Both Chapel Hill and Carrboro Town Councils have a much-deserved summer recess and wrapped up a number of items in June. Here’s our roundup, along with some other civic news. Happy Summer Recess, Civics Nerds! Don’t forget to check your voter registration. What happened in Carrboro? Jason Merrill, Catherine Frey, Eliazar Posada announce council runs […]
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Hooray! Carrboro’s launched the greenway engagement process!
Great news, friends! Carrboro has launched the public engagement campaign for the next phases of the Bolin Creek Greenway. (In other words, they want input on where stages 3 and 4 of the greenway will be built. You can see what’s been built already here.) This is so exciting! We are thrilled that they are […]
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Fray, McCullough, Beauregard enter town council races in Carrboro, Chapel Hill
A lot went on this week. We’re trying to keep up with it! Here’s a summary of civic news. New Carrboro town budget dropped You can read the proposed budget here. No property tax increase. We’re still going through this and will write up something longer in the coming days. #BudgetSeason Carrboro Town Council member […]
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Bolin Forest Climate Action: The latest in the misinformation campaign against Carrboro’s Greenway
We came across a brand new website earlier this week — a website so new, it’s not quite finished. It’s called “Bolin Forest Climate Action,” and appears to be created by the Friends of Bolin Creek, the anti-greenway organization that has stymied Carrboro’s plans to add a 10-foot-wide path along the existing sewage easement along […]
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A new petition against the Bolin Creek Greenway is riddled with misinformation
A new petition has started circulating from Friends of Bolin Creek, the anti-greenway group that has stalled Carrboro’s efforts to build out a 10-foot paved path along an existing 30-foot-wide sewage easement along Bolin Creek. A paved path already exists in Chapel Hill along Bolin Creek, and similar greenways exist in Hillsborough, Durham, Raleigh, Cary […]
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Carrboro may change its ‘Feel Free’ tagline tonight – and that seems fine
10 years ago, the tagline “Feel free” was launched for the Town of Carrboro. We’ve had the same slogan for a decade in Carrboro. It was an optimistic slogan. The background about its development includes this: that in discussions with town residents, “a recurrent theme emerged about a feeling of optimism, encouragement, a lack of […]