Julie Dermody’s fourth-grade class of English Language Learners open their museum, “Our Life,†today (Thursday) at Scroggs Elementary School. For the year-long project, students made multiple trips to the Ackland Art Museum and used resources from UNC’s Wilson Library, riding free Chapel Hill buses for the field trips. A local artist assisted students in creating…
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For the Record: 55 anyone?
This may sound crazy, but once upon a time, during another oil crisis, a Republican president suggested that this country might want to conserve. In fact, one of the conservation measures he pushed for and won was a reduction in the speed limit to 55 miles per hour. Sometime later for reasons too many to…
For the Record: Ouch
During this season of budgets there is a lot of concern about what looks like a big year for tax hikes. Many of us as well are already digging deeper to cover fuel costs directly and inflation driven by them indirectly. Then there’s the simple fact that the making and selling of housing, now in…
‘This is our time’
Editor’s note: Following is the closing of remarks by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois in St. Paul, Minn. on Tuesday, June 3 upon the conclusion of the Democratic Primary season. The Senator became the party’s presumptive nominee for President of the United States after reaching the necessary delegate count to secure the nomination. He is…
Senator Dole: Vulnerable on children’s health
By Adam Searing Two new statewide polls show a virtual tie in the race for U.S. Senate between incumbent Senator Elizabeth Dole and Democratic challenger Kay Hagan, a state senator from Greensboro. This is obviously sparking some worry over at the Dole campaign, where Dole’s name recognition and millions in donations have perhaps made her…
The money shuffle in Raleigh
By Chris Fitzsimon Many of the decisions state lawmakers make this session will be influenced by November’s election and legislative leaders in both parties have plenty of people to help them figure out how certain issues will play with the voters. The Democratic Caucus in the House and Senate each has its own political consultants…
Chatham extends building ban
by Catherine Rierson Staff Writer Last week the Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved a six-month extension to the development moratorium to complete several major land use ordinances. The moratorium expires December 2, and applies only to residential developments with at least 26 residential lots.
School board to meet on grading system, policy changes
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meets tonight (Thursday) at 7 at the Chapel Hill Town Hall on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The board will consider in a work session a proposed change to student grading that would emphasize consistency and add a floor of 61 to the numeric grading scale. Opponents…
UNC professor to lead community journalism efforts
UNC News Services The National Newspaper Association (NNA) has named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jock Lauterer its point person on community journalism for the trade association’s nationwide membership primarily of non-daily newspapers. Lauterer is a lecturer in community journalism and news writing at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication,…
Healthy Kids Campaign plans Saturday celebration
Fresh on the heels of winning kudos Tuesday night from the Town of Carrboro for community gardening, the Orange County Partnership for Young Children plans a celebration of its Healthy Kids Campaign Saturday from 3-5 p.m. at Carrboro Elementary School. The campaign has set up two gardens in Carrboro — one at the school and…
The Mill: Bee arty
Here’s a true test of artistic ability: a beehive hairdo art contest sponsored by the Beehive Hair Salon. Bring your artistic representation of the ‘do by 7 p.m. Saturday, June 28. It can be any medium, style and size — as long as it fits in the salon — and all ages are encouraged to…
Scroggs calls it a day
by Susan Dickson When Steve Scroggs began his first day as assistant superintendent for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, he sat outside his office and cried. After nearly 30 years working directly with children, Scroggs had made the transition to school administration, and found himself a little lonely. “It was the first time there wasn’t a…
Penstemon Fields
By Ken Moore Last week, I described my delight in finding a snakeroot with two flowers. This past weekend, my gardening friend, Sally, was downright apologetic in inviting me over to see several snakeroots growing in her wild garden. They were not only taller than ones I have seen, but at the base of one…
Recently: Seymour Center takes the “senior†out of aging
By Valarie Schwartz It’s already been a year since the Chapel Hill Senior Center on Elliott Road closed and the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center opened on Homestead Road. Not only did it move, the name has stuck — the seniors who use it have dropped “senior†from their vernacular when they refer to their…
Carrboro readies for vote on budget
by Kirk Ross Staff Writer After a short public hearing at Town Hall Tuesday night on the proposed 2009-2009 budget, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen asked for a small rewrite and indicated they are likely to approve the proposal at the next meeting on June 3. The main change as a result of the hearing…
