Monthly Archives: September 2014

Get Ready for Some Fireworks!

The folks at UNCG want their College Hill neighbors to be aware that fireworks are planned for the end of the UNCG soccer game this Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014.  A professional fireworks company is managing the display which should start … Continue reading

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Springdale Park’s venerable owl and rabbit are freshly painted thanks to the brothers of UNCG’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity

The fine young men of UNCG’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity have adopted Springdale Park as a service project, and we can thank them for a long overdue painting of the park’s classic concrete animals. The owl and rabbit have been … Continue reading

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How One Community Deals with “the College Students Next Door”

Below are two links to articles about how one Baltimore neighborhood works with residents who are also college students. NPR Radio carried this story. Thanks to Joe Wheby for sending us the links! http://www.loyola.edu/department/studentlife/housinginformation/offcampushousing http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/there-goes-neighborhood-college-students-next-door  

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College Hill Neighborhood Assn meeting Monday, 9/22, 7 p.m.

The September meeting of the College Hill Neighborhood Association will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in the Fellowship Hall of the Church of the Covenant, 501 S. Mendenhall St.  The Community Watch report will be given at the meeting. All … Continue reading

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More runners will be racing through this Saturday afternoon

Late Saturday afternoon, another road race will come through College Hill. The 2014 Race the Bar 5K and 8K will begin Saturday at 4 p.m., downtown on South Elm Street.  Streets affected in College Hill will include Spring Garden, Tate, … Continue reading

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College Hill receives Ecology Award from Greensboro Beautiful

The College Hill Tree Inventory has been honored with an award from Greensboro Beautiful. The volunteer organization presented its annual Ecology Award to the College Hill Historic District and the Aycock Historic District for the two tree inventories funded by … Continue reading

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Update on the College Hill Neighborhood Plan: Revisions available for review

From Jeff Sovich of the Greensboro Planning Department: This is just a quick note to thank all of you who took the time last Friday, to stop by (at either Tate St Coffee, Taste Yogurt Bar, or Slices Pizza) and … Continue reading

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Word from the Delta Sigma Phi national office in re 220 South Tate

The house at 220 South Tate isn’t a Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house, according to the fraternity’s national office. An email sent Saturday to the frat’s executive director brought this response Monday from Cameron Blair Warner, director of risk management … Continue reading

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Police to step up traffic enforcement on Spring Garden

The Greensboro and UNCG police have announced a nine-week campaign to reduce accidents and crime on Spring Garden Street. The effort will start Tuesday September 16. The target area is from Mendenhall Street west through the campus and out to … Continue reading

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No, actually, fraternity houses aren’t allowed in College Hill

  The young scholars pictured above moved into 220 South Tate Street on Friday. Their apparent intent to use the residence as a fraternity house got some neighbors to thinking, “Isn’t College Hill zoned R-7? And aren’t frat houses allowed … Continue reading

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