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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, From the archives
Chapel Hill first commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 1970.
Tomorrow, Chapel Hill, and the nation, marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday that was first celebrated on January 20, 1986, three years after veto-proof majorities of the United State Congress passed legislation commemorating the civil rights leader. But proposals to pass a federal holiday to honor King had been under discussion for […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Transportation, Vision Zero
First person: My experience from being hit in a crosswalk on MLK Jr. Blvd.
In March 2021, Ari Farber was hit in a marked crosswalk by a person driving a car on MLK Jr. Blvd. Farber was doing everything right: he activated the flashing lights and he waited for them to activate before proceeding into the crosswalk. He made it across several lanes when a distracted driver hit him […]