A public meeting on the countywide comprehensive solid-waste plan update is scheduled for next Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Solid Waste office at 1207 Eubanks Road in Chapel Hill.
Author: Staff
Chatham celebrates openings
More than 300 residents joined with officials from Chatham County and Central Carolina Community College (CCCC) at a ribbon cutting and open house on Monday celebrating the new Chatham Community Library and the Sustainable Technologies Building on the CCCC campus in Pittsboro.
Low-cost rabies vaccinations
Orange County Animal Services will hold two low-cost rabies vaccination clinics this week in recognition of the fourth annual World Rabies Day.
Native Foods Celebration
Samples of succotash, wild rice, chocolate and more will be offered at a Native Foods Celebration on Monday on the UNC campus.
School of Education marks 125 years
The UNC School of Education will celebrate its 125-year record of service to North Carolina and education on Saturday.
Learning Celebration starts in Bynum
The 21st annual Haw River Learning Celebration started this week and runs through Oct. 8 along the banks of the Haw River.
Cocktails for Cancer
The event will feature music, food, cocktails, drawings and a live auction, which will be emceed by former UNC basketball player Eric Montross.
School board member Green resigns
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board of education member Joe Green announced last week that he would resign from the school board effective Sept. 17.
School boards to meet with county commissioners
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education will meet with the Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Schools Board of Education today (Thursday) at 7 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road.
Middle and high school career expo coming soon
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will host the 2010 Middle School and High School Career Expo on Oct. 14 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at University Mall.
Mayor reads new book about Chapel Hill to Seawell students
Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt read from a new children’s book about Chapel Hill, Once Upon a Hill, to students in Denise Cowan’s fourth-grade class at Seawell Elementary School last week.
Lunch Menus
Friday 9/24 Meatloaf/WW Roll; Toasted Cheese Sandwich; Tuna Salad Plate; Vegetable Soup; Herbed Potatoes; Wild Greens Salad; Chilled Peaches. MORE
At the confluence of economy and elections
Although it is a contentious year, Congressman David Price, now seeking a 12th term, said was not treated to quite the same reception as last August, when Congress was at the height of the health care debate and the tea partiers were in full blossom.
Election season starts this Friday
The fall election season gets rolling Friday, when voters will be able to begin to request absentee mail ballots. The last day to submit ballots by mail is Oct. 26.
One-stop absentee voting begins Oct. 14 at the board of elections office in Hillsborough and on Oct. 18 at Morehead Planetarium on the UNC campus and the Seymour Senior Center on Homestead Road.
Looking down on the ground
Looking down on the ground last week along trails in Umstead State Park between Raleigh and Durham, I spotted numerous patches of partridge berry, Mitchella repens.



