The HOPE Gardens Festival will be held this Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m. at 2200 Homestead Road. The festival is a fundraising cookout dinner to support local food, music and community.
Eat for art
Ten percent of purchases at participating Carrboro cafes and restaurants today (Thursday) will go to The ArtsCenter’s Keep Arts Centered campaign.
Police compete in quiz bowl
The Carrboro and Chapel Hill police departments will face off in the 1360 WCHL Community Quiz Bowl today (Thursday) at 7 p.m. at The ArtsCenter.
Krishna Festival to Century Center
A group of bhakti yogis will perform exotic temple dances of India with traditional kirtan music and mantra meditation on Friday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Century Center.
Sustainable art at Bolin Creek
Durham artist Al Frega completed the installation of his individually designed benches, bike racks and trail entrance markers on the Bolin Creek Greenway on Wednesday. Frega uses cast-off materials in his art.
ChathamArts presents Junebug
ChathamArts will present the Academy-Award nominated Indie hit Junebug on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Fearrington Barn.
Salatin to speak at CCCC
Joel Salatin, a Virginia alternative farmer and agricultural writer, will speak at the public forum “Local Food to the Rescue†at Central Carolina Community College’s Chatham County campus on Wednesday.
PHS recognized
Piedmont Health Services (PHS) recently received two awards from the North Carolina Community Health Center Association.
Brushes with Life opens this week
Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness, the award-winning creative arts program supporting people with severe mental illness, opened its 16th art exhibition Tuesday on the third floor of the UNC Neurosciences Hospital.
Workshop leaders needed
The Mental Health Association of Orange County’s Family Advocacy Network is looking for professionals to run two-hour clinics for families with children with special needs.
Obituary: Bertha “B†Merrill Holt
Obituary: Lucas Roy Little
Obituary: Warren A. Nord
The Class of 2010
There wasn’t a sporting event on the floor of the Smith Center on Saturday; but throughout the day, the place did echo with plenty of cheering.
What’s pollinating black cohosh?
Anne Lindsey – botanical researcher and teacher and co-author, with husband Ritchie Bell, of the second edition of Wild Flowers of North Carolina – has several of us asking that question these days about whatever flower we may be observing.


