Pittsboro, NC – Chatham County seeks community input on its Haw River Trail Feasibility Study draft report. Over the last several months, the Chatham County Parks and Recreation Department has collaborated with Triangle J Council of Governments (TJCOG) and Alta…
By Theresa Opeka Moncure, NC – VinFast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker Democrat North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper credited for leading an army of clean-energy companies coming to the state, is being criticized for polluting waterways near its $4 billion…
Pittsboro, NC – Yesterday afternoon (8/02/23), the Town of Pittsboro received the testing results for 1,4 dioxane in their drinking water system, indicating there are no longer detectable concentrations of 1,4 dioxane within the system, including the raw water entering…
Pittsboro, NC – Follow our affiliate Chatham County News Tweets here. Below is a collection of #ChathamNC tweets from last week: Chatham County News Tweets: 2021-08-23 – 2021-08-29 https://t.co/B0JjbWW9uT 08:00:06, 2021-08-30 The latest The Chatham County News Daily! https://t.co/ZjSfs9crY2 Thanks to…
Chapel Hill, NC – An agreement by state regulators with the City of Greensboro allows increased discharges of cancer causing 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water source for nearly one million people in violation of the Clean Water Act and state…
Raleigh, NC – The Bynum Bridge in Chatham County was among the seven places in North Carolina to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Bynum bridge was among the properties reviewed by the North Carolina National…
by Cathy Holt Pittsboro, NC – This is an excerpt from a letter that I recently wrote to a friend and decided that I wanted to share it with our dear Chatlist also. I know that “progress” is unavoidable when…
By Larry Hicks This round I had promised to talk to the assertion that Mike Cross voted more with the Republicans than with Democrats. But there is a pretty good summary on that on Mike’s February 3rd post to his…
by Tom Glendinning Pittsboro, NC – It appears to be an unworkable solution in Bynum. If people are floating, rafting, swimming in the Haw River all day long while they are drinking, they are guilty of making illegal discharges into…
Debates on recent changes in Chatham County bureaucracy raise the question of the actual state of the water in the Haw River. Considering the alarmist warnings that the changes will degrade water quality, the future promises to continue the improvement…