Kids in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools have a teacher workday on Monday, February 13. If you’re looking for something to do, here are some of our favorites. Take a hike along the Bolin Creek Trail It’s the Year of the Trail in North Carolina. Bolin Creek Trail, Chapel Hill’s oldest trail, is also our […]
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Chatting with Carrboro Town Council Member Susan Romaine
We’re starting a series of interviews with Council Members in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Today we’re speaking with Carrboro Town Council member (and Mayor Pro Tem) Susan Romaine who is the founder of Orange County Living Wage and PORCH Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Romaine, who was elected in 2019, serves as Council’s liaison to the Economic Sustainability […]
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It’s Groundhog Day in Chapel Hill, and we might finally be able to leave Punxsutawney
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]