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 […]
Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill, Guide
#GivingTuesday: Where we recommend donating in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
With #GivingTuesday just around the corner, we thought we’d round up the local Chapel Hill and Carrboro non-profits that we recommend donating to this year. This post details how you can: Help water bill assistance Help housing partners Support abortion care Provide healthy food Support a youth tap ensemble Help our community’s water bill assistance […]
Posted inNextDoor, Greenway
This week in batshit NextDoor threads that veer off course and make us sigh
What a busy weekend. Thanksgiving traffic, football games, and a crazy-ass NextDoor thread that can only be described as “a virtual Thanksgiving table with your um, more challenging, side of the family.” But in the interest of civic trust, we steeled ourselves with a six pack and a half gallon of spiked eggnog, waded in, […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Chapel Hill, Connectivity, Transportation
To get people out of cars, we need to maintain, not just build, sidewalks, bike lanes, and trails.
In June 2019, while out running, I tripped while crossing an intersection. This didn’t happen only because I’m clumsy; the road I was crossing had been built around 2010 and never completed, so it was missing a final layer of asphalt. There’s a sharp cliff between the gutter pan and the street. It’s a tripping […]