The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce will announce the recipients of the 2011 Business of the Year Awards at its annual meeting on Tuesday.
Month: January 2012
Hillsborough loose-leaf collection ending
Hillsborough will end loose-leaf collection of leaves on Jan. 31.
CHT names advertising sales manager
Chip Hutchinson has been named as the first advertising sales manager for Chapel Hill Transit.
Tyson scores 1,000
Carrboro High School junior Diamond Tyson was honored last week as the school’s first basketball player, male or female, to score 1,000 points in her high school career.
Heels look for redemption
Carolina will attempt to bounce back from a humiliating performance in its last game, a 90-57 loss to Florida State in Tallahassee.
Grant to clean Jordan Lake
Clean Jordan Lake has been awarded a $4,150 grant from the Biogen Idec Foundation to launch its adopt-a-shoreline program.
Hillsborough tour guides
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough is looking for enthusiastic and talented volunteers to serve as tour guides throughout Hillsborough on the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free tutoring
The Hillsborough Police Department and UNC Habitat will resume free tutoring on Monday.
Nurse of the year
The School Nurse Association of North Carolina named Janice Anderson of Frank Porter Graham Elementary School the 2011 School Nurse of the Year.
Parent feedback wanted
hapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is inviting parents to share their thoughts in a survey as the district works toward developing a new strategic plan, which will lay out goals for improving student performance.
Shelton Station makes sense
Over the past few years, the cold economic winds blowing in our nation have postponed or scuttled multiple development projects in Carrboro.
Established boundaries
I think of Carrboro as my hometown. I was not born here, nor did I grow up here, but I have lived in Carrboro long enough for my heart to have attached to this place.
To Peace and Justice Plaza and beyond
In the past two weeks, I’ve twice visited Chapel Hill’s Peace and Justice Plaza: once for an Occupy Chapel Hill-Carrboro event and once for the NAACP’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. rally.
BIG CITY: What does it take to make it to the top?
Regular readers may recall that I have a thing about the proliferation of top lists, specifically those put out by those “with it†news organizations that use them for a quick, cheap traffic boost, branding or both.
LETTER: Support Shelton Station
I am writing in support of the proposed Shelton Station project submitted by Carrboro resident Kenneth Reiter.