Chronology

Penny Rich is appointed to the OWASA board

Chapel Hill appointed Rich to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board in 2001, and she served two three-year terms through 2007. She helped write water conservation policy during a severe drought.

R. D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School opens

A new middle school named for R. D. Smith and his wife Euzelle, longtime residents of the Pottersfield neighborhood who taught in the local schools for decades, opened in 2001.

UNC awards Gladys Coates an honorary doctor of laws

At ninety-nine, Gladys Coates, who had worked beside her husband in building the Institute and spent decades researching the University's past, received an honorary LL.D. from the University.

UNC's School of Law founds the Center for Civil Rights with Julius Chambers as its first director

The UNC School of Law established the Center for Civil Rights in Chapel Hill in 2001, with Julius Chambers as its first director, Dean Gene Nichol, and John Charles Boger as deputy director. The center worked on inequalities facing minority and low-income communities.

Subject: UNC School of Law

The Thomas and Mary Hogan House is listed in the National Register

On January 26, 2001 the National Park Service listed the Thomas and Mary Hogan House near Carrboro in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Thomas and Mary Hogan House

Shannon Ravenel leaves Algonquin's editorial directorship for her own imprint

Ravenel stepped down as editorial director of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill to choose books for Shannon Ravenel Books, an imprint within Algonquin, by then a division of Workman Publishing.

The St. Mary's Road area and the Occoneechee Speedway join the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the farm landscape along St. Mary's Road studied in the 1999 survey, and the Occoneechee Speedway near Hillsborough, on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register. The meeting's minutes are lost; the placements rest on the annotated agenda.

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Hyconeechee Regional Library receives a Gates Foundation grant for public computers

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed $58,581 to Hyconeechee Regional Library in Hillsborough to expand public access to computers and the Internet.

Subject: Orange County Public Library

NC Court of Appeals rules the Occaneechi recognition recommendation stands

The Court of Appeals reversed the Orange County Superior Court and held that because the Commission of Indian Affairs missed its statutory deadline, the administrative law judge's recommendation for recognition became the final agency decision by operation of law. It remanded the case for an order consistent with that holding.

Bunting's Tar Heels beat sixth-ranked Florida State 41-9 at home

In Carolina's 2001 home opener, moved after the September 11 attacks postponed the SMU game, Bunting's team beat Bobby Bowden's Florida State 41-9 for his first win as head coach.

Subject: Kenan Stadium

Town Council approves UNC's main-campus Development Plan under OI-4 zoning

The Chapel Hill Town Council approved the university's Development Plan covering 582 acres of the main campus in the Office/Institutional-4 district, proposing 41 new buildings, 8 parking decks and new roads, about 5.9 million square feet in all, to carry out the 2001 Campus Master Plan.

Montrose is listed in the National Register

On October 18, 2001 the National Park Service listed Montrose in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Montrose

A police substation with community services opens in Fairview

In 2002 a police substation, shared with other community programs, opened on Rainey Street.

A state highway marker for Elizabeth Keckly goes up on North Churton Street in Hillsborough

North Carolina highway marker G-115, cast in 2002, stands on North Churton Street at Union Street in Hillsborough. It records Keckly as a Burwell family slave who lived there in the 1830s, bought her freedom in 1855, dressed Mary Todd Lincoln and published her memoir in 1868.

Doug Marlette is inducted into the UNC Journalism Hall of Fame

UNC's journalism school inducted Doug Marlette, then living in Hillsborough, into its Journalism Hall of Fame.

Harvey Beech receives the General Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Medal

The General Alumni Association awarded Beech its Distinguished Service Medal in 2002. The citation, read at the Annual Alumni Luncheon, called him the inspiration behind the Black Alumni Reunion and noted the scholarship endowment he set up at the university.

Institute of Government names a Knapp Building courtyard for Gladys Coates

After Gladys Hall Coates died at 100 at her Chapel Hill home on September 25, 2002, the Institute of Government named a garden courtyard and veranda beside the former auditorium in the Knapp Building's east wing in her memory.

Subject: Institute of Government

Orange County agrees to build a new construction and demolition landfill tied to a recycling ordinance

Because the construction and demolition landfill on Eubanks Road would fill around 2003, the Board of Commissioners agreed to build a new one only if certain bulky materials had to be recycled. The Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance took effect on October 1, 2002.

William R. Ferris joins UNC as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South

Folklorist William R. Ferris joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 2002 as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore.

State reviewers approve the Occoneechee Speedway nomination despite Hillsborough's objection

Hillsborough's historic preservation commission approved the nomination, but the mayor objected after a vote of the town commissioners, because the old track lay in the path of a possible north-south bypass. Commissioner Ken Chavious asked the committee on February 14, 2002 to weigh the town's traffic needs. Members replied that only eligibility was before them and approved the nomination unanimously, with one member leaving the room because he consulted on the bypass.

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Frances Hargraves dies at her Caldwell Street home

Frances Neal Hargraves, a retired Chapel Hill-Carrboro teacher and community volunteer, died at her home on Caldwell Street. Her funeral at St. Paul AME Church, where she had taught Sunday school for 53 years, filled the church and its annex, and the church planned a memorial garden in her name.

Subject: St. Paul AME Church

UNC public health students complete a community study of Fairview

After interviewing residents in 2001 and 2002, students in the UNC Department of Health Behavior and Health Education issued an action-oriented community diagnosis of Fairview. It is one of the few written histories of Hillsborough's northern Black neighborhoods.

Subject: UNC School of Public Health

Orange County commissioners take up a request to name the Morgan Creek bridge for James Taylor

The Orange County Board of Commissioners was set to vote on a resolution asking the state Board of Transportation to name the U.S. 15-501 bridge over Morgan Creek in Chapel Hill after James Taylor. Alan E. Rimer made the request for the Chapel Hill Museum board, which was planning an exhibition on Taylor.

