Expect redistricting drama to begin anew in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools tonight. The school system’s Board of Education will take on the subject of Glenwood Elementary overcrowding during tonight’s meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Smith Middle School auditorium on Seawell School Road. Read the agenda here. School officials say Chapel Hill’s Glenwood Elementary, […]
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Orange County races over
Incumbents coasted and a few plucky newcomers were winners in last night’s elections in Orange County. In the race for four seats on the Chapel Hill Town Council, the clear winners were current Mayor Pro Tem Ed Harrison, Councilwoman Sally Greene and two challengers in local pastor Maria Palmer and Duke University pathologist George Cianciolo. […]
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Plan calls for faster mental health service in Durham, Wake
Access to care and crisis intervention training for law enforcement officers top the business plan for Alliance Behavioral Healthcare, the state-funded agency charged with disbursing public mental health dollars in Wake and Durham counties. Durham County Commissioners Michael Page Both were among the top local initiatives for the agency’s 2014-2016 plan as presented to Durham […]
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Gasland Part 2 premieres in Durham
Gasland filmmaker Josh Fox with his trusty banjo and gas mask. “Don’t watch Gasland 2 alone,” says Josh Fox. “It’s too scary, kind of like Psycho. You’ll never take a shower the same way again.” Fox isn’t kidding. His much-anticipated, anti-fracking sequel screened at Durham’s Carolina Theatre Monday night, with many of its otherwise sterile […]
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Environmental nonprofit: Fracking a “nightmare”
In case there isn’t enough negative publicity surrounding fracking, left-leaning nonprofit Environment North Carolina released its own report on the controversial drilling practice Thursday, dubbing the drilling an “environmental nightmare.” “In state after state, fracking polluted our air, water and landscapes,” said Liz Kazal, a field associate for the Raleigh-based nonprofit. “If fracking is allowed […]
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Search continues for hit-and-run driver who killed two cyclists in Chapel Hill
Anyone with information on the hit and run is asked to contact the Highway Patrol station in Hillsborough at 919-732-2551. In Thursday’s evening light, Aimée Argote and her friend thought the bodies in the road were a pile of garbage. “Ivin Levander Scurlock and Alexandra Nicole Simou,” Argote wrote four days later on her website. […]
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Before fracking begins in N.C., Texas energy company investigates shale gas deposits in Lee County
DENR rejects federal funding for water testing Money would have helped agency study fracking impacts The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has rejected $582,305 in federal grant money that could have been used for baseline water testing in the state’s prime fracking region of Lee, Chatham and Moore counties. DENR had applied […]
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Rep. Valerie Foushee selected to replace Sen. Ellie Kinnaird
House Democrat Valerie Foushee is headed to the opposite side of the legislative rotunda as she moves to the state Senate to replace longtime lawmaker Ellie Kinnaird. On Sunday night, a select committee of Democratic Party members from District 23which includes all of Orange and Chatham countiesnominated Foushee, a former Orange County commissioner, to fill […]
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This week in disappointment: Study group supports forced fracking in some cases
Not interested in fracking your land? It may not be up to you. That was the consensus last week of a state study group on “forced pooling,” a controversial provision that allows a drilling company to force nonconsenting landowners into fracking operations if owners of neighboring tracts want to drill. Members of the N.C. Mining […]
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Franklin Street at a crossroads
Come inside for drugs,” reads the scrawled graffiti in Franklin Street’s Amber Alley. The graffiti artist is unlikely to find many takers. Few people traverse the alley today, a cave-like passageway below the street level of East Franklin. It’s July, so many of UNC-Chapel Hill’s 30,000 students have left town. The drizzly weather doesn’t help. […]
