What a ride 2013 turned out to be. Yet despite the ups and downs, we moved forward. We began the year with Town Council members choosing Sally Greene over 10 other well-qualified and diverse candidates to fill the seat Penny Rich vacated a couple months before. In the November election this year, Greene was elected […]
All posts for the month December, 2013
We did what this year?
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 30, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/12/30/we-did-what-this-year/
Annual lights tour
I never got around to putting up our Christmas lights this year, save for a lighted tree that opens like an umbrella. You know the kind – the Who’s in Whoville have them. This year I had time to either decorate the house or shop for presents, and I believe my family will appreciate that […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 23, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/12/23/annual-lights-tour/
Random consequences
More than a thousand students waited outside the Dean Dome in a cold, steady rain for hours Saturday afternoon for a chance to watch the UNC-Kentucky men’s basketball game. But their sacrifice was for naught due to a new practice called “randomization” that the Dean Dome ticket office put into play recently. The intent is […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 16, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/12/16/random-consequences/
Parade of new businesses
The Holiday Parade marches down Franklin Street this Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. in front of the post office. Here’s a list of businesses along the parade route that are new in the past year, and some that have closed: Top This! opened in the former Jack Sprat Café spot. Insomnia Cookies opened where Clothes […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 9, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/12/09/parade-of-new-businesses/
An end, and a new beginning
Compromise, a concept not usually synonymous with Town Council, ruled the day during the approval of a plan for Central West. Council members did so many things right during last Tuesday’s meeting that it’s hard to know where to begin. Town staff set the stage by reconfiguring the room to allow increased occupancy of 130; […]
Posted by NancyDon on December 2, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/12/02/an-end-and-a-new-beginning/