Little Raleigh Radio
It was inspiring to see all the support. I could hardly sleep afterward, I was buzzing from all the energy!
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Missing: Joshua Clay Inscoe
Joshua Clay Inscoe
Have you seen Joshua “Josh” Clay Inscoe? Josh went missing from Carlbrook school in Virginia and was last seen in Durham. He is believed to be in Raleigh.
Josh is a white male, age 16 years, height 5’7″ and 145 pounds. He has short, light brown hair; a medium build; green eyes, and a medium complexion. He was last seen near the Durham Bulls stadium on Friday, August 24th, wearing a blue plaid shirt with collar, khaki pants, and a black backpack.
If you see Josh, please call the Halifax (VA) police department at 434-476-3334.
A flier with Josh’s information may be downloaded here.
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My local urban woods to become subdivision
Urban deer
I received confirmation yesterday that the Weatherford property, the beautiful 10+ acre woods beside my neighborhood, is under contract by KB Homes. I believe their plans call for a 40-home subdivision with upscale homes similar to the ones in my neighborhood.
Checking KB Homes’s map of its other subdivisions in the Triangle area, this will be the first to be positioned so close to a downtown. That makes me wonder if we’ll see smaller, fancier, less car-centric homes to appeal to the new generation of homebuyers.
I will miss the nearby woods, though. I’ve grown used to mornings quiet enough to hear the call of barred owls, and the occasional encounter with urban deer grazing near my yard. I’m also expecting increased traffic as the dead-end street I live on gets extended to the new neighborhood, bringing more traffic through my neighborhood.
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Little Raleigh Radio planning downtown broadcasts
Little Raleigh Radio grew up a little bit more today when the News and Observer covered its successful Kickstarter campaign. I hope we see many new volunteers at tomorrow’s open house at Kings!
Downtown is on its way to having its own radio station – and the community is invited to be part of the broadcast.
Volunteers are starting an internet broadcast called Little Raleigh Radio, and they hope to launch in October with an eclectic mix of music and talk, all produced by locals. Starting a radio station from scratch in 2012 might seem like a long shot, but the group has plenty of support. Within weeks, they raised more than $10,000 on the Kickstarter grassroots funding website.
via Little Raleigh Radio planning downtown broadcasts – Local/State – NewsObserver.com.
Bringing a rooftop garden to East Raleigh
I read this interesting tidbit in yesterday’s N&O about a company that builds rooftop gardens for grocery stores and thought my neighborhood would be perfect for this.
- There are relatively few choices for good, healthy food in my area (a.k.a, a food desert).
- An often-heard complaint about my local grocery store is the quality of its produce.
- Said grocery store has lots of rooftop space and a large, southern-facing, sunlit, vacant outparcel nearby.
- The Brooklyn-based owner of my local shopping center has rooftop gardens on the Brooklyn warehouses she owns.
- This should be a slam dunk, shouldn’t it? We’ll see!
A New York company has developed a hyper local way to get fresh produce to grocery stores: grow it on the store’s own rooftop – or at least one very close by.
BrightFarms builds hydroponic greenhouses on top of buildings and then sells the lettuce, tomatoes and herbs to local supermarkets. So far, the company’s partners include A&P in Brooklyn, Whole Foods in New Jersey, and Homeland Stores in Oklahoma. Now BrightFarms wants to come to the Triangle.
P.S. The link in the N&O blog entry is broken. The contest URL is http://brightfarms.com/projects/north-carolina-envision-us-here-contest
via .biz – Company seeks roof garden sites | newsobserver.com blogs.
A lesson in democracy, CAC style
With my vacation out of the way (though not the blogging of the vacation, yet), I’m now realizing the things that I’ve been meaning to blog but haven’t gotten to yet. One is a very exciting opportunity in mid-November to provide a lesson in democracy to some visiting students from Charlotte.
A few weeks ago, Charlene Willard with the city’s Community Services department put me in touch with teacher Katy Field, Ninth Grade Class Dean of Providence Day School in Charlotte. Katy told me she was considering bringing her 9th grade class to Raleigh for a few days so that they could see how our democratic process works. Charlene told Katy about all the ways citizens can get involved through Raleigh’s unique Citizens Advisory Councils and Katy became determined to make CACs a big part of her program.
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Little Raleigh Radio blows past Kickstarter goal!
Little Raleigh Radio exceeds fundraising goal
I was thrilled to check the Kickstarter page for Little Raleigh Radio this evening and see that we’ve blown past our goal of raising $10,000 to fund our studio! What an amazing milestone! LRR aims to bring a community radio station to downtown Raleigh and Kickstarter funding really does make it a community-owned station. It’s definitely community-built!
A Kickstarter project doesn’t get funded unless donations reach a certain level. Should LRR not reached its fundraising goal by the end of the month, we would have gotten no money at all.
The community’s support for LRR is inspiring and humbling at the same time. Our neighbors have entrusted us with their money and have bought into our vision. Now its up to us to provide the goods.
The money and the interest is there. This is really going to happen!
Chief Dolan to Retire
I was surprised to read of the imminent retirement of Raleigh Police Chief Harry Dolan. As the former chair of the East CAC, I’ve had the pleasure of working with Chief Dolan and will miss his innovative leadership. I look forward to learning what he plans to do next!
City Manager J. Russell Allen today announced the retirement of Chief of Police Harry P. Dolan, effective Oct. 1. Chief Dolan’s retirement after five years as police chief caps a law enforcement career spanning 32 years and a tenure that brought progress to the department.
“Harry Dolan has been an excellent police chief for Raleigh, but more importantly, he has been an exceptional leader,” Mr. Allen said. “His high level of technical and strategic law enforcement skills are matched by his unwavering ethical standards, commitment to the community, pride in the department’s employees, and enthusiasm for police work.”
via Raleigh’s Chief of Police to Retire – The Official City of Raleigh Portal.
WineDiningFun.com
My multi-talented former boss Rowland Archer and his lovely wife Lana have just launched a resource for wine events around the Triangle. Give it a look!
We are Rowland and Lana from Raleigh, NC. We love wine events and hope you do too. We have found it very hard to find wine dinners, tastings and festivals in time to get reservations or tickets and have missed a lot of them that sounded great — after the fact. There are hundreds of web sites, Facebook pages and mailing lists that seem to get updated inconsistently if at all — and who has time to look at all of them hoping to find that one piece of gold buried in all the out-of-date information?
via About.
Raleigh will soon have its own business startup ‘Hub’
HUB Raleigh
It looks like Raleigh may have a place for startups to get started after all, about a year after I mentioned it here. I’m looking forward to learning more about HUB Raleigh!
Frustrated by lack of respectable, low-cost office space and support of other new and emerging business owners, a team of entrepreneurs in Raleigh is launching an equivalent of Durham’s “American Underground.”
Led by Brooks Bell, owner of her own rapidly growing high-tech integration business, and Christopher Gergen, who launched the Bull City Forward business program in Durham, “HUB Raleigh” is set to open on Sept. 15 at 711 Hillsborough Street.
via Raleigh will soon have its own business startup 'Hub' :: WRAL Tech Wire.