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Carrboro to host 2nd
annexation hearing
BY JAKE POTTER
STAFF WRITER
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
will hold a second public hearing
tonight on a controversial propos
al for the annexation of two areas
northeast of town.
The meeting is aimed at receiv
ing public comments concern
ing the annexation proposal, said
Alderman Mark Chilton.
“In reality, we’re handing the
floor over to the people who come,”
he said. “I reckon people will take it
where they want to.”
Carrboro initiated the annexation
process of two areas along Rogers
Road, called Northeast Annexation
Areas A and B, on Sept. 14.
Area A includes the Camden,
Highlands, Highland Meadows
and Highlands North subdivi
sions. Area B is composed of Fox
Meadow, Meadow Run and the
northern portion of Rogers Road.
About 852 residents live in the
areas, which span across 321 acres.
Carrboro town officials hosted
the first public forum about the
proposed annexations Nov. 1. About
100 residents attended, and several
denounced the plans outright.
Residents have raised concerns
about issues such as differences in
property taxes and fire and police
services between the towns.
Some have voiced those concerns
through petitions to the Chapel
Hill Town Council, and others have
gone to the state level.
Highland Meadows resident
Rhett Macomson, who along
with 43 of his neighbors signed
an October petition to the Town
Council offering voluntary annexa
tion into Chapel Hill, said he plans
to attend the meeting tonight.
“I would like to go make a state
ment that I don’t want to be annexed
into anybody,” he said. “I don’t feel
it’s beneficial, for the cost.”
Highlands resident Mark Gill
e-mailed every member of the N.C.
General Assembly for support in
opposing the annexations. He said
he had heard from four representa
tives and one senator as of Monday.
“They’re concerned. They want to
know more about what’s going on.”
The Highlands subdivision also
delivered a petition for voluntary
annexation into Chapel Hill to
the Town Council, in response to
Carrboro’s annexation plans.
The council reviewed both peti
tions at its Nov. 8 meeting and
determined that Chapel Hill cannot
legally annex the neighborhoods.
2 CIA officials
resign from
agency posts
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The top two
officials in the CLAs clandestine ser
vice have resigned after confronta
tions with the agency’s new leader
ship in an unusually public shake
up at the nation’s spy service.
The ClA’s Deputy Director for
Operations Stephen Kappes and
his immediate deputy, Michael
Sulick, told colleagues at a morn
ing meeting that they are leaving
the agency.
It’s unclear if they elected to
depart or were asked to step down.
Both men were part of the CIAs
Directorate of Operations, or clan
destine service, which is respon
sible for covert operations around
the globe.
“It is very fair to say there is
tremendous turmoil in the middle
ranks of the clandestine service
today,” said Vince Cannistraro,
former CIA counterterrorism chief.
“There may be eight people pushed
out.”
Signals from elsewhere pointed
to internal conflict.
Current agency officials are not
allowed to talk with the media
without permission, but have been
in touch with former intelligence
officials. Speaking on condition
of anonymity, former officials
described intense friction within
the agency as Director Porter Goss,
who took the helm in September,
gets settled.
A former head of the Directorate
of Operations, Thomas Twetten,
described the situation at the CIA
as “a disaster.”
“What is happening is that
somebody in high places or sev
eral persons in high places have
decided that CIA should be pun
ished,” said Twetten, who did his
CIA training with Goss and has
been trying to reach him in recent
weeks.
Cannistraro said there is con
cern within the agency that Vice
President Cheney is ordering
changes to avenge leaks to the
media indicating there was no
connection between former Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein and
al-Qaida.
A spokesman for Cheney did not
return a call seeking comment.
ANNEXATION COSTS
Expense estimates are per SIOO,OOO of property
value currently and after annexation.
NEW HOPE CARRBORO
Orange County SBBO SBBO
School District S2OO S2OO
Area Tax Expenses $65 $714.80
Current Total Tax $1,145 $1,794.80
Approx. Homeowner $325 $217
Insurance (frame)
Sub Total $1,470 $2011.80
Garbage $240 $0
TOTAL $1,710 $2011.80
SOURCE: TOWN OF CARRBORO
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Annexation into Chapel Hill
would violate the two towns’ 1987
Joint Planning Agreement and
1995 Annexation Agreement.
Carrboro, having annexed the
areas first, also has prior jurisdic
tion, according to state law.
Council members voted to refer all
public comments to the aldermen.
