Jason Merrill is running for Town Council in Carrboro. Merrill, who spent spent six years on the Chapel Hill Transportation and Connectivity Advisory Board (two of them as chair), has a long and eclectic history with Carrboro. He’s the founder and former owner of Back Alley Bikes, which he sold in 2022 after 15 years, […]
Posted inBike Beat, Events around town, Things to do with kids
Bike tour of the Uproar Festival of Public Art
The Uproar Festival of Public Art is going on now until August 12. It is a new arts festival taking place throughout Orange County. It’s a bit of a scavenger hunt and you can find works in Hillsborough, Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Being the bike nuts we are, we made a bike map to help […]
Posted inCarrboro, Greenway, Journalism
“Both Sides” Journalism Plagues Indy Week’s Story on the Bolin Creek Greenway
In recent months, Indy Week, our region’s alternative newspaper, has published some terrific investigative pieces, from Lena Gellar’s investigative work uncovering Durham’s city attorney asking Wikipedia to reveal who was editing “unflattering” information about the mayor and two council members, to Thomasi McDonald’s deep-dive looking at Durham Council Member DeDreana Freeman’s alleged physical assault of […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Election 2023
Interview: Carrboro Town Council candidate, Eliazar Posada
Eliazar Posada is the only current member of Carrboro Town Council who is running for reelection for a seat on town council. (Barbara Foushee is running for mayor and both Sammy Slade and Susan Romaine are not running for reelection.) Posada’s campaign slogan is “Making Carrboro a Home for All.” He began his work in […]
Posted inCarrboro
Mayor Damon Seils’ view from the giant library crane
This morning I was doing my daily perusal of Instagram when I saw a picture that stopped me in my tracks: It was Mayor Damon Seils, of Carrboro, inside what appeared to be the giant crane building the new library. He was 140 feet in the air. (There’s also a video!) As someone who loves […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
Interview: Chapel Hill Town Council candidate, Melissa McCullough
Melissa McCullough is running for Town Council in Chapel Hill. McCullough, who has contributed to Triangle Blog Blog, spent 31 years at EPA and retired as the Senior Sustainability Advisor and Assistant Director of the Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program. She is a member of the local Sierra Club leadership team and served for […]