Thursday, June 4 Sewage Sludge Talk — The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and the Center for Health and Environment and Justice will host a public meeting about the risks associated with spreading sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants on farmlands. 7-9pm, Cane Creek Baptist Church Activiity Center, 6901 Orange Grove Road, Hillsborough. (336) 525-2003,…
Math teacher funniest comic
DSI Comedy Theater crowned Raleigh high school math teacher John Betz Jr. “Carolina’s Funniest Comic†after a month-long competition. Mary Kate Wise was the runner-up. Over five weeks, 32 contestants performed in a single-elimination competition. Besides the title, Betz won $1,000 and a primetime slot at DSI Comedy Theater.
Carrboro High Class of 2009 Week
The Carrboro Board of Alderman has proclaimed the week of June 7-13 the “Carrboro High School Class of 2009 Week.†The 2009 class of 138 students will be the first to graduate from Carrboro High. Graduating Carrboro seniors have received more than $2.4 million in scholarships, and Mayor Mark Chilton noted this class’ achievement of…
Graduation Info
Graduations for all local high schools will be Saturday, June 13 at the Dean E. Smith Center on the campus of UNC, starting with East Chapel Hill at 9 a.m., followed by Chapel Hill High at 1 p.m. and Carrboro high at 5 p.m. All CHS, CHHS and ECHS graduating seniors are invited to Project…
UNC blood drive
The Carolina Blood Drive collected 976 units of blood that will help save lives throughout the area, said Caroline Allison of the American Red Cross Carolinas Region, which sponsors the drive with UNC. The number of donors attending was 928; there were at least 115 double red-cell donors. Last year, 966 units were collected. The…
Banners boost Walk Carrboro
The Walk Carrboro campaign developed by a group of local businesses led by Jesse Kalisher of Kalisher Gallery will be a lot more visible thanks to the town. The campaign has been supported by radio advertisements, maps, stickers and a website, and will now receive additional support from 29 “Walk Carrboro†banners installed downtown. The…
Farm to fork picnic planned
The W.C. Breeze Family Farm in Hurdle Mills will be the scene of this year’s Farm to Fork Picnic. The picnic, put together by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Orange County Cooperative Extension and Slow Food Triangle, is an annual celebration of local food and farms. The event is on Sunday, June 14 from…
For the record: Website comments
Just a reminder that we have a general policy that comments to our website be signed as you would a letter to the editor. The exceptions to this policy include short, congratulatory remarks (as in, “Way to go, Anoop!â€) and comments by individuals who have compelling reasons to protect their anonymity.
For the record: Slash and Burn
There has been an increasing drumbeat of late that this state cannot simply cut its way out of this fiscal crisis. And, as noted elsewhere on this page, there is some solid reasoning that cutting state services and jobs is the surest way to increase the intensity of the economic downturn. Still, there is an…
A few budget reminders
Chris Fitzsimon The House budget process continued out of the public eye Monday as appropriations subcommittees were scheduled to present their proposals for unprecedented budget cuts to the top budget writers. The plan is to send the revised reports back to the subcommittees for a vote this week, with the full House taking up the…
One way to help
Steve Peha (“From gap to chasm,†May 7) points out that the Chapel Hill/Carrboro schools’ achievement gap between white and black students is greater than ever this year. He concludes that if nothing is done about it, it will be a foregone conclusion that bank account size or skin color will be the determinants of…
Cuts at U Lake
This may be your last chance, Carrboro. As part of OWASA’s draft budget for the fiscal year 2009-10, it is planning to cut the number of days that we have access to University Lake from four days down to just two. This means that for five days of the week, the best you will get is a distant…
Millhouse Road site move was rude, unecessary
Rick Kennedy With all that money in Chapel Hill, you would think the town could afford some manners for its mayor. Yet here we are, considering a waste transfer station site proposed by Mayor Foy, an action all his own, conceived without consulting the town council, commissioners or citizens. Fortuitously for him, the site is…
Obituary: Laurance A. Knecht
Laurance A. Knecht passed away on May 23, 2009 at his villa in Carolina Meadows of Chapel Hill. He was 77. Born and raised in Elgin, Illinois, Larry attended the University of Illinois and subsequently received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Minnesota. During a brief service in the Air Force in 1960,…
Obituary: Lois Walker Blalock
Mrs. Lois Walker Blalock was born September 10, 1914 to Wesley and Maggie Latta Walker in the St. Mary’s community of Orange County. She attended St. Mary’s school and graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1930. She received a teaching certificate from East Carolina and later at Duke University completed her bachelor’s degree. She began…