• Carrboro Starts Search For New Town Manager
• Carrboro Hires Firm to Find New Town Manager; Brough Voted as Interim
• Carrboro to Define Criteria for New Manager
• Firm Pick Based on Experience
• Applications for Town Manager Roll In

• Locals React to Heights As a part of its Vision 2020 Downtown Development plan, the board has proposed raising building height limits to five stories from its current three to promote dense growth in the downtown area.(Carrboro Could Raise Building Height Limit) Just how important it is to Carrboro residents to participate in local government was apparent that night; a ridiculous amount of people showed up to this meeting. They each spoke for a very liberal count of three minutes, and the discussion went back and forth for hours.

• Survey: Carrboro Residents Want More Jobs, Housing This is my prize example of "the survey story."

• Carrboro, Chapel Hill Developing Differently I had the chance to speak to some of the oldest residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro for this piece. I also got to egg people on about the subtle rivalry between Chapel Hill and Carrboro, which was great.

• Aldermen Ban Loitering in Designated Public Locations The best part of this meeting was when John Herrera brought the two Latina women up to the podium and translated for them while the testified about the harassment they'd suffered at bus stops. Herrera may keep quiet at the meetings, but he's a very active part of the community and I often call for an interview only to find him down in D.C. testifying about one issue or another.

• Aldermen Approve Greene Tract Use This was my second Aldermen meeting, after which I decided to take on the Aldermen beat. I know it isn't the most enthralling or feature-y news, but I respect the board and have really enjoyed attending their meetings each Tuesday.

Other Articles
three of my favorite non-Aldermen articles

• Fraternity Court Gets New Neighbors: This article ran on the front page. I was given the assignment to check out the progress of renovations being done on different fraternity houses around campus and ended up scooping the Chapel Hill Herald with this story.

• Halloween Shuttle System a Success For this assignment, I ran between stops in the rain to catch different buses around campus until I found two drivers who had worked on Halloween night. I interviewed them on the buses while they were on their breaks.

• Town, NCDOT to Look at Pedestrian Safety This article was important to me because I wrote it just after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a car while crossing the road. My assignment was to look into the safety report, but I discovered in an interview that a crosswalk that had existed in the area where the pedestrian was killed had been painted over and never replaced.