The East Chapel Hill High School Athletic Booster Club will present “So You Want to Play a Sport in College?,†a seminar for high school students who are considering playing a sport in college and their parents, on May 4 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the East Chapel Hill High School Media Center. The…
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Evita at Cedar Ridge
The Cedar Ridge High School Cultural Arts Department will present the musical Evita in the Cedar Ridge auditorium, April 30 to May 2 at 7 each night. The musical recounts the story of Eva Peron, who rocketed to world fame in 1946 as the ambitious wife of Argentina’s president Juan Peron. Tickets are $7 for…
Tiger Open
The Chapel Hill High School Tiger Open will be held May 9 at the Challenge Golf Club in Graham. Registration will begin at 11 a.m., with a four-man shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. For more information or to be a sponsor, contact Patrick Marlatt at wvufootball95@gmail.com or 357-0236.
Technology honors
Forty middle and high school students represented Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools at the 30th Annual North Carolina Technology Students of America (NCTSA) State Conference. More than 700 students from across the state took part in the event. Winners from Chapel Hill High School were: John Cook, third place, dragster design; Chris Chiesa and Galen Burns-Fulkerson,…
High honors for Phillips
The Phillips Middle School Seventh and Eighth Grade Orchestra earned superior ratings at the Eastern Regional Orchestra Festival on April 2. The orchestra received straight superior ratings from the three judges. In addition, students received a superior rating on sight rating.
Phillips math teams compete at regional contest
Phillips Middle School’s Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II teams competed in the Regional State Mathematics Contest on March 31 at Wake Technical Community College. Phillips’ Algebra I team finished in 10th place. Team members are Martin Cho, Richard Fu, George Hito, Alan Liu and Fengyang Zhao. In individual competition, Alan Liu finished in 15th…
School Lunch Menus 4/16-4/23
Elementary Friday — Spaghetti & Meat Sauce w/Garlic Bread; Corn Dog; California Mixed Vegetables; Sweet Yellow Corn; Banana Pudding Monday —Hamburger on a Bun; Fish Nuggets w/Wheat Roll; Tater Tots; Lettuce & Tomato Salad; Peas & Carrots; Fresh Apple Halves Tuesday — Three-Cheese Baked Rotini w/Garlic Bread; Chicken Fajitas w/Salsa & Sour Cream; “Fun on…
Way to go Tar Heels
Love, loyalty, hard work and determination. Even if you are not a big fan of the University of North Carolina men’s varsity basketball program or a fan of the game itself, you have to appreciate the way in which the team won the biggest of dances and brought home a national championship trophy. If you…
Fuller’s message
Howard Fuller returned to Chapel Hill last week to speak as part of the university’s Poverty Awareness Week. Fuller was a key player in civil rights struggles in this area beginning as a student volunteer for the North Carolina Fund, which was set up to address poverty and its effects in the state. He later…
Foreclosure doesn’t have to be inevitable
By Margot C. Lester Staff Writer As local unemployment ticks up (6.5 percent in Orange County and 8.5 percent in Chatham), home values remain low and stock portfolios hemorrhage, local foreclosures continue. According to Foreclosure.com, 34 Orange County homes are currently in foreclosure; in Chatham County, the number is 22. But homeowners facing financial difficulties…
A meaningful journey
By Frank Heath Sports Columnist “North Carolina is going to win … the national championship!†Those words – uttered approximately four times now from the lips of the inimitable Voice of the Tar Heels, Woody Durham – are the signal for millions of fans of the UNC Tar Heels that the stars are once again…
Tar Heels triumph
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Around 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, a member of the attending crew at the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center placed a wooden table in the center of a stage set up on the floor of the basketball court. That act, studied intently by the several thousand assembled there, was followed…
Task force focuses on Carrboro’s local economy
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Local Living Economy Task Force hopes to launch educational campaigns for consumers and entrepreneurs, hold events to engage citizens in the local economy and create a coalition of local businesses, task force representatives reported to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday. The board created the task force in…
From Hunger Lunch to Nourish International
By Jasmina Nogo Staff Writer What began as a weekly $3 lunch of beans and rice on UNC’s campus in 2003 became a national student-run nonprofit organization that seeks to eradicate world poverty. Sindura Citineni, a 2004 UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School graduate, started the student group Hunger Lunch and used profits from the meals to…
Police seek help in robbery, kidnapping
The Chapel Hill Police Department seeks information relating to a reported robbery and kidnapping early Tuesday morning near North Columbia Street. According to police, officers responded to an armed robbery and kidnapping near the 700 block of North Columbia Street on Tuesday around 3:20 a.m. The victim reported that two suspects forced him into his…