What's coming

Usually we start to hit a slower few weeks after the budget is passed and before schools are back in session. That does not seem as likely this year, though we do hope to share some interesting feature stories in the next few months. We just have so many ongoing stories — things we have been trying to keep tabs on but don't really have set dates attached to them — that our plates are largely full.

To wit, we'll have updates next week on the UNC hospital plans (we have more details), Fairview Park (a bid to build starting later this summer came in lower than many people expected, meaning more at the park) and the Elizabeth Brady Road bypass proposal (now going on 40 years old). The Brady Road story mght wait a week, because we also have more on the waste transfer station site search, both town and county board happenings, information on some neat camps and oh, yeah, that Hog Day thing.

That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what I'll be looking into over the next few weeks: Some things you won't be seeing because of budget cutbacks, some things that will change in the next fiscal year and a few development/revitalization efforts on which I will, for now, withhold information.

Suffice it to say, there is a lot to explore this summer. If I'm missing anything from my "story radar" in northern Orange County — Vanessa has her own list, too — let me know.