by admin | Jun 17, 2022 | Health, Town Planning
A Community Information Session on Chapel Hill’s Coal Ash, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, June 22 Concerned community members in partnership with ACT Against Coal Ash, Chapel Hill Organization for Clean Energy (CHOCE), Friends of Bolin Creek, the Blue Ridge Environmental...
by admin | May 9, 2022 | Affordable Housing, Health, Town Planning
Until now, CHALT has not formally taken a position on the redevelopment of 828 MLK, a known coal ash dump site. Here’s our take. We are concerned that this is an environmental justice issue in the making. Before the Town Council decided on March 23 to move...
by admin | Nov 3, 2021 | Health
MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kristin Prelipp, Communications Manager and Public Information Officer, Orange County Health Department kprelipp@orangecountync.gov or 919-245-2462 LINK TO MEDIA RELEASE:...
by admin | Feb 25, 2021 | Health
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. Feb. 24 2021 ― Orange County Public Health announced Feb. 24 that pre-K through grade 12 and childcare workers are eligible to receive a COVID vaccine. Other frontline essential workers listed in Group 3 will become eligible March 10. Caveat: Trials...
by admin | Jan 7, 2021 | Health
UNC announces that classes will still begin on Jan. 19 as planned, but they will not be in-person on campus because of the record COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in North Carolina and nationally. The new start date for in-person classes is Feb. 8. Read the...
by admin | Jan 7, 2021 | Health
Orange County Health Department Prepares to Move into Phase 1B of COVID Vaccine Effort North Carolina has moved into Phase 1b Group 1 of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Individuals 75 and older are now eligible to receive the vaccine. Post Date: 01/07/2021 10:15 AM...