The Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department is sponsoring the following athletic camps for the summer: basketball camp, June 28–July 2 for ages 9-11; basketball camp, July 12-16 for ages 6-8; field hockey camp, June 28–July 2 and July 12-16 for ages 10-13; Taste of Sports camp, July 19–23 for ages 6-9; Ultimate Frisbee camp, July…
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Obituary: William Everett Billingsley
Christmas tree collections
The Town of Carrboro will be collecting Christmas Trees as part of its yard-waste collection schedule. The tree should be placed along the curbside and all ornaments and stands should be removed from the trees. Curbside collection of yard waste is provided about twice per month. A schedule of the collection is available at the…
UNC, CIGNA cut deal
The UNC Health Care System and CIGNA HealthCare of North Carolina announced Monday that they’ve reached agreement on a new contract ending an impasse that threatened to deny CIGNA customers access to UNC and Rex Healthcare services. The new two-year contract takes effect Jan. 1.
Letter: Celebrate the New Year smoke-free
Orange County’s TRU (Tobacco. Reality. Unfiltered.) students welcome the new state smoke-free law, which goes into effect at midnight on Jan. 2. Every year, secondhand smoke causes 35,000 deaths in America. The U.S. Surgeon General has stated that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Many restaurant owners in Orange County have…
Durham must stop poisoning Jordan Lake
Julian Sereno Something is rotten in Durham, and much of the rot seems to be ending up in Jordan Lake. It’s time to put a stop to it. It began way back in the early ’90s when Walmart wanted to build a store near the intersection of I-40 and U.S. 15-501, a few miles from…
Frank Heath Football … Early during the Meineke Bowl matchup between North Carolina and Pittsburgh, fans watching the game were treated to two spectacles in succession – both courtesy of UNC wide receiver running back Greg Little. On the field, Little made perhaps Carolina’s most sensational offensive play of the season, out leaping a couple…
Shelter’s future in limbo
By Charlie Tyson Staff Writer For many, the approach of winter holidays invokes images of warm fireplaces, brightly colored wrapping paper and steaming mugs of hot cocoa savored with friends and family. The hundreds of homeless in Chapel Hill face a completely different holiday season. For Chapel Hill’s homeless population, mid-December brings cold, wet streets…
Police to receive mental health training
Crisis intervention team training will be offered in January to 27 local law-enforcement officers. The purpose of the training is to better prepare officers for encounters with people with mental illness and to increase the chances that those with serious mental illness will receive treatment rather than incarceration. The Mental Health Association in Orange County…
Fire marshall reminds you to be careful
By Charlie Tyson Staff Writer While the film Home Alone has cemented the idea of Christmas crime into popular culture, Carrboro’s holiday season offers less break-ins and slightly less slapstick, with the town’s fire-rescue department reporting a quiet season so far. However, along with colorfully wrapped gifts and time spent catching up with friends and…
Strowd Roses Foundation awards grants
The Strowd Roses Foundation is now accepting applications for grants to be distributed in the first quarter of 2010. The deadline for submitting requests is Jan. 31. Guidelines and application forms are available at strowdroses.org. The foundation awarded grants to 14 local organizations for the last quarter of 2009, bringing more than $470,000 the total distributed for…
Cornucopia House names board
The Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center board of directors elected new officers for 2010. John Grubenhoff was elected chair; Moyer Smith as vice chair; Charlotte Leidy, board secretary; and Pegi Brady, treasurer.
NC faculty named fellows
Three UNC faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The association elects fellows to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The three new fellows are pharmacologist Klaus Hahn and biologists Joseph Kieber and Mark A. Peifer.
Blood drive record
UNC faculty, staff, retirees, students and local residents set a new record for the winter edition of the Carolina Blood Drive on Tuesday, Dec. 15, with 405 productive units of blood collected. UNC sponsored the drive in Fetzer Gym with the American Red Cross, with a goal of 400 units. The next large Carolina Blood…
Two die in train collision
An Amtrak train heading from Charlotte to New York collided with a car Tuesday morning at a railroad crossing in Efland, killing two people. Erin Brett Lindsay-Calkins was driving the car, and she and her 5-year-old son, Nicholas Lindsay, who was thrown from the back seat, were killed.
