The town of Carrboro will celebrate Independence Day with a parade, music and festivities at the Town Commons. The festivities will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Weaver Street Market with bluegrass musicians Tim Stambaugh & Friends. Registration for the Patriotic Costume Contest is open from 10 to 10:30, and winners will be announced before the…
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July 4th Celebrations Schedule
Live Music 10:30 a.m. — Village Band 11:30 a.m. — Cane Creek Cloggers 12 – 2 p.m. — Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos 2:15 – 3 p.m. — The Obies Gospel Music Parade at Weaver Street Market 9:30 a.m. — Tim Stambaugh & Friends, Parade designing and decorating booths opens Registration opens for the…
Oliver has PlayMakers buzzing
Director Tom Quaintance (left) and company members hoist Matt Baldiga, who plays Fagin, on their shoulders during rehearsal. Photo Courtesy of Summer Youth Conservatory By Susan Dickson Staff Writer During the summer months, the halls of UNC’s Center for Dramatic Arts are usually pretty quiet. This summer, though, the center is bustling with the activities…
Chapel Hill youth slain in Durham
15-year-old was student at Smith Middle School By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Quincy Bowens is being hailed as a hero for his last act — trying to get his two-year-old cousin safely inside as more than a dozen bullets raked the front of the apartment complex in Durham where his aunt lives. Bowens, a 15-year-old…
Budgets are done — on to the election
Coleman announces, others to follow By Kirk Ross Staff Writer The first Tuesday in November might seem like a few months and a few dozen degrees Fahrenheit away, but election season is right around the corner. Or it was until Monday, when Carrboro Board of Alderman member Dan Coleman broke the ice and became the…
Board of Aldermen wind up session
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer In a lengthy Tuesday night meeting at Town Hall that will be its last until August, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen hailed the approval of a major piece of downtowns redevelopment, reworked the town rules on affordable housing, OK’d a swim club for the Winmore subdivision, set new rules for…
County settles on budget, tax increases
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted 4-1 to increase county property taxes by 4.7 cents and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro special district tax by 1.5 cents as part of the $173.6 million fiscal year 2007-08 budget. The increases bring the county property tax to 95 cents per $100 valuation…
First major downtown project wins approval
New building (adjacent to the train tracks) and how it will look with the current configuration of the 300 East Main Street property. Source: Main Street Partners By Kirk Ross Staff Writer The first of five major projects in downtown Carrboro won approval from the town’s Board of Aldermen Tuesday night, but only after a…
Business briefs: 6/28/07
Carrboro Massage Therapy opens Ruth Newnam has announced the Grand Opening of Carrboro Massage Therapy on Ashe Street in Carrboro. Newnam is joined by licensed massage and bodywork therapists Sarah Pryor, Allyn Sharp Putnam and Naomi Heitz; Leela Breedlove of BlissWorks Life Coaching Services; and Margaret Rhee, LCSW. Newnam recently purchased the commercial property to…
The wild white flowers of early summer
Queen Anne’s Lace, a “wild carrot.†Photo by Ken Moore By Ken Moore They began flowering weeks ago and they are still making a show along roadsides and wherever folks allow them to move about freely on their lawns and in their gardens. I learned to recognize the green winter leafy rosettes of Daisy Fleabane…
Input encouraged on proposed facility to produce locally grown foods
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer Hoping to replicate the success of similarly designed facilities in Asheville and West Jefferson, a group of local grocers and economic development leaders are researching the possibility of setting up a shared-use food-processing center to serve small farms and food businesses in Alamance, Chatham, Durham and Orange counties. The purpose…
UNC concludes community meetings on Carolina North development plans
University planners say this is a first pass at the initial phase of development at Carolina North. Source: UNC Chapel Hill By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Planners for Carolina North concluded their series of community meetings last week with the third presentation of the school’s efforts to craft a design for Carolina North. Jack Evans,…
Students honor staff, teachers
UNC News Services Students at UNC recently honored three faculty members, one staff member and six teaching assistants for excellence in undergraduate teaching and service to students. The 2007 Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Awards honored faculty members Marcie Fisher-Borne, an adjunct faculty member in social work; Hannah Gill, Ph.D., a lecturer in international studies;…
Carolina “champ†and “priceless gem†Hyatt succumbs to cancer at 73
 Ronald Wesley Hyatt. Photo Courtesy of UNC News Services UNC News Services CHAPEL HILL — Officially, Ronald Wesley Hyatt was a professor, coach and faculty marshal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for nearly 40 years, and a winner of the state’s highest honor, the Order of the Long-Leaf Pine from…
For the Record
Editor’s Note: He had no polling numbers to guide his thoughts, nor any indication that the cause for which he put pen to paper would see another year, let alone two and a third centuries. In late June, there was open rebellion in the land. The British fleet and a sizeable land force were due…