Subject: Chapel Hill Museum

The Bellevue mill joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company mill in West Hillsborough on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

VilCom takes over WCHL's operations and brings the station back to Chapel Hill

Curtis Media kept ownership, but Heavner's VilCom took charge of the station's operations, planned a move to VilCom Circle in Chapel Hill by November 1 and an all-news and talk format, and aimed to make WCHL again the reference point for news of Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

Subject: WCHL radio

Gladys Coates dies at one hundred

Gladys Coates, partner in the founding of the Institute of Government and a student of the University's history, died at a hundred. After a service at the Chapel of the Cross she was buried beside Albert Coates in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, across the road from the School of Government.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery · Chapel of the Cross · Institute of Government

Carrboro switches its town vehicles to biodiesel fuel

Carrboro began running its diesel town vehicles on B20, a blend of 20 percent biodiesel, and looked to move to pure biodiesel. Alderman Diana McDuffee had first proposed the fuel after meeting delegates from towns using it at a conference in Seattle.

Elizabeth Spencer gives the Thomas Wolfe Prize lecture at UNC

Spencer received UNC's third Thomas Wolfe Prize, given by the English department to writers with distinguished bodies of work, and gave the free public Thomas Wolfe Lecture in the Hanes Art Center auditorium.

UNC's Naval Armory joins the Study List

The committee placed the Naval Armory on the UNC campus on the Study List on October 10, 2002, as one of the central and southeastern public requests it approved with staff recommendations.

Chancellor Moeser announces the Carolina Covenant

The Carolina Covenant promised children of low-income families a chance to graduate from UNC without debt, working 10 to 12 hours a week in a campus work-study job, with grants and scholarships meeting the rest of their need.

Holy Family Catholic Church in Hillsborough holds its first Spanish Mass

Holy Family parish in Hillsborough, which had grown from about 107 families in 1986 to about 250 in 1999, celebrated its first Spanish Mass in 2003 as Latino members joined the congregation. By 2012 the parish counted about 680 families and held a Sunday Spanish Mass alongside its three other services.

Mark Chilton serves on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen

Chilton moved to Carrboro and sat on the Board of Aldermen from 2003 to 2005, the seat from which he ran for mayor. He was working as an attorney and a broker and living in downtown Carrboro.

Orange County Public Library moves its catalog to the Polaris system

The library replaced its Galaxy automation system with Polaris. County budgets later list remote access to the online catalog and to patrons' own library accounts through Polaris.

Subject: Orange County Public Library

Randall Kenan teaches creative writing on the UNC faculty

Kenan joined UNC's English and Comparative Literature faculty full time in 2003 and taught fiction, nonfiction and food writing until his death in August 2020 at his home in Hillsborough.

The Watson-Whisnant House is moved from Burnsville to South Occoneechee Street

The Queen Anne house built about 1898 in Burnsville by banker and lawyer Frank Watson was moved across the state and set on a new brick foundation at 209 South Occoneechee Street, replacing a mobile home.

Town forms the Horace Williams Citizens Committee to shape review of the tract

Chapel Hill formed the Horace Williams Citizens Committee in 2003 to advise on development proposals for the university's Horace Williams tract, and the Town Council adopted the committee's March 2004 final report as town policy.

UNC Health Care expands Interpreter Services as Spanish-speaking patients increase

After a 2003 summary on the state of Hispanic health was presented to the UNC Health Care executive board, the system added Interpreter Services resources from 2003 to 2007. UNC Hospitals handled nearly 40,000 interpreter consults in 2005-2006.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

A tie vote keeps Person Hall off the Study List

UNC's campus preservation specialist Paul Kapp asked that Person Hall, already a contributing building in the Chapel Hill Historic District, be recognized on its own. Staff doubted how much of what was visible predated a 1977 renovation and urged the university to treat its old buildings as a district. On February 13, 2003 a motion to place the hall on the Study List split three to three, the chair voted no, and the committee deferred it; the Beta Theta Pi house was also deferred to await a possible Fraternity Court district.

Subject: Person Hall · Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Matt Doherty resigns as Carolina's men's basketball coach

Doherty resigned after three seasons, following meetings that athletic director Dick Baddour and Dean of Students Melissa Exum held with his players after the season. Chancellor James Moeser said the issue was leadership, not wins and losses.

People: James Moeser

Roy Williams is named head coach of UNC men's basketball

Williams left Kansas a week after losing the NCAA championship game and was introduced in Chapel Hill as UNC's head coach, succeeding Matt Doherty.

People: Matt Doherty

The U.S. 15-501 bridge over Morgan Creek is named the James Taylor Bridge

The 1987 bridge on U.S. 15-501 South, a mile from Taylor's boyhood home, was named the James Taylor Bridge at a public ceremony at the Dean Smith Center held by the N.C. Department of Transportation and the Chapel Hill Museum. Taylor attended.

Subject: Chapel Hill Museum

General Assembly writes Occaneechi recognition into state law

Session Law 2003-54 (House Bill 746), ratified May 19 and signed May 20, 2003, added G.S. 71A-7.2 designating the Indians of the Little Texas settlement in Pleasant Grove Township as the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation of North Carolina. The same act recognized the Meherrin Tribe and updated the Lumbee statute.

The Bellevue Manufacturing Company is listed in the National Register

On August 28, 2003 the National Park Service listed the Bellevue Manufacturing Company in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The Beta Theta Pi house joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house in Chapel Hill on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Mel and Zora Rashkis Elementary School is dedicated

Hundreds of students, parents and residents attended the dedication of the district's newest elementary school, which opened that August. The school board named it for Mel and Zora Rashkis for their work with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools since they moved to the area in 1962.

People: Mel Rashkis

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Charles E. Daye receives the Thomas Jefferson Award

Law professor Charles E. Daye won the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2004, the year after he co-authored a brief that helped persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve affirmative action in college and university admissions.

