Chapel Hill Police apprehended Carlton Anthony Halliday over the weekend after he was positively identified as the suspect in an armed robbery at Colonial Village at Highland Hills Apartments.
Author: Staff
News brief: Robbery suspects charged
Chapel Hill Police have charged three suspects in connection with an armed robbery in the 300 block of West Rosemary Street on Dec. 18.
News brief: Pot, hash siezed in arrest
The Chapel Hill Police Narcotics Unit, with the assistance of the department’s Special Emergency Response Team, seized 11.5 pounds of marijuana and 10.5 ounces of hashish from the residence of Ivan Flemming Moore on Friday.
News brief: Holiday recycling
There will be no recycling pick-up on Christmas day. Those who recycle Thursdays should put out their bins by 7 a.m. Saturday for them to be picked up.
News brief: Library director appointed
Lucinda Munger has been named the new library services director for Orange County. Munger will be responsible for coordinating and directing the activities of the main Orange County Library in Hillsborough as well as the three branch libraries.
Middle school day unlikely to lengthen
Susan Dickson Staff Writer While middle school students should be able to get credit for high school level courses taken in middle school, extending the school day is not the best way to allow that, school board members said in a work session last week. Members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education…
Recently: Giving above and beyond
Flora: Christmas Ferns
For the Record 12/24/08
What is local? We’re curious. We hear so much talk about buying local; supporting local; eating, breathing and existing local. And we get it, sort of. The benefits of doing much more closer to home are clear, especially from an environmental standpoint. And this paper is among the many encouraging support of our local economy….
Leaking roofs tell the story
Letter to the editor: Get me to the airport on time
Get me to the airport on time Chancellor Thorp confuses the Orange County community again (“no decision has been madeâ€). But this time, despite his self-proclaimed “analytical skills,†it may have backfired. Talbert & Bright have planned 64 airports in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast region over 15 years. Their 2005 UNC study was based on…
Letter to the editor: Good start
Thank you for your 12/22 article on the green collar economy. Readers will also be interested to learn that the Carrboro Board of Aldermen made our top economic development priority for 2008 “to explore green collar business development.â€
Letter to the editor: Act misnamed
I am writing concerning my grave concerns about the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, also known as card check.
Community brief: Horton handmade Christmas
Horton Middle School presented five handmade quilts, the result of the collective efforts of 320 students, to Chatham County Habitat for Humanity on Friday.
Community brief: Galloway Ridge awards grants
The Galloway Ridge Charitable Fund has announced this year’s grant recipients. The fund awarded grants to: Chatham County Together! — an organization providing mentorship to children with a parent in jail;