Carrboro and the rest of the O.C. bake away Lifeguard Elizabeth Hamilton surveys the pool at Heritage Hills. Photo by Kirk Ross By Kirk Ross Staff Writer If you had a strange sensation on Monday morning that something wasn’t quite right, that maybe something was missing, you were right. In most places in southern Orange…
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Neighborhood Night Out
Photo by Kirk Ross Residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, joined by police officers and town officials for the annual Neighborhood Night Out, stroll through the Northside neighborhood Tuesday. Despite the heat (thermometers read 100 degrees as the walk got started), about 60 residents turned out for the event, which wound through Northside to the…
Food at Really Really Free Market a bone of contention
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer With one participant reportedly saying, “There are people here who need to eat,†a variety of foods were distributed at last Saturday’s Really Really Free Market, held the first Saturday of each month on the Carrboro Town Commons. The rub, from the town’s perspective, is that participants in the Really…
Joe-Pye who?
Joe-Pye-Weed flower heads. Photo by Ken Moore By Ken Moore Common names and the meanings and tales associated with them are the source of endless wisdom, humor and trivia. I’ve always wondered who Joe-Pye really was. The familiar description is of a Native American herb doctor in the Massachusetts Bay Colony region. The Indian’s name…
Contaminated soil moving out
State plans to examine groundwater contamination at former Fidelity Street cleaners Roll-offs with contaminated soil are due to depart Carrboro before the weekend. Photo by Kirk Ross By Kirk Ross Staff Writer State officials say that soil removed from a former dry cleaners building on Fidelity Street will be on it’s way out of the…
County election board settles on post office for early-voting site
After searching for an alternative site to the Morehead Planetarium that’s near campus and downtown Chapel Hill, the Orange County Board of Elections decided on Tuesday night to set up an early-voting center in the lobby of the Franklin Street Post Office. Barry Garner, the county’s elections director, said the board reviewed several sites, including…
Planning board to review Alberta
It’s named after the giant mill that used to occupy the site, but the only knitting and yarn-spinning likely to be done will be in the living rooms and kitchens of its occupants. Alberta, a four-story condominium and retail project planned for the lot at the corner of Roberson Street and Sweet Bay Place, goes…
News briefs: 8/09/07
IFC hires new development director The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service has hired Kimberly Shaw as the agency’s new development director. Shaw started work on Monday. She has nearly 20 years of experience in development and marketing in the nonprofit sector and also has worked for the Carolina Theatre, the North Carolina Museum of Life…
For the Record: 8/09/07
Why not every night? Progress is slow, but there is progress. If you’ve any recollection of what things were like when they were at their worst, then a walk through Northside today will make that evident. Houses have been reclaimed, refurbished and the whole place has a tidier feel. But the ghosts of the past…
Exile on Jones Street: 8/9/07
By Kirk Ross This year there proved to be at least one great advantage to having been denied membership to the 2007 edition of the Capital Press Corps: I didn’t have to write about what a regular guy Don Beason is and how I was either shocked or knew all along that he was the…
Letters to the editor: 8/09/07
Wrong on campaign funding Chris Fitzsimon once again thinks taxpayers should be forced to fund a plan simply because he and his elitist buddies think it is a good idea (“The forgotten lesson from Jim Black,†August 2). He believes that if only the public campaign finance genie could sprinkle her magic dust upon the…
Taking Stock of the 2007 legislative session
By Rob Schofield While it will take some time for analysts and observers to generate all of the post-mortems on the 2007 legislative session, a couple of things are already clear. First and foremost, this was not, as some naysayers have claimed, a “do nothing†session. To the contrary, 2007 was a year of solid,…
Hackney’s House
By Chris Fitzsimon House Speaker Joe Hackney and his leadership team met with reporters Thursday afternoon to talk about the legislative session, what was accomplished, what wasn’t and how the legislative process worked this year. The message was much different than the talking points from the anti-everything right that have seeped into columns and interviewers’…
FPG, Carrboro face transfer requirements
Federal and state standards part of No Child Left Behind By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Two Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary schools must allow students the option of transferring to other elementary schools in the district this year under federal No Child Left Behind standards. The school district recently released preliminary Adequate Yearly Progress results for the…
Principal named for new elementary school
 Amy Rickard By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Amy Rickard, principal of Glenwood Elementary School, has been named principal of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School’s tenth elementary school, which will open in fall 2008. The school, which school officials have dubbed elementary number 10, will be located at the corner of Dromoland Road and Eubanks Road….