The Orange County community had developed a way to ease court over-crowding while supporting people in communicating better. But with budget cuts in Raleigh last summer, our mediators have not been able to serve court clients.
Published: May. 22, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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Let’s keep our minds open to the possibility that this magnet recommendation may be a plan that could help a lot of students in our district and be worthy of Frank Porter Graham’s legacy.
Published: May. 22, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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The Episcopal Church of the Advocate plans to take the historic St. Philip’s Episcopal Church off its foundations in Germanton, N.C. The Advocate’s good fortune may be wonderful news to their parishioners, but it comes at a dear cost to Germanton.
Published: May. 22, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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It says very clearly that the citizens of Chapel Hill love this place they call home, but they see a path to improvement, enrichment and meaningful engagement with the 21st century.
Published: May. 19, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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Wallace and Bobbie Edwards have stood by their reckless son, as has John’s daughter and oldest child Cate, throughout the trial. They are stoic under fire, and I admire them for it.
Published: May. 19, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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Commentary: The general public knows little about the Baha’i people, and how they are treated by the Iranian government. It even puts these gentle people into prison for trying to obtain an education.
Published: May. 15, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: More than 26 percent of Americans over the age of 18 suffer from a diagnosable mental health disorder each year. But whether or not they receive the help they need often depends on their ability to pay for it.
Published: May. 15, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: A commencement address is different from other speaking engagements on campus. A commencement address is not a space for open dialogue between varying points of view, rather it is intended to give parting words of wisdom to graduating students.
Published: May. 14, 2012 6:46 PM | Full story
Commentary: Whether you live in town or a rural area, we all have an obligation to create a sustainable legacy for those who will come after us. Public transit is an indispensible tool for achieving these goals.
Published: May. 12, 2012 10:26 PM | Full story
Commentary: Grandmama used to say I eat people. Not literally, mind. What she meant was that I chat up pretty much everyone I meet each day.
Published: May. 12, 2012 10:24 PM | Full story
I believe there is some fear FPG will not pass AYP. I know it doesn’t look good for anyone on the Board of Education or at Lincoln Center if the state steps in to take over a school. But how can we abandon ship after bailing this much water?
Published: May. 8, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: This focus on Planning Board Chairwoman Del Snow misdirects attention away from the truly insidious problem taking root within the Charterwood application which will have far-reaching ramifications not just for the neighborhood bordering this development, but for the entire town.
Published: May. 1, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The CHCCS School Board has a responsibility to represent all 10 of the district’s elementary schools. And in this dual-language report the chosen committee has failed to do that.
Published: May. 1, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The Law isn’t right because it’s The Law. The Law is only right so long as it is just. If The Law is being used to defend injustice, The Law is wrong and God changes wants it changed.
Published: Apr. 24, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest Column: Current budget limitations jeopardize key programming areas. The Town’s public safety budget continues to be strained by an increasing number of special events, including NCAA celebrations and Halloween. Budget cuts over the last three years have delayed replacement of critical equipment and routine maintenance.
Published: Apr. 17, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Before the baby’s arrival, I saw only possibility. Now the sight of a grandma cradling a baby girl sends me into a dark hole of grief.
Published: Apr. 14, 2012 5:30 PM | Full story
Commentary: I am one of the millions of Americans who has no interest in my neighbors’ religion. I care that they obey the law and rake their leaves. I am grateful that they welcomed me into the neighborhood with brownies and have no idea what choices they make for themselves regarding the private issues of faith, abortion, marriage, love.
Published: Apr. 12, 2012 6:17 PM | Full story
My View: Maxine Turner Fitts, 58, vice-president of programs and operations at Cornucopia Cancer Support Center, knows why remaining optimistic when dealing with cancer makes a difference.
Published: Apr. 10, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest column: As an African-American gay man, I was both ashamed of and frustrated with a recent anti-Amendment One social hosted in my godparents’ neighborhood in historic Chapel Hill.
Published: Apr. 7, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest column: As a resident of "downtown" Carrboro for the most of the past 20 years, I walk or ride my bike past the now-abandoned building at 201 N Greensboro St. now owned by a CVS holding company, the planned site for a 24-hour CVS. What happens to this corner has long-term consequences, and the first criteria should be community support. Here is my idea for an outcome that I believe would have that support, in the form of a fictional letter. Wouldn't it be nice to get this from CVS's foundation?
Published: Apr. 12, 2012 10:10 AM | Full story
Guest Column: As a student living in Chapel Hill, the chance to move off campus can be an exciting endeavor. It is a marker of increasing independence and a chance to explore a new space you can call “home,” at least temporarily.
Published: Apr. 7, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest Column: Nobody gets to where they are without a little help along the way. And many children who were part of the child-welfare system in the judicial district of Orange and Chatham counties got to permanent homes in part because of their volunteer guardians ad litem (GAL).
Published: Apr. 7, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest column: Instead of eliminating this Chinese dual language program, the school district should be expanding it.
Published: Apr. 3, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest Column: Nobody was more excited than I was to move to downtown Chapel Hill. That was 17 years ago.
Published: Apr. 3, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
On Sunday April 15, at 1 p.m. the 15th Annual Community Dinner will begin. This event, celebrating Orange County’s cultural diversity through food and entertainment, will take place at the Mc Dougle Schools “cafetorium” on the Old Fayetteville Road in Carrboro.
Published: Apr. 3, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest Column: Like cellphones, Chapel is a small town, but with lots of very alcohol-impaired young people. And like the cellphone, it should be a “big, big concern.”
Published: Mar. 31, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Guest Column: A certain population or level of growth is not inevitable; it’s a consequence of our choices about things like land-use, zoning, development intensity and our informed acceptance of the consequences those choices represent.
Published: Mar. 31, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
We are responding to the guest column written by Bonnie Hauser which was published in the March 17 issue.
Published: Mar. 27, 2012 7:10 PM | Full story
It takes courage to ask residents about their perceptions of the job you’re doing. There is even more risk asking them a second time – especially when this time, the economy has worsened and you have had to implement service reductions.
Published: Mar. 27, 2012 7:03 PM | Full story
“We couldn’t live under the constant threat,” was how she started her story.
Published: Mar. 19, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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