Mastodawn

This will have made the rounds by now - but at the #orangecountync BOCC meeting,

"The Board held a public hearing and received comments on a proposed ordinance to impose a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers as a land use, inclusive of Artificial Intelligence Data Centers, Cryptocurrency Mining Facilities, Data Centers, Data Processing Facilities, and similar uses. The ordinance was subsequently approved. (Unanimous)"

Jay Young Apr 17

The #orangecountync BOCC are holding a public hearing on Tuesday, April 21 at 7pm regarding a proposed One-Year Moratorium Ordinance on “Data Centers” as a Land Use

https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC

"The Board will hold a public hearing and receive comment on a proposed ordinance to impose a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers as a land use, inclusive of Artificial Intelligence Data Centers, Cryptocurrency Mining Facilities, Data Centers, Data Processing Facilities, and similar uses."

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Jay Young Jan 29

Hitting these shaded areas that stay well below freezing has to be tough. You'd have to do the salt/sand thing prior to any sun angle changes - then send in the plows(*)

And none of us really want that de-icing mix to drain out to the waterways out here either

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* I'm starting to think that my subconscious just orchestrated this whole post so that it could torture me with an earworm the rest of the day 😂

🎶 But where are the plows?
🎶 Quick, send in the plows

#orangecountync #ncdot #ncwx

Jay Young Jan 29

My particular secondary road in #orangecountync #ncdot really doesn't seem to have the resources or the organizational capacity at this time to have gotten out in front of this one

The trope that people like to express is that #ncdot never gets out in front - which is definitely not true - it just seems maddeningly inconsistent

Between the coming snow and long-range 8-14 day outlook from the NWS - the rural areas of the county are going to be treacherous for probably another week+half #ncwx

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Jay Young Jan 24

Following up on that #orangecountync email notice - the county sent out another email notice of a second closed meeting on February 3, prior to the regular board business meeting.

This email has more specific references to the NC General Statutes of why a meeting can be closed.

It does seem like that there still will be some Orange County NC related news coming related to at least two closed meetings... after February 3rd.

Jay Young Jan 23

Interesting: #orangecountync sent out this email notice to the Board of Commissioners notification list this afternoon around 2pm (The list gets county board meeting announcements, public notices regarding the board, that sort of thing)

The Board is in an emergency closed session tonight, which is a bit unusual in my memory.

Guessing there will be some County-related news coming soon 🤷

Jay Young Jan 19

Good morning from the rarely frozen frosty river woodlands at the very edge of #hillsboroughnc in #orangecountync

Tab Combs Aug 6, 2025

#OrangeCountyNC was just granted a state disaster declaration, opening up new funds to assist individuals and households affected by #Chantal

Check out requirements for assistance here:
https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/disaster-recovery/individual-assistance

In the meantime, please consider filling out our survey about how you've been affected by the storm's impacts on vehicles, roads, sidewalks, and other transportation stuff 👇

go.unc.edu/chantalstudy:fedi

Individual Assistance | NC DPS

The Individual Assistance program provides assistance to homeowners and renters whose primary residences were damaged or destroyed by a natural or manmade

Kelly Wheaton

🦫💧🐸 🌻🌹Feb 3, 2024

#regulators #northcarolina #genealogy #Geneadons @genealogy #orangecountync #nchistory

The latest in the German Immigrant Saga. If you are an #outlander fan. You might find this interesting. Or NC history fan.

https://wheatonwood.com/2024/01/29/german-immigrants-to-north-carolina-pioneer-georg-frederick-moser-1722-1800-part-two/

German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part Two

TROUBLE IN ORANGE COUNTY Part of William Luther SPOON’s Map of Alamance Co NC 1893 While we read in the last post that settlers were lured to North Carolina with advertisements of inexpensive…

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