It may be Valentine’s Day, but the town isn’t feeling any love for annexations or for moving the library to University Mall. Both items are on the agenda tonight, and town manager Roger Stancil has given a thumbs down to both. Town staff prepared a list of possible sites to annex. However, water and sewer […]

While grocery shopping on Sunday, I struck up a conversation with the cashier, as people who work from home are wont to do whenever they have direct contact with another human being in the outside world. She and I chatted about Valentine’s Day, and she said she hoped her husband would surprise her with a […]

Just so we’re all on the same page here, as Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt likes to say, “ombuds” is not in the dictionary. Neither is “proclaimation,” but that hasn’t stopped the town from using both. On the whole, we’re a fairly well-educated citizenry, and town staff probably figure we know what they mean. Council member Donna […]

Even discussing an update for the town’s Comprehensive Plan had plenty of points of contention. Should the town work on an update of the existing plan or create a whole new plan? How far into the future should the plan aim to govern? Should the committee to work on changes to the plan try for […]

A cartoon in a recent issue of The New Yorker shows a mother pulling her little boy away from his toys as she says, “You’ll have plenty of time to play once you’ve been accepted into college.” Last night the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation hosted a showing of the documentary “Race to Nowhere” about […]

If someone blindfolded you, spun you around and dropped you on a street corner somewhere, how would you be able to tell you were still in Chapel Hill once the blindfold had been removed? Council member Sally Greene hopes it would be the distinctive architecture of our quaint burg, or that’s the implication, anyway, from […]