ChathamArts will present a reception on Feb. 26 for activist Darryl Hunt and filmmaker Adam Zucker
Author: Staff
Summer camp registration
Registration for Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation summer camps has begun for Chapel Hill residents. Registration begins Monday for other Orange County residents and Feb. 21 for non-residents.
Rabies clinics scheduled
Orange County’s Animal Services Department has scheduled its $10 rabies vaccination clinics for 2011.
Spay Neuter Day
To combat pet overpopulation in Orange County, the Animal Services Department is celebrating “Spay Neuter Day USA†on Feb. 22.
Paws4Ever opening
Paws4Ever, a pet adoption and training advocacy group, seeks donations and volunteers as it prepares to open its new resale store in Hillsborough.
Earth Day festival
Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation will present the Earth Action Day Festival, a celebration for sustainable living, on April 9 from noon to 5 p.m. at Southern Community Park.
Inclement weather make-up days Feb. 21 and April 22
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will be in session on Monday, Feb. 21 and Friday, April 22 to make up for the Jan. 11-12 snow day cancellations.
District students named National Achievement finalists
Three CHCCS students have been named as finalists in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.
Chapel Hill High to present The Glass Menagerie
Students at Chapel Hill High School will perform Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie in the school’s Hanes Auditorium, Feb. 17-19.
Rashkis participates in Career Exploration Day
Fifth-graders at Rashkis Elementary School participated in the school’s annual Career Exploration Day on Feb. 1.
Rashkis students visit School of Science and Math
Members of the Rashkis Math Olympiads team visited the N.C. School of Science and Math in Durham last week.
CHCCS honored with two publication awards
The N.C. School Public Relations Association presented Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools with two Blue Ribbon Publication Awards on Friday.
Phil Blank, February 3, 2011
Illustration by Phil Blank
Rock mason James Blacknell Jr., 1984
Every child who ever romped on the old stone walls on campus should thank this man. When I photographed 80-year-old James Blacknell Jr. in 1984, he’d been laying rock at UNC for 66 years.
Take the time to get it right
There is an effort, now accelerating, to revamp local economic-development strategy and structure – a process most would agree is long overdue.


