Weather helps boost farm visits
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
CHEESE IT — Volunteers dish out the cheese samples for some of the thousands who visited Chapel Hill Creamery and other local farms on this year’s Piedmont Farm Tour. Photo by Kirk Ross
Nothing like good weather to boost prospects around the farm, and for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s annual spring farm tour a beautiful weekend certainly helped.
Roland McReynolds, CFSA’s executive director, said the tour is going to be a record breaker.
“It was a fantastic weekend, outstanding for CFSA and for sustainable agriculture in our area,” McReynolds said. “We’re still tallying up the numbers but we had 2,000 people on the tour last year and 7,400 farm visits, and we expect to far exceed those numbers.”
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Todd Street to close
Former aprtments along Todd Street are being rennovated as condominiums. Photo by Kirk Ross
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
By a vote of 4 to 2 the Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved a plan to close the Todd Street right-of-way and put the short downtown street into private hands.
The board acted after a public hearing on […]
Moratorium plans looming
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
The clock could start ticking on a six-month development moratorium on roughly 3,700 acres on the north side of Carrboro.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners are expected to take up the proposed moratorium passed by Carrboro earlier this month. If the county approves the plan, the moratorium would take effect.
County soccer plan questioned
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
The Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 on Tuesday to approve a plan that would provide $2.267 million toward the development of soccer fields at the West Ten soccer complex in Efland.
Nearly 40 residents from the southern part of the county showed support for the development of four full-size fields at […]
Take a closer look!
Your best landscape plants may already be in place
By Ken Moore
A group of folks on the Haw River Assembly’s Earth Day walk along the new Haw River Natural area this past Saturday were happy to discover one of those pawpaw patches described in last week’s Citizen. A few of the flowers had survived […]
Budget proposal to be released next week
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
The annual town budget rolls out next week, and look for at least one disappointing number — a drop in sales tax revenue from the 1 percent local-option sales tax.
Carrboro Town Manager Steve Stewart said he’s putting the final touches on a new budget he plans to put before the Board of […]
County starts work on Rogers Road task force
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday decided to appoint a task force that will develop and recommend improvements to the historic Rogers Road community.
The board in March voted to develop a solid waste transfer station at the site of the Eubanks Road landfill in the Rogers Road neighborhood. As part […]
Number of state’s uninsured rises
UNC News Services
The percentage of North Carolinians under the age of 65 who lacked health insurance for a year has risen from 15.3 percent in 2000 to 17.2 percent in 2005. The proportion of uninsured residents ranged from a low of 13.4 percent in Wake County to a high of 27.5 percent in Tyrrell County.
Lack […]
News briefs: 4/26/07
Tethering committee member resigns citing article
The animal welfare and health expert on the Orange County Tethering Committee resigned on Monday, citing a “series of death threats … from unknown persons.”
The tethering committee was created by the county board of commissioners to work with the Animal Services Advisory Board to determine if changes should be made […]
Subscriptions questions
We’re thinking through how best to handle subscriptions. The free in-town idea has worked pretty well, but we also have had to turn down a lot of people from outside Carrboro. We believe that home delivery is an important service for a community newspaper.
Running the numbers through the Sustain-O-Matic has us with a price point […]
Farm tour this weekend
Stanley Hughes, of Hurdle Mills, still farms the land his grandfather bought in 1912. His Pine Knot Farm, near the Orange and Person county line, is one of 30 operations on this year’s Piedmont Farm Tour. Photo by Kirk Ross.
Spring annual marks Earth Day celebration
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Stanley Hughes isn’t the kind of fellow you […]
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