The Chapel Hill Public Library has changed its hours to open one hour earlier on three weekday mornings and close three hours earlier on Sundays. The new schedule also reinstates Thursday evening open hours that were eliminated in 2008.
Author: Staff
Task force seeks new members
The Town of Chapel Hill Sustainable Community Visioning Task Force seeks up to six new members to assist with its charge to provide recommendations to the town council on the design and location of future development in Chapel Hill for the next five to 10 years.
Dog park closure
Chapel Hill residents are advised that the dog park at Southern Community Park will be closed for maintenance this Friday (rain date is July 13). The dog park at Homestead Park will be available for use during the temporary closure.
Big City
Hotel changes hands The Franklin Hotel has been purchased by Chapel Hill-based Wintergreen Hospitalities, the hotel development company announced Wednesday. Like Greenville dentist Dr. Robert Capps, who developed the Franklin, two of Wintergreen’s three principals — Jay and Anup Patel — are UNC alums. Jay Patel will manage day-to-day operations at the hotel. According to…
Community Calendar
Friday, July 10 ArtWalk — Openings and meet the artist events at dozens of locations in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. See Spotlight Page 7. More information at 2ndFridayArtWalk.com Carolina Sports Book Talk — Ed Southern, author of Sports in the Carolinas: From Death Valley to Tobacco Road, reads at McIntyre’s in Fearrington Village. 2pm
Dirt needed
The Carrboro High School baseball program is in need of fill dirt to level out an area for a batting cage. Preferably, it could be dropped off by dump truck as a community service. For more information, contact Mark Marcoplos at 968-0056 or marcoplos@bellsouth.net
Another positive rabies test
On Tuesday, Orange County Animal Services received a positive rabies result from the North Carolina Rabies Laboratory for a raccoon. This is the tenth confirmed rabies case in Orange County for 2009. On July 2, a resident in the vicinity of Hatch Road and Brookfield Drive west of Chapel Hill saw a dead raccoon in…
Principals named
Cicily McCrimmon has been named the new principal of Phillips Middle School. McCrimmon replaces Eileen Tully, who was named principal of East Chapel Hill High School last month.
TSA students place in national contest
Members of the Technology Student Association (TSA) from Chapel Hill High School and McDougle Middle School just got back from the national TSA conference in Denver, and many placed in the nationwide competition.
Some friendly advice
Those of you about to run, we salute you — well, I do anyway. After covering local races for most of the last two decades, I haven’t found anyone whose candidacy brought nothing to the table. Even some candidates dismissed as running for loopy reasons, or those who just signed up and were rarely heard…
On murals and a life in the arts
Alice Griffin Standing on the sidewalk next to the 14×60-foot wall in Carrboro that’s getting a new Community Rose Garden mural, I realized that I’m allowed the most fun of all, painting roses. Chapel Hill artist Emily Weinstein designed the mural, funded by Strowd Roses and the Orange County Arts Council, and when I came…
The long struggle
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from a special message to congress regarding health care sent by the president of the United States. . . . The American people are the most insurance-minded people in the world. They will not be frightened off from health insurance because some people have misnamed it “socialized medicine.â€
Filing season for election opens Monday
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer While some candidates have already announced their intentions to run, their efforts won’t become official until they make the trip to the county board of elections office in Hillsborough to sign on the dotted line and pay their filing fees. That all starts Monday at 8 a.m. Candidates have from…
Town board sends letter to Hagan on health care
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Carrboro Board of Aldermen member Dan Coleman sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan on behalf of the board and Mayor Mark Chilton asking her to support including a public option in health care reform legislation.
Big City: Varsity, La Rez and so on
Lights dim, curtain draws closed After a couple of weeks holding us in suspense, Franklin Street institution the Varsity Theater finally closed its doors. Owner Bruce Stone said the theater has struggled financially. “This is a business decision, a bottom-line decision. The numbers currently don’t support the continuation of both theaters as viable enterprises,†said…