As I mentioned in an earlier post, Briar Chapel has added yet another amenity to the community for residents to enjoy... the Briar Patch community garden!Members of the garden club have been busy maintaining this productive garden, and harvesting the f...
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:54:35 -0400 From: Joy Hewett Subject: drilling and energy efficiency Recently I heard that a geological team was in Chatham county talking up natural gas drilling. Here is a link to a video residents might want to watch before considering selling rights to drill for natural gas, which can have
McNeill-Burbank, one of the quality homebuilders in Briar Chapel, is building a playhome for the 19th annual Parade of Playhomes fundraiser taking place between April 1-May 6 at the American Tobacco District Campus in downtown Durham.The "Sunshine Cott...
Briar Chapel will be hosting a series of events on April 16th to celebrate Earth Day. Come help me celebrate one of our favorite days of the year!3rd Annual Briar Chapel 5K: starting at 9am, you can join me in running (or walking!) the scenic, USATF-ce...
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:25:53 -0400 From: “Tom Glendinning” Subject: Pittsboro request for NPDES discharge permit into Haw River The town of Pittsboro has requested a permit to increase its discharge into the Haw River. At present, it has permit for 750,000 gallons per day, or .75 mgd (million gallons per day.) Allowing for development of the
On Saturday, residents will celebrate the grand opening of the much-anticipated Briar Chapel "Pooch" Park.Complete with separate areas for large and small dogs, time-out areas (aka "penalty boxes"), a shade structure, and beautiful landscaping, Briar C...
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:41:53 -0400 From: Bett Foley Subject: Learn how to operate 5 Caterpiller machines! On Friday, April 8, Caterpillar and Chatham Habitat are teaming up to host a Cat Rodeo and you are invited! You’ll get to operate up to five different Caterpillar machines, with 30 minutes on each one. Expert operators will show
Briar Chapel has been nominated as one of the best communities in the 1st Annual "Best of Chapel Hill" Awards by Chapel Hill Magazine.Voting ends April 15, and winners will be announced in the July/August issue of the magazine. Be sure to cast your vot...
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:12:31 -0500 From: Gwynneth Harrington Subject: Pipeline After reading Brian Bocks letter regarding the approval of the pipeline into the eastern part of Chatham, I have to commend the commissioners on keeping the Cary / Apex from annexing that part of Chatham County. The $500,000 I would like to see that go into supporting
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:57:12 -0800 (PST) From: Tina Meeks Subject: Response to Brian Bock on WWP Brian Bock, I got a chance to read your Chatlist post recently explaining why you said YES to cooperating with the WWP. I want to commend you, Walter Petty, and Pam Stewart for doing your research, finding the best ways to
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:46:07 -0500 From: BRIAN BOCK Subject: My vote on the WWP pipeline Like most decisions that the board of commissioners has to make, this one was not as straight forward as it might first appear. The decision to allow the Western Wake Partnerships to route the pipeline that will carry clean water from
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:17:57 -0500 From: Joe Kingley Subject: Bock, Stewart and Petty need to stand up for Chatham, not Wake Oh Jeffrey, how hollow do the words appear when written by a liberal. Why is it that the liberals support individual “property rights” when it reflects the position of the left, but otherwise is not
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:52:33 -0500 From: Lynn Contant Fass Subject: County Commissioners/Annexation To Our County Commissioners and all residents of Chatham County, NC re: Jeffrey Starkweather’s post, Thursday, 2/17/11 As a citizen of Chatham County, I have been perplexed on replying to Mr. Starkweather’s post. I would hope all of us in Chatham County would want the same
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:37:19 -0500 From: Heather Johnson Subject: Response to Jeffrey Starkweather The Coalition may have disbanded in shame but their tactis continue under Coaltion Co-Founder Jeffrey Starkweather. The first thing that strikes me about his post in today’s Chatlist is how the Coalition tactic of stripping people of their identities and reducing them to one
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:45:40 -0500 From: chathammatters Subject: WWP, The Far Left, and Property Rights We have had quite a number of posts recently from folks on the far left expressing their concern for the “Property Rights” of certain landowners within Chatham County when it comes to the Western Wake Partnership’s proposal to put in a
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:07:12 -0500 From: Jeffrey Starkweather Subject: Bock, Stewart and Petty need to stand up for Chatham, not Wake If you attended last week’s public input session on the request of the Western Wake Partners (Apex, Cary and Morrisville) to run an 8.1 mile sewer discharge line across eastern Chatham, you would have heard
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:30:27 -0500 From: Dr John R Dykers Subject: Sam Cherry and property rights and WWP and Chatham County Commissioners There are two related issues. One is the legitimate public use (highways primarily) that run over private property and that is what money is for, to justly compensate the owner for losses incurred, including
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:41:14 -0500 From: Tom Glendinning Subject: Subject: Western Wake Water Project – Chatlist 3954 Finally, another good argument based on fact, not false logic. Thank you, Mr. Kingley. We do not have a Jordan Lake uptake station because the commissioners at the time had a prejudice against Chapel Hill which may have extended to
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:28:27 -0500 From: Caroline Siverson Subject: Western Wake Pipeline On the February 9th Chat List, Patrick Barnes IV posted a letter from Mr. Sam Cherry about the Western Wake Partners (WWP) plans that propose running an 8.1 miles of effluent discharge pipeline through the eastern section of Chatham County. Mr. Cherry’s states that
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:37:12 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Barnes Subject: Say NO to Western Wake Partners The Chatham County BOC is scheduled to vote on the WWP issue on Feb. 21st. I ask and I urge you to contact, via e-mail, your commissioners and tell them to SAY NO TO THE WWP. This e-mail account has been