Chapel Hill voters, you did me proud. On a rainy night in a transitional neighborhood with the Yankees on TV clinching the American League East title, you turned out in droves to meet the candidates for Town Council and mayor. You filled Hargraves Center parking lot and every marginally legal parking space along North Roberson […]
A rainy night in Northside
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 22, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/22/a-rainy-night-in-northside/
Candidate forum
Candidates for Town Council will gather at 7 o’clock tonight at Hargraves Center to tell you about themselves and what they stand for and answer questions. It will be one of only a few opportunities to compare and contrast their positions. Segregation of the political sort is alive and well in Chapel Hill. Though the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 21, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/21/candidate-forum/
Dawson Place
I’m sorry that family matters will prevent me from watching tonight’s public hearing live. I’ll have to catch it in reruns; it promises to be a good one. One of the items on the manageably small agenda is the closing of Dawson Place, an alley between 331 and 337 W. Rosemary St. (337 is the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 19, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/19/dawson-place/
Get to know campus
Stop reading this and get back to work, so you can leave before 3 p.m. today and get to Morehead Planetarium in time for the first in a series of specialized tours of campus. This afternoon, UNC historic preservationist Wendy Hillis takes you on a walk around campus to point out architectural features that you’ve […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 16, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/16/get-to-know-campus/
Behave — or else
Town Council set the bar high last night – its meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m., a relief to all who slogged through those meetings last fiscal year that ran over into the next day. Mayor pro tem Jim Ward, conducting the meeting in the absence of Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt who was ill, all but picked […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 13, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/13/behave-or-else/
Council kickoff
One year for Christmas my children got me a bumper sticker that read, “Hang up and drive,” so tired were they of hearing me mutter that phrase to other drivers making airhead moves while talking on the phone. In April, Penny Rich proposed a ban on cell phone use while driving on town roads. (The […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 12, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/12/council-kickoff/
Transit report
Looks like Chapel Hill Transit is spending its Christmas money or maybe leftover TARP funds set to expire. According to a report in chapelboro.com, the town is shelling out $200,000 — perhaps as much as $300,000, depending on which source you believe — to a consulting firm to determine whether the Eubanks Road Park-n-Ride has […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 6, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/06/transit-report/
Redemption
On Wednesday, I learned from school system spokeswoman Stephanie Knott that the donation to Rashkis Elementary School that resulted from the retirement party Penny Rich catered amounted to $25, a check the school received from Rich on Aug. 26. That cast a worse pall over what started out as a well-intentioned party to honor a […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 1, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/09/01/redemption/
This round’s on Rashkis
Carwashes, sorting clothes at the PTA Thrift Shop, linking your VIC card at Harris Teeter – these are the school fundraising methods of the plebeian. Rashkis Elementary School teachers have a much more innovative way of raising money: selling alcoholic drinks at a party where students who are minors work as servers. Penny Rich told […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 31, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/08/31/this-rounds-on-rashkis/
Blessed
We survived an earthquake and a hurricane all in one week. We must, as they say in the South, be blessed. So I started thinking of all the things in my life for which I am grateful. Here’s just a smattering of what I came up with: I may never be able to open my […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 29, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/08/29/blessed/