The Chatham County School System announces their 2015 Teachers of the Year. Each school faculty member voted on a single teacher who is representative of excellence in the classroom. To be eligible as Teacher of the Year, the teacher must hold a Standa…
Month: March 2015
The 2015 March Madness schedule for Saturday and Sunday games
After a few crazy days of close games and upsets, March Madness continues Saturday and Sunday with the round of 32 games. Check out times and listings below on where and when to catch your teams in the 2015 NCAA basketball tournament.
Four good North Carolina books for the spring
If you are looking for an interesting book for springtime reading, I have four suggestions: A cookbook that will be fun to read. A book of stories from one of North Carolina’s rising stars. The story of a ’57 Chevy and its complicated, troubled and fascinating 13th owner who took it to Moyock in Currituck County for restoration. An award-winning story of a mother who writes letters to the son she gave up the day he was born. Here are some details.
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Chatham County seeks applicants for new Board of Adjustment
On March 16, 2015, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved the creation of a Board of Adjustment that will assume the role of hearing and deciding upon appeals and variances of county land use and development regulations. In the past, the Bo…
Siler City rezones Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing Site
The Siler City Board of Commissioners voted unanimously at its Monday, March 16 meeting to approve a request by the property owners to rezone the Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing Site. Previously zoned agricultural-residential (A-R), the 1,818…
Siler City rezones Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing Site
The Siler City Board of Commissioners voted unanimously at its Monday, March 16 meeting to approve a request by the property owners to rezone the Chatham-Siler City Advanced Manufacturing Site. Previously zoned agricultural-residential (A-R), the 1,818…
My last penny spent at Walker Automotive NAPA in Pittsboro
I have shopped at the NAPA store in Pittsboro for more than forty years, since 1972, possibly before Rober Reid bought and ran it. I’ve traded with Archie Hackney and Curt when they worked there, and Robert’s son, Rob. Robert passed away not long ago. …
Chatham Senior Center needs hearing aid users for mentoring program
Chatham County’s Eastern Senior Center in Pittsboro has partnered with the NC Division of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing to provide individual support for new hearing aid users, but experienced hearing aid users also are needed to serve …
David Tennant, William Shatner, Ian Somerhalder, John Schneider Q&As highlight programming at Wizard World Comic Raleigh
Q&A sessions with David Tennant (“Doctor Who,” “Broadchurch”), Ian Somerhalder (“The Vampire Diaries”), William Shatner (“Star Trek”), John Schneider (“Smallville,” “Dukes of Hazzard”), Tyler Hoechlin (“Teen Wolf”) and Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings Trilogy), a concert by videogame tribute band “Critical Hit,” screening of Wolf Cop, costume contests, comics creator panels and more are among the programming highlights scheduled at the inaugural Wizard World Comic Con Raleigh, Friday through Sunday, February 13-15 at the Raleigh Convention Center. Most programming is included as part of the standard event admission.
Citizens can stop the Chatham County Commission’s push for county wide zoning
The new county commissioners have revived the democratic push to zone the entire county. There is a long history in Chatham of the far left wing of the democratic party trying to do this over the years. Each time the effort is tried the citizens living in the Western portion of the county have successfully fought it off. We won’t get into the entire history as it would take too long but suffice it to say, there are large areas in the rural parts of the county that are not zoned because the people who live there don’t want to be zoned.