The “Courageous Carrots†in Stefanie Janke’s fourth-grade class at Estes Hills Elementary won the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Battle of the Books district championship. Battle of the Books is a voluntary reading-enjoyment program. Students read the same books and practice creating and answering recall questions about the books. For the first time in the history…
Author: Staff
Exhibit highlights refugees
The Art Therapy Institute is presenting an exhibit titled “Journey to a Different Landscape: Visual Expression through Art Therapy,†featuring the artwork of children who are recent arrivals to our community as refugees from Burma. This artwork was created during their art-therapy sessions intended to help these children heal from past trauma and express their…
Forty computers awarded
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School’s Community Connection program awarded 40 student households with free computers and Internet access. Eighty-nine students will benefit from the award, which is part of the district’s efforts to eliminate the digital divide among its students. The computers were made available through partnerships with Kramden Institute Inc. of Durham, the Human Rights…
Man arrested for blinding child
Carrboro resident Christopher Ray McBride was arrested last week on charges related to child abuse that resulted in the blinding of his 1-year-old daughter. According to Carrboro police, McBride, 28, of 810 Old Fayetteville Road, was charged with felony child abuse and felony assault. The child’s mother, Darlene April Fernandez, 26, also of Old Fayetteville…
Construction to cause closures, delays
Two of the three lanes of South Columbia Street between South Road and Cameron Avenue will be closed starting this week through Aug. 13 as work continues on the replacement of the steam tunnel serving UNC. The closures are expected to cause traffic congestion and delays. All motorists traveling northbound on South Columbia Street are…
Driest April on record
OWASA said Tuesday that its lakes are 99 percent full, despite the fact that the 0.65 of an inch of rainfall recorded last month made it the driest April in 120 years of local recordkeeping. “In spite of the dry weather, our water supply situation is good for this time of year,†said Ed Holland,…
Potassium iodide distribution
Chatham County will offer drive-through distribution of potassium iodide tablets to residents living within the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone of the Harris Nuclear Power Plant on May 15. The distribution will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 pm at Moncure School, 600 Moncure School Road. The distribution is part of a joint preparedness planning…
Gov. Perdue to speak in Pittsboro
Gov. Beverly Perdue will address the upcoming 2010 Opportunity Chatham Annual Meeting on May 14 at 7:30 a.m. at the Barn at Fearrington Village. Perdue will highlight the state’s economic-recovery efforts and small-business assistance to spur local job creation. Keynote speaker Ted Abernathy, executive director of the Southern Growth Policies Board, will talk about “The…
Jacobs, Pendergrass sail to victory, runoff in Senate race
Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, the activity at the Orange County Board of Elections new offices on South Cameron Street in Hillsborough kicked into high gear as results started flowing in from the county’s 44 poling precincts.
UNC commits to end coal use by 2020
Flanked by representatives of the Sierra Club and North Carolina Energy Policy Council chair Tim Toben, Chancellor Holden Thorp announced Tuesday that the university intends to end its use of coal at the Cameron Avenue co-generation plant in 10 years.
Town, county seek deal on libraries
A simmering dispute over library funding could be heading toward a resolution, with county officials agreeing to pick up a greater share of the town’s library costs.
Improving clinical trials, speeding new cancer therapies focus of grant to area researchers
Researchers from UNC, Duke and N.C. State have teamed up to find ways to design more powerful clinical trials for cancer treatments, effectively getting better and more personalized new therapies to cancer patients sooner.
From the editor
There are few places as emblematic of a state as the bayous of Louisiana. Places of beauty and mystery and teeming with all kinds of creatures, these areas are the heart and soul of the Gulf Coast.
An opportunity to learn more about your homeowners association
There are hundreds of homeowners associations in Carrboro with restrictive covenants that limit environmentally beneficial practices.
Now is the time to confront water scarcity
It’s hard to think of a natural resource more essential to our state’s economy than water.


