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Obituary: Devin Paterson Pressley

Posted on February 11, 2010February 11, 2010 by Staff
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The Echo goes online

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

East Chapel Hill High School’s student newspaper, The Echo, has begun publishing online. In addition to the website, the students also are communicating school news through a blog and a Facebook page. Visit the website at echobserver.com

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Art for Haiti

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Artwork by advanced art students from Chapel Hill High School and East Chapel Hill High School will be exhibited at The Open Eye Café and the Looking Glass Café in Carrboro. The pieces, part of an Art for Haiti event, are personal responses to the tragedy in Haiti. The exhibit will be held from 2-6…

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Regional music groups

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Students from the three district high schools have earned seats in various all-district and all-region musical groups. Students named to the All-District Band from Chapel Hill High are Sara Aratake, Alex Boyd, Rebecca Clemens, Eric Jiang, Shiyi Li, Yiying Li, Graeme Roberts, Jonathan Schermer and Alex Yan. Students named to the All-District Band from East…

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Contest winners

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Winners of the 2009 Sallie Markham Michie Essay Contest were recently announced by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Magna Carta Dames. Twenty of the contest’s 36 winners are students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. The purpose of this annual essay contest is to challenge students in grades five through 12 to…

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Meals on Wheels

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Students with disabilities in the FOCAL program at Chapel Hill High School participated in a community-oriented cooking project funded by a grant from the Council for Exceptional Children of North Carolina, under the leadership of EC transition facilitator Emily Davis and EC teachers Erin Smith and Dara Heller. The students prepared frozen meals and desserts…

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Winter weather slams area

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

Kirk Ross and Beth Mechum Staff Writers It was awfully pretty, what with the big moon and all. But the major winter storm that dropped eight inches of snow on Carrboro and Chapel Hill will more likely be remembered for causing a near-complete shut down of travel and commerce and days of closed schools, icy…

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Carrboro midwife offers an alternative

Posted on February 4, 2010March 18, 2010 by Staff

New Carrboro midwifery practice opens

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Scientists, students, Sierra Club call on UNC to drop coal

Posted on February 4, 2010February 4, 2010 by Staff

Kirk Ross Staff Writer With the smokestacks and coal silos of the UNC co-generation plant as a backdrop, climate change researcher James Hansen joined students, university scientists and members of the Sierra Club’s Coal Free Campus campaign on Tuesday to ask the university to end the use of coal at the plant. José Rial, a…

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Spotty at best

Posted on February 4, 2010February 4, 2010 by Staff

This has certainly been a hard week of work for those charged with keeping roads clear and travel safer during the recent spell of bad weather. Given the predictions of another jolt of winter for this coming weekend, it doesn’t look like there will be much rest. Along with the other key public-safety functions, keeping…

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Kudos

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

Thanks to all the restaurants, clubs, musicians and merchants who have rallied to do what they can to help the people of Haiti. The events and the outpouring of donations have shown the true heart of our community. Last week, Mediterranean Deli pledged a full day’s receipts and was packed from open to close. Hearts…

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Paying to lobby public officials for the public

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

Chris Fitzsimon It has been hard to miss the headlines in your local paper about your city slashing the budget or your county commissioners scrambling to find cuts to respond to last year’s revenue shortfall or to compensate for the cuts the state has imposed.

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Join CHPD for community conversations

Posted on February 4, 2010February 4, 2010 by Staff

Chris Blue Assistant Chief Starting this weekend, the Chapel Hill Police Department plans to undertake a unique approach to hear about our community’s expectations of us. Beginning on Feb. 6, we will hold a series of community conversations to hear how we are doing as an organization. Each session will last no more than two…

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Carrboro misguided

Posted on February 4, 2010February 4, 2010 by Staff

It gives one pause: An alderman elected by the vote of less than 10 percent of the Carrboro electorate gets a quarter-page in The Citizen (“Getting our bearings toward making things better,” 1/28/10) to promote an agenda that has been discredited and whose perpetrators are in the process of losing their jobs and being prosecuted….

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Support group starting

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

I am the mother of a daughter who has fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Since adopting her 15 years ago, I have done everything that a mother can do to help her child, but our lives remain an incredible daily struggle. In this light, I am starting a support group in the Triangle to bring together…

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