A 26-year-old George “Cat Baby†Cannada leads the CHHS football team onto Carrboro’s Lions’ Park field in 1963. Photo by Jock Lauterer By Jock Lauterer Cat Baby would have loved the return of high school football to Carrboro. That’s right, Friday night’s inaugural football game at the new Carrboro High School off Smith Level Road…
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Showing their spirit
At the Carrboro Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday night, Randee Haven-O’Donnell, Joal Hall Broun and Jacqueline Gist joined their fellow aldermen and town staff in wearing Carrboro High School jerseys and t-shirts — showing they can indeed all agree on something. Photo by Kirk Ross
Community Briefs: 8/30/07
Land Trust receives donation Pickett Land & Building Company recently donated $10,000 to the Orange Community Housing and Land Trust. The Land Trust will use the funds for long-term maintenance of Land Trust properties, which are sold to low-income buyers at affordable rates. Pickett Land & Building focuses on building traditional North Carolina homes with…
Community Calendar: 8/30/07
Farmers’ Markets Carrboro Farmers’ Market – Sat 7am-12pm through Dec 22; Wed 3:30-6:30pm through Oct 17. Carrboro Town Commons. 932-1641, www.carrborofarmersmarket.com Southern Village Farmers’ Market – Last week! Thu, Aug 30, 4-7pm, at Market Street on the Village Green. Hillsborough Farmers’ Market – Wed 3-6pm; Sat 7:30am-noon. Apr-Nov. 732-8315. Fearrington Village Farmers’ Market – Tue…
The Mill: 8/30/07
WCOM radio host Tom Arnel says he’s set up a series of “musical debates†with candidates for Carrboro Mayor and Board of Aldermen. Arnel’s 5-6 p.m. Saturday slot called “The Placeholder Show†will features the candidates spinning discs and, perhaps in some cases, just plain spinning. That’s 103.5 on your FM dial. Here’s the lineup:…
Arts Calendar: 8/30/07
Carrboro Brushes with Life – Art, artists & mental illness. Through Sept 9. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 929-2787, artscenterlive.org In Memoriam: A Life in Art – Works by Ramell Moore. Through Sept. 9. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 929-2787, artscenterlive.org Background Music for Birds – Mixed media paintings by Renee…
Music Calendar: 8/30/07 – 9/6/07
Thursday August 30 Blue Horn Lounge: Blue Marble Beat. 9pm Cat’s Cradle: The War, Baumer, David Spencer. 8:30pm. $10 The Cave: Early: Functry. Late: Transistor Sun, The T’s. Local 506: Chris Pureka, Judith Avers. 9pm. $10 Weaver Street Market: Contrazz. 6pm Friday August 31 Blue Horn Lounge: Millhouse. 9pm Cat’s Cradle: Shakermaker, Butterflies, The Strugglers,…
Obituary – Willis Hampton Knight
Willis Hampton Knight, age 83, died Sunday, August 26, 2007 at Laurels of Chatham Nursing Home in Pittsboro, N.C. after several years of declining health. Preceding Knight in death were his parents, Hampton and Cara Hobby Knight, brother Everett Knight and sisters Elsie McBane, Edna Caldwell, Lillian Knight and Helen Campbell.
Obituary – Ruth Solomon Wright
Ruth Solomon Wright, age 89, died August 25, 2007 in Chapel Hill after several years of declining health. Born in Pressman’s Home, Tennessee in 1918, she had lived in Chapel Hill since 1948 and was a homemaker for the majority of her life. She was pre-deceased by her husband of 60 years, O.J. (Jack) Wright,…
Jaguar time
Carrboro’s first high school set to open Carrboro High School Principal Jeff Thomas checks out one of the custom Jaguar clocks. Photo by Jock Lauterer By Susan Dickson and Kirk Ross Staff Writers The much-anticipated opening of Carrboro High School has finally arrived, and on Monday more than 600 students will become Carrboro’s first high…
Jaguars’ first game a real learning experience
Carrboro High School running back Brooks Morgan heads for the sidelines in an attempt to find breathing room against an agressive Red Devils defense. Photo by Kirk Ross By Kirk Ross Staff Writer By Wednesday, after Friday’s 47-0 rout at the hands of the Graham Red Devils, head football coach Jason Tudryn was philosophical. “We’ve…
Scurrying for cover
Photo by Isaac Sandlin Tuesday’s rain was the first serious amount of widespread precipitation in almost a month and it sent many in Carrboro scurrying for cover.
Book Cellar brings chapter to a close
Tim Grant in front of The Book Cellar at Carr Mill. Photo by Kirk Ross By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Tim Grant hasn’t been behind the counter of The Book Cellar for all of its 22 years of operation, but he knows that as he prepares to close the store, it’s the end of an…
County mulls transfer tax referendum
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Board of County Commissioners said on Tuesday that they need more time before deciding to put a land transfer tax or a sales tax increase on the ballot for this fall’s election. In this year’s state budget, the Legislature gave counties the option of a 0.4 percent land transfer…
Farmers’ Market rift gets intense
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH — Two opposing groups appealed to the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday for control of the Hillsborough Farmers’ Market. Led by co-managers, the farmers, bakers and artisans who sell at the Hillsborough Farmers’ Market jointly manage it. At Tuesday’s meeting, a group of 13 vendors asked commissioners to…