Occaneechi Band buys 25 acres for its tribal grounds

The band bought a 25-acre tract of former tobacco farmland near Dailey Store Road in northeastern Alamance County, the first land it had held as a tribe in over two centuries. The site became its ceremonial ground, open-air museum and tribal center.

The Henry W. Lewis classroom is dedicated in the Knapp-Sanders Building

The Institute of Government named a classroom for Lewis in its renovated Knapp-Sanders Building.

People: Henry Wilkins Lewis

Subject: Institute of Government

UNC School of Medicine starts CAMPOS to train Spanish-speaking physicians

Marco Alemán and colleagues founded the Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish in 2004 to prepare medical students to care for Spanish-speaking patients without relying on interpreters. Its first class graduated in 2008, and students do yearly service with Spanish-speaking communities.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Valerie Foushee is elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners

Foushee served on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2004 to 2012. Her official House biography says she was the first African American woman to chair the county commission.

Jeffery Beam forms the Save the West House Coalition

Beam, an assistant in the Couch Biology Library, organized faculty and town residents to keep West House, the 1935 house behind Hanes Art Center, from demolition for the planned Arts Common.

Second library task force calls for a new main library of 30,000 to 65,000 square feet

A second Library Services Task Force, appointed in January 2004, recommended building a centrally located main library of 30,000 to 65,000 square feet sized for 2025 population estimates, a southwest branch in Carrboro combining the McDougle branch and the Cybrary, and an Orange County heritage center.

Subject: Orange County Public Library · McDougle School

Robert Campbell petitioned Chapel Hill for bus service to the Rogers Road neighborhood

Minister Robert Campbell asked the Chapel Hill council to extend free transit service to the Rogers Road community, noting that it lacked sidewalks and sewer service and that children walked along the landfill's heavy truck route. He suggested rerouting underused Airport Road buses.

People: Robert Campbell

Subject: Chapel Hill Transit

Chapel Hill enacts the Northside neighborhood conservation district

After residents asked for protection from student-rental conversions, the council enacted the town's first neighborhood conservation district, a zoning overlay limiting house size and height in Northside. An advisory committee drafted it through 2003 before a January 21, 2004 public hearing.

Cedar Grove Branch Library opens in northern Orange County

Orange County opened the Cedar Grove Branch Library in two rooms of the Northern Human Services Center, a former school, to serve Cedar Grove and northern Orange. Budgets describe books, Spanish-language materials, children's and adult programs, computer classes and materials borrowed from other regional libraries.

Part of Cedar Grove and rural northern Orange · 80 events

Subject: Orange County Public Library

UNC dedicates the William E. Scroggs locker room at Kenan Stadium

Lacrosse alumni and the Educational Foundation paid to refurbish the men's lacrosse locker room at the old Kenan Field House, and it was dedicated in Scroggs's name before lacrosse alumni and fans.

Subject: Kenan Stadium

The Carrboro Cybrary opens in the Century Center

The Cybrary, a branch of the Orange County Public Library focused on computer and Internet access, opened in Room 5 of the Carrboro Century Center with five computer stations, current books and a paperback exchange. The Town of Carrboro provided the space. It closed on January 31, 2025, when its services moved to the Southern Branch Library.

Subject: Orange County Public Library · Carrboro Baptist Church (Century Center)

Vis Art Video closes its West Franklin Street store

Owner Andrea Kubachko said in March 2004 that the Vis Art Video store at 301 West Franklin Street would close at the end of August, when its five-year lease ran out, citing high rent and slow business.

John Dee Holeman plays a free blues concert at Graham Memorial

John Dee Holeman, accompanied by Billy Stevens, played a free noon concert at Graham Memorial on September 30, 2004, in the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence's Thursdays on the Terrace series. Many of that semester's concerts tied in with William Ferris's course on Southern music.

People: William R. Ferris

Subject: Graham Memorial

Allan Gurganus speaks at the Festival for a Better Future rally on McCorkle Place

Gurganus was a featured speaker, with law dean Gene Nichol and state Senator Ellie Kinnaird, at the Festival for a Better Future, a pre-election rally sponsored by several campus organizations on McCorkle Place.

People: Ellie Kinnaird

A Charlie Justice monument is dedicated at UNC's Kenan Football Center

A bronze sculpture of Justice in his number 22 uniform, 8 feet 6 inches tall, was dedicated at the west entrance of the Frank H. Kenan Football Center near the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Private donations paid for it, and it was proposed by his teammate Joe Neikirk with Charlie Loudermilk and Hugh Morton.

UNC retires the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award after Yonni Chapman's campaign

Chancellor James Moeser retired the Bell Award, given yearly since 1994 to a woman for outstanding contributions to the university, after graduate student Yonni Chapman led a campaign against it over Spencer's white supremacist and sexist views.

People: James Moeser · Cornelia Phillips Spencer

A house already moved once from Occoneechee Mountain is moved to 116 North Nash Street

The house at 116 North Nash Street, built about 1910 on Occoneechee Mountain and moved to Collins Avenue in the 1950s, is moved again in 2005 to its present lot in the district.

Andy Griffith gives his career memorabilia to Wilson Library

Griffith donated his collection of career memorabilia, including a guitar, to the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library, the same year he was among the first three recipients of the Carolina Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award.

Subject: UNC Libraries

Baity Hill graduate and family housing opens on former Baity land

UNC completed the Baity Hill housing complex in 2005 on land once owned by Herman G. and Elizabeth Chesley Baity, whose family home stands on the grounds. It replaced Odum Village.

Subject: Victory Village and Odum Village

Carrboro formed the New Horizons task force for the Rogers Road area

Carrboro created the New Horizons task force to serve residents of the Rogers Road area it was annexing. The town's Rogers Road sidewalk and bus stop project, begun in 2018, grew out of the task force's work.

