The official grand opening of Northeast District Park, a 66-acre park located at 5408 Big Woods Road off Jack Bennett Road in northeast Chatham County, will be held on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Author: Staff
Second annual local foods dinner
Carrboro United Methodist Church will serve a dinner made with locally grown and produced foods on Saturday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 200 Hillsborough Road.
Boys & Girls Club fundraiser
The Boys & Girls Club of Eastern Piedmont will host Dancing with the Stars of Carolina at the Carolina Inn on Aug. 27 beginning at 6 p.m. to raise money for the first Boys & Girls Club in Chapel Hill.
Meals on Wheels receives grant
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels received a grant of $25,000 from the Walmart State Giving Foundation.
BIG CITY: Art and money in Chapel Hill
by Kirk Ross
Nice to stroll through downtown the other day and finally pay a visit to the Ackland’s splendid new gift shop at the corner of Columbia and Franklin.
Hats off to Hannah Ruth
The Hannah Ruth Foundation celebrated its first anniversary on April 9, 2011.
UNC athletic director search committee named
UNC announced on Monday that Chancellor Holden Thorp had named a 12-member search committee to recommend candidates to become the university’s next director of athletics.
Davis firing one more misstep
The Carolina football program has been a punching bag for parts of the university community for years, but now so many people have pummeled it that the stuffing is showing.
FLORA: Here’s a flower you won’t pick!
Durham resident Parker Chesson recently captured the above image of a swallowtail on a bull thistle flower head.
Don’t be fooled by the name
Local thrift shoppers are privy to two stores within one block in downtown Carrboro – though some people don’t know it.
Getting the green business thing down
RECENTLY . . . So, you think you’ve got the whole “green†thing covered.
Phil Blank, August 11, 2011
Illustration by Phil Blank
The Barefoot Brothers, 1968
Long before A Southern Season was a gleam in their eyes, my college chums Michael and Stephen Barefoot were just two handsome and talented Carolina kids.
New West Franklin traffic signal
A pedestrian traffic signal at 409 W. Franklin St. (in front of McDonald’s) will be installed.
Rabid animals found in Chapel Hill
A raccoon and a fox found in Chapel Hill recently tested positive for rabies at the State Laboratory of Public Health.




