Remember last year when the Premier League came to Chapel Hill? Well, this summer we’re getting Manchester City on July 23 at Kenan Stadium playing a friendly against top Scottish club Celtic. The tour also includes Yankee Stadium, Ohio Stadium in Columbus, and Orlando’s Camping World Stadium. How do I get tickets to Man City […]
Posted inTriangle Blog Blog
March Radness: Let’s decide the coolest person place or thing in Carrboro and Chapel Hill!
We love our community. We think with your help we can totally come up with 64 cool people, places, or things in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. We are also ruthless competitors and believe if you want to be the coolest, you need to destroy your less cool competition in a humiliating fashion, then rub it […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Connectivity, DCHC MPO, NCDOT
NC Law restricts funding projects that benefit people walking and biking
If you walk, bike, or use transit to get around, chances are, you have experienced fear or a feeling of abandonment while waiting to cross a busy, high-speed road lacking a safe crossing, had to slog along a desire path next to traffic to reach a transit stop, or ride your bike next to trucks, […]
Posted inCHALT, Journalism
The Local Reporter: A very unusual local non-profit newsroom
The Local Reporter has once again removed a piece from its website without explanation. Here’s what happened: Yesterday afternoon, they published a piece by Adam Powell, the public information officer for the North Carolina Cyber Academy, about President Biden’s recommendation to include $138.3 million in the federal budget for Chapel Hill’s planned North-South Bus Rapid […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Chapel Hill, Obituary
Remembering Barb Keyworth, who devoted her life to helping others
Barbara “Barb” Keyworth, who devoted her life to helping others, died on March 7, 2024, after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in January. She was 72. Barb is survived by her husband John Rees and her stepchildren Kathryn Rees and Kimberly Rees, who Barb loved from her very early days with John, […]
Posted inAffordable Housing, Chapel Hill Town Council, Public Comment
Let the Chapel Hill Town Council Know You Want to Vote on a Housing Bond in 2024
We all know that affordable housing is an urgent issue. The Chapel Hill Town Council recognized this when it passed an Affordable Housing Plan & Investment Strategy last fall. The strategy noted that “most of the Town’s recent funding sources [for affordable housing] have now been exhausted,” flagged a $5 million funding gap in FY […]