Chapel Hill High School’s drama department will present The Wizard of Oz Thursday-Saturday, April 29-May 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Hanes Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students (high school and younger), $8 for adults and free for CHCCS staff (one free ticket per staff member with ID). Tickets can be reserved by email at hanesboxoffice@gmail.com….
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High school students explore identity at school conference
The three high school thematic academies sponsored the first Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Conference on Exploring Identity, which took place on Friday, April 16. Carrboro High School has an Academy of International Studies, Chapel Hill High School has an Academy of the Arts and East Chapel Hill High School has an Academy of Social Justice….
Phillips Middle School students place at regional competition
Three math teams from Phillips Middle School placed in the Regional State Mathematics Contest held at Wake Technical Community College on March 25. Two students, Alex Chang and Ben Taylor, have qualified to compete in the state finals. The Algebra I Team of Yize Dong, Catherine Farmer, Rachael Kang and Corey Risinger placed ninth. Dong placed…
HOPE Garden dedication
A ribbon-cutting event for HOPE Gardens, a new community garden at 2200 Homestead Road in Chapel Hill, is set for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. A joint project of the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department and the Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication committee, the garden and education center also serves as a transitional-employment…
Seedling event
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market is holding its annual tomato-seedling giveaway for kids, beginning Saturday at 8:30 a.m. For the last six weeks, the market’s farmers have grown the plants especially for young gardeners. To help the seedlings get a good start, Fifth Season Gardening Company is providing the organic potting soil and advice. Adding to…
Earth Day on campus
UNC’s Earth Week celebration continues with several events scheduled for Earth Day, which this year falls on Thursday, including an Earth Day Fair on Polk Place starting at 10 a.m., a walking tour of campus trees with Michael Dirr at 3:30 p.m. and a showing and discussion of the documentary Food Fight from 7 to…
Market to take cards, foods stamps
Starting May 1, the Carrboro Farmers’ Market will start taking credit and debit cards and charges to food stamp accounts. The market is also setting up a new program for food stamp recipients called Market Match, which will allow participants to double their buying power at the market. Read about the innovative new programs in…
Senate hopefuls visit campus
Six of the 11 candidates for U.S. Senate – four of the six Democrats, one of the four Republicans and the lone Libertarian – gathered at the university’s Stone Center for an issues forum sponsored by the center and the local chapter of the NAACP.
Mental health changes move forward
The question raised by mental health care consumer advocates is whether fewer agencies providing a more comprehensive suite of services will better serve those with mental illness. And smaller agencies, a great many of which are minority owned, are concerned that they’re going to be driven out of business in this move to consolidate.
Tough cuts ahead for the county
With continuing concerns about dwindling revenues, the Orange County Board of Commissioners took a hard look at the county’s funding of nonprofit agencies at a budget work session last week.
Comprehensive plan to be updated
The Chapel Hill Town Council suspended the work of a visioning task force Monday night and moved ahead on a full review of the town’s comprehensive plan – the guiding document for its land-use plans.
UNC students ask leaders not to renew coal contracts
“Breaking UNC’s connection to mountaintop removal coal mining should clearly be the first step, but breaking its dependence on coal should be the next.†— Matt Wasson, ecologist and director of programs for Appalachian Voices
Cue the lux
We head into Earth Week – or whatever you care to call it – with what we know to be right confronting what we know to be.
More web changes
As recently noted, we continue to build up our website. Debuting this week is a new blog by Steve Peha, a Carrboro resident and education consultant who writes The Citizen’s Education Matters column. Steve’s Ed View blog – carrborocitizen.com/education – features his columns along with essays and links covering education news and research. Also, this…
Not by bulbs alone
These folks don’t garden by bulbs alone. As their neighborhood name suggests, they are gardening in the woodlands.