But Macomson said he thinks
Carrboro is moving ahead with
annexation, regardless of public
commentary. “The decision has
already been made,” he said. “To
me, it sounds like it’s a done deal.”
Gill said Carrboro has not ade
quately communicated with resi
dents on the process. “We’re not
being treated as people anymore,
just property,” he said. “Carrboro
cares about what Carrboro wants.”
Chilton said the aldermen likely
would make a decision in January
or February. Under the propos
als, the annexations would go into
effect Jan. 31,2006.
Tonight’s hearing will begin at
7:30 p.m. in the Carrboro Century
Center.
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Ink, piercings popular in UNC crowd
BY EMILY FISHER
STAFF WRITER
Where self-expression, skin and
ink meet, there’s a permanent trend
on the rise tattoos are bleeding
into the mainstream.
“There are very few things in this
world that you can buy that will last
you a lifetime,” said Byron Wallace,
the owner of Warlock’s Tattoo and
Body Piercing in Raleigh.
In 1996, U.S. News and World
Report ranked tattooing as the
6th fastest-growing retail venture.
Wallace, who has been in the tat
too business for 25 years and owns
shops in Wake Forest and Clayton,
estimated there are now 41 million
tattooed Americans.
Wallace noted that a significant
number of his shop’s patrons, who
range from teachers to medical
professionals, are between the ages
of 40 and 60. The oldest person he
has tattooed was 76 years old.
But generation Y wants tattoos,
too. At least half of the clientele at
Glenn’s Tattoo Service on Carrboro’s
West Main Street is made up of col
lege students, said the shop’s pierc
ing artist, Robert Bland.
Bland, who has worked at
Glenn’s for three years, said busi
ness tends to be slower during this
time of year they only tattoo one
or two people a day as the weather
gets colder and people start saving
money for the holidays.
At Glenn’s, tattoos range from
S4O to upwards of SI,OOO, depend
ing mainly on size and the number
of hours spent under the needle.
The most popular places on the
body to be tattooed are the upper
arm and shoulder for men and the
lower back and hip for women,
Bland said.
He gave a handful of reasons for
why a person might get a tattoo: a
milestone or commemoration, a
girlfriend or boyfriend or just
because it looks cool.
Sophomore Caroline Russell,
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Tattoo artist Thomas "Ugly" Michael designs a tattoo for Ericka Carter at Glenn's Tattoo Service Inc. in Carrboro.
Carter came with friend Alma Phillips to get the tattoo as a tribute to her late boyfriend, Demarcus Smith.
who has tiger lilies tattooed on her
lower back, said getting a tattoo a
few years ago was partially about
rebelling against her parents.
“I’ve always been fascinated
with tattoos for some reason,” she
said.
Bland said tattoos have taken a
definitive turn toward popular cul
ture. “Pretty soon, it will reach its
pinnacle of acceptability,” he said.
“It would surprise me if it got much
more accepted than it is now.”
Although Bland joked that the
basic equipment used for tattooing
is essentially the same as its 19th
century predecessor Thomas
Edison's electric engraving pen
Wallace is certain that the field is
improving to include better artists
and better equipment, pigments,
needles and techniques.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004
“A lot of talented kids come in
here that have their own style and
can apply it to tattooing,” Wallace
said.
Wallace said the majority of tat
too artists, himself included, have
no formal art training. A neighbor
taught him basic drawing and
color-blending skills.
Similarly, the two artists at
Glenn’s, Glenn Wilson and Tom
Michael, have a natural ability for
drawing but no art degrees.
“Both Glenn and Tom are amaz
ing painters and sketch artists,”
Bland said.
Even with Wilson and Michael’s
freehand tattoo skills, the major
ity of their work, including many
stars, Chinese symbols, names,
butterflies and tribal armbands,
comes off the walls of their shop.
UNC junior Rob Warren, who
sports a silver ring through his
septum the area between the
nostrils said he doesn’t have a
tattoo yet but is planning several,
including a piece based on Dante’s
“Divine Comedy” that will cover
one entire leg.
But junior Aaron Joachim, a
student taking a year off from
Harvard University and visiting a
friend at UNC, said he’s not inter
ested in getting a tattoo.
“Society keeps finding ways
to shock itself, and it becomes
increasingly less shocking,” he said.
“That’s what always happens with
things on the fringe. They become
more mainstream.”
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