The Boys and Girls Club will launch a campaign to open its first club in Orange County with a dinner featuring UNC football coach Butch Davis on May 6 at 7 p.m. at Pazzo in Southern Village. The Boys and Girls Club hopes to raise enough funds to open this year. Tickets are $110 for…
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Real Men Rock
The third annual Real Men Rock event will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at University Mall on South Estes Drive. The event is focused on reaching out to parents, especially fathers, to educate them about the dangers of shaking small children and provide them with tips for coping with a crying…
Jordan Lake festival
The Jordan Lake Arts and Music Festival will be held May 2 and 3 from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. both days. The event will feature arts and crafts exhibits, as well as music by the Bluegrass Experience, Sweet Potato Pie, Coyote Ridge, Williamson Brothers, No Strings Attached, Vintage Blu and Cool John Ferguson. In…
Kids’ tomato seedling event in Carrboro
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market will give away Cherry and Sungold tomato seedlings to children on April 25 starting at 8:30 a.m. The market will supply growing instructions and the Orange County Master Gardeners will offer planting advice. In 10 weeks, the children should come back with a clipping from their seedlings, and the fruit will…
Carrboro Market meeting
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market will hold a meeting to plan for the future Friends of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market on May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Carrboro Town Hall. The Friends of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market is being developed as a tax-exempt organization to undertake charitable and educational activities related to agricultural issues. Market officials…
South Estes Farmers’ Market anniversary
The South Estes Farmers’ Market will celebrate its first anniversary on May 2 from 8 a.m. to noon. The event will feature more than 25 local vendors, live music by The Starlite Band, prize drawings, cooking demonstrations and face painting. The South Estes Farmers’ Market is held outside of A Southern Season at the University…
Food-processing center receives grants
The planned Piedmont Food and Agricultural Processing Center in Hillsborough has been awarded more than $1 million in grants during the past six months. The center will open in 2010 and will provide a wide range of food-processing equipment and business development support and education. Farmers and local food entrepreneurs in the Piedmont will have…
No happy alternatives
Evidently, Tuesday evening was decision night in southern Orange County, as both the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the Orange County Board of Commissioners reached conclusions on two of the more controversial issues in their jurisdictions. Carrboro has long tried to find a workable compromise with the state Department of Transportation on the widening of…
Online and off base
North Carolina is reviewing the idea of dropping requirements that legal advertisements run in local newspapers. The North Carolina Press Association’s ad campaign, which featured a confused, elderly woman, probably didn’t do much to burnish the industry’s image as a place to reach younger readers, but it made a solid point that many people do…
Honoring a true leader
Editor’s note: Following is a mayor’s proclamation in honor of Shirley Marshall read at Tuesday’s Carrboro Board of Aldermaen meeting: WHEREAS, Shirley E. Marshall was born on April 27,1925 in Hempstead, New York; and WHEREAS, guided by a deep inner core of strength, when faced with the inconceivable tragedy of losing both her husband and…
Toward a deeper understanding of autism
By Peter Kramer April is Autism Awareness Month, a good time to learn about and focus on one of the more perplexing disorders. On Thursday, April 30, from 1 to 3 p.m., Geri Dawson, the chief science officer for Autism Speaks, an advocacy group, will present a talk entitled “Recent Findings on The Diagnosis, Causes,…
Save our students or the booster clubs?
By Chris Fitzsimon Senate finance chairman David Hoyle announced this week that the Senate tax package would be released next Wednesday, and it seems all but certain that it will expand the base of sales and income taxes and lower the overall rates. The budget the Senate passed last week counts on $500 million from…
Farm Tour Tips
By Emily Buehler This weekend is the 14th annual Piedmont Farm Tour, a chance to visit 40 of our area’s small farms. With over 9,000 visits to farms by over 300 families last year, our tour is the largest in the country! And it boasts everything from grass-fed beef and free-range chicken operations to biodynamic…
Obituary: Mother Leoma Harrington Page
Mother Leoma H. Page, age 82, of Chapel Hill, passed on Friday, April 10, at UNC Hospitals. Services were held April 15 at White Rock United Holy Church and she was buried at Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery. She is survived by her seven children, Sarah, Walter Jr., Carolyn, and Larry (Jacqueline) Harrington; Patricia Faucette; Marie…
Obituary: Earl Judson Byrd
Earl Judson Byrd, 83, died in Duke Hospital on April 11 after a lengthy illness. He was the son of the late Reverend C. E. Byrd and Nettie Lewis Byrd. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jane Sparrow Byrd; daughter, Elizabeth B. Rees, and her husband, Mark Rees, of North Andover, Massachusetts;…