At the Chapel Hill skate park on Tuesday afternoon, X marked the spots where repairs were needed. And there were an awful lot of X’s. The painters were applying a fresh coat to the concrete shelter where the shop and bathrooms are. But the most important work at the 10,000-square-foot park off Homestead Road was […]
Skate with less peril
Posted by Don Evans on March 25, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/25/skate-with-less-peril/
Night of the living dead
Monday night’s Town Council meeting took on the tone of a horror movie – complete with zombies — about the time the debate on the library expansion bonds reached the how-do-we-pay-for-it phase. The zombies — the gray-haired contingent that has gathered at every council meeting where the library expansion has been discussed — clustered in […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 24, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/24/night-of-the-living-dead/
What we’ve accomplished
Nancy and I got an invitation to speak about community journalism and the role blogging can play in keeping residents informed. This afternoon we’ll talk to students in a class taught by Leroy Towns, a professor in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Prepping to speak to the fast-track freshmen got us to […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 18, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/18/what-weve-accomplished/
Does this bus go to Durham?
Chapel Hill residents may soon have the opportunity to hop on one of the town’s fare-free buses and take a trip to Durham as the result of a proposal to revise several routes along U.S. 15-501. The route modifications will allow Chapel Hillians to transfer to a Durham Area Transit Authority bus and tool on […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 17, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/17/does-this-bus-go-to-durham/
Can we Google that?
Will Raymond mentioned at the Town Council public hearing Monday night that Google Fiber would bring benefits to Chapel Hill that we can’t see right now. He’s right about that. But he didn’t mention that those benefits will come at a cost in privacy and how much marketers and the government know about us. The […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 16, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/16/can-we-google-that/
Parking fix
No tow truck operators showed up Monday night at the Town Council meeting. No vehicle owners with a burning desire to test their luck on private lots anywhere downtown. And no parking lot property owners. The council’s scheduled public hearing on the town’s changes two years ago to the fees that can be charged for […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 10, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/10/parking-fix/
Changing landscape
The Walgreens contingent of lawyers, designers and architects walked away from the Town Council meeting Monday night with broad smiles on their faces. Who could blame them? The drug-store project proposed for the corner of Estes Drive and East Franklin Street looks classy, definitely upgrades a piece of property that has seen better days and […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 9, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/09/changing-landscape/
Financial planning
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt has access to the town’s credit card for less than three months, and it’s already burning a hole in his pocket. The man who confessed to relying on his personal credit card for daily living expenses seems quite enthusiastic about maxing out the town’s credit limit. He wants to push ahead on […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 3, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/03/financial-planning/
Running on their records
Can anyone out there come up with one compelling reason to vote for the incumbent county commissioners this year? I need some reassurance here, because I’m looking for a reason not to cast a blanket vote against the incumbents. I need to have faith in their ability to lead the county through what is shaping […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 2, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/02/running-on-their-records/
Foregone conclusion
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and Chris Moran, the executive director of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Services, sure make it sound as if the vote has already been cast on the new shelter planned for the corner of Homestead Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Through the public hearings on the issue as well as […]
Posted by Don Evans on March 1, 2010
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/01/foregone-conclusion/