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Exploring for Business Success

Posted by Jan Bolick | Feb 21, 2012 | Uncategorized

Since September or so, I’ve been working with one of the Chapel Hill Vision 2020 theme groups; the one called Community Prosperity & Engagement. The group has identified three goals for recommendation to Town...

Happy Duke-Carolina Day

Posted by Staff | Feb 8, 2012 | Uncategorized

Some treat it like a national holiday. Meetings get cancelled. People head home early. Traditions abound. One of my traditions for Duke-Carolina Day is to re-visit the story of that especially famous game back in 1974. Not...

A Joke, And The Mayor Is Laughing

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 2, 2012 | The Commentators

The latest incarnation of the Chapel Hill Town Government’s fumbling quest to cover up the Yates incident is a joke, and may be the most politically revealing. Town Manager Roger Stancil, and presumably the Mayor and Police...

Twas the Local Season? And a 2020 update

Posted by Staff | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized

If you’re among the many who believe Christmas decorations need to come down by in a timely fashion, I hope you will permit me this late-January look back at this Christmas past. This edition of $avvy $pender got...

Death of a Cynic

Posted by Staff | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized

When I attended the first community meeting for Chapel Hill’s 2020 Comprehensive Plan I looked at the hundreds of people gathered at East Chapel Hill High and thought something along the lines of “We’re all wasting our...

Light rail for chapel hill is still a long way off

Posted by The Commentators | Jan 18, 2012 | The Commentators

The long awaited $1.4 Billion light rail transit line project that will span Chapel Hill and Durham is finally getting underway. But it could be another decade before the first rail is laid. That’s what came out of the...

Harvesting Books on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Posted by Staff | Jan 18, 2012 | Uncategorized

Last week I was keeping my ears and eyes open for a great photo story to tell and happened to hear about a wonderful organization called Book Harvest. The founder of Book Harvest, Ginger Young, was being interviewed on WCHL by...

Big Issues for 2012 and Beyond

Posted by Staff | Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized

It’s nice to say that we begin 2012 with excitement about Chapel Hill 2020 — and REALLY MEAN IT! The plan our stakeholders create will take us well beyond the year 2020 in our vision for a sustainable, vital community. The...

Five Favorite Signs from 2011

Posted by Jan Bolick | Dec 31, 2011 | Uncategorized

Stop. Do Not Enter. One Way. Dead End. No Parking. No Trespassing. Do not disturb. Cash Only. No refunds. So many signs. Most of them negative. Limiting. Restrictive. Reminds me of that song from the early 70’s by...

Chapel Hill Saturday

Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 19, 2011 | Uncategorized

For me, Saturday was a bright blue reminder of why we’re so lucky to live in Chapel Hill. Compared to other places, it’s just so easy and friendly. Went out to get the paper and on the way in I saw my right rear tire was almost...

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