Nine eighth-grade students from Culbreth Middle School’s Global Connections class accompanied teacher Gretchen Bade to Dominica in the Lesser Antilles over the winter break to perform service projects for the Kalinago people. While in Dominica, the students partnered with a local youth group in the village of Sineku to perform construction work on an elderly…
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School Brief: Ephesus teacher receives website award
Ephesus Elementary School teacher Courtney Mills recently received the Best Teacher Website Award from the North Carolina Technology in Education Society. She will be presented with a $250 award at the organization’s state conference in Raleigh in March. Her website includes wikis, podcasts, assignments, photo albums, blogs and student work.
School Brief: Read In Day
McDougle Elementary School will host an African-American Read In Day on Friday. The event, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, focuses on literacy and black literary culture. Lincoln Center administrators and other community members are expected to read to children at the school from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
School Brief: Teen drinking forum
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools PTSAs will host the fifth annual parent forum, “Should We Drink With Our Teens?†on Feb. 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the East Chapel Hill High School Auditorium. The event will feature an hour of expert panelist presentations followed by an hour of Q&A. Panelists will discuss the…
School Brief: ECHHS teacher receives national math award
East Chapel Hill High School math teacher John Wilson III has been selected as a winner of the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished High School Mathematics Teaching by the Mathematical Association of America. Wilson is one of 23 teachers selected from high schools across the United States and Canada. He was nominated by East…
Josh Craig of Chapel Hill High School, top, won by a fall in 47 seconds against his opponent, Millbrook’s Henry Zaremba, Friday night in Raleigh. The Tigers defeated Millbrook 35-34.
Jacob Junker, a Carrboro High School freshman, takes a shot at the basket in Friday night’s JV game against Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh. Carrboro was defeated at Cardinal Gibbons, 52-25.
Varsity Boys Basketball
Recent results Carrboro 80, Science & Math 49 Chapel Hill 57, Hillside 85 East Chapel Hill 61, Jordan 59 Cedar Ridge 53, Raleigh Charter 37
Rec Sports
Adult Co-Rec Softball League The Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department will sponsor a 2009 Spring Co-Rec Softball League. The league will play on Tuesdays and Thursdays from early April through mid-June. Each team will play 1 to 2 games per week, followed by a double-elimination tournament. A team fee of $608 is required. A deposit…
For the Record: Redesign in Raleigh
The “elect†has now been removed from Gov. Beverly Perdue’s job title, and the office furniture has been rearranged. The governor hauled her own desk into her new office the other day and situated it by a window. Let’s hope this arrangement affords her a better view of the state than her predecessor’s. Over the…
Is this well-managed growth?
Mari Weiss I am a new Carolinian. Since moving to Chapel Hill/Carrboro, I have learned a great many things. The first thing I learned was that my house was located in Chapel Hill but in a town, heretofore unknown to me, called Carrboro. I have also learned that, unlike living in Los Angeles, my voice…
High-speed Internet must be a part of Carrboro’s infrastructure
by Brian Russell People who live, work and visit Carrboro love the free wireless Internet. But the Town of Carrboro’s wireless is a victim of its own success. I’ve heard from a lot of people who have problems with it and wish it worked in their homes. Fact is, the area the wireless signal covers…
Tribute
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to even talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.†—Rumi— Eric Edwin Diener died unexpectedly on December 29, 2008, in Montgomery,…
Letter: What’s the hurry?
I think the Orange County commissioners need to gather more knowledge and weigh more feasible options before settling on the Howell property for the waste transfer site. I encourage them to solicit vendor proposals for disposal services for six to 12 months or longer. I think they must search for alternative sites using community input.
Letter: Dear commissioners
For years we have been receiving Waste Matters from the county which had good ideas and creative thinking on waste management. I am distressed that only [Commissioner Pam] Hemminger is courageous enough to be open minded on this very serious issue. Please consider more open minded and efficient ideas for dealing with the waste produced…