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Money up the creek

Ellerbe (or Ellerbee - take your pick) Creek has been a point of contention here lately, with Northgate Park neighbors annoyed about a restoration plan that looks like 20 years of overgrown scrub and Wake County griping about how much crud it carries into their drinking water. Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Goin' around in circles

City Hall is studying on doing something about our Bull City's infamous Downtown Loop, that thoroughfare to nowhere some observers have likened to a noose around Durham's town center. Published: Oct. 17, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

A road by any other name

So Durham's planners and county commissioners have created clarity by putting five street names where there used to be one. Published: Sep. 19, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Notes from the campaign

Almost a month still to go before the primary, and already much of the suspense is gone from Durham's election season. Published: Sep. 5, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Tree cuts a perennial issue

We've heard and read of a considerable distress lately about tree-trimming of the overzealous kind -- to wit, the way our local electric utility clears the way for its overhead power lines. Published: Aug. 22, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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