Wonder what those dark mystery splotches are downtown? Tired of dodging sticky detritus?
Good news:
…there’s nothing like a bit of cleaning to give downtown denizens a better feeling…
The crew from Gum Busters pulled into town in a white Dodge van full of equipment, intent on turning the splotches into ABC gum — Already Been Cleaned.
The town’s Public Works Department hired the Maryland-based company to remove the gum from high-traffic stretches of sidewalk along Franklin and Columbia streets at a cost of about $4,700. When the crew finishes in the next couple of days, Public Works will come back through to wash the sidewalks — kind of like a rinse after the soap cycle.
HeraldSun’s Rob Shapard
$4,700 seems quite reasonable. Now if we can just divert the $35-40K the Downtown Partner’s want to spend on holiday signs to downtown Wifi….
Early primary day I read online reports of low turnout in Hillsborough, Efland, Carrboro and Chapel Hill.
Having done a bit of research on local elections, I realized that my vote, 222, that late in the day, at the Chapel Hill Library, home of Estes Hills precinct, a precinct which traditionally turns out heavily, was a harbinger of worse to come.
I speculated we’d end up with turnout somewhere between %12-14.
Actual turnout? %13.2.
Only 11,738 of 88944 registered voters, 9,450 Democrats (%20 of D’s), 1202 Republicans (%6 of R’s) and 1234 Independents (%5.5 of I’s) showed up.
Carol Woods, once again, led the pack: %81 of Democrats (262/323), %48 of Independents (29/60) and %0 (!!!) of Republicans (0/67) or %65 of all registered voters. My neighborhood at least, based on my count, did well by their civic duty.
Even the most pessimistic estimates put the last Iraqii election turnout at over %55.
Maybe the tide will turn in November.
