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Day: April 5, 2007

Local filmmakers producing series on ‘multiples’

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer So many younguns! And each with his or her own personality! That Jon and Kate Gosselin are able to individually identify—not only by physicality but personality traits—each of their 2-year-old sextuplets is perhaps the most amazing discovery in the first episode of a new series, “Jon & Kate plus 8,”…

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Residents to be surveyed for walking, cycling study

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

A research team from the UNC Highway Safety Research Center will be surveying pedestrians and bicyclists in April and May at Chapel Hill and Carrboro parks and greenways, shopping centers and other public spaces, including the university campus. The study, which is being conducted for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), will identify, prioritize…

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911 signs offered by Fire Dept.

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

The Carrboro Fire-Rescue Department has started a new address-marking program to help emergency crews find locations of incidents more quickly. Because many residences are poorly marked, emergency crews may lose time searching for address numbers while trying to respond to an emergency call. Reflective address markers that are highly visible both day and night are…

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School briefs: 4/4/07

Posted on April 5, 2007April 5, 2007 by Staff

Busting out the Sod — As work on Carrboro High School proceeds on the inside, groundswork continues outside. Crews started rolling out new sod for the school’s athletic fields this week. Photo by Kirk Ross Carrboro High School to offer wide range of sports Steven Reinhardt, athletic director at Carrboro High, said the school will…

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News briefs: 4/4/07

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

Get your tour buttons for annual farm tour The 12th annual Piedmont Farm Tour is fast approaching, and if you want to pay a visit to any of the 34 farms on this year’s tour you’ll need to get your button. The tour runs over Saturday and Sunday April 21-22. Tickets are $30 per carload…

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Letters to the Editor – April 4

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

Where’s where? I know it was only your second issue, but what happened to the “five W’s of good reporting” (who, what, where, when, why) that are supposed to be part of each story?  In the story about the Carrboro moratorium, the “where” was left out, and it was the most important of all the…

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Corrections – April 4, 2007

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

In an editorial about development north of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Sage Road was spelled wrong.

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Grassroots Festival to host sustainability fair

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Staff

Organizers for this year’s Spring Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival announced this week that in addition to more than 50 music and dance performances, the festival will also host a sustainability fair focusing on environmental awareness and sustainability education. The fair, titled “Abundance Through Harmony and Creativity,” will showcase several area groups and businesses working toward…

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Music week

Posted on April 5, 2007April 5, 2007 by Staff

Antibalas plays at the Cat’s Cradle on Saturday. This week in music: April 4 – April 10 Strange week at Carrboro’s two biggest venues, and a lot of big names too. It starts with Sebadoh on Wednesday at Cat’s Cradle then on to turntablist Kid Koala at the ArtsCenter, followed by Friday’s Sean Lennon show…

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Overfishing great sharks wiped out North Carolina’s bay scallop fishery

Posted on April 5, 2007April 5, 2007 by Staff

By UNC News Services Fewer big sharks in the oceans led to the destruction of North Carolina’s bay scallop fishery and inhibits the recovery of depressed scallop, oyster and clam populations along the U.S. Atlantic coast, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science. A team of Canadian and American…

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