Week in Review: October 9, 2021

In this week’s Chapelboro Week in Review: local leaders share new health guidance as the omicron variant surges across the state, the Chapel Hill Town Council reviews concept plans for the South Creek development, and UNC reaches its $4.25 billion fundraising goal a year early. 

In this week’s Chapelboro Week in Review: UNC Health offers a program to bring hospital-quality services to a patient’s home, Orange County governments swear in their new members following municipal elections, and one Chapel Hill retiree runs his 42nd and final marathon.

In this week's Chapelboro Week in Review: a UNC scientist discusses what is currently known about the omicron variant, a Duke economist shares how pandemic-related inflation affects day to day life, and one local nonprofit receives a $50,000 award for improving community health.

In this week’s Chapelboro Week in Review: educators at East Chapel Hill High School express frustration over recent administrative actions in the special education department, the community remembers James Cates 51 years after his death on UNC's campus, and six young ladies jumped their way into the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

In this week’s Chapelboro Week in Review: local governments pass a resolution outlining conceptual plans for the Greene Tract, UNC hosts a day-long summit with the hopes of tackling mental health crises on campus, and a team UNC researchers work to save the Cherokee language.

In this week’s Chapelboro Week in Review: the Town of Pittsboro faces another water scare as more chemicals were dumped into the Haw River, North Carolina battles lawsuits over its recently passed congressional maps, and the UNC men’s basketball team takes home its first victory at the home opener Tuesday night.

This week’s Chapelboro Week in Review features: a recap of the local municipal elections held this week, a report from the Orange County Visitors Bureau - showing a 48 percent drop in local visitor spending during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the lifting of federal restrictions may affect air travel as we head into the holidays.

This week’s Chapelboro Week in Review features: one local school district that is making strives to prioritize the mental health of its students and staff, expanded sidewalks in downtown Chapel Hill potentially becoming permanent, and the reopening of the Sheraton Chapel Hill after a 15-million-dollar renovation. 

This week’s Chapelboro Week in Review features: two new affordable housing developments in Orange County - one finally breaking ground and another hitting a planning hiccup, a long-awaited North Carolina court ruling leaving millions of public education funding left untapped, and a student-led EMS program on Carolina's campus.

This week's Chapelboro Week in Review features: discussions on mental health as the UNC community mourns the loss of two Tar Heels, early voting starts in Orange County - with some races more contentious than others - and a new UNC study examines the correlation between firearms and domestic violence in the state.