Can We Save the Chelsea Theatre?

You can help us answer this question. By now you have probably heard that Bruce Stone, owner/operator of the Chelsea Theater in Chapel Hill’s Timberlyne Shopping Center, will be ending his run there in a few months. His 27 years of service there have brightened...

American Legion Road Task Force Report

Chapel Hill nearly lost the beautiful American Legion tract to a development full of high end apartments.  It is a testament to Mayor Hemminger’s leadership that the Town was able to revisit the use of this property, whose use had seemed to be determined by closed...

Grimball Jewelers Closes Down, Lease not Renewed

Yet another longstanding local small business has fallen victim to the ill-considered Ephesus-Fordham redevelopment plan. We learned last week that Grimball Jewelers, despite its profitability, is leaving its Elliot Rd. location and going out of business because its...