Brad Paisley Time Warner Cable Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh Saturday, June 6, 2009 Toward the end of his long set at the Time Warner Cable Pavilion at Walnut Creek Saturday night, country megastar Brad Paisley took a break to thank the audience for shelling out its good money to see him, despite the tough […]
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Carrboro Citizen receives $50K loan from town
Editor’s note: This story was updated Friday morning. The Carrboro Citizen doesn’t have a billion dollars of toxic assets on its books or a Rust Belt empire of idle manufacturing plants, but it nevertheless joined the ranks of businesses receiving government assistance Tuesday night. At the May 19 public hearing, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen […]
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Orange County conservatives join tax revolt
On April 15, hundreds of Orange County residents gathered in downtown Hillsborough to revisit the Sons of Liberty with a ceremonial emptying of bottled tea on the courthouse lawn. It was the latest in a succession of local protests sparked by the 2008 Orange County property revaluations, which, despite the tepid national housing market, raised […]
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At UNC, student protesters crash Tom Tancredo’s party
The scheduled talk by former Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Tuesday night was cut very short by raucous, angry student protesters. Tancredo entered a large classroom in Bingham Hall shortly after 6:30 p.m. to jeers, boos and profanity from a largely hostile crowd. More than 100 students […]
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If they could turn back time…
Orange County Library Director Lucinda Munger said last week that a $25 million county project, approved years ago, is forcing her to consider closing three smaller library branches. Munger has been criticized in recent weeks for floating the closures of the Carrboro Cybrary, the Carrboro Branch Library and the Cedar Grove Branch Library as cost-saving […]
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‘Shine on, Popcorn
Madison County storyteller Sheila Kay Adams has said that Appalachian culture died with her grandparents, some time after the New Deal. Certainly, if there was anything left of the old ways, it ended with the gentrification of the ’90s, when well-heeled retirees moved by the thousands to Western North Carolina, turning hollers like Waynesville and […]
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Carrboro Cybrary funding threatened
Public libraries may be the recession’s next victims. In a budget proposal presented to Orange County Manager Laura Blackmon March 5, Library Director Lucinda Munger proposed closing the Cedar Grove Branch Library, the Carrboro Branch Library in McDougal Middle School and the Carrboro Cybrary. Munger floated the cuts in response to Blackmon’s request that all […]
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Jobs have dried up for Carrboro’s migrant workers
Editor’s note: The migrant workers in this story are identified with pseudonyms because they are undocumented and are afraid of retribution or deportation. Raul made the grueling journey from Guatemala to North Carolina in trains, cars, buses and on foot, but now that the local construction industry has slowed, he spends most of his time […]
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Marilyn Kille versus Carrboro: the rematch
‘You are out of order,” the mayor said, his voice rising in frustration. Across the room, the defiant woman snorted in disgust. ‘I am understanding I am out of order, but so are you!” she shouted back. The woman, standing erect and imperial, turned to the small, stunned crowd of attorneys, city employees, reporters and […]
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Carrboro takes on neighborhood covenants in the name of sustainability
Sharon Kolling-Perin just wanted a clothesline. The 31-year-old Carrboro mother of three thought hanging her family’s clothes out in the yard rather than stuffing them into an electric dryer would be an environmentally friendly way to get some household chores done. But a maze of neighborhood, city and state regulations have taken her simple request […]