By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

While some candidates have already announced their intentions to run, their efforts won’t become official until they make the trip to the county board of elections office in Hillsborough to sign on the dotted line and pay their filing fees.

That all starts Monday at 8 a.m. Candidates have from then until noon on Friday, July 17 to sign-up to run for town offices and school board races. More »

By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

Carrboro Board of Aldermen member Dan Coleman sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan on behalf of the board and Mayor Mark Chilton asking her to support including a public option in health care reform legislation. More »

To encourage folks worried about parking to venture downtown, Chapel Hill has implemented a Courtesy Ticket program. Under the program, once per calendar year, if you receive a citation for a parking meter violation your citation will be dismissed.

The town’s Parking Services Division began issuing Courtesy Tickets on July 1.

The Town of Chapel Hill announced this week the launch of its new website at townofchapelhill.org .
The website allows citizens access to calendars, council agendas and videos, email directories, news releases, job postings and service information.
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On July 28, a resident in the vicinity of NC N.C. 86 North and Sawmill Road came home and saw his dog fighting with a raccoon. He shot the raccoon and then called 911.
Orange County Animal Services received a positive rabies result for that raccoon from the North Carolina Rabies Laboratory. This is the ninth confirmed rabies case in Orange County for 2009. More »

By Rich Fowler
Staff Writer

Unfortunately for Miles Wright, CEO of Triangle Family Services in Raleigh, business is booming these days. His agency is one of 26 statewide that try to help owners save their homes as part of North Carolina’s Foreclosure Prevention Project.

“This is one of those bittersweet things,” Wright said. “The program has been going well, and you’d like the program to die because of lack of use. Our numbers are two to three times of what our projections are. It’s going too well.”
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Amy Entwistle performed her African tribal dance-themed program in April to win the adult figure skating championship. Photo by Quicksilver Shots

On the winner’s podium, it was obvious. Get her talking and it’s even more so. Amy Entwistle is not your typical figure skater, and her authenticity and unique approach have carried her to the top.

In late April, in Grand Rapids, Mich., Entwistle won the adult figuring skating championship. It’s the highest honor at the highest level for adults, and the 34-year-old Carrboro resident’s African tribal dance-themed program was a wonder in the way traditional classically themed programs can’t be.
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By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

Chapel Hill — After nearly three decades looking at various options and more than a year of intense negotiations and discussions on the latest plan, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved an agreement with UNC that clears the way for developing the Horace Williams tract.

The plan calls for developing about 250 acres of the 1,000-acre parcel deeded to UNC by Williams, who was the first chair of what became the university’s philosophy department. The development would take roughly 50 years to complete with the first 15-year phase containing about 800,000 square feet of new floor space.
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Two Carrboro High School graduates have achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.

Daniel Pierce and David Hare are both members of Troop 845 at Carrboro United Methodist Church.
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County officials and residents of the Millhouse Road and Rogers Road neighborhood will have to wait a little longer to see whether the Town of Chapel Hill is willing to officially offer a parcel on Millhouse Road as a site for a waste transfer station.

The Chapel Hill Town Council opted not to take up a discussion of whether to offer the site, which Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy suggested as a potential transfer station location in May.
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Two positives rabies results for foxes have been received by Orange County Animal Services from the North Carolina Rabies Laboratory.

On Tuesday, a woman was bitten by a fox in the vicinity of Weaver Dairy and Kingston roads in Chapel Hill. Later that day, in the immediate vicinity, another woman was bitten by what is believed to be the same fox. The fox was caught by an animal control officer that afternoon and was sent to the state rabies lab for testing.
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Roy Williams, head coach of the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team, is writing a book with Tim Crothers, former senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a UNC graduate, entitled Hard Work: My Life On and Off the Court.

The autobiography, which will include a foreword by John Grisham, will be published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill on Nov. 10, coinciding with the start of the 2009 basketball season.

By Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer

The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to keep a Chapel Hill-owned site on Millhouse Road on the table as a potential location for a county solid waste transfer station. The vote came before a packed Southern Human Services Center assembly of citizens, many of whom had just stood to voice their opposition to the site.
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By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

With local elected boards readying for summer recesses, candidates are making known their intentions for the fall elections.

The terms of 18 incumbents are up in Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro and Hillsborough and on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board.
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By Beth Mechum
Staff Writer

It started with a dispute about an apartment, and it led to a heated exchange Tuesday night between farmers and town government officials at the Carrboro Board of Aldermen meeting.

Opinions were plenty at Town Hall, and though no resolutions were passed, many are hopeful it’s the start of improved communication and relationships between the farmers and town government.
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