So what do you give the last of the Franklin Street Flower Ladies on her 83rd birthday?
Phil Blank, May 26, 2011
Illustration by Phil Blank
Tar Heels band together to get similar results
This year, there are no Tar Heel baseball superstars grabbing the limelight, no big-time prospects waiting to be selected in the top eight of the Major League Baseball draft in early June.
BIG CITY – History repeats in Northside
by KIRK ROSS
Very early on, it was evident that this effort was not going to be easy.
Soon to be a major motion picture
by Catherine DeVine
Summer of ’97: I’d recently moved into Carrboro with too much stuff.
Website issues fixed
The Carrboro Citizen’s website is back to normal this morning, Thursday, May 26, 2011.
Letter: Cuts to health fund would hurt youth
As a young person in North Carolina who is passionate about eradicating the use of tobacco, I am very concerned about the budget cuts that would abolish the TRU Movement.
Letter: Don’t cut environmental education
Geographically speaking, North Carolina is one of the most diverse and beautiful states in the union.
Letter: May is Children’s Mental Health Month
Unbelievable, but true: 9 to 14 percent of children from birth to 5 years of age experience depression, anxiety or some other social and emotional problem that negatively effects their functioning and development.
Bear spotted in Chapel Hill
A small black bear caused a stir in Chapel Hill Monday morning.
With luck, you’ll spot a yellow one
During the past week, I’ve been catching glimpses of little white flowers hovering just above the tops of grasses in rural areas outside Carrboro and in some of the unmowed roadside edges closer into town.
Hands on: Jay Miller and his ‘natural support’
It’s not that Jay Miller doesn’t like the government, or the tax dollars it sometimes returns to his community.
Carrboro calls for tax to fund rail, bus
The Carrboro BOA voted to support a measure paying for public transit through a half-cent sales tax.
Northside development moratorium likely
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted Monday to schedule a June 20 public hearing regarding the moratorium.
Staff access to dual-language program draws fire
The program’s admissions policies came under scrutiny at a May 19 school board meeting.