McDougle Elementary held its annual Family Culture Night this past Thursday. Hundreds of families came out to learn about students’ family heritages. Each student utilized a passport to travel to various country tables. Individual tables showcased cultural foods, games, art, clothing and more. Students completed make-and-take activities at some of the tables and asked the…
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Board gets an earful over crosswalk safety
Anyone who uses the various crosswalks in downtown Carrboro knows that not all intersections are created equal in the eyes of local motorists.
Food for thought
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educators took a handful of young writers and their teachers out to lunch on Wednesday at Elmo’s Diner in Carrboro. The students were selected as winners of the American Education Week Writing Contest, sponsored by the association. Sylvia Cheeseman, a kindergartner at Glenwood Elementary School, won for her essay about…
Hoops fans come to terms with disappointing season
Beth Mechum Staff Writer “Three more wins until UNC has 2,000,†Woody Durham exclaimed at the Celebration of a Century Alumni Game last Friday night at the Smith Center. Add in that win against N.C. State Saturday night, and now it’s two. That sounds impressive – and Woody certainly said it in a way that…
For art’s sake
Calm usually does not describe an artist at his or her first solo exhibit.
Transit concepts considered
Beth Mechum Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL — Chapel Hill Transit will take a hard look at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for Chapel Hill’s two busiest corridors, N.C. 54 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, as part of the 2035 Long Range Transit Plan. Both roadway corridors already exceed 3,000 riders a day, qualifying them for…
Sheriff files, District 2 race heats up
Kirk Ross Staff Writer Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass, who first took office in 1982, has filed for another four-year term. Pendergrass, who makes his home in Chapel Hill, will face Hillsborough Police Chief Clarence Birkhead in the May 5 Democratic primary.
Not my vision
Dave Cook I am not writing for the people who walk fast along Bolin Creek, missing the black snake coiled in the sun. I am writing for the woods themselves, the character of them. Encroachment has probably eradicated the four-toed salamander, but I write for other living treasures of this creek and forest residing in…
The misplaced stigma
Chris Fitzsimon Here is a sobering statistic about the daily economic struggles faced by thousands of families in North Carolina. More than 1.2 million people in the state now receive food stamps. That is up 24 percent over a year ago. And the real numbers are worse. The last study of food stamp participation found…
The desecration of sacred places
Tim Toben They stood in a cold rain outside the coal plant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thirty-five students and community protesters, listening to NASA climate scientist James Hansen acknowledge that our consumption of fossil fuels is a case of “intergenerational injustice.†It was 22 years ago in 1988, before most…
Do you have a need for speed?
Margot C. Lester If you’ve been hanging around Facebook or listening to WCHL, you’ve probably heard that Google’s looking for a town (or maybe more) to test-drive it’s über-high-speed Internet. Google will offer networks via an “open access†model, meaning that customers have access to several service providers. The initial stage of the program will…
UNC Notes
Frank Heath It’s a wrap. The 2009-10 UNC men’s basketball team’s long journey into mediocrity and futility was cemented during the latter stages of the first half of Carolina’s 78-61 loss to Georgia Tech Tuesday night.
Letter: Don’t pave it all
In her editorial (“Greenway should be for all to use,†2/11/10) Debbie L. Nichols paints those who want to preserve and protect Bolin Creek as — in no special order — heartless elitists whose agility is only matched by our callousness to the disabled, a cartel of landed gentry with a hidden agenda to make…
Letter: Do you know a Town Treasure?
The Chapel Hill Historical Society each year honors 12 individuals or couples as Town Treasures — those who have guided, taught, led and ministered to the communities of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The Town Treasures are recognized in three ways: a black-and-white documentary photograph taken by Catherine Carter, a lifelong Chapel Hill resident and renowned…
