The first declared candidate for the Orange County Board of Commissioners, Renee Price, has announced her intent to run again despite a primary loss in 2010.
Occupy Chapel Hill is no longer camped out in the Peace and Justice Plaza, but officials haven’t forgotten the ordinances broken during its three month stay.
The Chapel Hill Town Council could vote to pay for an investigation into the November police raid of an encampment at the abandoned Yates Motor Company building as early as next week. At a Tuesday night meeting, the Community Policing Advisory Committee finalized a request that asks the council to fund a private investigation into the controversial raid.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA has policies to protect gay rights — but a potential merger with the YMCA of the Triangle could threaten those rules.
The Chapel Hill Town Council finalized on Monday details of a plan, set to be voted on this January, that could allow food trucks in the town.
Orange County community members hope a new support system will help homeless people get back on their feet. The Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness will hold a summit Friday morning at the St. Thomas More Catholic Church to inform the community of a new support circles program based on a Wake County program that has already shown some success.
The recent cold weather has forced Franklin Street occupiers to devise new strategies for staying warm as they continue to camp out at Peace and Justice Plaza. “Originally we were just wearing lots of layers, but now that isn’t enough,” said John Kertzie, an occupier. “The new plan is to set up fewer tents and put as many people as possible in them.”
Four Chapel Hill Town Council candidates discussed panhandling in a debate Monday night sponsored by the UNC Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and UNC HOPE.
Chapel Hill is enforcing its trash roll-cart regulations for the first time, issuing 37 citations for left-out carts since the program began Sept. 26.
East Chapel Hill High School is an Honor School of Excellence for the first time — but a miscalculation almost kept them from the title. On Sept.
