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What is the likely future of mobile home parks in Chapel Hill?
Three of the mobile home parks in Chapel Hill could be bought out soon. Where will families go? Orange County thinks 78 acres of future park land in northern Chapel Hill could help some residents losing their homes to redevelopment and others who need affordable...
Update on Proposed Municipal Service Center
Pictured is the stream determination map of wooded tract selected for Municipal Services Center. The Town is planning to build new municipal buildings to serve as police headquarters, fire department administration, and parks and recreation offices, among other...
Womens’ March Today
Join the Womens' March in Hillsborough or Raleigh! https://womensmarchonraleigh.org/
Help Save the Chelsea
Come to this meeting Sunday the 21st of January and learn how you can help! Save the Chelsea Information Event1
Can We Save the Chelsea Theatre?
You can help us answer this question. By now you have probably heard that Bruce Stone, owner/operator of the Chelsea Theater in Chapel Hill's Timberlyne Shopping Center, will be ending his run there in a few months. His 27 years of service there have brightened our...
American Legion Road Task Force Report
Chapel Hill nearly lost the beautiful American Legion tract to a development full of high end apartments. It is a testament to Mayor Hemminger’s leadership that the Town was able to revisit the use of this property, whose use had seemed to be determined by closed...
School Board and County Commission Wrestle with Paying for and Maintaining our Schools
The news that there would be a tremendous increase in construction costs for two planned school projects could not have come at a worse time. A multimillion-dollar cost increase is forcing the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to re-evaluate plans for building...
Grimball Jewelers Closes Down, Lease not Renewed
Yet another longstanding local small business has fallen victim to the ill-considered Ephesus-Fordham redevelopment plan. We learned last week that Grimball Jewelers, despite its profitability, is leaving its Elliot Rd. location and going out of business because its...
We did it!
We are absolutely thrilled at the November 7th election results! You can't do better than 100%!CHALT is so grateful for our talented candidates who are willing to dedicate their time to serve our town. We truly appreciate our many poll workers, pavement stompers,...
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