The premiere screening of the documentary Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the N.C. Fund will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 at Union Auditorium on the UNC campus. The showing will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers and professors. The documentary tells the story of the anti-poverty North Carolina Fund established…
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Community Brief: Music benefit
Cat’s Cradle will host a benefit for the Woods Charter School Music Department on Friday, March 14. Playing are Hobex, Great Big Gone and Lynn Blakey & Ecki Heins. Doors open at 8 and admission is $10.
Land & Table Brief: Spring garden tour
The Chapel Hill Garden club will hold its biennial Spring Garden Tour Saturday, April 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday April 13 from noon to 4 p.m. The tour is self-guided and includes 10 private gardens. Refreshments, exhibits, a raffle, live music, demonstrations and plant sales will be held at the Botanical…
Land & Table Brief: Market times
Well, they’ve gone and once again prematurely sprung daylight-saving time on us, so let’s call it spring. And by way of making it official, your local farmers’ markets are swinging wide their doors. At the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, springtime hours commence this Saturday — 7 a.m. to noon. The return of the Carrboro Wednesday Market…
Land & Table Brief: Splendid table
Cookbook author and radio personality Lynne Rossetto Kasper will visit the Fearrington Barn on Thursday, April 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. to read from her book The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Supper. She hosts the radio show The Splendid Table and writes a column called Ask the Splendid Table for newspapers. Her third,…
Land & Table Brief: Agriculture talk
The 3CUPS coffee shop will host a forum on Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss gaps in local agriculture infrastructure. Leading the discussion are Tim Philpott, food editor for the environmental website Grist and founder of Maverick Farms, and Jennifer Curtis, project director for NC Choices, which promotes sustainable local farming. The discussion…
Land & Table Brief: Haw workshop
The Haw River Watch will host a Macro-Micro Workshop on Saturday, March 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bynum Beach. River Watch volunteers will teach those interested about collecting and inspecting water samples for microscopic creatures (with an interlude for lunch). Examining the creatures can provide information about water quality. RSVP and get…
Letter to the Editor: Article was off-base
If the sentiment expressed in Peha and Lester’s article “Paper, pencil and chalk†(3/6/08) is the same perspective held by our school systems’ administrators, our children are being done a great disservice. The authors admit “technology has revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives,†yet they conclude “we may all serve children better with paper,…
Letter to the Editor: Dinner Thanks
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the Eleventh Annual Community Dinner celebrating Orange County’s cultural diversity, held on Sunday, March 2. The fact that between five and six hundred people attended the event bears testimony to the multicultural goodwill present in our very diverse community.
Thoughts on CHHS cheating scandal
By Holly Hardin Spending time trying to hunt down graduates who may have had access to Chapel Hill High School keys and discussing how to curb cheating only addresses this problem at the surface. We need to ask ourselves, what about our educational system is causing our students to cheat? Should the students be held…
The wrong tax and the wrong time
By Mark Zimmerman Orange County has always prided itself on being a progressive community that strives for fairness. When the Orange County Commissioners chose to add a referendum to the May 6 primary election ballot imposing a new sales tax on property, known as the transfer tax, it abandoned those principles. The transfer tax is…
For the Record: 03/13/08
Editor’s note: Following is the statement by Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy regarding the death of Student Body President Eve Carson delivered on behalf of the Town Council at the start of Monday’s council meeting. We begin this evening’s meeting by acknowledging the grief and pain that we are suffering at the loss of our…
School Brief: Best essays
The Orange County Human Resources Commission recently announced the winners of the Human Relations Month essay contest. Tristin VanOrd won first place, while Alex Cecil and Jenny Jin both won third place. The winners, selected from 170 entries, are all taught by Nancy Kindem of McDougle Middle School. The students read their essays at the…
School Brief: Musical crew
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students recently took part in the 2008 North Carolina Eastern Regional High School Orchestra. Students selected for the orchestra include: Taylor Marlow and Margaret Neville, Carrboro High School; Audrey Baron, Rebecca Clemens, Caitlin Collins, Paula Espinosa, Grace Haaland, Susan Lee, Irene Li, Nick Lloyd, Jenny Lu, Will Myers, Sara Outing, Fei…
School Brief: History bowl champs
McDougle Middle School’s North Carolina History Bowl team won the regional competition at the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Historic Site on Feb. 20. Team members include Chris Chiesa, William Knapp, Chris Rupert and Hugo Sowder. They will compete in the North Carolina History Bowl State Competition on May 14. The team is coached by Louise Peters…
