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Pittsboro Place is a Pittsboro thing[Aug. 28, 2007] I take it you are a member or supporter of CCEC, said group being the author of your ‘notice’. Why did you not acknowledge your source? If I were Ms Spina or Ms Hurly, I might be a bit aggravated that you did not give credit where due.
By Karl Earnst Pittsboro Place propaganda[Aug. 28, 2007] Jim Nitsch says he didn’t write the “info” (propaganda) about Pittsboro Place which he posted. I understand organizations are not allowed to post their leaflets on the Chatlist, so accommodating people like Jim do it for them. This one was written by Chatham Coalition and then parroted by their comrades, Chatham Citizens for Effective Communities
By Ed Williams
School house blues and the letter of devastation[Aug. 26, 2007] It is the start of another school year. Summer break has come to an end and so has our freedom of choice when it comes to where we want our children to go to school. Just when you think your children are well grounded, up comes a root. My husband and I are a concerned parents and life-long citizens of Chatham County. My son is an upcoming freshman who has always attended Pittsboro schools. He attended Pittsboro Elementary and Horton Middle School and had always planned on attending Northwood High School.
By Yvonne Sexton Goldston
Pittsboro Partners rezoning vote this Monday[Aug. 26, 2007] It is my understanding that Pittsboro Town Board Commissioner Max Cotten is pushing to vote on rezoning to accommodate Pittsboro Place. It is highly likely that the rezoning request by Pittsboro Place Partners, developers of the project, will be voted on during the Town Board Meeting on Monday, 8/27. We should not assume that there are enough votes to block this rezoning.
By Roxanne Hollander
My hermit crab died[Aug. 25, 2007] It really did. No family member has come forward to tell me but I know that it is true. I am not too broken up about it. I know that it has died because I found it’s dried out carcass on a paper towel on my kitchen counter, next to the new hermit crab habitat and the recent butterfly and wayward lizard containment system. At first I thought it
was a shrimp, lost and forlorn.
By Dan Cahoon
Important point about the Carolina BREWERY[Aug. 25, 2007] There’s been lots of debate about Carolina Brewery. Very little of it has been about the most important part, the Brewery part. I picked up a “growler”, which is their beer in 1/2 gallon jugs. This is very appropriate for our region, except the local stuff my grandfathers acquired in gallon jugs was much higher octane.
By Jeff Christian Also:
Carolina Brewery
A brewery and hopefully more to come[Aug. 24, 2007] I had an interesting night at the Carolina Brewery. Interesting in that I enjoyed seeing something totally new in Pittsboro. Food was good, service slow, but, it’s new and all of us are slow when starting something new. I really enjoyed looking at the art around the wall. We actually met up with Corky and Linda sitting next to the beautiful portrait of their house on main street. It was a kodak moment, but didn’t have a camera! Also enjoyed watching the staff walking up those stairs and carrying those trays, hoping they wouldn’t fall.
By Wandra Farrell
Providing nutrition is not the job of government schools[Aug. 12, 2007] Did anyone read the article in the Chatham Record about the nutritional program being rolled out by our wonderful government schools? They are called "Fuel Up" and "Food Until Everything Looks Up". These programs send home food on Friday afternoon for hungry student to eat over the weekend. Packaged in "non-identifiable" backpacks so that the student doesn't get teased by other students.
By Steve Candelori
Pittsboro Place is not for me[Aug. 6, 2007] I was at the zoning meeting on Monday last concerning the rezoning of land off of 64 and Industrial Park Drive. I learned much listening to Developers and Citizens presenting their thoughts, feelings, ideas and plans about the idea of having the proposed Pittsboro Place become a reality on the outskirts of Pittsboro.
By Scotty Young
Shop til you drop at cheery shopping centers[Aug. 6, 2007] There are many reasons why a shopping center or large paved area may be a bad idea for the area in question. Any development creates change in the landscape and what we see around us. Trees get downed, meadows and wetland plowed under. That would happen with any kind of development.
By Dan Cahoon
Attention! The circle in Pittsboro is at Level F! I repeat, Level F![Jul. 27, 2007] What exactly does level F mean? Fun? Friendly? Fascinating? Other words that start with F? This was from the lawyer representing Pittsboro Plunder, I mean Pittsboro Place (proposed retail and housing development on East 64). He told the county commissioners and our fabulous mayor that "no matter what, the circle will be at level F" in a matter of time. I would love a rubric that detailed what level F means (how much traffic etc.) and how someone calculates this "level".
By Dan Cahoon
A former paperboy reminisces[Jul. 23, 2007] NC - I don't have recent experience with rural driver routes and only a few stories from folks who have had one (many negative, funny stories). I can tell you that daily delivery of any item gets REAL old REAL quick. I remember the old days when a young boy would get "recruited" by some employee of the circulation department at my local newspaper. The virtues of hard work, easy schedule, and quick cash were extolled until a victim would succumb and become the next "paperboy".
By Dan Cahoon
Teaching the test is a waste of time[Jun. 22, 2007] Public schools in North Carolina (and almost all states) use a common curriculum that breaks down the individual strands of a subject area into supposedly developmentally appropriate sections. Every few years those "curricula" are modified to reflect new theories of learning and development or to prepare students earlier for higher level thinking (i.e. -learning fractions before algebra, etc.).
By Dan Cahoon
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