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Water Main Work To Close Chapel Hill Streets
OWASA plans to begin some water main work on Tuesday, Dec. 9 that will affect traffic on part of North Columbia Street, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Forum Tonight On Pittsboro-Chapel Hill Bus Route
Pittsboro to Chapel Hill commuters will have their own bus pretty soon. The service will begin sometime early next year, though Litchfield said it's tough to forecast a specific date and will serve as a morning ...
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Denser zoning coming
The Town Council changed a rule last week nearly tripling the size of buildings it could allow whereever it wants to promote density.
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Accused robber pleads guilty to weapons charge
A Durham man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal firearms charge in a string of armed robberies last summer.
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Lawyers in Carson case seek records of tips
Demario Atwater is due in court for his first appearance on federal carjacking and weapons charges related to the killing of Eve Carson.
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Mountain lions in Chapel Hill? Oh my
A Chapel Hill woman says she saw a mountain lion out her back window last week. Linda Janssen said she was having coffee with her nephew, a 22-year-old Army private visiting for Thanksgiving, when they looked ...
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New NC sex offender rules take effect
Stricter new rules governing sex offenders took effect Monday in North Carolina.
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Project squeezes downtown parking
Eventually, the Downtown Partnership wants to make parking easier to find. But for now, it's about to get harder.
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Moon and planets will put on a show
On Monday evening, the three brightest objects in the night sky will dance. Jupiter and Venus, which for weeks have been edging closer to each other in the southwestern sky, will appear to nearly touch -- and ...
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Five Tips To Survive The Holidays
Finally! It's the holiday season! We get a break from work, visit family, watch football games, eat great food.
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Chapel Hill Task Force To Monitor Mental Health Care
The News and Observer reports Mayor Kevin Foy has tapped Natalie Ammarell, a human services consultant, to lead the town's new Mental Health Task Force.
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Putting the 'giving' in Thanksgiving
To contact the alumni association e-mail octs-lincolnalumni@hotmail.com or write to OCTS- Lincoln High-Northside Alumni Association, P.O. Box 57 Carrboro, NC 27510.
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New Chapel Hill-Carrboro students modern-day pilgrims
The 30 students who sat down to turkey, stuffing and all the fixings of their first Thanksgiving dinner were modern-day pilgrims of sorts.
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Third group forms to fight Orange airport
A group of northern Orange County residents has formed a third grassroots organization to fight a future Orange County airport.
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UNC scientists teach enzyme to make synthetic heparin in more varieties
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have learned to customize a key human enzyme responsible for producing heparin, opening the door to a more effective synthetic anticoagulant as well ...
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Chapel Hill Among Most Expensive College Towns
According to a Coldwell Banker Survey comparing the median home price of 119 college towns.
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Nation's first Watersense-labeled home.
If you want to "go blue," you are not just limited to WaterSense labeled products for your home.
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NC home certified as first water-efficient in US
Government officials are joining a builder to show off a North Carolina house that is the first home in the nation built and certified to be water-efficient under a federal pilot project.
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Cases Of Whooping Cough Plague Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools
Chapel Hill-Public Health officials with the Orange County Health Department are investigating five pertussis cases at Estes Hill Elementary School.
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3 with N.C. ties are Rhodes Scholars
Chapel Hill senior is headed to Oxford University next year as a Rhodes Scholar.
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