PITTSBORO, N.C. (WNCN) — After nearly a year since Disney announced plans to build a residential and entertainment club community in Chatham County, no ground has been broken to begin construction. However, anticipation and anxiety continue to build surrounding the project Story LINK From: GGalin Sent: Monday, October 21, 2024Continue Reading
Sunday, October 27th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM (rescheduled from October 26th ) Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt Friends of Lower Haw River is offering a free Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt for kids and youth. We will provide participants with a free Junior Ranger Activity Guide and FLOHA sticker. No needContinue Reading
Alston Chapel Road supporters please mark your calendars! A grassroots community meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, at 7:00 PM at Alston Chapel Church (1832 Alston Chapel Road, Pittsboro). The purpose of this meeting is for residents and friends of the Alston Chapel Road community to learn moreContinue Reading
Too much development? If we don’t like the development around here, there’s not a lot we can do about it, other than buying up land for ourselves. I don’t have that kind of money, but I do have enough to make a contribution to the Triangle Land Conservancy. They buyContinue Reading
I’m seeing the news about Vinfast scaling back plans for the size of their site in Moncure. But I’m wondering what’s happening with the eminent domain actions for the homes and church at Old US 1 and New Elam Church Road. Is that moving forward as planned? That was soContinue Reading
36 years ago chatham county roads were in great condition. The sides picked up of trash and the coverys along side of the roads kept clear. This is no longer true. Why? Our taxes have increased so why has the service gone down hill. Especially the roads connecting garbage centers.Continue Reading
The Haw River Assembly would like to invite you to a screening of the “Angel of Alabama”. Following the film, there will be an expert panel discussion on the film and PFAS issues. It will take place on March 9th at 6:30 pm at Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center.Continue Reading
Honey, you got your head in the clouds. The ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theory was old when these here hills were young. What you’re seeing are called “contrails” — it’s what happens when the engines on jet planes exhaust into air that’s colder than their exhaust. You go up a mile orContinue Reading
From: Ed Beroset Sent: Monday, June 13, 2022 at 09:30:00 AM EDTSubject: Sky A recent chatlist post was lamenting “chemical dumping” and “horrendous temperatures” and attributed it to the mysterious “they”. In fact, as the most recent Chatham County Greenhouse Gas Inventory (seehttps://chathamnc.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=9615112&GUID=4BEA1497-0F38-4065-A313-6C50640089A7 ) showed, it’s not “they” but “us”.Continue Reading
I walked out to the pasture late noon and the sky was coated with chemical dumping.There were lines just being dumped and others that had already spreading, coating the sky from horizon to horizon with a grey milky cast.This crap has been magnifying the suns heat and rays. In theContinue Reading
I posted a video of the runoff from the commercial property next to Northwood across the school’s cross-country trail. It was brought to the attention of the Chatham County staff. The county issued a notice of violation to the developer. I understand corrective actions were taken last week Stopped byContinue Reading
Thanks to Gene for the video documentation of the run-off from the CPI property onto the Northwood track/trail. It is important to realize that run-off accumulates. Run-off accumulates not just on high school track and trail, but other kinds of “run-off” — whether it be air pollution, water pollution, orContinue Reading
Virtually, I just went on a wonderful walk and talk with Gene and Eric Williams. I had no idea such a great trail through the woods exists at the high school. So, early this morning I watched the video on my phone as I had a cuppa wake-up brew. AndContinue Reading
It will be interesting to see what the removal of mature trees will do for our 13 year cicada emergence that should be happening in 2024. The last one was an amazing act of nature within the city because of old those trees. One thing for certain is with theContinue Reading
Friends of the Lower Haw will be holding another invasive species removal day. We are holding an invasive plant removal workday with State Parks biologists on Saturday, June 18th from 8:30 am to 12:00 noon in the Bynum Mill area. Invasive plant workdays typically involve identifying and removing non-native plantsContinue Reading