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Live Stake Workshop a Success!
On Saturday, February 1, 2025, a group of over 35 volunteers turned out for the "Live Stake Workshop." Some wore waiders to stand in the creek while installing live stakes into the creek bank. If the planting is successful, each stake grows into a small tree with a...
Chapel Hill Moves Ahead with Government Buildings on Coal Ash Pile
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted to move ahead with building government buildings and a parking garage on the coal ash pile underneath the former Police Department headquarters. The existing building will be razed. On September 13, 2023, the Council adopted a...
Improve Biking Connections, While We Protect our Streams
Bolin Creek Bikeway Extension. We want to improve biking connections, but not in riparian areas along stressed streams. The Town of Chapel Hill is asking for input on the proposed “Bolin Creek Greenway Extension” route. The existing Bolin Creek Greenway runs from...
It’s Time to Plant Natives Along Bolin Creek
Help Us Take a Positive Step Toward a Healthy Bolin Creek, Saturday, November 16, 2024 10:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Amber Court, Carrboro ABOUT THE PROJECT: We are calling one and all to help plant hundreds of native trees and plants in a Bolin Creek stream buffer located in...
Chapel Hill Proposes Coal Ash Development
Friends of Bolin Creek September 18, 2024 Good Evening, I am Julie McClintock, Co-President of Friends of Bolin Creek. This agreement is unacceptable because it does not suIiciently protect public health from onsite pollution. The fundamental problem is that the draft...
Friends of Bolin Creek Picnic
Friends of Bolin Creek supporters will celebrate Bolin Creek next Sunday afternoon, the 27th, from 4 to 6 PM at Jean Earnhardt‘s beautiful farm near Mapleview Farms downstream from the Creek Headwaters. There are a few places left before we reach 50 attendees....