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Turning up the heat

To the Sierra Club, a new energy task force at UNC is a victory of sorts, an acknowledgement that burning coal is a problem. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Developers eye Homestead Road

Three proposed developments could create dozens of new multi-family homes, shops, offices and a new church west of Homestead Park. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

What Starbucks tells us about ourselves

After visiting 425 outlets, doing 272 interviews and reading thousands of articles, Bryant Simon was ready to tell his Starbucks story to the world. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Magui, are you dancing?

I remember the first time I met the woman who would marry my baby brother. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Day Book

Sunday Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Greenway neighbors already need help

The discussion of whether to pave the OWASA easement along Bolin Creek to create a thoroughfare is focused on only one aspect of the Bolin Creek natural area and corridor. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

AGENDAs

The Chapel Hill Town Council will hold a business meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in the Council Chamber at Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. To see the agenda, go to townhall.townofchapelhill.org. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

African Americans due consideration

I am writing in response to the article "Asians seek more representation" (CHN Jan. 31). Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Bolin Creek is a blessing as is

As I run with my running group, the Squirrels, back along Bolin Creek in the crisp mornings, we enjoy the magic of communing with nature. The trail is soft and a blessing for our joints. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

The sacred struggle

Thanks to everyone in Chapel Hill who is doing all he or she can to protect life as we know it on Earth from huge human-induced-threats. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Your Letters

Every election year we who live in Chapel Hill and/or Carrboro hear what a socially progressive community we live in. And year after year, those candidates who claim ownership of progressive values are elected into office. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Your Best Shot

Today's Best Shot comes from Tim Poe: 'The following photo was taken this past Saturday of Jordan Poe sledding down a hill in Carrboro's Bolin Forest." Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Does America still have heroes?

Editor's note: Samuel J. Johnson, a local home-schooled 11th-grader, won first place in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy competition. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Crime Notes

CARRBORO Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Town tethering rules start March 23

Starting next month, Chapel Hill residents will no longer be able to tie out their dogs with any type of chain or runner. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Better ways to fill vacancies

Chapel Hill recently had to fill a vacancy on the Town Council. The process and results were distressing to many, mainly because the deadline had passed to fill the position in November's election. What could we do in future cases like that? Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Saving our pets

The Orange County Animal Shelter staff works in a bright, spacious new building on Eubanks Road. But that lovely new space hasn't changed the ugly truth that almost half the animals that come into the shelter never leave alive. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

County reduces waste rate

Orange County residents sent less waste per capita to the landfill last year than in any year since waste reduction records began in 1993. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Critics pan high school hybrid plan

Teachers, students and community members at a school board meeting Thursday overwhelmingly opposed a plan to combine regular and honors instruction in Chapel Hill-Carrboro high schools. Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

CHN to share space with distillery

If the stories you find in the Chapel Hill News occasionally drive you to drink, by mid-summer you'll be able to look to the newspaper building at 505 W. Franklin St. for some one-stop shopping. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Snow Day

Kids had a four-day weekend during which they could play in the snow to their hearts content ... or until their wet feet and fingers grew numb ... whichever came first. Play time ended Wednesday morning, with a two-hour delay, for the return to school. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Thursday auction to fight family violence

Community members will come together to raise money for the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County and the UNC Hospitals' Beacon Child and Family Program at the annual Silent (No More!) Auction, Thursday from 5:30 to 8 p.m., at the Franklin Hotel in downtown Chapel Hill. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Too many cats and dogs

Four out of every 10 animals brought to the Orange County Animal Shelter last year were euthanized. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Library limbo

I have used public libraries since I could read. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Creek controversy spawns group

A town consultant's recommendation to pave a greenway path by Bolin Creek has spawned a new group, Save Bolin Creek, which is pushing back with a blog, a Facebook group and an online petition with nearly 200 signatures. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Chatham plans for new high school

Chatham County has approved a five-year Capital Improvement Plan that includes a new high school, a new jail and a landfill site study. The plan also calls for moving ahead immediately with the county's judicial center. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Chamber honors top businesses

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce announced its 2009 Business of the Year Award Winners on Thursday at the Chamber's 2010 Annual Meeting. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Your Best Shot

Today's Best Shot comes from Debbie and Mitch Horowitz of Chapel Hill: "This is a photo of my daughters, Elana and Talia, at Ocracoke Island last summer. We love taking 'jumping pictures' at the beach with all four of our kids." Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Crime Notes

CHAPEL HILL Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story

Keep 'em laughing

The annual North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival just keeps getting bigger and better. Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story


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