El Futuro runs a bilingual mental health clinic in Carrboro

El Futuro, a Latino mental health nonprofit started by psychiatrist Luke Smith, opened a Carrboro office in 2005, a year after its Siler City clinic. The Carrboro location closed in 2015 for lack of funding.

Mark Chilton serves four terms as mayor of Carrboro

Chilton was mayor of Carrboro from 2005 to 2013. Supporters held a roast in October 2013 to mark the end of his fourth term and about twenty years in local office.

Occaneechi Band establishes a permanent ceremonial ground on its new land

The band established a permanent ceremonial ground on the Alamance County tract, which later hosted its powwow and its annual School Days for area students.

Randee Haven-O'Donnell is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen

After serving on the Carrboro Planning Board and other town advisory boards, Haven-O'Donnell won a seat on the Board of Aldermen in 2005, the first of five consecutive terms. She had moved to Carrboro in 1978 and taught in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.

Refugees from Burma are among the first recorded direct arrivals in Orange County

Orange County Health Department figures record 19 refugee direct arrivals in fiscal year 2005-2006, from Burma, Cuba and Iran. At the time one resettlement agency, Lutheran Family Services, served the Triangle.

The storefront at 109 West King Street is restored and its pent roof removed

In 2005 the storefront of 109 West King Street was restored, with a recessed entrance between copper-framed plate-glass windows, and the shingled pent roof added in the 1980s was taken off.

Tom Stevens becomes mayor of Hillsborough

Tom Stevens became Hillsborough's mayor in 2005 and held the office for seven terms.

Turnip Patch Park is made on a deep lot between West King Street and West Margaret Lane

A small park with a playground and a footbridge over a ravine was made around 2005 on the lot at 333 West King Street, which runs through to West Margaret Lane along South Occoneechee Street. A small building stood there on the 1924 and 1943 Sanborn maps.

Reviewers reject the Great Oaks Plantation House, moved to Chapel Hill from near Greensboro

Staff recommended denial because the house had been moved more than forty miles from near Greensboro to Chapel Hill and had lost its geographic setting. Asked whether its architecture could outweigh the move, staff replied that the program valued place over fine carpentry, and on February 10, 2005 the committee accepted the recommendation. The same vote put the Cates-Dodson-Minnis House near Hillsborough on the Study List.

The Cates-Dodson-Minnis House joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Cates-Dodson-Minnis farmhouse west of Chapel Hill on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Cates-Dodson-Minnis Farm

The Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House is listed in the National Register

On April 20, 2005 the National Park Service listed the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Chapel Hill renames Airport Road as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

At a ceremony beginning outside Town Hall, Airport Road became Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the small Martin Luther King Street became Jackie Robinson Street. Fred Battle, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, had led the push for the change after noticing that the only public facilities named for Black people were in Black neighborhoods.

People: Bill Thorpe · Martin Luther King Jr.

The Strayhorn house in Carrboro joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Strayhorn house in Carrboro on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register. Check whether this is the Toney and Nellie Strayhorn House before linking.

Subject: Toney and Nellie Strayhorn House and William Strayhorn House

Chapel Hill council took up how to carry out a Rogers Road small area plan

Under a 2002 resolution adopted jointly by Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Chapel Hill had agreed to plan the residential area west of the Greene Tract around Rogers and Purefoy roads, including an affordable housing site. The manager recommended starting after four neighborhood conservation districts were finished, with the Planning Board leading.

UNC Libraries opens the exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University

University archivists mounted an exhibit on the enslaved and free Black people who built and served the early university, including cabinetmaker Thomas Day and poet George Moses Horton.

People: George Moses Horton · Thomas Day

Subject: UNC Libraries

An expansion of the Rocky Ridge Farm district joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed an expansion of the Rocky Ridge Farm historic district in Chapel Hill on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Laurel Hill)

The Unsung Founders Memorial is dedicated in McCorkle Place

The Class of 2002's gift, a black granite table held up by 300 bronze figures by artist Do-Ho Suh, honors the people of color, bond and free, who helped build the university.

People: Do-Ho Suh

Subject: McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)

Andy Griffith receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President George W. Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Griffith, one of fourteen recipients that year, in the East Room of the White House.

Cal Horton retires after sixteen years as Chapel Hill's town manager

Horton retired in 2006 after the longest tenure of any Chapel Hill town manager. At his request, money raised in his honor went to a town award for employees who have given at least ten years of exceptional service, now the Cal Horton Service Award.

Carrboro annexed subdivisions on the west side of Rogers Road

Carrboro annexed six subdivisions north of Homestead Road, including Fox Meadow and Highlands, bringing part of the Rogers Road area inside town limits. In September 2004 the aldermen had voted 6 to 1 to go ahead even though the historic neighborhood had asked the two towns to move their annexation boundary so the community would not be split.

People: Mark Chilton

Chef Aaron Vandemark opens Panciuto on South Churton Street

Aaron Vandemark opened Panciuto, a restaurant cooking Italian-style food from ingredients grown on nearby farms. Within ten years he had six James Beard nominations for Best Chef: Southeast.

Joal Hall Broun serves as Carrboro's mayor pro tem

Town budget documents for fiscal years 2006-07 and 2007-08 list Alderman Joal Hall Broun as mayor pro tempore, serving under Mayor Mark Chilton.

People: Mark Chilton · Joal Hall Broun

Mike Nelson serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners

Nelson placed third of seven candidates in the May 2, 2006 primary for three county commissioner seats and went on the November ballot; his papers date his service as a commissioner to 2006 through 2009.

OWASA gives Daniel Okun a lifetime achievement award

The Orange Water and Sewer Authority gave Okun a lifetime achievement award in 2006; the school credits him with leading the campaign to build the Cane Creek Dam and Reservoir in the 1980s.

