If you haven’t yet taken a photo to use as a holiday card, grab your cell phone and head to Creek Wood. There you will find an elegant house tastefully lit, looking like it could grace the cover of Southern Living magazine. We didn’t write down addresses during our holiday lights tour this year, but […]

When Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt adjourned last night’s meeting, he bade council members goodbye until January 2011. Presumably, the business meeting scheduled for Dec. 20 is off the calendar. And a good thing, too. Council members present – Gene Pease and Laurin Easthom were absent – looked like they could use a break. Those on the […]

We’re adding some new voices to Chapel Hill Watch. Don has retired, though he may make an occasional appearance as a guest blogger. Today’s post is by Ebony Shamberger, a UNC sophomore who plans to make a career in journalism. She writes for Black Ink Magazine and has written for The Daily Tar Heel. Recently […]

I’m waiting for the Town of Chapel Hill to fix its video problems so I can watch the Nov. 22 council meeting (we had a family commitment that evening), and I’m waiting for Dillard’s public relations director to call me back about what seems to have been a surprise announcement of the store’s closing. Public […]

The big news for tonight’s Town Council business meeting could be the town’s financial/economic update, presented by town manager Roger Stancil. It holds the No. 1 spot on the agenda, with no accompanying documentation to give us a clue as to what the presentation will reveal. Our prediction? The address will be short, as in, […]

I spent last week at my brother’s house, on an acreage on the edge of the Iowa town where I grew up. He lives at the end of a narrow tarmac road that barely allows two cars to pass one another and still keep all eight wheels on impervious surface. The population of the town […]

Neighbors for Responsible Growth must have been giddy with the comments they heard Town Council members make at Monday’s public hearing. The feedback council members delivered to Capstone Co. as its representative presented a revised concept plan for The Cottages proposed for a 33-acre parcel along Homestead Road across from the recently approved Bridgepoint mixed-use […]

I never thought I’d quote Richard Nixon, but let me make one thing perfectly clear: UNC at Chapel Hill Foundation does not own the land all the way back to Cameron Avenue. John McColl, executive vice president at Cousins Properties, the company redeveloping University Square, repeatedly told council members during his concept plan presentation Monday […]

The Cottages of Chapel Hill are back on the agenda for tonight’s Town Council meeting. In May, Capstone Co. of Birmingham, Ala., proposed a complex of townhomes and apartments along the south side of Homestead Road, near the intersection with Weaver Dairy Extension. The original plan, given a thumbs down by council members, consisted of […]

It boils down to trust, Gene Pease said. And bless their hearts, the other members of Town Council came around. Two items on last night’s council meeting agenda dealt with Obey Creek. First, the town’s Economic Development Committee asked for $30,000 to guide the developer in coming up with a plan for Obey Creek. Then […]