The Hillsborough Arts Council seeks submissions for a Miniature Art Exhibition in all media.
Swimming volunteers needed
Volunteers are needed this summer to work with swimmers with disabilities in Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Adapted Aquatics.
Pool opens for summer
The A.D. Clark Pool at the Hargraves Community Center is open for the 2010 summer season.
Visitors Bureau launches marketing campaign
The Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau has launched a “3 Towns for the Price of 1†campaign to market the Orange County area regionally and nationally.
Chapel Hill recognized for communications
The Town of Chapel Hill has been recognized for excellence in public communication by the N.C. City and County Communicators Association.
Hog Day
Hillsborough Hog Day returns to its original location at River Park off East Margaret Lane in downtown Hillsborough for this year’s annual event, June 18 and 19.
Obituary: Toy Cheek
Obituary: Anna Darden
Student artist recognized
East Chapel Hill High School senior Sasha Kanarski was honored on May 3 for her participation in the Fourth District Congressional High School Arts Competition.
Glenwood show choir still the best Glenwood Elementary’s Gator Show
Choir won its 14th consecutive Best Overall Award at the Carowinds Show Choir Festival.
Area students excel in foreign-language exams
Students from four middle schools and two high schools earned gold medals on the National Latin Exam.
Data managers honored
The CHCCS data managers have selected Jerilyn Wilson of Phillips Middle School and Geoff Gentry of McDougle Middle School as Data Managers of the Year.
A rose is a rose is a rose
Had Gertrude Stein explored the forested edges of Carrboro or the wet ditches of Mason Farm Biological Reserve, she may have composed something like, A rose is pink is pink is pink!
Carrboro calling
It ain’t much, but they call it home – at last.
WCOM-FM, 103.5 on your radio dial, will go live again this weekend after more than a week on auto-pilot while an intrepid band of volunteers unhooked the station from its Greensboro Street location and reassembled it in a concrete-block building just down from Cat’s Cradle.
County considers sales-tax option
The Orange County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday said they wanted to hear more from the public before deciding whether to put a quarter-cent sales-tax referendum on the November ballot.


