George Cianciolo reports on the Chapel Hill 2020 kickoff: The first meeting of Chapel Hill 2020, the process designed to develop a new Comprehensive Plan for Chapel Hill, kicked off this evening at East Chapel Hill High School. It started with an open house from 5 to 6 p.m., followed by introductory remarks by Mayor […]
All posts for the month September, 2011
Sell-out crowd for Chapel Hill 2020
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 28, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/28/sell-out-crowd-for-chapel-hill-2020/
A step toward peace
Congress could learn from this: At last night’s Town Council meeting, council members engaged in a gusty and at times contentious discussion, ultimately brokering a compromise between two opposing factions – Chris Moran, representing IFC, and Mark Peters, spokesman for ABetterSite.org. Three meetings into crafting an effective Good Neighbor Policy for the shelter on Homestead […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 27, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/27/a-step-toward-peace/
Bad start to be good neighbor
The plan to move the IFC homeless shelter from West Rosemary Street to Homestead Road got off on the wrong foot. With its process of crafting a Good Neighbor Policy, it continues to try to dance with two left feet. At tonight’s Town Council meeting, IFC will give a report on progress of the GNP […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 26, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/26/bad-start-to-be-good-neighbor/
A rainy night in Northside
Chapel Hill voters, you did me proud. On a rainy night in a transitional neighborhood with the Yankees on TV clinching the American League East title, you turned out in droves to meet the candidates for Town Council and mayor. You filled Hargraves Center parking lot and every marginally legal parking space along North Roberson […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 22, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/22/a-rainy-night-in-northside/
Candidate forum
Candidates for Town Council will gather at 7 o’clock tonight at Hargraves Center to tell you about themselves and what they stand for and answer questions. It will be one of only a few opportunities to compare and contrast their positions. Segregation of the political sort is alive and well in Chapel Hill. Though the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 21, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/21/candidate-forum/
Dawson Place
I’m sorry that family matters will prevent me from watching tonight’s public hearing live. I’ll have to catch it in reruns; it promises to be a good one. One of the items on the manageably small agenda is the closing of Dawson Place, an alley between 331 and 337 W. Rosemary St. (337 is the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 19, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/19/dawson-place/
Get to know campus
Stop reading this and get back to work, so you can leave before 3 p.m. today and get to Morehead Planetarium in time for the first in a series of specialized tours of campus. This afternoon, UNC historic preservationist Wendy Hillis takes you on a walk around campus to point out architectural features that you’ve […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 16, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/16/get-to-know-campus/
Behave — or else
Town Council set the bar high last night – its meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m., a relief to all who slogged through those meetings last fiscal year that ran over into the next day. Mayor pro tem Jim Ward, conducting the meeting in the absence of Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt who was ill, all but picked […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 13, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/13/behave-or-else/
Council kickoff
One year for Christmas my children got me a bumper sticker that read, “Hang up and drive,” so tired were they of hearing me mutter that phrase to other drivers making airhead moves while talking on the phone. In April, Penny Rich proposed a ban on cell phone use while driving on town roads. (The […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 12, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/12/council-kickoff/
Hate crimes
Is there any reason the U.S. House and Senate Republican leadership’s treatment of President Obama should not be considered a hate crime? The good ol’ white boys who control the GOP in Washington have done their best to thwart Obama at every turn during the president’s term. And they have declared their primary focus to […]
Posted by Don Evans on September 8, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/08/hate-crimes/