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Carrboro teacher honored

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

VIF International Education is proud to honor five of its visiting exchange teachers in the 2010 International Educator of the Year awards program, including Carrboro Elementary School teacher Luz Mery Suárez. Suárez, who is a first-grade Spanish instructor in the school’s dual-language program, has been teaching in the U.S. for two years through VIF, an…

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Board of education hosts legislative breakfast

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education members met with state legislators for the annual legislative breakfast on Monday. Guests included Speaker of the House Joe Hackney, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, Rep. Verla Insko and chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners Valerie Foushee. Board members, guests and administrators discussed the state budget situation and…

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Area students named Morehead-Cain scholars

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

Melanie Rio of Carrboro High School and Nicole Roscoe of Chatham Central High School have been named Morehead-Cain scholars for the class of 2014. As a member of the school drama department, Rio has been an actor, director, choreographer, videographer, stagehand and puppet master for shows at Carrboro High, and has worked as writer, director,…

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Students take to the stage in school performances

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

Two area schools have upcoming student performances: Chapel Hill High School’s drama department will present The Wizard of Oz Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Hanes Auditorium at Chapel Hill High. Tickets are $5 for students (high school and younger), $8 for adults and free for CHCCS staff (one free ticket per staff member with ID)….

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Ephesus students tour UNC

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

The Boyz 2 Men group from Ephesus Elementary School took a field trip to the UNC campus on April 14.  The trip was designed to expose third- to fifth-grade black males to college life. They toured campus, met with the president of the student body, heard from a member of the administration, watched a step show presented…

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In memory of Dan Pollitt

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Staff

I never expected, when I moved to North Carolina in middle age, to come to know a friend, a mentor, a lodestar, a hero, who was, himself, of somewhat more advanced age, a law professor of all things, in theory retired, from whom I’d hang on every word, ask of every lesson, drink deeply of every story and learn so much of living life – as a lawyer, as an activist, as engaged academic, as constitutionalist, as a father, as a friend, as a Tar Heel, as a man, as a believer in hope.

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Ephesus teacher recognized by Autism Society of North Carolina

Posted on April 23, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

Ephesus Elementary teacher Lindsay Bedford was named State Teacher of the Year by the Autism Society of North Carolina. Parents who nominated Bedford for the award noted that their children were happy in the class and at home. They also praised Bedford’s strong communication with parents and her collaboration with the students’ mainstream teachers. The…

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Forgotten grasslands

Posted on April 23, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

Philip Juras, artist and landscape architect, gives us a vision of what the open, old-growth grassy woodlands of the southeastern Piedmont were like when European explorers first arrived in the annual Sims Lecture at the N.C. Botanical Garden Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. The lecture opens Juras’ exhibit, “A Vision of Grasslands in the…

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Earth week continues

Posted on April 22, 2010April 23, 2010 by Susan Dickson
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Atwater pleads guilty in federal court State likely to hold hearing next week

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Susan Dickson

Following Demario Atwater’s guilty plea in federal court, Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said the state would likely hold a hearing next week to answer questions regarding the state’s case against Atwater.

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Council mulls options for deer control

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

After three hours of hearing a wide range of opinions from citizens and a lengthy discussion of the alternatives before them, the Chapel Hill Town Council decided on Monday night that further research was necessary before making a decision on ways to control the town’s burgeoning deer population.

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Town, DOT forge ahead on Smith Level

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

For anyone coming into Carrboro on Smith Level Road, crowded crosswalks at the intersection with BPW Club Road are a familiar sight. That’s the point where the large and heavily student-populated neighborhoods west of Smith Level Road reach the bus lines that feed into town and campus.

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Art project calls on locals for exhibition

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

In Carrboro, a town teeming with creative folks, the Town of Carrboro Arts Committee is offering another opportunity to showcase local art. But it’s no highbrow art exhibition – it’s a show open to all.

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Ready, set, life

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

What would entice high school students to sign up for something called Scene & Heard, requiring them to meet for workshops led by an English teacher every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.? The answer: Michael Irwin.

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County funds Cedar Falls soccer field

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Susan Dickson

The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a partnership with Chapel Hill that would allocate county soccer funds for the construction of an artificial-turf soccer field at Cedar Falls Park.

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