Chapel Hill

• Town of Chapel Hill launches new website

  Result 1

  Discovered June 30, 2009 at 9:40 am

  Local governments don’t often revamp their websites, so when I found out the Town of Chapel Hill had it’s site redesigned, I thought I’d point it out. I don’t know what their last site looked like. If you do, tell me if the new one is better.

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• UNC’s Danny Green gears up for the NBA draft

  Result 2

  Discovered June 22, 2009 at 9:54 am

  If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to tryout for the NBA, then take a look at the story in today’s N&O, which follows UNC’s Danny Green through the process. It involves a lot of flying, a lot of basketball playing, personality tests, medical exams and more:

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• A Southern Season hosts a nut focus group

  Result 3

  Discovered June 10, 2009 at 5:32 pm

  Raleigh blogger Abby got to do something I didn’t even know existed. She got to participate in a nut focus group. Spare the whacko jokes. She actually taste tested nuts and created recipes at A Southern Season in Chapel Hill. She details the cool $150 gig on her blog:

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• Another Sign Of The Times — State’s Food Stamp Numbers Rise Sharply

  Result 4

  Discovered June 2, 2009 at 8:40 am

  Listen to this report from WUNC on the rise of food stamp applications as the recession continues.

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• Franklin Street’s Varsity Theatre for sale

  Result 5

  Discovered May 26, 2009 at 12:04 pm

  Rumors that the Varsity Theatre might be closing down aren’t entirely true, reports The Chapel Hill News. The theatre is for sale, but so far, it appears the show is still on.

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• Could an artists’ co-op being coming to downtown Chapel Hill?

  Result 6

  Discovered May 21, 2009 at 1:16 pm

  About 50 artists and supporters packed a building on Franklin Street this week for a discussion about establishing an artists’ co-op. There are a lot of questions about whether this could work in Chapel Hil, including:

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• UNC students stage flash mob in Davis Library

  Result 7

  Discovered May 1, 2009 at 4:32 pm

  This video definitely makes me want to be in college again. UNC students staged a flash mob at Davis Library yesterday. More than 3,000 students danced and body surfed, all while sporting glow sticks. It’s pretty incredible that they pulled this off:

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• Durham/Cary edging out Raleigh on job growth potential

  Result 8

  Discovered April 15, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  Good news on the job front for Durham-Chapel Hill metro areas. A new survey shows it has a greater job growth potential than the Raleigh-Cary area. The Triangle Business Journal explains:

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• UNC protest ends in pepper spray and shattered window

  Result 9

  Discovered April 15, 2009 at 10:41 am

  A couple hundred UNC protestors quelled a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo last night. Tancredo was supposed to speak against in-state tuition benefits for undocumented immigrants. Instead, students shouted and held banners until campus police dispersed the crowd.

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• Do you have old school UNC basketball paraphernalia?

  Result 10

  Discovered April 7, 2009 at 9:51 am

  We’re trying to pull in some fan-submitted content to MyNC.com. Iur web producers really want to go old school and put together a slideshow of photos displaying T-shirts, soda cans and any other random victory paraphernalia that you have from past UNC wins. E-mail photos to newstips (at) wncn (dot) com.

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