Harold Scarborough has seen a lot of strange things during his 20 years as a refuse collector for the town. But the 11 toilets filled with rainwater stacked amid a pile of garbage Thursday was an oddity even for him.
“If something besides rainwater comes out of this, I’m going to s--t a brick,” Scarborough said.
Aaron Shah noticed his 4-year-old son Ahmad had a fever and decided to take him to the emergency room. Ahmad had H1N1, and later that August night, doctors told Shah his son might not see the next morning.
“We are grateful to God that we live in Chapel Hill and that we live close by the hospital,” Shah said.
The white section of Old Chapel Hill cemetery contains many large, elegant tombstones. But the other side could be mistaken for a field scattered with a few graves.
Historians hypothesize many former slaves and freedmen might be buried in the black section of the cemetery in unmarked graves.
Starting this year, string lights will adorn the windows of downtown businesses to the tune of $19,000.
For the first time, the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership and Friends of the Downtown are giving away 182 free strands of holiday lights to all downtown businesses.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners convened Tuesday before a full meeting hall. Audience members, many of them residents of the historic Rogers Road community, raised signs into the air, sheets of paper bearing a simple message.
They read: “No waste transfer station on Millhouse Road, 37 years of Orange County’s trash is enough!”
Now that the town approved Kidzu Children’s Museum’s expansion, it’s up to the museum to raise money for construction.
The museum scored a $1 lease for 99 years, and now will have to raise $6 million to $7 million for construction of the new building, said Cathy Maris executive director of Kidzu.
The Carrboro Branch Library will hold its annual book sale in December. Town officials just don’t know where yet.
Nerys Levy, of the Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library, requested that the town’s Board of Aldermen waive fees for use of the Century Center as a location for the book sale at Tuesday’s meeting.
The Daily Tar Heel is set to move its headquarters off campus to 151 E. Rosemary St. starting next fall.
In order to continue to improve as a news organization and as a business, the DTH must produce new content and hire more advertising staff, General Manager Kevin Schwartz said.
The town of Chapel Hill is actively working to combat racism through the justice in action committee, mayor-elect Mark Kleinschmidt said at a meeting Tuesday.
The meeting was held at the Hargraves Center with the aim of helping the community identify paths for racial healing.
The Daily Tar Heel is set to move its headquarters off campus to 151 E. Rosemary St. starting next fall.
In order to continue to grow as a business, The Daily Tar Heel must produce new content streams and hire more advertising staff, General Manager Kevin Schwartz said.
Angered that Chapel Hill could be facing the first all-white Town Council in decades, Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP president Michelle Cotton Laws sent a letter to Mayor Kevin Foy and the council endorsing the two black applicants for the council’s empty seat.
Middle-income families could find a new home in the Pine Knolls community if a multimillion dollar development is approved by town leadership this spring.
Teachers, health care workers, firefighters and police are likely candidates for the housing, said Jan Dodds, chairwoman of the Pine Knolls Townhomes planning committee.
The people of the historically black and low-income community just north of Chapel Hill have for years reached out to local leaders to tell of their struggle with air and water quality after a landfill was placed there in 1972.
The first attempt at establishing a Human Rights Day for Chapel Hill and Carrboro failed.
Judith Blau, director of the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Human Rights Center, located at Abbey Court condominiums, said the event was canceled because of fear of low attendance.
Jeff Nieman might look comfortable in his suit and tie as he works in a courtroom, but on Friday nights he has no problem ditching them for a set of headphones and a turntable.
The proposed for the Carolina North campus is located on a 250-acre parcel in the Carolina North Forest 2 1/2 miles from the University's main campus, near the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Estes Drive.
Attorneys for a man charged with killing former Student Body President Eve Carson are trying to strike the decision to pursue the federal death penalty against him.
The two motions, filed Oct. 28, come as defenders continue to build their case in favor of Demario James Atwater.
Bad weather on Tuesday night may have hurt a charity event that was already seeing fewer participants than last year.
Irene Briggaman, the founder of Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s Restaurants Sharing 10 Percent program, said this was the first time she could remember stormy weather on the day of the event in its 21 years.
Town police and local business and organizations teamed up Wednesday to keep prescription drugs and alcohol locked up and out of the hands of children.
To promote their new “Talk it Up, Lock it Up” campaign, the Coalition for Alcohol and Drug Free Teenagers of Chapel Hill and Carrboro worked with several local groups to organize Operation Medicine Cabinet.
A fellow soldier broke into tears after commemorating the loss of a local fighter and the anniversary of his death.
For the county’s first Veterans Day Appreciation Celebration, Lois Harvin-Ravin joined Staff Sergeant Misael Martinez’ mother on Wednesday at the front of the room and comforted the community Harvin-Ravin has both cultivated and honored.
