The event will feature music, food, cocktails, drawings and a live auction, which will be emceed by former UNC basketball player Eric Montross.
School board member Green resigns
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board of education member Joe Green announced last week that he would resign from the school board effective Sept. 17.
School boards to meet with county commissioners
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education will meet with the Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Orange County Schools Board of Education today (Thursday) at 7 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road.
Middle and high school career expo coming soon
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will host the 2010 Middle School and High School Career Expo on Oct. 14 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at University Mall.
Mayor reads new book about Chapel Hill to Seawell students
Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt read from a new children’s book about Chapel Hill, Once Upon a Hill, to students in Denise Cowan’s fourth-grade class at Seawell Elementary School last week.
Lunch Menus
Friday 9/24 Meatloaf/WW Roll; Toasted Cheese Sandwich; Tuna Salad Plate; Vegetable Soup; Herbed Potatoes; Wild Greens Salad; Chilled Peaches. MORE
At the confluence of economy and elections
Although it is a contentious year, Congressman David Price, now seeking a 12th term, said was not treated to quite the same reception as last August, when Congress was at the height of the health care debate and the tea partiers were in full blossom.
Election season starts this Friday
The fall election season gets rolling Friday, when voters will be able to begin to request absentee mail ballots. The last day to submit ballots by mail is Oct. 26.
One-stop absentee voting begins Oct. 14 at the board of elections office in Hillsborough and on Oct. 18 at Morehead Planetarium on the UNC campus and the Seymour Senior Center on Homestead Road.
Looking down on the ground
Looking down on the ground last week along trails in Umstead State Park between Raleigh and Durham, I spotted numerous patches of partridge berry, Mitchella repens.
Board postpones library discussion
The Orange County Board of Commissioners decided on Tuesday against pursuing the Skills Development Center on West Franklin Street and a site at Twins Creek Park as potential locations for a Southwest Orange County branch library.
Carolina Fitness reopens as Kinetix
After closing for three months for renovations, downtown gym Carolina Fitness reopened as a Kinetix Health Club on Monday – and not a moment too soon for some of its members.
UNC housekeepers file group grievance
A group of UNC housekeepers was joined by students and others last Wednesday as they marched from the post office on Franklin Street to South Building and presented Chancellor Holden Thorp’s office with a list of workplace grievances.
‘Looking forward to the challenge’
If UNC had the defense everyone expected to be on the field back in June, it’s hard to imagine Carolina not giving Georgia Tech fits. But with so many players still in limbo because of an NCAA investigation and Carolina’s own internal investigation, it’s hard to know how a far more inexperienced defense will perform.
Saving Bolin Creek with a Paved Greenway
I was initially against the Bolin Creek Greenway plan and now I’m an enthusiastic supporter.
Letter from the Editor
Tuesdays are pretty busy days for papers that come out on Wednesday. So, being a Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 was typically hectic.