Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:19:27 -0400
From: Dan Cahoon
Subject: River walking

The crisp September air makes me think of walks along rivers and trails in times past. It is a great time to get out and experience some of the beauty of our world. Chatham county boasts many gorgeous, accessible and family safe sites for walking, viewing wildlife and general enjoying nature in all it’s glory.

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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:21:31 EDT
From: Kathie Russell
Subject: propane gas

Several months ago there was a discussion about propane gas prices. It was noted that there were great discrepancies between propane prices. A few people said they called their propane company and were able to get their per gallon price back down to $1.89 after it had gone up just by asking or complaining.

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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:52:00
From: colleen k
Subject: RE: homosexual activity at Haw River canoe trail on 64

I had to reply to this post. A few years ago, my husband and i were taking our dogs for a walk on the Haw River Canoe trail on 64. I noticed a man waiting in his truck when we arrived. When we returned to the lot, this same man abruptly disengaged contact with another man in the thin stand of trees river’s edge in front of the lot. The two separated and the man who we had first seen when we arrived attempted to play off the awkwardness by engaging us in conversation, while the other man walked behind us to get to his truck.

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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:51:50
From: Allison Weakley
Subject: push polls in Chatham on the Land Transfer Tax?

Yesterday my family and I received a phone call we believe was a push poll on the Land Transfer Tax (and the fellow giving the poll was obviously not from Chatham, as he had trouble at times pronouncing “Chatham”). The poll asked leading questions such as “Would you be more or less likely to vote for the Land Transfer Tax if told that the tax would impact the elderly?”

We live in North Chatham and wonder if others in the area have also received a call such as this.

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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:36
From: Elliot M. Cramer
Subject: Open records: a second fiasco

See N&O article

“It’s not up to local governments to supplement the law,” said John Bussian, a Raleigh lawyer and lobbyist for the N.C. Press Association. “The obligation of local boards to release public documents is set forth in chapter and verse in the state law.”

“Most local governments don’t have a separate policy. They have the law,” said Cathy Packer, a media law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:58:39 -0400
From: Dan Cahoon
Subject: I got rants in my pants

I mean it. I want Max Cotten to resign. I really want him to “not be a part of my local political or planning” future. He seems a bit … um… distracted. My apology was heartfelt, as was my request that he resign for his apparent lack of concern for the community at large. He rushed that last vote. Max Cotten asked that the vote be held on August 27th. He did this despite pleas from his fellow counsel members to wait.

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Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:00:22 +0000
From: Sarah M. Shook
Subject: Wow. Disappointed.

Up until the last couple Chatlists I’ve received, I’d considered Pittsboro to be a town populated with relatively progressive individuals. Imagine my surprise to find posts in two, successive Chatlists with, far worse than homophobic overtones, outright and blatant anti-homosexual content.

I’m a parent. I have a 9 month-old. It doesn’t matter if my son is 9 months old or 7 years old. I would be setting a far poorer example for him by judging the lives of others in comparison to my own, than by taking my little boy out for a day at the lake, whether everyone there is a cookie-cutter of me and my family structure or not.

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Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:30:41 -0400
From: Elaine Chiosso
Subject: Pittsboro Needs to Conserve Water

Today’s News and Observer paper lists Pittsboro as one of the only municipalities in the region not requiring mandatory water conservation use in the midst of what is now an extreme drought. Pittsboro pulls its water from the Haw River at the old mill dam impoundment above Bynum. The river is very low, and many of the local creeks that feed the river are almost completely dry. The Town of Pittsboro sells treated water to areas outside their city limits, including the big Chapel Ridge Golf Course development off of Old Graham Road.

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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:22:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: megan lynch
Subject: Re: Problems with our lake

If one wants to come out to Jordan Lake and recreate, I strongly suggest that you visit one of the established recreational areas managed by state parks. These areas are staffed and patrolled by the park rangers. Problems do arise at times , but can be
handled by the park rangers who are nearby.These park areas are the only approved spots to swim , camp and picnic. The other lands surrounding the lake are generally managed as game lands and under the Wildlife Resources Commission.

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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:25:07
From: Chuck
Subject: Re: problems with our lake

Myself and others would like to know what the county and state officials plan to do about the on going homo-sexual activities happening at Jordan lake, mainly off hwy 751 north of hwy 64. People go here to seek same sex activities, in the open and in the cover. I have personally seen these acts and it disgust me. This place at one time was a great place to take the kids swimming and hang out with friends fishing. are there more people concerned about this problem.

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