Basic economics have changed the timeline if not the strategy for UNC’s Carolina North project, even as the likelihood has increased of the departure of the Medical Air operations next year.
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One killed, two injured in Horace Williams plane crash
Pilot Thomas Pitts, 65, of Wilmington, Del., was killed and his friend and co-pilot Jimmy Donahue and passenger Kyle Henn injured when Pitts’ Cirrus SR20 crashed on approach to the airport about 3:15 p.m Monday.
UNC planning massive expansion in Bingham
University officials announced last year that the facility would be home to a new $14.5 million project to be funded through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, but since then the list of proposed new infrastructure and animal research labs has grown, and the university now says it will move the Carrboro-based Frances Owen Blood Research Laboratory out to Bingham as well.
UNC’s Tar Heel Temps service closing
Tar Heel Temps to shutter operations this month By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer UNC Campus — Tar Heel Temps, the university’s temporary staffing service that has operated for 17 years, will close at the end of the month, officials announced this week. In an email to department heads and senior staff, Brenda Malone, vice chancellor…
Board of Governors to review tuition proposal, new rules for codes of conduct
The UNC Board of Governors will take up a proposal next week to ask the legislature to approve an alternative to a tuition plan adopted as part of the state’s 2010-11 budget. The General Assembly capped tuition increases at the lesser of $200 or 8 percent for each campus. The board meets next Thursday and…
UNC can do better
University Day rolls around next week with a big to-do celebrating Lux Libertas and all that. The speeches are usually inspiring – and the various congratulations of the stalwarts and the bright young minds that follow in their footsteps, equally so. This year, the university could use a good bit of another rhetorical spice, one…
Council wants more info on landfill gas pipeline
By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer Members of the Chapel Hill Town Council say they’d like to see more details on a plan to run an eight-inch gas pipeline from the county landfill on Eubanks Road to a new generating facility to be built on the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Homestead Road.
Campus remembers fallen soldier
By Beth Mechum Staff Writer Members of the UNC community are still reeling from the death of Army Pfc. Morris Walker, a 2008 graduate who died Aug. 18 in Afghanistan. Walker — “Mo†to all who knew and loved him — died of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Walker,…
UNC officials monitoring H1N1 case, possible exposures
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Chapel Hill — A health-care worker with what was described as a mild case of H1N1 — the so-called “swine flu†— has fully recovered after being voluntarily quarantined in her Orange County home. Meanwhile, UNC Health Care officials are closely monitoring 17 patients who may have been exposed to…
Orange County/UNC H1N1 case update
Orange County Health Department updated the H1N1 case this evening. Here’s a recap via the Orange County web site: • On Friday evening, the Orange County Health Department received notice of an Orange County resident with laboratory confirmed novel influenza A (H1N1). This marks the 13th confirmed case in North Carolina.
UNC reports H1N1 case
Updates: • Statement from Orange County Health Department. The adult case is a health care worker, with mild illness and is self-isolated at home. To protect the privacy of the case and contacts we are limited in the release of protected health information. • Dr. Brian Goldstein, chief of staff at UNC Hospital, said there…
A meaningful journey
By Frank Heath Sports Columnist “North Carolina is going to win … the national championship!†Those words – uttered approximately four times now from the lips of the inimitable Voice of the Tar Heels, Woody Durham – are the signal for millions of fans of the UNC Tar Heels that the stars are once again…
Tar Heels triumph
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Around 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, a member of the attending crew at the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center placed a wooden table in the center of a stage set up on the floor of the basketball court. That act, studied intently by the several thousand assembled there, was followed…
Landfill gas project approved
The Orange County Board of Commissioners tentatively approved an agreement with UNC for a gas-recovery project at the Orange County Landfill. The board voted last year to explore the feasibility of a landfill gas-recovery project as a way to reduce greenhouse gases. According to the county, revenues from the project to the Solid Waste Enterprise…
UNC Notes
By Frank Heath Every college basketball season is an adventure, and this one is certainly no exception. Following its sobering 0-2 conference start, the UNC men’s basketball team picked up consecutive wins against Virginia, Miami and Clemson entering Wednesday’s important test at Florida State. The Tar Heels will learn a lot about themselves over the…