The Chapel Hill High School annual Tiger Open Golf Classic fundraiser will be held April 5 at the Challenge Golf Club in Graham. The 18-hole scramble tournament will include novelty contests, a raffle, prizes and food. Proceeds from the event will help fund a major upgrade of the school’s conference and state championship trophy display…
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School Brief: Honorable orchestra
Haesu Jin, a senior violist from Chapel Hill High School, performed Feb. 29 in Albuquerque, N.M., as a member of the National Honors Orchestra. Jin joined 120 other students from around the country. She is a private viola student of Petra Beranyi and plays in the Chapel Hill High School Orchestra directed by Barbara Smith.
Phillips Middle School Honors
6th Grade A Honor Roll List: Alec Arshavsky, Karianne Askevold, Mackenzie Bright, Anna Broome Melissa Carroll, Carolyn Chang, Rohil Chekuri, Wanjing Cui, George De Castro, Jordan Donnelly, Samuel Dunson, Sarah Dwyer, Kyle Eng, Sarah Fordam, Joshua George, Ben Goldstein, Elianna Goldstein, Geni Gualtieri, Carina Guerra, Thomas Guest, Ori Hashmonay, Carly Hendricks, George Hito, Grant Holub-Moorman,…
Bravo, Heels!
By Frank Heath Sports Columnist Bravo, Heels! Following Tywon Lawson’s severe ankle injury early in February, there were a lot more questions about this UNC basketball team than answers. Sure, the Tar Heels still possessed the talent — as they very often do — to compete against top opposition on any given night. But when…
Carrboro High Scoreboard
Carrboro High Women’s Soccer March 10 (via Tony Blanford) Carrboro defeated Raleigh Charter, 2-1, after two periods of extra time. Raleigh goal by C. Morgan, assist H. Deters. Carrboro goals V. Aldana , M. Cranfill.
Sports Brief: Baseball fundraiser
Terry Sturdivant has been a lifelong baseball fan — and a Yankees fan, at that — an act he admits was a bit of rebellion against his father, a Red Sox loyalist. So when Sturdivant Tire and Auto at White Cross decided to focus its philanthropy, helping local baseball seemed pretty natural. Sturdivant reports that…
Sports Brief: Jaguars second in first golf match
(via Linda Thomason) Carrboro High School’s men’s golf team played in their first-ever Mid-State conference golf match Monday 3/10 at Hillandale Golf Course. The Jaguars finished second out of 8 teams competing. Cardinal Gibbons finished first with a score of 147, followed by Carrboro HS (162) and Graham HS (164). The next Mid-State match is…
Water Watch: Wednesday, March 12
LAKE LEVELS University Lake: 0‘ .25†below full Cane Creek Reservoir: 12‘ 1.25†below full PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH Jones Ferry Water Treatment Plant: 3.53†Cane Creek Reservoir: 2.99â€
Arrest made in Carson case
Chapel Hill Police released the following statement at 4:35 p.m. today (Wednesday): Early this morning the Chapel Hill Police Department received information that the individual appearing in the convenience store photograph was possibly in a residence in Durham. Chapel Hill Police Investigators then notified the Durham Police authorities and surveillance of this location was established….
Don’t Miss the Spring Ephemerals
By Ken Moore Some of our most beautiful woodland flowers are called spring ephemerals because their visible presence is fleetingly brief. They emerge from the forest floor in the chilly late winter to take advantage of the full sunlight that’s absent once the forest canopy is in full leaf. By mid-April, some of these early…
First break in Carson murder case
Chapel Hill Police investigators held a news conference at 11 a.m. today (Saturday) to announce that they had surveillance photos of a “person of interest” driving murdered UNC Student Body President Eve Carson’s SUV. The individual in the photos was using Carson’s ATM card and appears to be driving her blue 2005 Toyota Highlander. He…
Candlelight vigil for Eve Carson
Tonight there’ll be a candlelight vigil for student body president and UNC trustee Eve Carson, who was shot and killed early Tuesday morning. Here’s the official site set up by the university. This from the Chapel Hill Police: Yesterday morning at approximately 5:00 am, Chapel Hill Police responded to reported gunshots in the area of…
Living to tell the tale
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Franklin McCain accomplished a great feat on Friday at Rashkis Elementary School – he held the attention of 250 fourth- and fifth-graders for more than an hour. McCain, one of the “Greensboro Four†who participated in the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in, recounted his experiences for Rashkis students, including his…
Housing economy slowing, but by how much?
Local realtors and homebuilders agree that they’re getting at least a taste of what their counterparts in much more troubled locales are experiencing, but thoughts about the degree of the slowdown and how long it will last are much more varied.
Mental health collapse leaves network in shambles
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer “I’ve come to the conclusion,†says Karen Dunn, director of Club Nova, a Carrboro clubhouse that helps people with mental illnesses lead productive lives in the community, “that there must be a new diagnosis that hasn’t yet ended up in the DSM†– by which she refers to the Diagnostic…
