange County Commissioners voted to put a half-cent sales tax referendum on the ballot in November.
Published: Jun. 9, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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