Students at Estes Hills Elementary have established a relationship with young people in Haiti through a parent at their school. Tony Roche is a local physician and father of Estes Hills students. He worked in Haiti last month and delivered t-shirts, books and bookmarks from Estes Hills students. The items delivered to Haiti were made…
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Wednesday market starts
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market is starting up its Wednesday afternoon market next week, April 14. The market runs from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Town Commons. Chef Ricky Moore will be opening the mid-week market with the first event in the new Carrboro Market Culinary Series. The series is a local foods teaching…
Eno River Market open longer
The Eno River Farmers Market in downtown Hillsborough is now on summer hours. The market, located on East Margaret Lane, is open every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. New vendors on hand this year include Spoon, Sunshine Life, Box Car Farms, Serendip Farm, Lil Country Grower, Carolina Heritage Farm, Winking Moon Studios, John Mathivet…
Mural on display
Saturday marks the official for the debut of the Bolin Creek Mural from noon to 5 p.m. at Earth Action Day at Southern Community Park. The 8’ x 24’ work by local artists Emily Weinstein and Dale Morgan, with help from many others, was supposed to have been painted at the Bolin Creek Festival last…
Edible plant walk
Herbalist Kim Calhoun will lead a medicinal- and edible-plant walk on Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. along the Lower Haw River State Natural Area Trail. Participants will walk from the Bynum pedestrian bridge to the trail, learning about some of the edible, drinkable and medicinal plants growing in yards, fields, forest floors and canopies…
Lunch Menus
FRI 4/9 — Cheese Pizza; Pepperoni Pizza; Turkey & Cheese Wrap; Garden Salad; Traditional Mixed; Vegetables; Fresh Pears
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Deal close on Smith Level
State Department of Transportation engineers and the Town of Carrboro have reached a tentative agreement on a downscaled Smith Level Road widening project, ending more than a decade of disagreement over the configuration of the road.
County report says most property values lowered on appeal
Orange County received a record number of property revaluation appeals in 2009, and in most cases the appeals paid off, according to the 2009 Orange County Revaluation Report released by the county last week.
ArtsCenter launches $350k campaign
Over the past 35 years, The ArtsCenter has become a mainstay in Carrboro, offering programs, services and classes that can’t be found elsewhere in the area.
Glenwood Conservation District enters phase two
The Glen Lennox Neighborhood Conservation District (NCD) process officially entered phase two at the March 22 Chapel Hill Town Council meeting …
Local high school student raising money for refugees
When Chapel Hill High School student Maddy Kameny traveled to Thailand in 2008, she spent a month volunteering at a small medical clinic.
Heels advance to NIT title game
BASKETBALL NOTES Frank Heath The Tar Heels are in the finals! On Tuesday night, North Carolina punched its ticket into the championship game of the National Invitation Tournament by fighting past the Rhode Island Rams, 68-67, in overtime, in a game that is being described as “ugly.†And ugly it was, as the teams combined…
N.C. kids face ongoing food hardship
The epidemic of childhood obesity has recently found a prominent place in our national conversation, bolstered no doubt by the First Lady’s “Let’s Move†campaign and the “Food Revolution†promoted by crusading British chef Jamie Oliver.
Time to shine a light on the plight of North Carolina’s Latino students
Will new attention to educational civil rights result in the bright light of justice helping Latino immigrants come out of the shadows? Efforts to resolve North Carolina’s civil rights challenges must include a perspective on what’s happening to Latino students.
Great Chapel Hill schools
As the weather warms, my wife and I like to dine on our screened-in front porch, and if the sun is still out when we finish, we often take a postprandial promenade around the neighborhood. The arrival of spring means that house-selling season has also arrived …
