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 […]

UNC journalism student Cat DiPaci weighs in on a recent crackdown on bartenders and convenience store clerks selling alcohol to minors: Reducing alcohol sales to minors or inadvertently increasing binge-drinking habits? According to The Daily Tar Heel, January 2011 has seen more citations for selling alcohol to minors than the combined number from all of […]

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 […]

Smart as we all like to think we are, few of us could get into Harvard. So when someone with a degree from Harvard Business School says we need certain information in order to make an effective decision, we should listen. But council members Donna Bell and Penny Rich and IFC director Chris Moran think […]

The process of creating a new worship facility could certainly be considered an act of faith by New Life Fellowship Church. According to information presented in the concept plan review at last night’s public hearing, the church began the planning and design process for a complex on a 3-acre parcel on Weaver Dairy Road, near […]

A campus event at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill led students to realize that being black in Chapel Hill is like living in a bubble. On Wednesday, the Carolina Union Activities Board and Carolina Association of Black Journalists showed “Black In America,” a CNN series of documentaries about issues faced in black […]