Talk around the water cooler at the Crosland construction company is that work on the Chapel Hill North and Chapel Watch Village projects in north Chapel Hill will be back on track in 90 to 120 days. Those who’ve been around for more than 10 years were probably looking at those projects, which represent 243 […]
All posts for the month March, 2010
Banking on apartments
Posted by Don Evans on March 31, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/31/banking-on-apartments/
Plan ahead
Periodically, my husband and I pledge to live healthier lives by swearing off our main vice, salty snacks. Harris Teeter may be having a buy-one-get-one-free special on potato chips, and we’ll virtuously walk past the chip aisle with only a longing, backward glance. And that will work fine, until we throw together a meal that […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on March 30, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/30/plan-ahead/
The debit list
I sure would like to see the document Matt Czajkowski was asking for at last Monday’s Town Council meeting. Czajkowski had requested a one- or two-page listing from town staff that would lay out what other financing or bond requirements, certificates of participation, interest-bearing and required debt service, and other fiscal obligations that the town […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 29, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/29/the-debit-list/
Water report
Randy Kabrick, OWASA’s board chair, may have thought that the upside of sitting through four hours of a Town Council meeting before he had to give his report Monday night might work in his favor. Council members might be too worn out to pay much attention. He could run through his PowerPoint slides and be […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on March 26, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/26/water-report/
Skate with less peril
At the Chapel Hill skate park on Tuesday afternoon, X marked the spots where repairs were needed. And there were an awful lot of X’s. The painters were applying a fresh coat to the concrete shelter where the shop and bathrooms are. But the most important work at the 10,000-square-foot park off Homestead Road was […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 25, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/25/skate-with-less-peril/
Night of the living dead
Monday night’s Town Council meeting took on the tone of a horror movie – complete with zombies — about the time the debate on the library expansion bonds reached the how-do-we-pay-for-it phase. The zombies — the gray-haired contingent that has gathered at every council meeting where the library expansion has been discussed — clustered in […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 24, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/24/night-of-the-living-dead/
What’s wrong with learning more?
Council member Penny Rich started it. When it came time in the council meeting, that went on more than five and a half hours last night, to hear more information about negotiations with Orange County over its contribution to the library expansion, she spoke up: Issue the bonds now; talk later. That prompted council member […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on March 23, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/23/whats-wrong-with-learning-more/
Council stand-outs
The list of items on the Town Council agenda for tonight’s meeting is long. There are many topics to discuss, but a few do stand out. Town staff is recommending that the council take no action on a petition regarding the operation of the town’s skate park. Ryan Ogilvy, manager of the Chapel Hill Skate […]
Posted by NancyDon on March 22, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/22/council-stand-outs/
Hot potato
When I was a kid, we sometimes played a game called Hot Potato. Kids would sit in a circle and toss a ball to one another while music played; when the music stopped, the one holding the ball was out, gone, loser. That Hot Potato concept may explain why 140 West Franklin seems to be […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on March 19, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/19/hot-potato/
What we’ve accomplished
Nancy and I got an invitation to speak about community journalism and the role blogging can play in keeping residents informed. This afternoon we’ll talk to students in a class taught by Leroy Towns, a professor in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Prepping to speak to the fast-track freshmen got us to […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 18, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/18/what-weve-accomplished/