Learn the basics of outdoor composting using manufactured and homemade structures and indoor composting with worms at a composting class Sept. 18 presented by Orange County Solid Waste Management.
Harvest dinner
The Eno River Farmers Market in Hillsborough will host a Harvest Dinner, Saturday evening at 7 p.m. at the Public Market House.
Author to discuss yoga for athletes
Coach, yoga teacher and author Sage Rountree will discuss how yoga enhances sports training on Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. at Flyleaf Books.
Ultimate Frisbee results
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department’s 2010 Fall Adult Ultimate Frisbee League recent match results are as follows:
Reinhardt named director of school leadership
Smith Middle School Principal Valerie Reinhardt has been named executive director of school leadership for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
Ephesus teacher named math finalist
Penny Shockley, gifted-education specialist at Ephesus Elementary School, was named one of three North Carolina finalists for the 2010 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Program.
District nurses, students travel to Guatemala
Eight Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools school nurses and three district high school students traveled to Guatemala over the summer to visit various health care organizations.
Summer’s end
Just like early spring, early fall is a busy time when we make up for the encumbrances of the previous season. Perhaps we’re still living on the agriculture-influenced clock, but this year it truly was too damn hot to do much.
ART NOTES
MURAL CONTEST; OPENINGS: Art walking, Hewitt Kiln opening, Art glass and snapshots at the Ackland
The Eater: A Guide to Eating
One man’s quest for pad thai; Best. Food. Ever; Do’s and Donuts
Rolling eats: A survey of local food trucks
We’ve been privy to the taco truck secret for some time now, but what no one predicted was mobile food’s voracious expansion. It’s not just taco trucks that pepper the town anymore
Fall Preview
The ArtsCenter; Carolina Performing Arts; Duke Performances; Playmakers Repertory Company
A Guy with a Literary Habit
Rosecrans Baldwin describes writers as “big-time book addicts.†For him, the addiction began early: As a kid, he was a regular at Barrett’s Bookstore in Darien, Conn., where Michael, behind the counter, always had a new title to recommend.
GIMME FIVE!
Ashley Melzer writes the Gimme Five! column for The Carrboro Citizen’s MILL blog (carrborocitizen.com/mill/tag/gimme-five), in which she asks local bands five probing questions. Below is a selection of favorites from the column to date.
Discover Occoneechee’s fern glade on Labor Day
By Ken Moore, Columnist Those of you who remain home-based during the Labor Day weekend can enjoy a half-day mountain adventure finding the fern glade at the base of Occoneechee Mountain just west of Hillsborough. I visited the mountain on Sunday to see if the fern glade is surviving the heat and drought. That glade…