Chatham Chatlist Highlights

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: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:47:49 -0400
From: Melissa Delbridge
Subject: Saving Downtown Pittsboro

I’ve lived in Pittsboro for less than a year and don’t pretend to understand all of the problems that are resulting in complaints about and closings of local downtown businesses. We’ve established that some people have had unpleasant experiences in local restaurants. We know that downtown merchants are struggling in this economy. At least two businesses have announced closings in the past few weeks. Attractive buildings, new and old, that should be bustling with customers, stand empty.. In the center of our town, our historic courthouse stands, still fenced and window-boarded, a mute witness to this sorrow.

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Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 06:47:45 -0400
From: Phyllis Thomas
Subject: Figs

I got a fig bush at SpringMeadows on Highway 54 about halfway between Chapel Hill and Graham two years ago.  It had a few figs that year, and an abundance last year.  Figs are already setting on it now.

Spring Meadow, although not a Chatham business, is a wonderful place to buy plants.  The owner is an Alamance boy who graduated from NC State with a degree in Horticulture, so he can answer all your plant questions.

Phyllis Thomas

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:16:40 +1000
From: Michael Kirkman
Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #3840

I am presently not in Chatham Co. but my heart is still there and I will be returning at an undetermined time.

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:08:11 EDT
From: Ed Williams
Subject: Chatham County on the side of the lawbreakers

I found a list of “sanctuary cities” in the US – those in  which the chief of police or the city council forbids the police to ask  about the immigration status of anyone who is detained for some other offense.  The list includes Chatham County, as well as Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Charlotte,  Durham, Raleigh and Winston-Salem.

Quite a list of jurisdictions taking the side  of the lawbreakers against their law-abiding citizens. I suppose that some  will say we should be proud that our county is standing up for the basic human right to immigrate to the US, legally or  “undocumentedly”.

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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:28:18 -0400
From: Randy E.
Subject: Voller says to give up your child’s meal to pay for Pittsboro Magic Bus

It is sad to see that the Chatham Coalition and Pittsboro Together’s candidate for Pttsboro mayor thinks your child needs to pass on a meal to pay for the Pittsboro magic bus.

On the Chatham Online Bulletin Board at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,14756.15.html
Randy Voller states that “it would appear that a valuable piece of transit infrastructure was purchased for less than a “happy meal”.”

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:32:13 +0000
From: Bill
Subject: THANKS FOR THE REPLIES….

…..and have already found a ‘silent’ investor/partner who is ready to come aboard when the time is ready to expand. The expansion will involve getting another new 12 passenger van, for larger group tours, and another Ford Flex for RDU runs and smaller group tours, six, the same amount as can do now.

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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:52:07 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Natives, newcomers spar over county – Story about Chatlist in Herald Sun newspaper

Natives, newcomers spar over county
BY BETH VELLIQUETTE : The Herald-Sun

Native vs. newcomer. Local vs. outsider.

In Chatham County, there’s a group of people who have been writing online on the Chatham Chatlist who have been going round and round for nearly a month about whether natives have a special claim to the county, if newcomers are ruining it and who has the right to call it “home.”

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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:23:52 -0500
From: Lesley Landis
Subject: Pittsboro/Chapel Hill Bus Service

by Tim Keim

Getting around in Chatham County without a car is difficult. With little employment to anchor Pittsboro residents to their home turf, folks scatter in all directions every morning to earn their daily bread. About 13% of the workforce at UNC and UNC Hospital travel the 15-501 corridor to reach Chapel Hill. Some carpool, but most jump into their shiny metal boxes solo and inefficiently burn hydrocarbons  to get to work. But a ticket to ride may soon replace the solitary commute.

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:54:05 -0500
From: Alexa Dixon
Subject: UNC Nursing Students need your help!

Hello to Chatham County,

My name is Alexa Dixon and I am a nursing student completing a Public Health Nursing rotation in Chatham County.  Together, some of my fellow nursing students and I are performing a community assessment of food accessibility in Siler City.

We have created a survey that is posted on Survey Monkey and I will provide the link below.  For those of you that live, shop, and eat in Siler City, we would really appreciate it if you
would take the time to complete the survey. Feel free to contact me via email if you have any additional comments or concerns. Thank you.

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