Chronicles of the pandemic: Carolina Meadows, 2020-21
"A collection of stories, poems, memoirs, photographs, and other reminiscences from residents and staff at Carolina Meadows during the pandemic of 2020-21."
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Rich sat on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board from 2001 to 2007 and the Chapel Hill Town Council from 2009 to 2012, then served on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2012 to 2020, as vice chair and then chair. She is an assistant clerk of superior court.
Source: INDY Week: Orange County Register of Deeds, Penny Rich, 2026 Primary Candidates
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"A collection of stories, poems, memoirs, photographs, and other reminiscences from residents and staff at Carolina Meadows during the pandemic of 2020-21."
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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.
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.
Rich was elected a county commissioner in 2012 and served two terms, to 2020, working on economic development, job creation, affordable housing, transportation and social justice.
On the night the Orange County commissioners voted to close the landfill on June 30, 2013, they also authorized an eight-member task force, with two members each from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, the county and RENA, to recommend how to deliver sewer service and a community center and how to guard against displacement. An interim report was due that August and a final report to the Assembly of Governments on December 6, 2012.
People: Penny Rich
Rich was vice chair of the county commissioners from 2016 to 2018 and chair from 2018 to 2020, and she led the board through the start of the county's COVID-19 response.
OWASA put the extension into service on June 27, 2019 after the state accepted the as-built certification, ending a wait that residents traced to the 1972 landfill agreement. About 3.5 miles of sewer had been laid, and the neighborhood held a celebration at the community center on June 3. Individual owners still had to pay to connect their homes.
People: Penny Rich
Orange County government and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro declared states of emergency to prepare for COVID-19, allowing emergency procedures and funding. The county declaration, extended more than a dozen times, stayed in force until May 1, 2022.
People: Penny Rich · Lydia Lavelle
The health department announced that Orange County residents had tested positive for COVID-19 at the State Laboratory of Public Health and were isolating at home. Health Director Quintana Stewart said the response was shifting from containment to mitigation.
People: Penny Rich · Quintana Stewart
Orange County, with Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, ordered residents to stay home except for essential needs from 6 p.m. on March 27, 2020, three days before the statewide order took effect. Set to run until April 30, it was extended to May 8 to match the state order.
People: Penny Rich · Quintana Stewart
Rich, by then an assistant clerk of superior court, entered the 2026 Democratic primary for Orange County register of deeds. She campaigned on modernizing the office's technology and public website and on heir property issues affecting African American families.
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