By correspondent Tammy Grubb The Carrboro aldermen paved the way for the Shelton Station project Tuesday night, voting 4-3 to rezone three North Greensboro Street properties to general business after a developer agreed to build flexible space into a re... »
By correspondent Tammy Grubb The town reopened the last section of Weaver Street to traffic today after completing a nearly yearlong renovation from East Main Street to West Main Street. The town and OWASA are sharing the cost of the $1.8 million proje... »
The Town of Carrboro may be many things, but "Lovetown USA" won't be one of them. BBC producers of the new "Lovetown USA" documentary television series have notified town officials that Carrboro was not selected as the location for filming. Carrboro wa... »
From correspondent Tammy Grubb True love may be just around the corner for Carrboro! Producers of the new show “Lovetown USA” have named the town a finalist for the Oprah Winfrey Network and BBC Worldwide television series. The next step is a visit wit... »
Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton is reminding Occupy Chapel Hill members to obey the law when they protest a local condominium board’s decision to remove a nonprofit serving area Latinos and Burmese immigrants. “Just a quick reminder that the Abbey Court Co... »
Tinariwen means "deserts" in Tomashek, the language of the Tuareg, a nomadic people who inhabit the Sahel regions of Northern and West Africa. It's also the name of a Tuareg band from Mali that makes hypnotic, guitar-driven "desert blues" their calling... »
So the sales tax passed, but was it really because of higher municipal voter turnout? Turns out, no. Voter turnout was actually slightly higher in the rural precincts that did not have a municipal race on the ballot. Turnout in those 10 precincts was 1... »
