“Hidden In Plain Sight”: Exhibit Helps Parents Talk To Kids About Drugs
How to talk to your kids about drugs? How to recognize the signs of drug use? A new exhibit at University Place can help.
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Orange County Schools Unhappy With Budget Proposal
Posted by Staff | May 26, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
Addressing the Orange County Board of Commissioners for the first time since the 2016-2017 fiscal budget was proposed, chair of the Orange County Schools Board of Education Donna Coffee expressed her displeasure with the current...
Read MoreOrange County Schools See New Leadership
Posted by Staff | May 25, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
Orange County Schools is shuffling around two of the district leaders for next year. Eric Yarbrough is the current principal of Gravelly Hill Middle School. But come next year, he will serve as the new principal of Orange High...
Read MoreCommunity Members Ask Orange County To Increase School Funding
Posted by Staff | May 12, 2016 | Featured, Local Government
School funding quickly became the focus of the public hearing held by the Orange County Board of Commissioners Thursday night. Teachers, students and parents from Orange County Schools showed up in Hillsborough to ask the board...
Read MoreCounty Manager Presents Orange County Budget Recommendations
Posted by Staff | May 5, 2016 | Featured, Local Government
Orange County took the first steps toward getting a budget approved for the coming fiscal year as manager Bonnie Hammersley presented her recommendations to the Board of Commissioners Thursday night. Commissioner Mia Burroughs...
Read MoreBoard Of Commissioners Set To Talk County Budget
Posted by Staff | May 5, 2016 | Featured, Local Government
The Orange County Board of Commissioners will receive the county manager’s recommendation for the 2016-2017 fiscal year budget in their meeting Thursday night. The budget will address a number of topics including school...
Read MoreMerging Orange County School Districts Not ‘Worth the Squeeze’
Posted by Blake Hodge | Apr 28, 2016 | Featured, Pre-K - 12 Education
While our community works to find a way to provide housing options to every family that would like to live Orange County, former Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt brought up an idea during the WCHL Community Forum that has...
Read MoreSchool Boards Prepare To Present To County Commissioners
Posted by Staff | Apr 26, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will present their 2016-2017 budgets to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in a meeting Tuesday night. The presentation will be the next formal step for CHCCS, in...
Read MoreCommissioners To Hold Public Hearing On Upcoming Bond
Posted by Staff | Apr 19, 2016 | Local Government
The Board of Orange County Commissioners will be taking public comment on the upcoming bond Tuesday night. It will be the first of two public hearings on the bond which, if passed in November, will be the largest in county...
Read MoreCommissioners Reject Proposal To Hire Contractor For Bond
Posted by Staff | Mar 24, 2016 | Local Government
Orange County could be issuing a bond worth up to $120 million to go to both Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools after the elections in November. Because this would only pay for a fraction of the...
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