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Council to learn from mirroring city

By Courtney Wilson | April 20

In its efforts to foster stronger interaction among Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University, the Community Leadership Council is looking at a larger city as a guiding light. The University-created committee, comprising town officials, University members, local nonprofit leaders and community members, plans to travel to Madison, Wisconsin, in late September to observe the relationship between the city and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Partnership takes steps toward cleanliness, entertainment

By Courtney Wilson | April 13

Downtown clean-up Ben Murphrey has developed a plan to help his college town clean up its act. Murphrey, a senior political science major at the University and an intern with the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership, presented plans to the group Tuesday to clean up downtown Chapel Hill. One of his duties as an intern was to complete a "special project" that involved analyzing and proposing a solution to a town problem. Murphrey developed a method of measuring standards of cleanliness of streets, sidewalks and parking lots in downtown Chapel Hill.

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Partnership considers free weekend parking

By Courtney Wilson | April 13

Parking is an ongoing dilemma in downtown Chapel Hill, with many residents claiming that there are simply not enough places to put their vehicles. Mayor Kevin Foy said at the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership meeting Wednesday that the real focus should be on the abundance of paid parking. "We all know there's plenty of places to park downtown," he said. "That's not the issue." Members pegged the downtown parking availability at 1,000 spaces, though that could change soon with redevelopment projects.

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Town to stay on same page for entire month

By Courtney Wilson | January 27

Think it's difficult to get an entire class to read the same book? Try a whole community. That's the idea of the Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation's "One Community, One Book" series. The first-time program is part of the foundation's $2.5 million fundraising campaign to expand the library's collection by 2010. The program's leaders want the town of Chapel Hill to read "Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals" and to participate in a series of community events related to the text throughout February. The book was written by Bland Simpson, director of the creative writing program at UNC.

Courtney Wilson

Council to learn from mirroring city

Partnership takes steps toward cleanliness, entertainment

Partnership considers free weekend parking

Town to stay on same page for entire month

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