EmPOWERment, Inc. and the Chapel Hill Police Department would like to thank everyone who came out on a warm, lovely August evening to walk through Northside on Neighborhood Night Out. Hundreds of neighbors and visitors of all ages — from babies to community elders — joined the festivities, celebrated the neighborhood’s lower crime rates and…
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Letter: Burr’s vote
Richard Burr’s recent “No†vote to tax subsidies for wind and solar energy is a loss for renewable energy and may cost thousands of American jobs. By a narrow six-vote margin, Senate Republicans blocked voting on the subsidies, which run out for good in December, for the eighth time. While huge oil companies continue to…
Obituary – Christopher C. Fordham III
Dr. Christopher Columbus Fordham III, former dean of the School of Medicine and chancellor emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who led Carolina during a span of major success in the 1980s, died last week at UNC Hospitals. A longtime Chapel Hill resident, he was 81. “Our hearts and prayers go…
The Eater: 08/21/08
Eater report: EVOS An eater sends in this report on EVOS, a national chain with a new location in Eastgate near Trader Joe’s. The EVOS concept is “healthy fast food.†The Freerange Steakburger sans cheese was neither huge nor extraordinarily flavorful. (Devotees of the Hardee’s Monster Thickburger need not apply.) The non-deep-fried Airfries were decent,…
Land & Table Brief: Breeze Family Farm open house
Orange County Cooperative Extension and the Economic Development Commission, in collaboration with NCSU’s College of Agriculture and Life Science, will host an open house at the W.C. Breeze Family Farm Extension and Research Center on Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m. The open house will feature the People Learning Agriculture Now for Tomorrow (PLANT) @…
Land & Table Brief: River critters
The Haw River Watch Project will host a workshop to teach about pollution in the Haw River on Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Participants will collect water samples and inspect them under microscopes to monitor “river critters†with varying sensitivities to pollution. The health of these critters is an indication of the…
Land & Table Brief: Potluck in a Pasture
ChathamArts’ “Potluck in a Pasture†is a chance to enjoy locally grown food, visit a sustainable farm and meet several artists, Sunday Sept. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Castle Rock Gardens. The farm is located at 3232 Castle Rock Road in north Chatham, west of N.C. 87 between Pittsboro and Chapel Hill. Visitors…
Hi Mom! Film Festival
The Hi Mom! Film Festival returns for its 10th go-‘round. The Festival takes place September 5 and 6 and includes 51 short films spread out over four different showings. The first is the Outdoor Block, which includes family-friendly films screened atop the Chapel Hill Wallace Parking Deck behind the post office on Sept. 5 at…
Water Watch: Wednesday, August 20
LAKE LEVELS University Lake: 4‘ 2.5†below full Cane Creek Reservoir: 7‘ .25†below full PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH Jones Ferry Water Treatment Plant: 1.33†Cane Creek Reservoir: 1.24â€
Rescuing cranefly orchids from English ivy
By Ken Moore Last summer, I described the elusive cranefly orchid, Tipularia discolor (see Flora in the Aug. 2, 2007 issue of The Carrboro Citizen). I’m as excited about its once-a-year flowering recurrence now as last summer. If you didn’t catch them last year, I encourage you to search for them now while they’re in…
Spotlight: Prometheus’ Garden
OCSC will show the claymation short film Prometheus’ Garden by animator Bruce Bickford and the documentary Luck of a Foghorn, a collection of interviews with Bickford, on Aug. 20 starting at 9:30 p.m.
CHHS football player dies
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Atlas Fraley, a star football player and a rising senior at Chapel Hill High School, died Tuesday in his home. According to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools officials, the cause of death has not yet been determined, but several news reports have said his death was caused by an asthma attack.
East Main project heads for review
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Wednesday morning, while a light drizzle fell outside what’s to become the new leasing office for Main Street Partners, Laura Van Sant spent a few moments inside on her cell phone conducting a key first step for the new enterprise: getting the power turned on. The office, located at 206…
Schools pass state test
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer All of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools met expected or high growth levels, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s ABCs growth results released last week. ABCs growth measures how much students improve from one year to the next by looking at individual students’ test results.
A picnic packed into a squirmy, stilted show
By Valarie Schwartz It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve been putting it off this long, but every August since the Paperhand Puppet Intervention (PPI) started bringing weekend shows to the Forest Theater, it has been my intention to attend. Finally, in its ninth year, we made it over Sunday night for I am an Insect:…
