Thursday, June 25 Rogers Road Panel — A panel discussion will accompany the opening reception for “Documenting Neighborhood History in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill†in Wilson Library’s Special Collections Library at UNC. Reception at 5pm, program at 5:45pm. 962-1172 for more. Saturday, June 27 Healthcare and Diet Talk — Join the Orange…
Blood Done Sign My Name
Fearrington Village will present Mike Wiley’s performance of Blood Done Sign My Name, a memoir by Tim Tyson, in the Fearrington Barn on Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12. Blood Done Sign My Name tells the story of the violent reprisals following the acquittal of three men for the murder of Henry “Dickie†Marrow…
Rabies vaccinations offered
Orange County’s Animal Services Department is offering $5 (cash only) rabies vaccination clinics June 26 to ensure that cats and dogs are current on their vaccinations. The clinics will be held at Orange County’s Animal Services Center, 1601 Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill. It’s for one-year rabies vaccinations only. Dogs must be on leashes and cats…
Solar panel project
The Town of Carrboro is inviting a school program to “go green†on Monday, June 29 at the Town Commons, located at 301 West Main Street. The building of solar panels at the commons will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Town officials have invited Communities In Schools of Orange County’s (CISOC) “Green…
Obituary: Ben Erwin Perry
Ben Erwin Perry was born January 15, 1927 on McCauley Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He attended Chapel Hill High School and entered the service after graduation and served with the U.S. Army in the occupation forces of Japan. When he returned, he entered UNC and received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree….
Hagan’s challenge
About 16 years ago, the state of Florida passed health care reforms that promised at least a beginning for universal coverage offering both public and private options. Pushing through those reforms, which were touted at the time as a possible model for national reform, was Gov. Lawton Chiles. Chiles grew up in agri-industrial Polk County,…
Memo to the president: What you must do to save universal health care
Robert Reich Mr. President: Momentum for universal health care is slowing dramatically on Capitol Hill. Moderates are worried, Republicans are digging in and the medical-industrial complex is firing up its lobbying and propaganda machine. But, as you know, the worst news came days ago when the Congressional Budget Office weighed in with awful projections about…
The summer of our cynical discontent
Chris Fitzsimon This still may end up as the year of change the majority of people in North Carolina and across the country voted for last November, but it feels like much of the optimism and hope are wilting in the Washington summer heat under pressure from the well-heeled lobbyists for business as usual.
End of an era
Beth Mechum It’s been a week since the UNC baseball team lost its elimination game in Omaha, and from all accounts the team is handling it well. I’m not.
Victory Garden, 1943
by Jock Lauterer Back during “The Great War,†folks were encouraged to raise their own vegetables — “Victory Gardens,†they were called. James L. “Jim†Stallings, a retired professor of agricultural economics from Auburn and Michigan State, who now calls Carrboro home, sent in this wonderful image of his mom in their Victory Garden on…
Clarification
Some readers have written us about a recent “A Thousand Words†photo column that referenced concerns about violence among black youth. The author did not intend to imply that concern should be applied to all black youth, or exclusively to black youth, and we could have done a better job of editing to make that…
Step softly among the water-dragons
By Ken Moore Though I’ve never heard it used locally, the common name, water-dragon, appeals to me more than the commoner name, lizard’s-tail. Every time I see this plant of swamps, pond edges and boggy stream sides, my imagination propels me back to a long-ago world of giant ferns and dinosaurs. If you find yourself…
County votes 4-3 to consider Millhouse site
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to keep a Chapel Hill-owned site on Millhouse Road on the table as a potential location for a county solid waste transfer station. The vote came before a packed Southern Human Services Center assembly of citizens, many of whom had just…
First class
By Beth Mechum Staff Writer In a weekend full of proud families, excited graduates and tearful teachers, no graduation stood out more than Carrboro High School’s. As friends and families poured into the Dean E. Smith Center, escaping a scorching-hot Saturday evening, audio clips of students expressing their gratitude to everyone from parents to teachers…
Slade to run for alderman; Czajkowski, Cho sign on to Chapel Hill mayor’s race
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer With local elected boards readying for summer recesses, candidates are making known their intentions for the fall elections. The terms of 18 incumbents are up in Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro and Hillsborough and on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board.