Delays on construction for new Disney Asteria community coming to Chatham

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

Second Bloom shelter

Second Bloom of Chatham is happy to announce that we are in the final preparation stages of a scattered site shelter for survivors! We have posted a QR code on our Facebook pages which will take you to our Amazon wish list. These items are needed in order to prepareContinue Reading

Help box turtles cross the road

This morning on 87 and Silk Hope, I saw a blue pickup with a trailer hit a box turtle trying to cross the road. If you can safely stop and pick the box turtle up to move it to the other side, that would respect nature. Big pickups have thatContinue Reading

Senior Graduate Parade of Signs in Downtown Pittsboro

This Friday morning, Heather Johnson of Pittsboro Print Plus along with some seniors’ moms (and one dad) gathered to go out and set up graduate signs on either side of East Street from the courthouse circle. This is a “tradition” started in 2020. According to Heather the suggestion was firstContinue Reading

Really? Do we really need county regulation of ball field sponsorship banners?

It would appear that Chatham County Planning Board member Shelley Colbert has an issue with the sports sponsorship banners located at Margaret Pollard Middle School.  At Tuesday’s Planning Board meeting during the Unified Development Ordinace presentation she appeared to be somewhat perturbed that these “commercial signs and banner type signsContinue Reading

Current members of the Chatham County Planning Board (2024)

Current members of the Chatham County Planning Board who are reviewing the proposed Chatham County Unified Development Ordinance Clyde Frazier (District 1) 361 Wild Ginger Ridge Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Mary Roodkowsky Vice-Chair (District 1) 833 Fearrington Post Pittsboro, NC 27312 Amanda Robertson (District 2) 244 Prince CreekContinue Reading

Vegetable Gardening Workshop on May 4

Gaines Steer is offering his 25th annual Biointensive {sustainable}  Vegetable Workshop on Saturday, May 4 from 3-5pm at the home and studio of Billy Cummings and Colleen Black-Semelka.  This free workshop is ideal for beginner gardeners who are open to old-fashioned garden techniques, combined with third-world practices taught by Gaines’Continue Reading