Last month, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools announced that it was adding afterschool/evening bus transportation from every middle and high school into Chapel Hill and Carrboro neighborhoods. The idea was to make it easier for kids who participate in afterschool sports, clubs, arts, and activities to get home. We think this idea is awesome and […]
Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill, Guide
Organizations and electeds of Chapel Hill and Carrboro: It’s time to get off Twitter. Here’s how.
There’s no denying that for a period spanning more than a decade, Twitter pushed forward our notion of a Digital Public Square. Whether silly or consequential, over the years an expectation developed that people and organizations wanting to communicate with the public needed to establish a presence on Twitter. Many of our electeds and local […]
Posted inCarrboro, From the archives
The history of Carrboro’s World War II munitions plant
The Town of Carrboro, known for its grocery co-op, arts festivals, and farmer’s market, and led by a council that just last year passed a resolution describing the town as a “peace-loving community” opposed to “tyranny, unprovoked aggression, and war,” today feels like an extremely unlikely home for a defense contractor to set up shop. […]
Posted inEvents around town, Gardening, Guide, Things to do with kids
Free Vermicomposting workshop coming on December 16
We ran into Tom Smith at the Carrboro Music Festival, where he was demonstrating his project. We asked him to write an article about his first workshop. That was so popular, Tom is back, and here is a writeup on his second workshop. Check it out Learn to produce the world’s best soil amendment, help […]
Posted inCarrboro, Journalism
The Local Reporter substantially reworked a piece without any notice. That’s unethical.
We have written a number of times about ethical lapses of The Local Reporter, the non-profit newspaper whose board is composed solely of founders and leaders within CHALT and/or its affiliated PAC, Chapel Hill Leadership PAC. In the past, they have omitted bylines, a masthead, relationships between quoted sources and editors, reprinted material directly from […]
Posted inGuide, Orange County
What you need to know about North Carolina’s Medicaid eligibility expansion
The state of North Carolina expanded Medicaid eligibility starting on December 1st, 2023. Here’s what you need to know.