Students from the Chapel Hill High School Save the Music Club have been providing free piano lessons to Morris Grove Elementary School students …
Students receive camp scholarship
Glenwood Elementary School fifth-grader Neelan Mahadevan and McDougle Middle School seventh-grader Max Mahadevan have been awarded scholarships …
CHS grad receives Macalester honors
Julianne Ragland has been named to the Macalester College dean’s list for academic achievement during the spring semester of the 2010-11 school year.
Former CHHS student wins VH1 contest
Allen Mask, a graduate of Chapel Hill High School and UNC, recently won VH1’s Save the Music contest.
Obituary: Regina Elandt-Johnson
Obituary: Billy Wall Watts
Obituary: Colleen Clark
PTA Thrift Shop to get major facelift
Nearly 60 years ago, the PTA Thrift Shop opened its doors to collect donated goods and sell them for the benefit of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
The force is with it
When Luke Skywalker needed a fast spaceship to get off Tatooine in Star Wars, he headed to the cantina in the Mos Eisley spaceport – a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.â€
County rejects half-cent transit tax
The Orange County BOC unanimously rejected a half-cent sales tax increase to pay for regional transit improvements…
Carrboro supports transit advertising plan
As Chapel Hill Transit faces an increasingly stretched budget, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday expressed support for a bus advertising program as a way to diversify revenues.
East Weaver remains closed
Town officials estimate that the block will be opened within several weeks.
Chatham rescinds ICE vote
The Chatham County BOC votes to rescind a resolution adopted by the previous board that opposed participation in the ICE program.
Cuts to schools less than anticipated
State budget cuts won’t affect this year’s already-approved CHCC Schools budget nearly as much as district leaders had worried…
Graduation announcement
Grace Meyrin Holtkamp, of Orange County, N.C., will graduate on July 1, 2011, with a First Class Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland, after having completed her dissertation on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.




