Orange County Indexed
The Porto surname
The Porto name in Orange County Indexed: 4 people in the chronology.
- In the chronology
- 1968 to 1991 4 people in 46 entries, most in the 1980s
- Search beyond these records
- Porto in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
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A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 4 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
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Porto, James 4 entries, 1985–1986
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- by October 1985: Carrboro's polling precincts are redrawn into four
- early October 1985: Chapel Hill-Carrboro chamber conference backs a merger study and a growth organization
- 1986–1992: Affordable homeownership in Chapel Hill and Orange County, 1986–1992
- by January 6, 1986: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Affordable Housing Task Force forms
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Porto, James, Jr. 6 entries, 1968–1989
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- 1968–1990: Protecting the water-supply watersheds, 1968–1990
- 1983–1993: Carrboro’s attempts at local historic districts, 1983–1993
- November 11, 1986: Carrboro Board of Aldermen sets new building densities in the University Lake watershed
- October 14, 1986: Carrboro raises the fine for parking in handicapped spaces to $50
- early October 1989: Carrboro aldermen table a proposed historic district after a heated hearing
- November 7, 1989: Carrboro re-elects Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird and elects Jacquelyn Gist alderman
- Porto, James V., Jr. 1 entry, 1987
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Porto, Jim 37 entries, 1971–1991
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- 1971–1986: Carrboro and the Chapel Hill buses, 1971–1986
- 1971–1992: Carrboro's town government, 1971–1992
- 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
- 1980–1986: Public drinking and the drinking age in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1980–1986
- November 8, 1983: Carrboro elects Jim Porto mayor and an aldermen board made up wholly of ABC members
- December 8, 1983: Carrboro Town Manager Richard Hunter resigns as a new board takes office
- 1983–1989: Orange County's half-cent sales tax, school bonds and impact tax, 1983–1989
- 1983–1984: The joint Chapel Hill-Carrboro thoroughfare plan, 1983–1984
- October 7, 1983: Candidate filing closes for the 1983 municipal elections with Mayor Joe Nassif unopposed
- September 25, 1984: Carrboro aldermen vote 4-3, the mayor breaking a tie, for the Carr Street route of the Franklin Street extension
- October 9, 1984: Carrboro aldermen approve the first reading of a new Alert Cable franchise that would add the Playboy Channel
- January 24, 1984: Carrboro aldermen approve 112 townhouses on the N.C. 54 bypass and adopt a five-year fire department plan
- January 10, 1984: Carrboro aldermen let the Planning Board, Board of Adjustment and Appearance Commission choose their own chairmen
- by March 23, 1984: Carrboro wins federal money for its first park-and-ride lot
- January 31, 1984: Carrboro aldermen vote 4-3 to send the state their own thoroughfare plan with an Estes Drive extension
- April 24, 1984: Carrboro aldermen reject a thoroughfare compromise, and Chapel Hill decides to submit its own plan
- March 12, 1984: Chapel Hill Town Council agrees either town may propose roads for the joint thoroughfare plan
- 1984: The Franklin Street extension fight in Carrboro, 1984
- March 13, 1984: Orange County commissioners hold a public hearing on the half-cent sales tax
- January 22, 1985: Carrboro aldermen ban drinking beer and wine on town property
- November 5, 1985: Carrboro elects Hilliard Caldwell, Judith Wegner and Tom Gurganus to the Board of Aldermen
- by October 1985: Carrboro's polling precincts are redrawn into four
- early October 1985: Chapel Hill-Carrboro chamber conference backs a merger study and a growth organization
- by July 11, 1985: Chapel Hill and Carrboro mayors seek a study of merging the towns
- by November 18, 1985: Private donors raise $10,274 toward a Chapel Hill-Carrboro merger study
- 1985–1986: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro merger study, 1985–1986
- September 16, 1986: Carrboro aldermen begin moving to revoke occupancy licenses at Plantation Plaza
- June 1986: Carrboro Mayor Jim Porto makes a statement against discrimination toward gay men and lesbians
- July 28, 1987: Carrboro aldermen annex and zone the Amberly subdivision in the University Lake watershed
- October 13, 1987: Carrboro aldermen endorse requiring public hearings before development in the reservoir watersheds
- November 24, 1987: Carrboro's mayor proclaims John Boone Day for an alderman retiring after 15 years
- November 3, 1987: Eleanor Kinnaird unseats Mayor Jim Porto, and Carrboro elects Jay Bryan, Frances Shetley and Randy Marshall aldermen
- April 1987: OWASA halts new water and sewer lines into the University Lake watershed
- July 16-26, 1987: The U.S. Olympic Festival brings basketball, swimming and other events to UNC
- September 26, 1989: Carrboro Board of Aldermen creates a Neighborhood Preservation District and commission
- November 5, 1991: Carrboro re-elects aldermen Jay Bryan, Frances Shetley and Randy Marshall as Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird runs unopposed
- 1991: The 1991 town elections in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