The Lambeth Lectureship in public policy is established at UNC

Joel L. Fleishman established the Lambeth Lectureship at Chapel Hill in 2006 with an anonymous gift, honoring Lambeth's public policy work.

UNC hosts its first NCAA baseball regional at Boshamer Stadium since

Mike Fox's Tar Heels swept three games at the regional in Chapel Hill, then won the super regional at Alabama and went on to finish second at the College World Series.

UNC's Latino Migration Project begins the New Roots/Nuevas Raíces oral history initiative

The Latino Migration Project at UNC-Chapel Hill began New Roots/Nuevas Raíces to record stories of Latino migration, settlement and integration in North Carolina, with interviews archived through the Southern Oral History Program and University Libraries. The project has collected over 200 interviews, adding about 20 a year.

People: Hannah Gill

Hodding Carter III joins UNC as University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy

Carter, a former Mississippi newspaper editor, State Department spokesman and Knight Foundation president, joined the UNC faculty in January 2006. He later chaired the UNC Press Development Council.

UNC's Campus Master Plan update is approved

The update to the 2001 Campus Master Plan found about half of the 2001 plan's sites under construction or in design, with over six million square feet of new buildings under way, and put remaining main-campus capacity at about 4.5 million square feet; it planned residence halls to replace Odum Village on South Campus.

Subject: Victory Village and Odum Village

Bill Thorpe petitions the council to name the post office plaza for local activists

Council member Bill Thorpe presented a petition to rename the Franklin Street post office plaza for Charlotte Adams and Joe and Lucy Straley, an idea born at Joe Straley's memorial service. The council chose to hold a public hearing, and its naming committee proposed naming the plaza for an ideal with plaques for local peace and justice activists.

People: Joe Straley · Lucy Straley · Charlotte Adams · Diana McDuffee

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

Carrboro aldermen bar police arrests based solely on civil immigration violations

The Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted Resolution No. 123/2005-06, making it police policy not to arrest or take into custody anyone solely because they have or may have committed a civil immigration violation. The board had asked the town attorney to research the question on April 18, 2006.

People: Mark Chilton · Jacquelyn Gist · Randee Haven-O'Donnell · Joal Hall Broun

An expansion of the Chapel Hill Historic District joins the Study List

The National Register Advisory Committee placed an expansion of the Chapel Hill Historic District on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.

Subject: Chapel Hill Historic District

Chapel Hill enacts the Pine Knolls neighborhood conservation district

The council voted 9-0 to adopt Ordinance O-7 creating the Pine Knolls district, which bans new duplexes, caps floor area at 2,500 square feet and reduces front-yard parking. The Greenwood and Kings Mill/Morgan Creek districts were adopted the same night.

Chapel Hill names the post office plaza Peace and Justice Plaza

The Town Council named the space in front of the Franklin Street post office Peace and Justice Plaza, after a petition to honor Charlotte Adams and Joe and Lucy Straley. Lucy Straley, then 92, told the Daily Tar Heel the plaza had long been the couple's main backdrop for protest.

People: Joe Straley · Bill Thorpe · Charlotte Adams

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

UNC tears down West House for the Arts Common

The university demolished West House after more than two years of effort by the Save the West House Coalition to keep or move it. The trustees had voted for demolition in September 2004, and the Council of State gave final approval in July 2006.

People: James Moeser · Jeffery Beam

The 1953 Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough joins the Study List

The committee's list of properties approved for the Study List on October 12, 2006 includes the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough. The survey layer identifies it as the 1953 Colonial Revival courthouse on Margaret Lane, not the older courthouse listed in the National Register in 1971.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

UNC announces John Bunting will not return as football coach

Athletic director Dick Baddour told Bunting he would be relieved at the end of his sixth season, and the university announced he would not coach the Tar Heels in 2007. He coached the last five games.

A state highway marker for Billy Strayhorn goes up in Hillsborough

The North Carolina Office of Archives and History put up marker G-125 on South Churton Street. It calls Strayhorn a jazz composer and pianist who wrote Take the A Train for the Duke Ellington Orchestra and points a quarter mile west to his boyhood home site.

A state trust fund grant pays for a larger Cedar Grove Park

Beginning in 2007, with a $500,000 grant from the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, the county greatly enlarged the park around the old school. It now has three ball fields, two basketball courts, a playground and parking.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Arrivals from Burma to Orange County increase sharply

Orange County recorded 255 refugee direct arrivals in fiscal year 2007-2008, from Burma, Iran and Colombia, the highest annual figure in the 2005-2017 series. A third resettlement agency, the Triangle office of World Relief, opened.

Gold Park opens on Dimmocks Mill Road

The twenty-acre Gold Park, with walking paths, footbridges, a dog park, a soccer field and three picnic shelters, opens on Dimmocks Mill Road in 2007. It takes in the baseball field long tied to the Eno Mill.

Hannah Gill founds the Latino Migration Project at UNC

Gill started the Latino Migration Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to improve public understanding of Latin American migration to North Carolina. The project describes itself as an initiative of INSITE Latin America and the Caribbean.

Part of Latino migration to Carrboro and Chapel Hill · 29 events

Joe Thompson receives a National Heritage Fellowship

The National Endowment for the Arts named Thompson, a fiddler from Mebane, a 2007 National Heritage Fellow for the African American string band music of the North Carolina Piedmont.

Orange County Health Department starts an Immigrant and Refugee Health Program

During the sharp rise in arrivals from Burma, the Orange County Health Department initiated an Immigrant and Refugee Health Program. The 2018 report found Karen and Burmese were the two refugee languages most requested by the department's patients.

Part of Health care across language and immigration · 12 events

Residents founded the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

About 85 households founded RENA as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, putting a long-running informal community alliance on a formal footing. RENA went on to organize the Coalition to End Environmental Racism and to run the neighborhood's community center.

