Five students from East Chapel Hill High School received recognition at the North Carolina Family, Career and Community Leaders of America conference in Greensboro.
Author: Staff
Helvey honored
Relentless volunteer and local media baroness Jackie Helvey received a sculpture by Mike Roig along with the rare honor of having a week named for her at the Carrboro Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday night.
How to watch the spring game
On Saturday at 3 p.m., the Carolina football team will hold its annual spring game at Kenan Stadium.
No, it’s not white wisteria!
Those of you who frequent the highway corridors around our town can anticipate seeing pendulous clusters of pure white flowers during the next week.
Library meeting moved up
A public hearing on the proposed rezoning of property on Hillsborough Road for a new library will be held next Tuesday instead of April 19, town officials announced at their meeting Tuesday night at Town Hall.
Town wary of telecom bill
As the town of Chapel Hill prepares for the installation of an extensive fiber-optic network, officials here are worried that the real potential of the new high-speed network may never be realized.
Always at home in Carrboro
By Allison Russell
Staff Writer
The house where Richard Ellington grew up used to be painted daffodil yellow. Over the years, it has been layered with different paints, today a pale minty-green color.
Board of commissioners delays decision on landfill extension
Members of the Orange County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday postponed a decision on extending the life of the Orange County Landfill.
Totally Carrboro
The Town of Carrboro knows who it is.
Reject the Hillsborough Road rezoning
The Carrboro Citizen March 24 editorial characterizing the opposition to the proposed Hillsborough Road site for a library as NIMBYism does a big disservice to the community.
Letter: Right thing?
If, as president and CEO of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Aaron Nelson states in his March 24 letter to the editor (“Support for Homestead facilityâ€), “closing of the existing facility is the right thing to do for the health of our downtown,” does it follow that the opening of a new facility is…
Letter: CVS meeting
All Carrboro citizens are invited to a community organizing meeting to discuss the potential CVS development in downtown Carrboro.
Letter: Healthy cooking
The book of Genesis tells us that, “Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. …
2011 became a season to cherish
Right or wrong, the game of college basketball is woven so tightly within the culture of the state of North Carolina that no matter how much the team achieves, anything short of a national title requires a period of mourning.
Following spring’s flowering sequence
Driving along the bypass last week, I remarked that the beautiful, but deadly, Chinese wisteria is flowering early this year.





