The first People United 5K will be held at Culbreth Middle School on May 17 at 8 a.m. The race promotes awareness of nonviolence and peaceful interactions within the community and raises money for the Family Violence Prevention Center.
Author: Staff
School Brief: CHHS concerts
The Chapel Hill High School Symphonic Band and Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Combos will perform concerts this month in the Hanes Theater at Chapel Hill High. The Symphonic Band and Percussion Ensemble will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. on May 13. The concert will feature a new piece performed with visiting eighth-grade band students…
School Brief: Student leaders
Students from Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill high schools placed in contests at the North Carolina State Leadership Conference in Greensboro, April 24-26. Chapel Hill High School senior Audrey Vaught finished second in the state in Impromptu Speaking, while Chapel Hill High junior Nick Ludlow finished second in Business Procedures. Both will represent North…
School Brief: Autism training
The Orange/Chatham Chapter of the Autism Society of North Carolina and the North Carolina Family to Family Health Information Center of the Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center will hold a free parent training tonight (Thursday) from 6 to 8:30 at Extraordinary Ventures on South Elliott Road. The training, called Public Health Programs 1, will feature discussion…
School Brief: Principal grad
Shelia Burnette, principal of Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, graduated on May 1 from the Leadership Program for New Principals offered by the Principals’ Executive Program of the UNC Center for School Leadership Development.
Wild weekend in review
Certainly the first weekend of May in 2008 will be remembered as one of the town’s most hectic, festive and musical.
CHS Women’s Soccer
(via Tony Blanford) Monday 4-21 Carrboro beat the Durham School of the Arts 4-0 at Carrboro. Goals scored by Olivia Blanford (2), Vicky Aldana and Mel Cranfill, assisted by Katie Gilmore, Peyton Kennedy, Kelly Casey and Molly Acuff. Shots taken: Carrboro 16, DSA 9. Saves: Carrboro’s Rachel Horton had 7, DSA 8.
Water Watch – Wednesday, May 7
LAKE LEVELS University Lake: 0’ 3.5†below full Cane Creek Reservoir: 4’ 5.75†below full PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH Jones Ferry Water Treatment Plant: 0†Cane Creek Reservoir: 0.06â€
Packed House Downtown
A quick report: Superchunk is on now (3 p.m.). Arcade Fire up next. The town didn’t shut down and you can actually get in and out of the Town Commons. Voting goes on. I suspect there may be a run on ice cream downtown after this thing lets out. Gonna be a long weekend.
Ill-natured Agnes
By Ken Moore The Haw River Assembly’s Earth Day walk along the Haw River revealed a spectacular display of an ill-natured plant. No sooner had we entered the forest on the northeast side of the US 64 bridge than several walkers inquired about the heavy, perfumed fragrance wafting on the spring breeze. We eventually became…
One wild weekend ahead
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer This weekend, the Town Commons will be packed with activity, kicking off with a concert sponsored by the Barack Obama presidential campaign on Friday afternoon and closing with the 13th annual Carrboro Day on Sunday. The “Change Rocks†concert, featuring Arcade Fire and Superchunk, is intended to encourage one-stop early…
Transfer tax foes spend big
by Kirk Ross Staff Writer Determined to keep their perfect score in defeating counties’ efforts to adopt a real estate transfer tax, the North Carolina real estate and construction interests, led by the North Carolina Association of Realtors and the North Carolina Homebuilders, have pumped more than $205,000 in cash and in-kind contributions into defeating…
Campaigns in full swing as voters head to the polls
by Kirk Ross Staff Writer An historic spring primary winds up this week with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their supporters criss-crossing the state in search of votes and North Carolinians brave enough to have their televisions on, subjected to a near-endless barrage of state and national campaign ads. Local and some statewide…
Candidates speak out on mental health reform
by Taylor SiskStaff Writer“How, if elected, do you propose to deal with the provisioning of mental health care services in North Carolina?â€It’s a question that has been posed with some regularity to this year’s candidates for governor – and urgently so: Our mental health care system is in crisis. Among those candidates, Democrats Richard Moore…
Recently: Carrying on after the bottom falls out
By Valarie Schwartz There are two ponds in my neighborhood. The one nearest my house has a fallen tree lying across a portion of it upon which on sunny days a host of turtles can be found collecting vitamin D. They line the log from both ends, dozens of them, each looking toward the middle…