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

St. Joseph CME Church and UNC begin the Northside oral history partnership

Rev. Troy Harrison and UNC professor Della Pollock began collecting oral histories in Northside, the project that grew into the Marian Cheek Jackson Center.

Subject: Marian Cheek Jackson Center

St. Paul AME Church bought land on Rogers Road for a new church campus

The Chapel Hill congregation bought more than 22 acres for a worship complex with a banquet hall, wellness center, daycare, senior and affordable housing, athletic fields and a cemetery. The land, at Rogers Road and Purefoy Drive, became the site of the planned St. Paul Village.

Subject: St. Paul AME Church

The Robert and Pearl Seymour Center opens on Homestead Road

The Chapel Hill senior center that Robert Seymour founded opened in a new building on Homestead Road in 2007 and was named for him and his wife, Pearl.

The Sancars start Carolina Turk Evi

Aziz and Gwen Sancar set up the nonprofit Carolina Turk Evi to host Turkish students and scholars at UNC and promote understanding between Turks and Americans.

UNC closes the original Boshamer Stadium with a super regional win

The Tar Heels beat South Carolina in an NCAA super regional at Boshamer Stadium, the last postseason games in the 1972 stadium, and advanced to the College World Series for the second straight year.

UNC holds the first Chuck Stone workshop for high school students

The journalism school's Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media held its first workshop for rising high school seniors in 2007, honoring the professor who had retired two years earlier.

Beverly Scarlett is sworn in as a district court judge for Orange and Chatham counties

Appointed by Governor Mike Easley on January 19, 2007, Scarlett was sworn in to a new District 15B seat added for the growing caseload. She was Orange County's first African American district court judge.

Lightnin' Wells and John Dee Holeman play the Hillsborough Arts Council's Traditional Music Series

The Hillsborough Arts Council's 2007 Traditional Music Series presented Lightnin' Wells and John Dee Holeman at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, 2007, at the Masonic Lodge, 142 West King Street, in downtown Hillsborough.

Subject: Eagle Lodge

Orange County commissioners vote to put a waste transfer station at the Eubanks Road landfill

The board voted unanimously to develop a solid waste transfer station at the landfill site, following its Solid Waste Advisory Board's recommendation, over objections from Rogers Road residents. The landfill was then expected to fill in 2010.

People: Mike Nelson · Robert Campbell · Valerie Foushee

Carrboro rewrites its density bonus for affordable housing

Section 15-182.4 of Carrboro's Land Use Ordinance sets a goal that at least 15 percent of units in new residential developments be affordable and offers density bonuses or payments in lieu to meet it. The section was rewritten on June 26, 2007.

Chipotle Mexican Grill opens in the old Vis Art Video building on West Franklin Street

Chipotle opened with a ribbon-cutting at 301 West Franklin Street after more than a year of delays. Part of the wait came from cleaning solvent left in the soil from the site's years as a dry cleaner.

County library begins offering downloadable videos

The FY 2007-08 county budget added funds for MyLibraryDV, letting regional library patrons download videos in the library or on their own computers.

Subject: Orange County Public Library

UNC trustees approve the Carolina North plan

The Board of Trustees approved a plan for Carolina North on the Horace Williams tract, later submitted to the town with the 2009 rezoning application; the trustees adopted Carolina North design guidelines on November 19, 2008.

Oliver Smithies wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2007 prize to Smithies, Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans for discovering principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. Smithies was at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Rocky Ridge Farm's district expansion prompts a debate over the fifty-year rule

When staff presented the boundary increase and added documentation for the Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District on October 11, 2007, one member warned that stretching periods of significance into recent decades weakened the National Register, naming Rocky Ridge with two other nominations. Another member suggested the neighbors also claim significance for notable residents. The objecting member then moved approval of Rocky Ridge with the other routine nominations, and it passed.

Subject: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Laurel Hill)

Commissioners reopen the search for a transfer station site

After Rogers Road residents and the Coalition to End Environmental Racism pressed the county, the Board of Commissioners announced it would reopen its search for a transfer station site. Eubanks Road stayed on the list while consultant Olver Inc. drew up siting criteria.

People: Robert Campbell

Lee Smith, Randall Kenan and Allan Gurganus gather with other authors at Brick Alley Books

Kenan, Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus shared stories at a gathering of authors at Brick Alley Books in Hillsborough. The Daily Tar Heel used the evening to report on the town as a home for writers, quoting Smith, Gurganus, Kenan, poet laureate Mike Troy and photographer Elizabeth Matheson.

People: Lee Smith · Allan Gurganus

Carrboro adopts an anti-lingering ordinance at the Jones Ferry and Davie roads day-labor corner

After neighbors complained about conditions at the corner where day laborers, many of them Latino, waited for contractors, the Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance barring waiting at the intersection of Jones Ferry and Davie roads from 11 a.m. to 5 a.m. In September 2007 the board had also approved an action plan and a motion to create a designated space for day laborers.

People: Mark Chilton

Lydia Lavelle is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen

In her first run for office Lavelle led the field of aldermen candidates with 1,656 votes, about 25 percent, ahead of two-term incumbent Joal Hall Broun and Dan Coleman. She lived in the northern part of town Carrboro had recently annexed, and Mayor Mark Chilton read her first-place finish as a sign that voters were ready to move past the annexation fight.

Part of Carrboro’s LGBTQ municipal firsts · 15 events

People: Joal Hall Broun · Mark Chilton

Daniel Okun dies in Chapel Hill

Okun, Kenan Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, died in Chapel Hill of complications of leukemia at age 90.

The Rathskeller on Amber Alley closes over unpaid taxes

Owner Francis Henry shut the Rathskeller in December 2007 after it failed to pay withholding taxes, ending a restaurant Ted Danziger had opened in 1948. Its contents were sold at auction in February 2008.

