The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and UNC have teamed up to apply for Google’s ultra high-speed Internet project and hope to build support for the effort at a public forum scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m. at Chapel Hill Town Hall. In early February, Google announced the initiative to deploy and test fiber…
Hackney to be honored by PFADP
House Speaker Joe Hackney, who represents all of Chatham and parts of Orange and Moore counties, will be honored by People of Faith Against the Death Penalty for his work in passing the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. Hackney, a former assistant district attorney for Orange and Chatham counties, helped steer the legislation through the…
County saves $1 million in refinancing
Orange County announced this week that it had refinanced existing bonds for a total savings of over $1.1 million dollars. Representatives from the county and its bond counsel closed on the sale of $22,455,000 in General Obligation Bonds originally issued in 2001 and 2003 at an interest rate ranging from 4 percent to 4.7 percent….
Rabies clinic
A low-cost rabies vaccination clinic offered by the Orange County Animal Services Department is set for March 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Animal Services Center on Eubanks Road. The vaccination fee is $5, which must be paid in cash. Dogs must be on leashes and cats must be in carriers. Animals that…
Africa Week
The Organization of African Students’ Interests and Solidarity at UNC will host its 30th annual Africa Week March 15-20. This year’s Africa Week theme, titled “Diamond in the Rough,†will highlight the beauty of Africa, with emphasis on both the issues that plague Africa and the different ethnic and cultural traditions that surround the continent….
Symposium features women civil rights veterans
Three women civil rights veterans will speak, and one will screen her film about the “desegregation and resegregation of U.S. public schools,†in two events March 16 at the university. Constance Curry, producer of the film The Intolerable Burden, will screen and discuss her project at noon in Toy Lounge on the fourth floor of…
Farmers’ market gets assistant manager
Margaret Gifford has been named part-time assistant manager of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, where she’ll focus on special events and public relations. Prior to coming to the Farmers’ Market, Gifford was senior vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in San Francisco. Since moving with her family to Chapel Hill two years ago, she’s been…
Campus to Campus biking
Campus to Campus Bike Connection, a new group formed to help establish a bike connection between the main campus and Carolina North, will sponsor a meet-up March 16 at noon at Weaver Street Market for a briefing and then set off at 12:15 to explore the rail corridor from the end of the Libba Cotton…
Botanical Garden tours
The N.C. Botanical Garden is starting a season of tours of the garden’s new Visitor Education Center. Tours will be each Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and will provide a look at the unique features of one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the state of North Carolina. Tours begin in the Pegg Exhibit Hall (central…
Chatham adds recycling options
Chatham County residents can now bring two new types of paper containers to the 12 collection centers for recycling as part of the mixed-paper recycling program. Residents can recycle gable-top cartons, such as milk and juice cartons, or fabric softener refill cartons and drink boxes. Remove lids and straws and make sure drink boxes don’t…
NIEHS director on campus
Linda S. Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, will visit the university on March 23 as part of the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Environmental Seminar Series. Birnbaum will give a talk titled “Putting a Human Face on Climate Change: The Public Health Perspective,†at 7 p.m. in the Sonja Haynes…
