Tonight the school board will hold a work session (agenda, livestream) largely to discuss the forthcoming budget and proposed courses for 2025-26. The meeting’s open session begins as close to 7pm as possible. Last night, the Finance, Facilities, and Operations Committee met (agenda) and we got a preview of what will be discussed tonight. The […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Climate
Town of Carrboro files civil action against Duke Energy Corporation
We were in the room at the Carrboro Town Council meeting tonight, which had a short open session to swear in new Council Member Cristóbal Palmer – it was lovely! – and then immediately went into a mysterious closed session. (Our live feed from Bluesky is here.) When council returned in open session 22 minutes […]
Posted inEconomic development, Orange County
Orange County Living Wage (OCLW) is shutting down
We got a press release tonight from Orange County Living Wage (OCLW) announcing that they will be closing up shop on December 31 – and plan to publish a Q&A with founder and former Carrboro Town Council member Susan Romaine later this week. One of the most useful features of Orange County Living Wage was […]
Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill
#GivingTuesday 2024: Local non-profits to donate to in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
With #GivingTuesday just around the corner, we thought we’d round up the local Chapel Hill and Carrboro non-profits that we recommend donating to this year. All of these organizations were recommended by BlogBloggers. (If you know of an organization that’s not on our list that fits into one of these categories that you’d like to […]
Posted inCHALT, Journalism
The Local Reporter’s new board chair is also the president of Friends of Bolin Creek
On November 21, we found multiple instances of The Local Reporter plagiarizing content from other area local publications, including The Daily Tar Heel. We wanted to provide some updates on what’s happened over the past 10 days. The Local Reporter deleted eight stories from their website from author Nina Sumner as well as her author […]
Posted inEvents, Events around town, Gardening
Come to our Holiday Party Party!
It’s hard to believe that we are already old enough to be having second annual events! We rang out 2023 last year with a holiday party and this year we’re doing it again. We will be at The Flying Pierogi Deli in Carrboro. Once again, we will be providing some light snacks (pierogis) and there […]