The Chatham County agriculture extension office is offering a two-day seminar on food preservation on June 2 and 3 with classes offered at either 10 a.m. or 6 p.m. each day. Participants are asked to pre-register. The fee is $20 and includes the latest edition of the Ball Blue Preserving Book. For more information, contact…
Sludge forum
The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and the Center for Health, Environment & Justice will host a public meeting on the risks to public health and the environment from spreading sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants on farmlands. The meeting will be on June 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Cane Creek Baptist…
Burrito Bash
This month’s Burrito Bash fundraiser at the General Store in Pittsboro promises to be a drag. The event, hosted by the Chatham County Artists Guild and the Abundance Foundation, is calling on all local drag queens and kings to come out to support the Abundance Foundation’s efforts to increase awareness on sustainable energy and local…
Green Classes
Central Carolina Community College’s Green Building and Renewable Energy Program is offering a variety of classes during the spring and summer in green construction and renewable energy. Classes include: • State and National Standards Overview — a detailed introduction to state and national residential green building and energy efficiency standards.
Agfest
The Got to Be N.C. Festival — the state’s annual agriculture festival — runs May 29 to 31 at the state fairgrounds in Raleigh. In addition to a carnival, a local food expo, a barbecue cook-off and antique tractors, this year’s festival includes two free music stages, North Carolina wineries in the Food and Wine…
All-star group looks at modern politics
The Great Hall of University Baptist Church will be the venue for what promises to be a lively discussion of modern politics. The event, which begins at 7:30 p.m. today (May 21), is titled “Modern American Politics: Reform and Progress in the Post-Watergate Era†and is open to the public. Admission is free. Sponsored by…
Manager recommends no tax increase
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Carrboro Board of Aldermen got its first look at Town Manager Steve Stewart’s $19.1 million fiscal 2010 recommended operating budget on Tuesday, which includes a revenue-neutral property tax rate of 58.94 cents per $100 of property valuation. While the tax rate provides no increase in revenue for the town,…
Carolina North hearing highlights traffic impact
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer More lanes along sections of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, traffic circles there and on Estes Drive and at Rogers Road and Homestead Road, speed tables in Elkins Hills and other neighborhoods and even a “minor restriping†in downtown Carrboro are among the possible ways to mitigate a surge in…
Millhouse Road transfer station site proposed
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer The Orange County Board of County Commissioners is holding a work session tonight (Thursday) with county staff and representatives of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough to discuss plans for a solid waste transfer station. The agenda calls for discussion of the proposed site off N.C. 54 in the White Cross…
Pushback brings results
If there is anything more tedious to plow through than a traffic impact analysis (TIA), please don’t forward it on to us. In a lot of instances of public policy, the devil is in the details. A TIA is pretty much all details and the devil is in trying to make sense of it. So…
Thanks again
Many of us are still a little exhausted by basketball season but certainly not tired enough for one more thing to cheer about, especially if it’s the team’s trip to the White House for a visit with the First Fan. President Obama won more than a few nods of approval and probably a good number…
Comprehensive sex education will equip our children to survive
By Paige Johnson If a 13-year-old enrolls in eighth-grade Spanish, should her parents fear she’ll start packing her bags for Madrid as soon as the semester is over? Not likely. Yet opponents of comprehensive sex education often use similar reasoning in their opposition to allowing schools in North Carolina to offer it. They claim providing…
Letter to the Editor: At least they have jobs
State employees are riled about a 0.5 percent pay cut? Kinnaird thinks its “very unfair†to lower-income workers? You’ve got to be kidding me. Someone making $30,000 per year is looking at a pay cut of about $12.50 per month. And bunching the pay cut into the end of this fiscal year means that same…
White Cross murder case dropped
Evidence presented Monday in Orange County District Court showed that brothers Steve and Ronnie Ramirez were acting in self-defense when they shot and killed Thaddeus Jerrod Harris in March. As a result, a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to send the cases to the Superior Court. The Ramirez brothers had been charged with…
Ransom Street closed until Nov. 1
Both lanes of Ransom Street between Patterson Place and McCauley Street will be closed on Monday until Nov. 1 as work continues on the steam tunnel serving UNC. The steam tunnel runs along a UNC-owned right-of-way running parallel to and north of McCauley Street, crossing Columbia, Pittsboro and Random streets to connect the campus near…