For people of a certain generation (ours), Harold Ramis’s 1993 comedy Groundhog Day is a classic, the rare film we watched as kids that somehow got better with age. For those who haven’t seen the film, Bill Murray plays an unhappy television reporter who finds himself repeating the same day—February 2—for hundreds, possibly thousands, of […]
Posted inGreenway, Bike and Walk, Carrboro
What is in the Bolin Creek Greenway Conceptual Master Plan? We break it down.
In 2008, the Town of Carrboro commissioned Greenways Incorporated, a nationally recognized greenway design and planning firm founded by Chuck Flink, to assess the feasibility of Bolin Creek and Jones Creek for a greenway that would connect Morris Grove Elementary in the north to Wilson Park in the south. At the time, there was much […]
Posted inGreenway, Bike and Walk, Carrboro
Making a Place for Feet: Greenways as Environmental Restoration Projects
The other morning I went for a walk on Bolin Creek in Carrboro. What you’re saying when you tell someone that you went for a walk on Bolin Creek is that you walked on the sewer easement that runs alongside Bolin Creek. Buried underneath the cleared path that so many of us use is a […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
How we’re answering the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools survey on the school bus shortage
If you have a kid in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, you received an ominous automated phone call, text, and email yesterday encouraging you to fill out a survey about school bus transportation. The email said: As you may know, CHCCS no longer has enough school bus drivers to cover all of our routes on […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Carrboro, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Transportation
How far do Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s teachers travel to get to work? We did the math.
We wanted to better understand the commuting times and distances of the teachers and staff who work in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District, so we requested anonymized data for all employees from the school district. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District is the second largest employer in Orange County, after UNC-Chapel Hill. We received the zip […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill, Journalism
For hire: The Local Reporter is looking for another editor (Remote work ok)
Earlier this week, Andy Bechtel, who teaches journalism at UNC, tweeted that The Local Reporter was looking for a new part-time editor, noting that “someone who lives in the area would be ideal.” The non-profit local paper’s current editor — their fifth in just over four years — is based in Florida, more than 500 […]