Glenwood Elementary School’s Mandarin dual-language program was featured on BBC America last week.
Parent forum
Community Parent Forum will present the first in a series of discussions on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures.
Students visited by soldier
Lt. Cmdr. Eric Gryn recently visited students in Nichole Bell and Stephanie Dimac’s fourth-grade class to thank the students for letters they wrote for him to take on his deployment to Afghanistan.
Obituary: Bernice Whitefield
Phil Blank, January 20, 2011
Illustration by Phil Blank.
Jaws 2011
You do not want to run over and into “JAWSâ€: an alignment-eating trench four feet long, two feet wide and four inches deep.
The library and the mall
When it comes to deciding whether to relocate the Chapel Hill Public Library in University Mall, the easy thing for the Chapel Hill Town Council to do would be to …
For local economic development, focus on the people
For the past several years, the public discourse around growing our economy in Orange County has been focused on having the appropriate “tools.â€
Letter: Words hold power
Stick and stones may break my bones … How we all wish that cliché would hold its merit today.
Letter: Opposition to shelter
Mr. Cianciolo, I’m not afraid. It’s just that I can count
More info sought on mall-library deal
Town officials are not in formal negotiations with University Mall owner Madison-Marquette just yet, but fact-finding efforts kicked into a high gear …
The message was renewal
CHAPEL HILL —In May of 1960, when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Chapel Hill – first on Sunday night at the Hargraves Center, then on Monday evening to a packed audience at Hill Hall on the UNC campus – “the movement,†as it is still known, was at a turning point.
Ivy removal success stories
What do Springer’s Point on Ocracoke Island and UNC’s Battle Park have in common? English ivy, Hedera helix – that’s what they have in common.
Unified Development Ordinance reviewed
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen heard a presentation on the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) on Tuesday, and raised questions regarding changes to zoning regulations, stream-buffer regulations and the rural buffer.
Choosing to see the glass half full
There are moments in time that can forever alter the course of our lives, seconds that leave us perpetually wondering “what if?†and events that permanently change the way we look at the world.