By Susan Dickson Staff Writer CARRBORO — The Carrboro Board of Aldermen heard very little public comment at a public hearing regarding Town Manager Steve Stewart’s proposed $19.1 million fiscal 2010 operating budget on Tuesday. Only one person — Orange County Housing and Land Trust director Robert Dowling — spoke to the board regarding the…
Big City
If you’re looking for fresh information about what’s going to happen to The Varsity, don’t expect to find much soon. Recent details have been a bit confusing. After the initial round of rumors that the last picture show would be today (Thursday), the new buzz is that the place is on the market and may…
Chapel Hill council ready to vote on budget
By Rich Fowler Staff Writer Chapel Hill officials are preparing the final round of touches on the town’s budget with a lean fiscal year ahead to match the one that ends on June 30. Town council members reviewed the budget at a work session last week. Town Manager Roger Stancil has proposed a budget that…
Weaver Street Market to change rewards plan
Starting June 28, Weaver Street Market will change its co-op rewards from discounts to dividends. Instead of receiving a 5 percent discount on some products at the cash register, consumer-owners will receive a patronage dividend at the end of the year. The senior citizen discounts on Tuesdays and Wednesdays also will be eliminated. The Weaver…
NCCU football players sought in robbery
The Chapel Hill Police Department seeks three men, including two N.C. Central University football players, in connection with a strong-armed robbery in the parking lot of Borders Books on Fordham Boulevard on May 8 around 5 p.m. Police have charged four men with one count each of common-law robbery. One suspect, Dennis Morris Jenkins, 19,…
New animal services facility hours
The new Orange County Animal Services Center will open at noon on June 1. The new facility will be open to the public Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from noon to 6 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 7:30 p.m.; and Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m. The center will be closed on Sunday. The…
Former police chief heads to Spring Lake
Gregg Jarvies, former police chief of the Chapel Hill Police Department, has been hired as interim police chief of the Spring Lake Police Department to help restore the department’s credibility following recent criminal charges against two of its officers. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office recently took control of the police department after two of its…
NAACP banquet to fund scholarships
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NCAAP) will sponsor its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Carrboro Century Center. Proceeds from the event will help fund scholarships for local students who plan to continue their education after high school.Radio personality Busta Brown…
Obituary: Margaret Umstead Cobb
Margaret “Peggy†Umstead Cobb, 63, of Chapel Hill, passed away at her home on May 11. She was born on November 1, 1945 in Platteville, WI to the late Margaret “Peggy†Burris Umstead and Frank Graham Umstead, both of whom resided in Chapel Hill most of their lives. Peggy was the eldest of the Umsteads’…
Obituary: William Guthrie Kilpatrick, Jr.
William Guthrie Kilpatrick, Jr. (Bill) of 120 Dixie Garden Drive, Chapel Hill, passed away early Tuesday morning, May 19th at his home. He was preceded in death by his parents, William Guthrie Kilpatrick, Sr., and Ruth Wood Kilpatrick; and grandson, John Christopher Kilpatrick (Chris).
Obituary: Jose Maria Espino
Mr. Jose Maria Espino, 52, 108 King Charles Road, died Monday May 18, 2009, in his home. He was employed by D.H. Griffin. Surviving are his mother, Hilaria G. Chaves; his wife, Maralyn Vestal Espino; two step-daughters, Rosa Stamatis (Teddy), Pine Tops, and Denise Willett, Creedmoor; four brothers and three sisters, Mexico; six step-grandchildren; nieces…
Scenes from the budget hearings
The year of hunkering down Not a lot of fireworks at any of the budget hearings this year, but most of what did take place was over items dear to Carrboro in the county budget. The town and its residents continue to press their case for not closing the Carrboro Branch Library while those with…
Life in the glass house
Robert and Vicky Dickson Given the frenzied media response to the Town of Carrboro’s approval of The Carrboro Citizen’s application for The Loan last week, we thought it would be good for us, the people who signed the documents, to set the record straight. There have been misquotes and accusations of bad intent, and our…
The question of health insurance
Giles Blunden The basic question boils down to this: Should Americans of all means be entitled to a quality level of health care as a standard everyday practice? I think most Americans would answer yes. Right now, this does not exist. There is not a level playing field and certainly not a consistent level of…
A modest plan for paying college costs
Robert Reich I’m just about to head off to a commencement here at U Cal, Berkeley. The news that keeps banging around in my head is that the state has just announced a whopping 9 percent increase in fees for next academic year, the third fee increase in three years. The average young person now…