Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:25:24 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Last Week’s Hottest Chatham Online Bulletin Board Topics

1. Resolved: Jeff Starkweather is the biggest boob in Chatham.  (Read 4455 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24190.0.html

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:10:04 -0500
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Pittsboro Courthouse Restoration update 1.11.12

Ghost lines are emerging as layers of material are removed from the court house interior, exposing the massive brick walls.

The remainder of the wood structure and plaster have been removed, exposing the hand made brick as they were when first placed in 1881. It is now possible to see faint ghost lines on both corners the west
side of the second floor, suggesting a balcony or a third floor similar to the east side at the time of the fire.

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:18:01 -0500
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Last Week’s Hottest Bulletin Board Topics

1. WCHL – Walmart Coming To NE Chatham County on 15-501 near Orange County line  (Read 3498 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24679.0.html

2. Injury at Christmas parade  (Read 2524 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24667.0.html

3. when is the christmas parade?  (Read 954 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24600.0.html

4. CC – Carrboro residents oppose proposed Family Dollar  (Read 701 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24681.0.html

5. Sportsman Lanes Bowling in Siler City is closing  (Read 567 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24674.0.html

6. 751 South project near Jordan Lake  (Read 469 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24653.0.html

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:04:36 -0500
From: Tim Walker
Subject: Walmart in Chatham County

What a very thoughtful post from Ellen Pearson, re. making Walmart more a more responsible corporate citizen! It made think of the last time I was in Costco in Durham. They actually had Cackalacky sauce (a local product, out of Chapel Hill) for sale!

So, I would definitely agree with the point “Would you like certain products to be available to compensate for the excess traffic, the loss of local businesses, the loss of property values?  Tell Walmart what you think.”  And vote with your feet.

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:45:41 -0500
From: John R Dykers
Subject: New Walmart

50 years ago, even 60, that intersection was known as 5 points and has been commercial even longer. It was the sight of an ABC store, the closest for Chatham County residents. Gas station, massage parlor, appliance store, et al. The increase in traffic has come with the four lane of 15-501.

For comparison, Cole Park Plaza intersection at the time was only a side road west and all the other corners were woods and fallow meadows.

“Everybody’s gotta be somewhere”. The only resolution is pregnancy prevention.

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:48:33 -0500
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Walmart Coming To Chatham County on 15-501 near Orange County line

Chapel Hill Town Manager Roger Stancil says that “plans for a new Walmart had been filed with Chatham County, right over the line, which I think would make it very convenient for people to leave Chapel Hill, shop in Chatham County and then come back and live here.”
 
Orange County economic development director Steve Brantley says the average Walmart generates about $70 million in retail sales.
 
“The significant property tax and retail sales tax from that Walmart will be supported, probably in large part, by Orange County shoppers,” Brantley says.
 
The Walmart currently in Hillsborough pays $200,000 in county property taxes each year, and produces about 10 percent of Orange County’s annual sales tax revenue.

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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:34:34 -0500
From: Adam Feher
Subject: Chathamcentric post about fracking

I promise not to frack. I won’t even frack on the ‘down low’.  Can we stop talking about it now? 

Adam.

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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 15:18:07 -0400
From: Tom Glendinning”
Subject: Another ‘fracking’ comment

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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 10:22:19 -0500
From: chathammatters
Subject: In response to Darryl Wally

We may, or may not, eventually have Hydraulic Fracturing in the State of North Carolina.  But if we do, I certainly hope we ALL will advocate for effective regulation to safeguard both our water supply and our property rights, it’s in no one’s best interest to harm either.

  Isn’t it better to make informed decisions, rather than ones based on propaganda, and fear?

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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 11:12:12 -0500
From: Darryl Wally
Subject: Well regulated by whom?

> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 09:56:39 -0400
> Re: “Tom Glendinning”
> “The point here is that the substances and compounds in “fracking” fluid are part of our lives in everyday products.”
>
> If that is the case, why won’t the fracking industry release ALL the components used? They refuse to do so. It has also been stated in reports that some chemicals which are known are carcinogenic.
>
>  “My main argument for this industry is that it offers employment for those who have lost jobs in our county and a stable supply of fuel within our borders.  These two benefits far outweigh my concerns about pollution from a what will be a well regulated process.”

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