Off sidewalk vehicles?

The Town seems to use vehicles that are too wide for many of the sidewalks in Southern Community Park. It's making a mes of the grass alongside the sidewalks.

Doesn't the Town have narrower vehicles?

Why wasn't this need taken into account when designing the Park?

Southern Community Park trash

I saw what I assume were some families collecting trash in the Park over the weekend. Are they simply very nice volunteers? Or is there a program?

Garbage and recycling people

Are there any restrictions on what we can give by way of a Christmas or holiday gratuity to the valiant souls who collect our garbage and recycling?
Is it the same team that collects both? Or different people?

I have not gotten an answer to that question, but got a step closer. To clarify, the people who pick up the garbage are town employees, and the people who pick up the recycling work for Waste Industries, under contract.

"It’s a Small Town After All" - NYTimes.com

Anything for Southern Village to learn here?

Aberdeen speed

When school is starting and letting out, shouldn't there be a sign to reduce speed even more on Aberdeen by the pond? I don't recall any such sign.

Guard rail 15-501

As I drove down 15-501 yesterday, I thought for the first time about why it is that the guard rail sits on the other side of the sidewalk - i.e., if a car jumps the curb, it then can hit a pedestrian before possibly coming to a stop at the guard rail. Why wouldn't it make so much more sense to put the guard rail between the road and people? It can defend itself a lot better than any walker or runner could.

Imagine, too, that the guard rail which does not look as though it is painted had a nice Carolina vine or bush growing on it? Which would look nicer - the nude guard rail or the bushes?

"Harrington hit with cease and desist order" - The Carrboro Citizen

"Now showing" - Chapel Hill News