The Chatham County Board of Commissioners will meet on Monday, August 16, 2010 at the District Courtroom in Pittsboro, NC at 6 p.m. The work session will take place at the Henry H. Dunlap Building classroom at 2 p.m.

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The North Carolina Center for Missing Persons issued a Silver Alert on Wednesday for a missing Pittsboro woman. Jennifer Christine Stumpf, who is believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment, was last seen at 79 Bluff Trail.

Things are not easy for small home-based businesses in Chatham County as seen from the following excerpt from the minutes of the July 19 County Commissioners board meeting.

A new investigation in the September issue of Consumer Reports and available online describes a striking lack of government oversight for the bustling $26.7 billion dietary supplement market and identifies a “dirty dozen” list of supplement ingredients that have been linked by clinical research or case reports to serious adverse events, such as cancer, coma, heart problems, kidney damage, liver damage, or death.

Chatham Social Health Council would like to thank all the sponsors and supporters at the Burrito Bash this past Tuesday night. It was a great turnout!

The school administration presented a draft calendar at the January 11 board meeting. I think the board should have considered the timing of the AP exams more - there was a little discussion, but the board unanimously decided to go with this calendar because the administration recommended it and the plurality of survey respondents chose it. (That detail isn't in the minutes, but I was at the meeting and remember the discussion.) As the mother of sons who took many AP exams, I understand that this is a bad idea - I would have moved spring break a week earlier.

I read with geat interest the post regarding another talking bread making machine in Chatham county. I also have a bread maker that has always seemed to be saying something too. My machine seems to say "Whose Gonna Win?" Whose Gonna Win?" It sometimes almost drives me insane. But my machine has never changed and said anything different.

Shakori Hills Community Arts Center presents The Hoppin' John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers' Convention, September 17-19. Hoppin' John is a three-day event for musicians, dancers and music lovers to come together to celebrate the traditions of bluegrass and old-time music. There are dance, instrument and band contests, square dances, a cook-off, and many unscheduled special musical moments.

Evan Keiser's post about how excellent Verizon works for him is a reminder that there is no one general answer for which cell phone service is best. Chatham is a big county with lots of different dead spots and coverage areas for all the different carriers. What one person thinks is great may not be great for someone else depending on where you use it.

When I moved to Chatham County, I brought my bread machine. I have taken a class in writing. The instructor said it is important to keep one's thoughts in a paragraph. And to pack as much information into a paragraph as possible. And indent. I was only able to attend one class but feel I gotten the gist of it.

So, Chatham County's "leadership" is being pragmatic when they decide that the Sheriff's department personnel should not spend their time enforcing the law (ICE), to give them the time to arrest those who "break" the law (burglars, drug dealers, etc.), when they are reported by those who are living here against the law (illegal immigrants.)

I found a list of “sanctuary cities” in the US – those in which the chief of police or the city council forbids the police to ask about the immigration status of anyone who is detained for some other offense. The list includes Chatham County, as well as Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Raleigh and Winston-Salem.

During their July 19 board meeting the Chatham County Board of Commissioners discussed continuing the bookmobile service while also reviewing options for potentially modifying the service in the future. Below are the minutes from that meeting pertaining to the issue.

Chatham county students go back to school on Wednesday, August 25.

In preparation for a new school year that is set to begin on August 25, Chatham Chatham schools have scheduled open house dates and other school opening events. Below is a list of the events.

A Chapel Hill man was accused in an indictment Monday, July 26 for raping and taking sexual liberties with the daughter of a woman he was living with. Martin Delgado-Ramirez, 32, of 591 Dalton Drive, was living with Debra Glover, 47, and her 15-year-old daughter at the time of his March 5 arrest.

The Chatham County Board of Commissioners will meet on Monday, August 2, 2010 at the District Courtroom in Pittsboro, NC at 6 p.m.

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Official Chatham County, NC

On Wednesday, July 21, the state released preliminary Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results for the 2009-2010 school year. Results will be official after the August State Board of Education meeting. Bennett School, Bonlee School, Moncure School, Silk Hope School, and Virginia Cross Elementary School met requirements for AYP.

Pittsboro, NC - The Chatham County Board of Commissioners seeks residents to fill three at-large vacancies on its Affordable Housing Advisory Board. The board’s mission is to investigate, analyze, and prioritize housing needs in Chatham County. It is the official advisory to the Board of Commissioners on housing policies and programs.

The FFA teams from Chatham Central High School continued their tradition of success at the 2010 State FFA Convention held at the Raleigh Convention Center in June. Three teams under the direction of Julian Smith competed in floriculture, nursery-landscape, and tool. The floriculture and nursery-landscape teams both earned second place finishes behind Southern Alamance while the tool team finished in first place in the state.