The UPS Store at Carrboro Plaza is providing free first-class postage for one-ounce valentines and letters to U.S. military personnel stationed overseas or to veterans in VA hospitals through Feb. 14.
Author: Staff
Storytelling book published
How I Helped Build a Community Bridge, a booklet of essays from Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents, has been published by the Town of Chapel Hill Justice in Action Committee.
Heels win as they grow
No team sits idle.
They are either moving forward in their progress or slipping. The ideal scenario is to learn while winning, rather than struggling to find confidence and learn while losing.
Her day is far from done
When Anne Edwin was born on Jan. 28, 1911, William Taft was president of the United States, the town of Carrboro was little more than a textile mill and some railroad tracks and the Titanic was one year away from embarking on its fateful journey.
Board reiterates focus on local businesses
As Carrboro leaders ponder the town’s participation in a new Orange County economic-development collaboration, they’re underlining support for a focus on growing local businesses.
Council retreat to focus on plan rewrite
The Chapel Hill Town Council goes into its annual retreat this weekend with a big decision looming on the potential for moving the town library.
Making tree friends in the winter
Participants in winter plant identification classes at Sarah P. Duke Gardens and the N.C. Botanical Garden are making friends with numerous trees that are easily recognized when they are bare and leafless.
Reading under the sea
Linda Saah, an outreach instructor with the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, shows Frank Porter Graham Elementary School students an American alligator at the school’s Read-a-thon Night.
Shope appointed interim director
Gary Shope has been appointed interim economic-development director for Orange County.
Over-occupancy enforcement
The Town of Chapel Hill is actively enforcing over-occupancy issues in rental housing.
Hillsborough police officer honored
Hillsborough police Officer Douglas Hemingway will be honored by Mothers Against Drunk Drivers of North Carolina on Feb. 11.
Transportation plan workshop
A public information workshop on the development of the Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan will be held on Monday.
Phil Blank, January 27, 2011
Illustration by Phil Blank
Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Dorms 1967
Surely, anyone who has been on the UNC campus recently surely has marveled at the giant expanse of protective plastic sheeting completely covering Battle-Vance-Pettigrew halls as workers renovate the roof and exterior of those administrative buildings.
Let those truckers roll
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