Twelve students from Orange County joined a group of more than 200 high school students from across the state who attended the Tobacco. Reality. Unfiltered. (TRU) Youth Advocacy Day in Raleigh on Jan. 21.
Author: Staff
Race to Nowhere
The McDougle Middle School PTA will host a public screening of the documentary Race to Nowhere on Feb. 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium at Carrboro High School.
Defense wins the race
The college basketball season is a marathon, but as with any close race, it will become a sprint near the end.
Phillips girls b-ball goes undefeated
The Phillips Middle School girls varsity basketball team finished the regular season with a perfect 11-0 record, defeating cross-town rivals Smith and Culbreth last week.
Karate champs
Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA Carolina Karate Club members participated in the War Angel Challenge in South Carolina on Jan. 21.
Carrboro resident wins photo honors
Carrboro resident Bill Swindaman has won awards for two of his images submitted in the 2011 Audubon South Carolina Nature Photography Contest, co-sponsored by the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association.
Festifall artist applications
The Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department is now accepting applications for artist booths at Chapel Hill’s 40th Annual Festifall.
Free photo workshop
Carrboro Citizen columnist Jock Lauterer will lead a free photojournalism workshop on Feb. 12 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Branch Library at McDougle School.
Free income-tax preparation
The IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistant program, sponsored by the Chatham County Council on Aging and Chatham/Orange RSVP, will provide free income-tax return assistance.
Ask-A-Lawyer Day
The North Carolina Bar Association will host Ask-A-Lawyer Day in Chapel Hill at the Hargraves Community Center.
Artists’ salon
The next Orange County Artists’ Salon will be held on Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the West End Theater at The ArtsCenter.
Memorial: Jelena Stojakovic
In November 2011, we lost a dear friend, teacher and colleague when our friend and UNC graduate student and instructor Jelena Stojakovic passed away after a year-long battle with leukemia.
LETTER: External alarms
“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.â€
LETTER: Independent investigation needed
The latest incarnation of the Chapel Hill town government’s fumbling quest to cover up the Yates incident is a joke, and may be the most politically revealing.
LETTER: Remember the victims of Paterno’s disregard
Jock Lauterer’s toss-away comment as he memorialized Joe Paterno, ” … and now tainted legacy of the late JoePa” gives little respect or honor to the victims of Paterno’s blatant disregard for the law.



