When has Chapel Hill ever forced an entire neighborhood to pack up and move away? When has the town ever told more than 100 of its residents they must leave their homes en masse and find other housing? It sure looks like that’s about to happen to the Lakeview mobile home community in north Chapel […]
All posts for the month January, 2018
At what price?
Posted by Don Evans on January 29, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/01/29/at-what-price/
What’s worth preserving
Would a time traveler from the turn of the 19th century into the 20th, walking through one of Chapel Hill’s historic districts, recognize the neighborhood? Amber Kidd, a preservationist with the N.C. Historic Preservation Office who advises local governments on how to set up and run a Historic District Commission, put that question to Chapel […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 22, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/01/22/whats-worth-preserving/
Honor MLK Jr. — Speak Out
Never have I felt so alone and afraid as when the border patrol in El Salvador pulled me off the bus as I headed to American-friendly Guatemala because I had not stayed the three consecutive nights the Salvadoran regime required of tourists to that country torn by civil war in the early 1980s. I watched […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 15, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/01/15/honor-mlk-jr-speak-out/
Requiem to a Newspaper
“I have some good news to share,” began a letter to Chapel Hill News readers from publisher Sara Glines. But it wasn’t good news. What followed was a 6-inch column of malarkey. The Chapel Hill News ceased publication at the end of December. It had stopped publishing news a year before that, when McClatchy, owner […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 8, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/01/08/requiem-to-a-newspaper/
Happier New Year
We started a new tradition this New Year’s Eve – we wrote all the bad things that happened in 2017 on little slips of paper, then tossed them into the fireplace. It was not as big of a bonfire as I expected, given the national politics and ripples into global and state affairs. And it […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 1, 2018
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/01/01/happier-new-year/