Chapel Hill’s taxes likely to go up

Chapel Hill is looking at a tax increase. Major reasons are the increase in town service costs, transit costs, and the cost to build a $31.4 million Municipal Services Center housing a new police and fire headquarters, and other departments. Town Manager Roger...

Love Being Outdoors?

If the answer is yes, the Orange County Department on Aging is seeking your input about Orange County’s OUTDOOR SPACES. The Orange County Department on Aging has working groups that are contributing to the implementation of the county-wide Master Aging Plan for...

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...

End of an Era for Chapel Hill News

When my family and I moved here in the 1970’s, the home town paper, The Chapel Hill News, introduced us to town leaders, the local personalities, and the history of our new community. In more recent years, when publication was reduced to only twice a week and...