Mark Kleinschmidt knew he had opposition.
Fran Schindler lives alone in a yellow townhouse in a quiet Chapel Hill neighborhood. The walls of the 75-year-old’s living room are covered with her own art — three-dimensional mixed media pieces made from driftwood and twisted metal, abstract paintings with splashes of color that might be faces or animals or anything else depending how you look at them.
Late Wednesday morning, low notes from a bugle drifted from the gazebo through the trees of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery in a Veterans Day tribute.
LGBTQ advocates say representation in North Carolina's local governments is small, and this year's local elections didn't help. On Nov. 3, North Carolina lost three openly LGBTQ local elected officials, including Chapel Hill’s Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and Town Council member Lee Storrow.
When Alecia Gattis thought about her son starting kindergarten in the fall, she felt panicked.
With a new name and new management, Underground Chapel Hill “came out” as Chapel Hill’s only gay bar on Friday.
Chapel Hill residents have worried about Chapel Hill’s development before, but this is the first time they’ve formed a political action committee.
The Chapel Hill Town Council wants to create an affordable place to live, but some Chapel Hill residents are worried this means there won’t be room left for the shrinking cemetery.
Future residents of the Chapel Hill Ronald McDonald House will be getting a rain check on their new space.
In November 2016, Orange County voters will consider a bond referendum to support both living and learning.
