Let us know what you're seeing at the polls, chatter about the candidates, where the parties are toight, etc.
Our main question about today is: Low voter turnout, or lowest voter turnout?
Welcome to the open thread for tonight's Conversation With the Mayors. There are three candidates running unopposed for mayor in Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough:
- Alderwoman Lydia Lavelle is running unopposed for mayor of Carrboro.
- Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt is running unopposed for reelection as mayor of Chapel Hill.
- Mayor Tom Stevens is running unopposed for reelection as mayor of Hillsborough.
You can observe the forum at http://orangepolitics.org/elections-2013/forums/mayors.
We hope you'll use this open thread to post your thoughts and reactions. Also, if you want to propose additional discussion topics, you can reach the editors during the forum via Twitter, Facebook, or the contact page. The forum moderator will have final say in question selection.
Welcome to the open thread for tonight's Chapel Hill Town Council candidate forum. There are nine candidates for four seats:
- George Cianciolo
- Sally Greene
- Ed Harrison
- Gary Kahn
- Loren Hintz
- Paul Neebe
- Maria Palmer
- Amy Ryan
- DC Swinton
You can observe the forum at http://orangepolitics.org/elections-2013/forums/chapel-hill-town-council.
We hope you'll use this open thread to post your thoughts and reactions. Also, if you want to propose additional discussion topics, you can reach the editors during the forum via Twitter, Facebook, or the contact page. The forum moderator will have final say in question selection.
OrangePolitics has arranged for this special tour for local elected officials with Professor Tim McMillan. Space is limited.
Welcome to the open thread for tonight's Carrboro Board of Aldermen candidate forum.
There are five candidates for three seats:
You can observe the forum at http://orangepolitics.org/elections-2013/forums/carrboro-board-of-aldermen.
We hope you'll use this open thread to post your thoughts and reactions. Also, if you want to propose additional discussion topics, you can reach the editors during the forum via Twitter, Facebook, or the contact page. The forum moderator will have final say in question selection.
Welcome to the open thread for tonight's Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board candidate forum.
Via e-mail:
Join the Central West Steering Committee and your fellow community members at the upcoming Central West Community Session!
The Central West Community Session will be held on Tuesday, September 10th from 6:30-8:30pm in the Fellowship Hall at Amity United Methodist Church located at 825 N. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill.
The drop-in session will provide community members the opportunity to review the Steering Committee’s work to date (including the principles, objectives, and concepts) and to offer their thoughts and feedback.
Help spread the word about the Community Session to your friends, neighbors, and colleagues! Attached to this email are flyers that can be distributed about the session.
For more information about the Central West Focus Area process, please visit www.townofchapelhill.org/centralwest
Hope to see you there!
Megan
Date:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location:
Amity United Methodist Church, 825 N. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill
From the Town of Chapel Hill's press release:
Are you feeling both social and persuasive? Do you have a creative vision for the future of Rosemary Street that others should embrace? We want to hear it! Join community members, Town and University leaders, and downtown business and property owners for the:
Rosemary Imagined Social Event
Tuesday, September 10
6:30 to 8 p.m.
TRU Deli + Wine
114 Henderson Street, Chapel Hill
www.trudeli.com
Rosemary Imagined is an innovative community-led planning initiative that will refine our thinking of how Rosemary Street fits into the development and growth of downtown Chapel Hill. Come for information, conversation, and imagination about Rosemary Street and share your thoughts!
But this is not your ordinary information session. Everyone will have the opportunity to share their most vibrant desire for the future of Rosemary Street and then use their powers of persuasion to gather votes from the crowd! This is one public meeting where working the room is encouraged! Light refreshments will be provided for all to enjoy.
This event is part of a 10 month process of engagement with the Town of Chapel Hill and community members to bring together several recent initiatives into a complete vision for the future of the Rosemary Street corridor.
www.rosemaryimagined.com
For more information contact:
Dwight Bassett at 919-969-5015
and Meg McGurk at 919-967-9440 or email them at info@rosemaryimagined.com.
Date:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location:
TRU, 114 Henderson Street, Chapel Hill
A public information meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, to receive comments and feedback on the 2013 Carolina North Development Agreement Annual Report to the Town of Chapel Hill.
The Town meeting will be hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because of ongoing renovations to Town Council Chamber. The meeting will be held in the Magnolia Conference Room of the Giles F. Horney Building at 103 Airport Drive. Free parking is available, and Chapel Hill Transit serves the building via the NU route.
The report is posted at http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/, which also is where the public can access the Carolina North conservation areas baseline and initial monitoring reports done by a third-party monitor, the Triangle Land Conservancy.
Carolina North is envisioned as a mixed-use academic campus on university-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, two miles north of the main campus. University and Town representatives signed a development agreement in 2009 that covers the first 20 years of development on the site. The agreement contains guidelines and standards for the development of the first 3 million square feet of a mixed-use research and academic campus on 133 acres.
The annual report lets the Town and public know what development activities have occurred on the Carolina North site in the past year and the ways in which the University is complying with the terms of the development agreement. The report is part of the structure established by the agreement for providing continued town-gown communication. The report will also be posted online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Town Manager Roger Stancil will review the report and the public input before reporting on Oct. 28 to the Town Council on his review of the development agreement and its requirements.
Public input is welcome. Send comments about the annual report or other issues related to Carolina North at any time to carolinanorth@townofchapelhill.org or write Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department, Carolina North, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Detailed information is available online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=900 and http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/. To be added to a mailing list to receive regular updates about the Carolina North development agreement, please contact info@townofchapelhill.org
Date:
Monday, September 16, 2013 - 5:30pm
Location:
Magnolia Conference Room, Giles F. Horney Building, 103 Airport Drive
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