Subject: The Rathskeller (Amber Alley)

A four-story brick parking deck is built at Nash and Kollock streets

A four-story parking deck with a brick veneer and a corner stair and elevator tower was built in 2008 at 104-106 Nash and Kollock streets, with pilasters copying those on the Gateway Center on South Churton Street.

A fourth resettlement agency opens as Orange County arrivals stay high

Orange County recorded 194 refugee direct arrivals in fiscal year 2008-2009, from Burma, Bhutan, Iran and Iraq. The Triangle office of Church World Service opened as a fourth resettlement agency.

David Caldwell retires as a sheriff's lieutenant to organize in Rogers Road full time

Caldwell joined the sheriff's department in 1985 after returning to the area and retired as a lieutenant in 2008 to work full time on community and social justice work. He became project director and community organizer for the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association.

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Orange County's 2030 Comprehensive Plan places county growth within the Triangle economy

The Land Use Element of Orange County's 2030 Comprehensive Plan says the county, as an integral part of the Triangle, grew nearly 50 percent from 1980 to an estimated 121,991 in 2005, and names the Research Triangle Park as part of its region, calling jobs and economic conditions a frequent catalyst for changes in population and land use. It also records the 1984 Joint Planning Agreement with Chapel Hill, extended to Carrboro in 1987, and the 1986 rural buffer plan.

The Gateway Center replaces the old post office building at 228 South Churton Street

The commercial building put up at 228 South Churton Street to house the post office is torn down around 2007, and the three-story Gateway Center, with shops on the ground floor and government offices above, is built on the site in 2008.

Three alumni recreate the walk attributed to Hinton James and finish at the Old Well

Nick Becketti, Bryan Jones and Whitney Reeds set out from the coast near Wilmington in the summer of 2008 to repeat the roughly 170-mile walk attributed to Hinton James. The university says the two-week trip ended at the Old Well in Chapel Hill.

Subject: The Old Well

UNC opens a second computer science building named for Brooks

UNC built a second computer science building beside Sitterson Hall and named it for Brooks, who was still working in the department; he kept his office in Sitterson Hall.

UNC opens the Center for Latino Health for Spanish-speaking patients

The UNC Center for Latino Health (CELAH) began in 2008 in the School of Medicine and UNC Health Care, offering specialty and primary care in Spanish, same-day access and health education. It served more than 15,000 patients in its first ten years.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital) · UNC School of Medicine

Valerie Foushee finishes her UNC degree

Foushee had left the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after two years and returned later to finish, graduating in 2008 with a degree in political science and African and Afro-American studies. She was by then an Orange County commissioner.

The Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District is enlarged in the National Register

On January 30, 2008 the National Park Service listed a boundary increase for the Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, enlarging the district in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Laurel Hill)

Thousands gather on Polk Place to remember Eve Carson

On the day student body president Eve Carson was killed, thousands gathered on UNC's Polk Place for a moment of silence.

Jay Miller buys the empty Murphey School and begins restoring it

Jay Miller bought the school, vacant since 1986, in March 2008 and began restoring it with the State Historic Preservation Office for use as a retreat center for nonprofit groups and a rental site for events.

Subject: Murphey School

Fred Battle steps down as president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP

Fred Battle announced his resignation as president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the NAACP after almost fifteen years in the post, during which he helped revive the branch. First vice president Eugene Farrar was to succeed him on June 1.

Holden Thorp serves as tenth chancellor at Chapel Hill

Thorp, a UNC alumnus and chemist, took office on July 1, 2008 and spent his first day with student leaders at the Campus Y. He left in 2013 to become provost at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ben Folds Five reunite for a concert in UNC's Memorial Hall

In their first show in eight years, the band played its last album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, in full at Memorial Hall for MySpace Music's Front to Back series. NC Arts Council describes it as a benefit for Operation Smile.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Allan Gurganus speaks at Holden Thorp's installation as chancellor

At the University Day ceremony on Polk Place installing Holden Thorp as UNC's tenth chancellor, Gurganus, who had known Thorp since childhood, spoke before Thorp's address and hailed a North Carolinian as chancellor.

People: Holden Thorp

Reviewers reject the Reverend Archibald Currie House

Staff recommended against the Orange County house because of alterations and a lack of architectural significance, and on October 16, 2008 the committee voted unanimously to follow staff on the central and southeastern requests.

Commissioners drop Eubanks Road and choose two other transfer station candidates

Conceding that the 2007 choice had not adequately weighed its effect on Rogers Road, the commissioners voted 5 to 1 to pursue two other sites, the 143-acre Howell property and an OWASA tract in Bingham Township.

Burma Art Therapy Project begins in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

The Art Therapy Institute began a school-based art therapy program for adolescent refugees from Burma in partnership with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the refugee community in Orange County. A later UNC evaluation estimated that about 400 Burmese families lived in the county.

Part of Burmese and Karen refugee communities · 22 events

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Orange County builds a three-story office building on West Margaret Lane

The three-story brick Orange County Government Offices building at 131 West Margaret Lane, fifteen bays wide, went up behind the site of the new main library; it was under construction in 2008 aerial photographs and is dated 2009.

Penny Rich is elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council

Rich won a seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council in 2009 and served until 2012, working on land use, planning, public transit, affordable housing and economic development.

Work begins on improvements to Fairview Park

Construction started in 2009 on parking, playgrounds, picnic shelters and basketball courts at the park, which had until then been little more than the residents' ball field.

Subject: Fairview Park

Lucinda Munger becomes Orange County library services director

Lucinda Munger became library services director for Orange County, heading the main library in Hillsborough and three branches.

People: Lucinda Munger

Subject: Orange County Public Library

Sheriff Pendergrass defends Orange County's enrollment in Secure Communities

At a county commissioners' meeting, Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass explained his decision to enroll the Orange County jail in the federal Secure Communities pilot, which checks the fingerprints of people booked into jail against federal databases including immigration records. Commissioners, who had resolved in 2007 not to join the 287(g) program, raised concerns but took no action.

