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
Three proposed developments could create dozens of new multi-family homes, shops, offices and a new church west of Homestead Park.
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After visiting 425 outlets, doing 272 interviews and reading thousands of articles, Bryant Simon was ready to tell his Starbucks story to the world.
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I remember the first time I met the woman who would marry my baby brother.
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Sunday
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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
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
I am writing in response to the article "Asians seek more representation" (CHN Jan. 31).
Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story
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
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
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
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
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
CARRBORO
Published: Feb. 7, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My View: I have used public libraries since I could read.
Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story
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 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
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
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
CHAPEL HILL
Published: Feb. 3, 2010 2:00 AM | Full story
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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