The Town of Carrboro has completed its survey of the future Bolin Creek Greenway alignments. The Town Council should be receiving the results of the survey soon, but one thing the survey couldn’t measure was how future users of the creekside alignment would rate the experience. My daughter Arlie (age 7) and I were wondering […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Parks and Rec
Hooray! Chapel Hill is getting a new parks master plan!
Buried deep within the agenda for the Parks, Greenway and Recreation Commission meeting on September 19, 2023 is a nugget that should make everyone in Chapel Hill who loves parks and greenways super happy: A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) has been drafted to find an architecture, engineering and landscape architect firm to update the 2013 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Housing
About those “ugly” apartment buildings in Blue Hill
As campaigning ramps up, we are again hearing a lot about “ugly” apartments in Blue Hill. The Berkshire, perhaps the most hated apartment building in town, has been driving people crazy for almost 8 years now (nobody lives near the Berkshire, so even if you accept that it is unattractive, it should really only bother […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
You can’t keep a good blogblog down: we respond to Adam Searing’s attack
We don’t want to spend time fact checking. We’d much rather be covering pickleball, or splash pads, or Raising Cane’s. But so it goes. Earlier today, mayoral candidate Adam Searing wrote a newsletter entitled: The Triangle Blog Blog Isn’t Real News. It’s Dark-Money Attack Politics. Let’s all pause for a second and have a good […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023, Journalism
Emails reveal how CHALT works closely with candidates
A month ago, we broke the news about a PAC planning to inject $120,000 into the election cycle. We then continued to follow the story as members of the planned PAC decided to, instead, give their donations to the CHALT PAC. CHALT is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown
Is Raising Cane’s opening in Chapel Hill on November 7 (Election Day)? Sure looks like it….
A few months ago, our chicken correspondent Mel Kramer – that’s me – called Raising Cane’s a clucking mess. That’s because the chicken fingers restaurant has been under development for…ever. But now we have two hints of when the restaurant may finally open its doors. The first is the results you now get when you […]