Tweets related to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area from Oct. 2 to Oct. 9 — keep up with your town leaders and neighbors. Insomnia Cookies plans to open a location on Franklin Street. Residents flocked to the streets for Festifall. Carrboro celebrated Walk to School Day.
For most 13-year-olds, entering a nationwide science competition consisting of mainly high school students would take months of planning, preparation and practice.
A video game about Carrboro is in the works. “Carrboro Quest is a community collaborative art project — by, about and for the people of Chapel Hill and Carrboro,” the video game’s creator Stirling Little said. Little graduated from UNC in May, but said he still lives in and cultivates a love for the area — though the game will poke fun at Carrboro and its problems. “If I am elsewhere in the world and I say home, I mean Carrboro,” the Atlanta-native said.
Alissa Stribling is a UNC alumnus who credits her elementary school librarian, Ruth Eddy, for her own creativity, resilience and passion for reading. Eddy died in 2011 at the age of 91. Eddy earned her master’s degree in library science from UNC-Chapel Hill in the 1967 and became the librarian at Estes Hill Elementary School in Chapel Hill soon after.
At their meeting Tuesday evening, the Orange County Board of Commissioners discussed proposed revisions to the Unified Animal Control Ordinance — but vague wording discouraged a vote. The proposed ordinance will unify the three existing ordinances for Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro — giving those residents more clarity and quicker service.
A new ordinance might require construction sites impacting Carrboro sidewalks and roads to have construction plans approved by the town. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen tried to clear up the proposed ordinance during its meeting Tuesday night.
Tweets related to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area from Sept. 18 to Sept. 25 — keep up with your town leaders and neighbors. [View the story “Live from Franklin Tweet: Sept.
After two cyclists and a pedestrian were struck and killed by oncoming traffic last week, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen discussed increasing protection for cyclists and pedestrians at their Tuesday night meeting.
Chapel Hill residents and students may have to think twice before dialing 911. Police Chief Chris Blue and Fire Chief Dan Jones came before the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night to recommend a public hearing on a proposed ordinance to regulate and manage alarm systems throughout Chapel Hill. Blue and Jones both expressed their concern with the consistent number of accidental alarm calls in the town every year.
Tweets related to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18 — keep up with your town leaders and neighbors.
For Chapel Hill, the only way to go might be up — at least that’s what one new study about the town’s downtown space says.
When Kelsey Zyvoloski and her fiance Eddie Di Girolamo get married in October, they will tell their out of town guests to say at Carrboro’s first-ever hotel. During a ribbon cutting ceremony for the hotel, Zyvoloski and Di Girolamo said they were impressed with the hotel’s beauty and are happy to see the revitalized community — and they’re glad their wedding guests can stay somewhere nearby.
A Chapel Hill startup wants to throw students epic 21st birthday parties. The startup TabSprint is offering college students in the Triangle $1,000 to host their parties.
Tweets related to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area from Sept. 4 to Sept. 11 — keep up with your town leaders and neighbors
Since it’s inception 25 years ago, the RSVVP event has helped provide 1.875 million hot meals to hungry people in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
The Orange County Board of County Commissioners’ meeting Thursday night was a little sweeter than usual.
Keep up with your local leaders and officials and see what happened this week on Twitter. Carrboro swore in a new police chief, Orange County is getting a candy factory, and the Carrboro hotel opened.
Residents of Old Pittsboro Road in Carrboro expressed concern for the high amount of sewage runoff settling and polluting the street’s drainage ditches during a Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday night.
Tweets related to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area from August 21 to August 28 — keep up with your town leaders and neighbors!
Perri Kersh owns and operates Neat-Freak Professional Organizing, LLC in Chapel Hill. She spoke to Assistant City Editor Paige Ladisic about her business and some of her favorite projects, as well as tips for college students moving into their first dorm or apartment. DAILY TAR HEEL: What is Neat-Freak Professional Organizing, and what kinds of projects do you tackle? PERRI KERSH: I primarily work with residential and small business clients, helping them organize their space, their time, and their data.
