Weekly update, January 30

Greetings! We're back with print issues this month! And we are distributing them next week, weather permitting. This month, we're celebrating love: the expansive, unbounded, visible kind that we're seeing on the streets of Minneapolis and the quiet kind that fuels us individually through our days.

New, in the print issue: Keith Knight, the award-winning local cartoonist, musician, and educator known for blending humor with hard truth, will be contributing a cartoon to monthly print issues of The Carrborean. We're so excited to feature his work!

Snow again?! For weather updates, we use North Carolina's Weather Authority, Ethan Clark, who says we can expect 2 - 5" tonight (Friday) into Saturday.

There is a national strike today! It's not too late to take action.

Online this week

Tom Smith and Katie Morris wrote about Fork to Farm, a vermicomposting program in the Pacifica neighborhood with initial funding from the Carrboro Green Neighborhoods Grant Program.

Michael Melton wrote an opinion piece about affordable housing with accessory dwelling units.

The Carrborean Radio Hour

We started our coverage of Orange County primary elections with a conversation with Karen Stegman, at-large candidate for Orange County Board of Commissioners on Monday, January 26. John Rees of The Triangle Blog Blog joined us in the studio. Check out the recording to hear about the role of County Commissioners and the rural buffer, among other pertinent topics. The elections are coming up March 3.

Next Monday on WCOM 103.5 (wcomfm.org, 4-5pm), Niya Lovelace will interview Keith Knight on ctrl+alt+art, weather permitting. And The Carrborean's pop-up newsroom moves to The Flying Pierogi (in the South Green shopping center) this month, from 5 - 6pm on Mondays. Come by to say "hi" and tell us what stories you'd like to hear or tell.

Announcements from Town and County

The Community Bulletin Board has announcements and giving opportunities and is updated weekly.

There's so much going on in Carrboro! But not so much this weekend due to the weather (again!). Check out The Events Calendar to see what's going on and help us keep it up to date.

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