The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality’s (DAQ) will hold a public hearing tomorrow night at Chapel Hill Town Hall at 6pm to consider UNC’s request to modify its air quality permit to allow it to also burn engineered pellets in its boilers at the co-gen plant, which is located in […]
Posted inCarrboro, From the archives
Honoring Strayhorn Drive
In 2023, Carrboro honored the historic Strayhorn House, which was owned and built by former slaves in 1879, with a Truth Plaque. The house on Jones Ferry Road has been occupied by six generations of the Clark family. Lorie Clark, the great-great-granddaughter of original owners Toney and Nellie, came to the Carrboro Town Council meeting […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council
Will East Weaver Street be getting a glow up? Maybe!
The Carrboro Town Council has a work session this Tuesday. Work sessions allow council to discuss a single topic in-depth. (There’s no public comment at work sessions, but the public is welcome to come and watch.) I read through the packet and immediately got excited: the agenda item for Tuesday’s discussion is to “discuss possible […]
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Chapel Hill Rear View: A look back at Chapel Hill in 1974
Erik Martin, who grew up in Carrboro and lives there today, is fascinated with Chapel Hill’s history. Martin recently started a new weekly blog looking back at Chapel Hill, week by week, in 1974. You can read and subscribe to Chapel Hill Rear View here. New posts go up on Sundays or Mondays about the […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown, UNC
The price of doing business on Franklin Street?
Today we are publishing the third in a four-part series written by students at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism. They spent the past semester digging into one of Chapel Hill’s great mysteries: What happened to Que Chula’s chairs? Read part one and part two. By Joseph Cole, Michael Batrouni, Andy Zhao On a recent […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown, UNC
In Chapel Hill, A Community Responds (Or Do They?)
Today we are publishing the fourth in a four-part series written by students at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism. They spent the past semester digging into one of Chapel Hill’s great mysteries: What happened to Que Chula’s chairs? You can read part one and part two and part three here. By: Samantha Chavis and […]