I stayed up late last night to see whether the planets had aligned, or at least be awake to see what would happen next after Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and council member Matt Czajkowski appeared to be on the same side of a growth and development issue. Zinn Design Build presented a preliminary plan for Aydan […]

No sooner did we learn that Parking Lot #5 will continue to serve our automobile parking needs for at least another three months than the problem of bicycle parking appears on the Town Council agenda. At its upcoming business meeting Wednesday night, council members will discuss proposed changes to the number of bicycle parking spaces […]

For more than a year, our refrigerator has not kept food adequately cold. We compensate by making daily trips to the grocery store, because we don’t trust food that’s been in the refrigerator for more than a day. With hefty tuition bills, we didn’t want to make the financial outlay of buying a new refrigerator. […]

Tonight’s the night. Not only will the Town Council approve its budget for fiscal 2011, its members also will vote on issuing $20.4 million in general obligation bonds that include $16 million and change for doubling the size of the town library. The crucial vote is the decision on whether to issue the library expansion […]

Yesterday morning I woke up before dawn and got in my car and started driving. I’ve done that once a year for the past three years when I pick my daughter up from her school in New England. But the other 364 dawns in the year, I expect to be in bed asleep. So I […]

Why has Firehouse Subs closed its restaurant on East Franklin Street and is planning to reopen in Meadowmont, right next door to Carolina Café? Not because of high rent in the heart of downtown, but mainly because of the lack of parking. Without ample and free parking, Firehouse must limit its customer base to those […]

We’ve been flying at half mast since we learned of the untimely death of civil rights lawyer Ashley Osment over the weekend. Osment battled ovarian cancer for three years, determined that it not dominate her life. In that she triumphed. Cancer may have robbed her of her life, but not of her spirit. A memorial […]

For the last two weeks, my life has been all about the census. Every day, seven days a week, I have been planning driving routes, knocking on doors and filling out the forms that are used to document the count. Today the crew of enumerators with which I have been working will shift its focus […]

Council member Gene Pease said he wanted a better understanding of the Northern Area Task Force’s reasoning on why it deemed certain areas appropriate for higher density. So after the public hearing on the Bridgepoint development last month, he asked town attorney Ralph “Don’t ask me, I only work here” Karpinos for more information. Karpinos […]

Lucky would be the restaurant that was so popular its customers would cause traffic congestion severe enough to persuade the council not to approve it being built. Rezoning the land at the corner of Weaver Dairy Road Extension and Homestead Road to make way for the mixed-use development of Bridgepoint came up for vote at […]