The Hillsborough Tree Board has selected a China fir as its second Treasure Tree.
Author: Staff
Residents tell CVS ‘not here’
About two dozen residents showed up for a meeting last week at Carrboro Town Hall with representatives of a group that wants to develop property owned by drug store chain CVS Caremark, and expressed their displeasure with the plan.
DREAM supporters stung by Hagan’s vote
Supporters of a measure they say could clear a path to citizenship for 51,000 young people in North Carolina expressed outrage this weekend over Sen. Kay Hagan’s vote against the DREAM Act.
Broadwell resigns
Orange County Manager Frank Clifton said there will be no rush to replace the county’s economic-development director following the resignation last week of Brad Broadwell, who has held the post since 2008.
Heels aim to take advantage of final opportunity
Carolina came within two incomplete passes in the end zone of defeating LSU to start this season, despite missing 13 players who were suspended.
Don’t orphan that special tree
As we approach all the celebration and joys of Dec. 25, take a time out to reflect on the specialness of that tree you brought indoors to accompany your family traditions.
FROM THE EDITOR
DREAM deferred
No limits on democracy
Republican legislative leaders didn’t seem to know what to make of the proposals Wednesday by Gov. Beverly Perdue.
Obituary: Samuel Wilson
Obituary: Nancy Stegman
Voters need to see through the special-interest fog
When Santa Claus makes his list of who has been naughty and who has been nice, he has some help.
Cuts alone won’t fix our budget crisis
North Carolina has a revenue problem. Falling revenues created by an outdated tax system and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression have created a much-publicized budget shortfall – and some shortsighted parties want to try to cut our way out of the problem.
Phil Blank, December 23, 2010
Illustration by Phil Blank
Letter: Christmas dinner
Christmas day, 1998, my wife, Elaine, and I found ourselves not having planned dinner and realized we were caught without anything to prepare a meal.
Snow Day 1963
It’s not that we didn’t love school – but what better surprise for a kid than to wake up to an impromptu vacation?




