Ah, Monday holidays. When you produce a paper on Tuesdays, Monday holidays can't really happen for us writing types. So, there has been a little confusion about office hours I wanted to try and clear up.
We're not closed this week or next, though there are exceptions: Vanessa and I will be taking our holiday Friday. We will be here Monday. Some of our advertising folks will be here Friday, and others Monday. Deadlines have not changed. If you want to submit something for editorial or buy an ad, someone will be at the office Friday and Monday. If you want to talk about something with the editorial department (the fancy phrase for the two of us), we'll pick up the phones Monday.
Now that I have tried to clear that up, a request: I will be contacting each of Hillsborough's town board candidates and the incumbent mayor (running unopposed) for a pre-election Q&A in the next week or so. I have a short list of questions, mostly straightforward and open-ended, but I'm open to question suggestions. There might be some issues for town residents that don't get a lot of attention, and you want to know what town officials will be doing to address them. Send your questions to me at josh.kastrinsky@newsoforange.com and I'll see if I can get them to the candidates.
NEXT WEEK: Last night, commissioners decided to keep four options open for the county's waste – three of them are transfer stations and the fourth would be an agreement with Durham to accept Orange's waste, meaning the county would pay tipping fees and hauling costs but would not have to build a new structure for now. I'll have a rundown on what these options entail and how each commissioner said he or she is leaning.
I'll also have more on county recreation options and how the public can get involved; a recap of some town development still in the court system; and potentially a few other items.
See what ended up on The News of Orange County's cutting room floor.
Sustainability sustainability sustainability! Ask them to pick one sustainable initiative that they believe the town should take on in the next year, something that they think is critical to the town's strength as a community and that we will reap benefits from in the years to come. I really wish Hillsborough was more pro-active in terms of sustainability -- because I think Hillsborough is just the right scale to become ultimately sustainable and has a great outspoken and involved community base to push such initiatives through.
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