Subject: Orange County jail, Hillsborough

The first Eve Marie Carson Scholar is announced

Students, friends and family turned Carson's plan for a student-run scholarship into the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship. The first scholar, a junior, received funding for a summer experience and aid toward senior-year tuition.

Rebuilt Boshamer Stadium opens on Ridge Road

UNC opened its $26 million rebuilt baseball stadium, on the footprint of the old Boshamer, with a home opener against VMI before about 2,800 fans. Work began in October 2007, and the field was named Bryson Field.

Cliff's Meat Market is honored for serving Carrboro's Spanish-speaking customers

Cliff's Meat Market in Carrboro received Orange County's Pauli Murray Award in the business category; owner Cliff Collins was nominated for reaching out to the Spanish-speaking community. The butcher shop, open since 1973, had hired Latino staff as Spanish-speaking customers began asking for cuts in Spanish.

Part of Latino migration to Carrboro and Chapel Hill · 29 events

Commissioners reject closing the Carrboro and Cedar Grove branch libraries

Facing recession cuts while opening the new Hillsborough main library, the county manager proposed closing the Carrboro branch at McDougle School and the Cedar Grove branch and moving their staff to the new building. After opposition from Commissioner Mike Nelson, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and residents, commissioners rejected the closures and used reserve funds to staff the new library in the budget adopted in June 2009.

Part of Cedar Grove and rural northern Orange · 80 events

People: Mike Nelson · Mark Chilton · Lucinda Munger

Subject: McDougle School · Orange County Public Library

Several thousand gather in the Pit on the anniversary of Eve Carson's death

Students, faculty and staff met in the Pit, where friends spoke about Carson, Chancellor Holden Thorp recalled her service, the Clef Hangers sang and the Bell Tower tolled Hark the Sound.

People: Holden Thorp

Chapel Hill council received the Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force's final report

Council members Mark Kleinschmidt and Bill Strom presented the report, and the council voted 9 to 0 to send it to advisory boards, Carrboro, Orange County, OWASA and the city schools, with a joint public hearing planned for October 2009. Rev. Robert Campbell of RENA thanked the council for giving the community a voice.

People: Robert Campbell · Mark Kleinschmidt

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Marian Cheek Jackson Center opens at St. Joseph CME Church

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History held its ribbon cutting on the second floor of the H.W. Baldwin Fellowship Hall at St. Joseph C.M.E. Church. It is named for Marian Cheek Jackson, the church historian and lifelong Pine Knolls resident.

Subject: Marian Cheek Jackson Center

UNC's library exhibited Rogers Road family histories drawn from Emily Eidenier Pearce's book

The exhibit We're All Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill introduced families who had shaped the area from the 1700s on. It was inspired by Pearce's 2009 history Rogers Road, which RENA presents as part of its History Project.

Subject: UNC Libraries · Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Town Council approves the Carolina North development agreement and U-1 zoning

After ten joint work sessions with trustees and hearings on May 11, June 15 and June 22, the Town Council approved a 20-year development agreement for Carolina North and rezoned the in-town portion of the tract to University-1, authorizing about 3 million square feet on 133 acres.

Merge Records marks its 20th anniversary with the XX Merge festival

The label held four nights at Cat's Cradle and a finale at UNC's Memorial Hall, with film screenings at the Ackland Art Museum and a free show at the Orange County Social Club in Carrboro.

People: Mac McCaughan · Laura Ballance

Subject: Memorial Hall · Cat’s Cradle · Ackland Art Museum

Murphey School is listed in the National Register

On August 20, 2009 the National Park Service listed Murphey School near Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Murphey School

The Greenbridge condominium towers topped out on West Rosemary Street

The 10-story and 7-story Greenbridge towers, with 98 condominium units, rose on the former Black business block that had held the Mason Motel. Northside residents opposed the project in an open letter, and restaurant owner Mildred "Mama Dip" Council said rising property values threatened her business.

People: Mildred Council

Chapel Hill dedicates the Peace and Justice Plaza marker

The town unveiled a granite marker at Peace and Justice Plaza, in front of the old post office on Franklin Street, naming nine local activists: Charlotte Adams, Hank Anderson, James Brittian, Joe Herzenberg, Mildred Ringwalt, Hubert Robinson, Joe Straley, Lucy Straley and Gloria Williams. The Town Council had named the plaza in 2006 and set criteria for later honorees.

People: James Brittian · Mildred Ringwalt · Hubert Robinson · Joe Straley · Lucy Straley · Gloria Williams · Charlotte Adams

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

N.C. Cancer Hospital is dedicated

The seven-story, 315,000-square-foot N.C. Cancer Hospital, built with a 180 million dollar authorization from the General Assembly, was dedicated in September 2009. It tripled the space available for treating cancer patients at UNC.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital) · UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Commissioner Mike Nelson announces he will not seek re-election

County Commissioner and former Carrboro mayor Mike Nelson announced that he would not run for re-election to the Orange County board.

Mark Kleinschmidt is elected mayor of Chapel Hill

Kleinschmidt won 4,006 votes to Matt Czajkowski's 3,766 with all 21 precincts reporting, succeeding Kevin Foy, who had endorsed him. He was Chapel Hill's first openly gay mayor and the third openly gay man elected mayor in North Carolina, after Mike Nelson in Carrboro.

Part of LGBTQ political firsts in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1980s–1990s · 21 events

People: Mike Nelson

Sammy Slade is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen

Slade, a carpenter with a psychology degree from UNC who was raised in Bogota and Chapel Hill, won a seat on the Board of Aldermen in November 2009 and was reelected in 2013. He went on to serve fourteen years on the town's governing board.