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Greenway should be for all to use

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Debbie L. Nichols I find your Flora columns fascinating and informative, specifically the 2/4/10 issue connecting Avatar to nature. It is most imperative that all citizens be allowed to partake in nature observations. Unfortunately, in this same issue there was a disturbing letter (“Carrboro misguided,” 2/4/10), symbolizing a trend. The writer objects to sidewalks or…

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The Eater: Special Report

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Amuse yourselves Regardless of why it pushes our buttons, as Carrboro’s resident expert on such matters, Margot Lester, notes, you have to hand it to the candy and greeting card industry for ginning up Valentine’s Day. (Would that National Pie Day was so well observed.) Thankfully, food remains a perfectly acceptable metaphor for love. Cards,…

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Letter: Public input needed

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

There has been a shift in Carrboro’s public-input process over the past several years from gathering information from the Carrboro citizens in some type of public-input process prior to developing full-blown plans to presenting fully developed plans to the public in a very brief public-hearing process.

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Letter: Thanks for the change

Posted on February 11, 2010February 11, 2010 by Staff

In January, Real Change from Spare Change, an initiative of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership that supports community efforts to address homelessness, sponsored the Come Out of the Cold! Donation Drive. The response was tremendous! Neighborhoods, offices, churches, families, civic groups, UNC departments, and numerous individuals throughout Orange County answered the call and donated much…

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Community workshop concerns roads

Posted on February 11, 2010February 11, 2010 by Staff

The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization will host another community workshop on Feb. 25 to present the alternative scenarios that have been developed for the mobility and development in the N.C. 54/Interstate 40 corridor, a gateway linking Durham, Chapel Hill and UNC. The elements of the scenarios come from technical data analysis and existing plan…

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Display commemorates struggle

Posted on February 11, 2010February 11, 2010 by Staff

Designs for a monument park in Raleigh commemorating the courage and creativity of the black struggle for freedom in North Carolina is on display at the Chapel Hill Town Hall until Feb. 25. Developed by a Chapel Hill team of multimedia artist Juan Logan, landscape architect David Swanson and art historian Lyneise Williams, this monument…

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Board makes appointments

Posted on February 11, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

The Carrboro Board of Aldermen discussed and made appointments to the town’s advisory board Tuesday night at Town Hall during its weekly board meeting. In February of each year, some terms on all the town’s advisory boards expire. Those persons whose terms expired were notified and told if they wished to be re-appointed, they must…

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Three UNC women receive awards

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

UNC honored three people on Wednesday with University Awards for the Advancement of Women. A reception for winners helped kick off the campus’ Women’s Week 2010. This year’s honorees are Laurie McNeil, professor in the physics and astronomy department in the College of Arts and Sciences; Melinda Manning, assistant dean of students; and Parastoo Hashemi,…

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Suit filed over Galloway Ridge murders

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

The estates of two elderly women who were beaten to death at Galloway Ridge retirement community have filed wrongful death suits in Chatham County Superior Court against the owners of the facility. Margaret Murta, 92, and Mary Corcoran, 82, were beaten to death in December 2007 in a dispute over forged checks. A third victim,…

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Spay Day

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

The Animal Services Department is celebrating Spay Neuter Day USA on Feb. 23. This celebration is a local version of Spay Day USA, recognized nationally by the Humane Society of the United States and is designed to raise awareness and help eliminate the need for euthanasia as a means of population control. In recognition of…

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Jazz Fest

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Trumpeter, band leader and film-score composer Terence Blanchard will headline the Carolina Jazz Festival, Feb. 24-27 at UNC. The festival also will feature artists-in-residence Jason Marsalis, a composer, drummer and vibraphonist, and tenor saxophonist Ivan Renta. Seven performances, some free and some ticketed, plus workshops, late-night jams and a day with high school jazz bands,…

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Earth Day art contest

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

The Chapel Hill Public Arts Office in conjunction with University Mall invites area photographers to submit images for a juried competition and exhibition focused on the theme of ecology. Selected photographs will be debuted at Chapel Hill’s Earth Day Celebration at Southern Community Park on April 10 and then displayed throughout University Mall from April…

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Sustainable Cinema Series

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema Series Presents A New Kind of Listening on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in Fearrington Village Barn. Admission at the door is $5, $3 for students. A New Kind of Listening is an hour-long documentary that goes inside the creative work of the Community Inclusive Theater Group, as director Richard Reho…

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Obituary: Timothy Morgan

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff
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Obituary: Robert Barnard

Posted on February 11, 2010February 11, 2010 by Staff
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