We (Chapel Hill on Bikes) are working on mapping the low stress bike routes around town and we need your help. What is a low-stress bike route? These are the bike routes you would bike with a child, maybe with some help using sidewalks or social trails. There are a lot of them, and some […]
Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill, Downtown, Housing
Ten projects to watch for in Chapel Hill and Carrboro in 2024
New year, new councils, new project completions (and there are a lot of them.) Here are our updates for the coming year. Estes Drive Sidewalks and Sidepath will be completed this spring According to the Town of Chapel Hill’s website, this much-anticipated project – some 15 years in the making! – to make Estes Drive […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
The Parents Bill of Rights is on the agenda tonight at the CHCCS Board of Education meeting. Please come out for public comment.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education is discussing the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” tonight at their meeting. The meeting starts with a closed session at 6 and then opens up to the public at 7pm. This meeting is at Lincoln Center, which is located at 750 S. Merritt Mill Road, Chapel Hill. The […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Development review, Greenway, Housing
2024 is the Year of LUMO: Five things we learned from Chapel Hill Town Council’s work session
On Wednesday, January 17, 2024, the new Chapel Hill Town Council held its first meeting of 2024, and one thing is clear—the update to the Land Use Management Ordinance is going to be a hot topic this year. The LUMO is the set of ordinances that establish how land can be used in the town. […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Orange County, Orange County Board of County Commissioners
Our schools are falling apart. We need a big bond to fix them.
Last week a school in Chapel Hill caught on fire. If you don’t have children at Seawell Elementary School, you might not have even noticed. Not because it wasn’t a big deal (it was), but because we’ve all grown used to similar incidents in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City School System and Orange County Schools […]
Posted inGuide, Outdoors, Things to do with kids
The Switchback Gear Collective: A growing lending library of outdoor gear
In July 2022, eight students in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health’s MPH program started a non-profit to ensure that the outdoors would be accessible, inclusive, safe, and affordable for all people. Two years later, the Switchback Gear Collective is planning on launching a lending library where you can check out camping gear as […]