Apparently, the second time was the charm for the Orange County quarter-cent sales-tax referendum, which passed with 60.67 percent of the vote in Tuesday night’s election.
Category: elections
Storrow, 22, elected to Chapel Hill Town Council
Town Council incumbents Donna Bell, Jim Ward and Matt Czajkowski won reelection Tuesday night, joined by 22-year-old newcomer Lee Storrow, a recent UNC graduate.
Johnson joins Carrboro board
Johnson, Lavelle, Coleman and Chilton will join Jacquie Gist, Randee Haven-O’Donnell and Sammy Slade on the new board. Joal Hall Broun chose not to run for reelection, having served on the board since 1999.
Barrett, incumbents win school board race
Challenger James Barrett joined four incumbents in being elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education on Tuesday.
Pittsboro elects Voller, newcomers
Pittsboro voters went to the polls Tuesday to select from two mayoral candidates and eight town commissioner candidates running for three open seats.
Big decisions ahead for voters
Growth. Economic development. Budgetary woes. A new school superintendent. It’s an even more transitional time in Orange County than usual.
School board candidates get final chance to express views
The Lake Hogan Democratic Precinct school board candidate forum provided candidates with a last chance to voice their opinions and their proposed solutions to the most pressing issues facing the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
Candidates discuss justice issues
While most candidate forums focus on only one election, Justice United broke the mold by inviting candidates running for all three local races to their fall assembly on Monday.
School board hopefuls discuss imperatives
Improving science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs and reducing the achievement gap are imperative, candidates for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board said at a forum last week.
Carrboro candidates square off at Chamber/Sierra Club forum
Candidates running for seats on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the lone candidate vying for the title of Carrboro mayor answered a number of questions at a forum on Friday.
Chapel Hill candidates talk environment, economy
Balancing economic priorities with environmental sustainability was the theme of the evening at a Chapel Hill candidates forum last week.
Voter-owned elections in limbo
In light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that deemed a similar fund in Arizona to be unconstitutional, the N.C. State Board of Elections on Sept. 9 suspended a funding portion of Chapel Hill’s Voter-Owned Elections program, the only of its kind in North Carolina.
Final filings round out local fields
The deadline to file to run in the November election passed on Friday, with four additional candidates throwing their hats in the ring.
Candidate fields grow crowded in local races
As the filing period for this fall’s municipal elections draws to a close, more candidates have signed up for the races. . .
Election season opens with a bang
Filing season got underway on Friday, with a flood of candidates throwing their hats in the ring for this fall’s municipal elections.