Tomorrow! Saturday, December 3, at 10:30 is the Chapel Hill – Carrboro Holiday Parade! A couple of important things to remember: Unlike past years, the parade is starting a little farther west and will begin at the corner of Church and Franklin Street. So, if you had a favorite spot to watch in the past, […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Greenway
The March 28, 1977 Chapel Hill Town Council meeting was unique.
We’re immersing ourselves in 1977 Chapel Hill town politics today because it came up as a discussion point in the 2022 town council work session on November 30. 1977 was the year Saturday Night Fever was released. In Chapel Hill, folks were battling I-40, talking greenways, and discussing OWASA. It was also the year in […]
Posted inAmerican Legion, Chapel Hill, Housing, Parks and Rec
We attended the American Legion meeting last night at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
There was a moment in the American Legion public meeting last night at the library where someone invited everyone in the room to the American Legion land this morning – it’s Wednesday – to clear wisteria. Dotty Foley of HOPE NC interrupted him. “We have to go to work to pay the rent,” she said. […]
Posted inPickleball, UNC
UNC Club Pickleball wins national championship
On Saturday, November 19, the UNC club pickleball team won the 2022 DUPR National Collegiate Championship and $10,000 in Dripping Springs, TX. They started the previous day by beating Ohio State, Michigan, and Grand Canyon University to advance from their pool to the semifinals on Saturday. After dispatching James Madison in the semifinals, UNC then […]
Posted inChapel Hill, UNC
Save Purple Bowl: We’re speaking out for cool, local downtown retail
Axios recently covered the new office, lab, and retail space possibly coming to Franklin Street where the Blue Dogwood Market, Chimney, and Purple Bowl currently are. The article quotes the owner of Purple Bowl, our favorite acai bowl restaurant, as saying “he believes the project will likely mean the demise of his popular acai bowl […]
Posted inCarrboro, Greenway
We talked to a wildlife ecologist about the proposed Bolin Creek Greenway
Whenever the issue of paving Bolin Creek comes up, the Friends of Bolin Creek (FOBC) flood the zone with unfounded environmental concerns about paving alongside Bolin Creek. Of course, there are always trade-offs with projects, but paving a 10-foot-wide path along an existing 30-foot-wide sewage easement seems like a no brainer: It uses an existing […]