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Author: Staff

Noticia en breve: Para familias de niños chicos

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

Head Start provee servicios de guardería totalmente gratis para los niños quienes califican para el programa. El programa de Early Head Start o de Head Start es para niños chicos (menores de 5 años) de familias de bajos ingresos económicos. Para más información y las solicitudes, visite al Orange County Head Start/Early Head Start, 800…

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Noticia en breve: Que jueguen las niñas

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

¿Tiene una niña quien quiere ser futbolista? ¡Regístrela ya! El programa es gratis. Para niñas de 6 a 13 años de edad. Martes y jueves en la tarde, junio y julio. East Chapel Hill High School. Para más información, llame al 636-5969.

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Community Brief: Toddlers needed for research study

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

Families of toddlers living within 100 miles of Chapel Hill are needed to participate in a research study. Participants may include parents and their toddlers under age 25 months who have difficulty with social communication as compared with other areas of development like gross motor skills. One goal is to build a foundation upon which…

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Community Brief: Library friend

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

The Friends of the Carrboro Library have selected David Dusto, a rising second-year student in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC, as this year’s recipient of a $1,500 scholarship. According to the Friends of the Carrboro Library, Dusto was selected because he demonstrated a clear desire to pursue a career in public…

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Community Brief: Free laughs

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

DSI Comedy Theater will now perform its show Mr. Diplomat for free on Friday nights to celebrate the show’s fifth anniversary. In Mr. Diplomat, a local celebrity will describe experiences while improv comedians act out the story on stage. The show is every Friday at 9:30 p.m.

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Community Brief: International party

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

The Internationalist bookstore is holding its Hello Goodbye Internationalist Fundraiser Party on Friday, May 16, at 7 p.m. The party will bid goodbye to one manager and welcome another, and it will include food and music. The after party will move to Southern Rail until midnight. Donations are welcome.

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For the Record: Three lives far too short

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

Two accidents and a senseless act of violence, and this community is without three bright lights that once walked among us. Our hearts go out to the family and friends of James Karpinos, Jake Billings and Irina Yarmolenko, who grew up here and, just as they were taking wing, are now gone. Each had left…

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For the Record: 05/15/08

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

A friend of ours who used to work at the Inter-Faith Council once lamented over another in the string of attempts to find a new home for the downtown homeless shelter by noting that, “If we were talking about dolphins, we’d have no problem.” He was absolutely right. If Chapel Hill and Carrboro suddenly found…

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Letter: Thanks for a great day

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

A belated Bravo to the Carrboro High School football team, several dozen of whom turned out to volunteer on Carrboro Day. The purple-jerseyed Jaguars and their super coach, Jason Tudryn, arrived in time to help set up and stayed all afternoon moving tables, chairs, books and band equipment. They played with little kids and ran…

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Letter: First and worst

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

Just a few weeks before they are to graduate, hundreds of high school seniors in North Carolina have been punched in the gut. Today, the North Carolina Community College system announced that no community college will accept undocumented students. These children did not make the decision to come here, and most do not have the…

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Letter: Vote Allison

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

Leo Allison is the better choice to fill the Orange County Board of Commissioners position in the June 24 run-off election because he is caring, thorough and a tireless contributor to the community he has loved since childhood. And, he is known to do his homework! At Efland-Cheeks Elementary, “our school,” where we both volunteer…

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“It sounds crazy now, but I only sent in one college application.”

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

(Following is Chancellor-elect Holden Thorp’s acceptance speech at the Spangler Center in Chapel Hill after being introduced by President Erskine Bowles and elected by the UNC Board of Governors on May 8.) Members of the Board of Governors; President Bowles; Trustees Perry and Schwab and all of the UNC Board of Trustees; members of the…

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Thorp is the right choice for chancellor

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

By Robert Dickson I shuddered last fall when I read that UNC Trustee Roger Perry had said that the search firm hired to find the new chancellor knew every “player” in the country. That description implied to me that our school was in for yet another development-minded leader and that the university of never-ending construction…

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Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

Students arrive at Carrboro High’s first-ever prom at the Century Center Saturday. Photo by Kirk Ross.

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School Brief: Stone Soup

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Staff

Kristin Lengowski’s Children’s Theatre will present Miss Spider’s Tea Party and Stone Soup at Carrboro Elementary School this Saturday and Sunday. The plays will be presented in the Carrboro Elementary auditorium at 3 p.m. both days. Tickets are $5.

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