Judy Wicks, a national leader in the local living-economies movement, will present the Center for Environmental Farming Systems’ 2008 Sustainable Agriculture Lecture on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh. Wicks is the co-founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and the founder of Philadelphia’s…
Land & Table brief: OWASA lakes
Tropical Storm Hanna raised OWASA’s lakes from 79 percent full on Friday to 95 percent full on Monday, well above normal for this time of year. The Cane Creek Reservoir, the primary water source for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community, rose from about five feet below full Friday to 13.5 inches below full Monday morning. University…
Land & Table brief: Urban farm tour
Sustainable agriculture isn’t just found on the farm fields, say the organizers of the Urban Farm Tour. This unconventional farm tour will take participants to ten sites inside of town to see backyard sustainable farming like beekeeping, raising chickens and vegetable and herb gardens. The tour also includes workshops to teach comers about sustainable gardening…
For the record 9/11/08
Infrastructure challenged This has been a banner month for rain in a wetter-than-usual summer season. There’s cause to celebrate the fact that our reservoirs are now nearly full and the two-year drought is abated. But the return of wet weather brought with it a not-so-subtle message that Carrboro and Chapel Hill have significant challenges ahead.
Op-ed: Suffering until suffrage
Paige Johnson Recently, Americans celebrated the 88th Anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. One hundred forty-four years after the founding of this country, women – representing more than half the population and having birthed the other half – won the right to vote. In spite of their numbers, women were the last citizens…
Letter to the editor: The coming election
I am not afraid of the color of Barack Obama’s skin. I am afraid of the alliance of powerful men like Cheney, Rove and DeLay, with their narcissistic ethics and ideology reflected in their disregard for moral and judicial law. I am not afraid of Barack Obama’s insightful intellect. I am afraid of a president…
Letter to the editor: Airport threatens farms
As airport plans pit the university against rural Orange County, another issue is affecting about 100 largely rural Orange and Alamance County families: the decision by the county boards to consider altering the county line. In 1849, Alamance County was split off of Orange when surveyors drew a line from a “gum saplin†on the…
Letter to the editor: Eliminate Eubanks site
Our Orange County commissioners are getting closer to selecting a site to build a county-wide trash transfer station. Please support the Eubanks-Rogers Road neighborhood in their effort to remove Eubanks Road as a potential site for this new facility. Eleven potential sites have been identified. Most of the other sites are west of White Cross…
Batten takes the reins at Carrboro High School
School brief: Child advocacy fair
The Orange County Child Advocacy Fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Exchange Club in Hillsborough. The fair is intended to bring children and families together to get to know community members, educators, health professionals and safety experts. The event will feature a panel discussion about the benefits…
School brief: Education walk
The 12th annual Walk for Education will be held Oct. 18 at 3 p.m. at McCorkle Place on the UNC campus. For the walk, school groups, clubs, sports teams and individual students can collect donations or contributions for their schools. All students and their families are invited to participate in the walk, which will start…
School briefs: Shop for a cause
The Chapel Hill High School chapter of Students Against Violence Everywhere/Destructive Decisions (SAVEDD) will participate in Macy’s “Shop for a Cause†event on Sept. 20. Students will sell shopping passes for $5 that are good for 20 percent off most items in the store that day. In addition, those who buy passes can register for…
School briefs: Homebound teachers needed
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools needs Homebound instructors to provide academic instruction to students who are unable to attend school because of medical reasons. Students are placed on Homebound for a minimum of four weeks and up to a full year and receive between one and five hours of instruction per week. Homebound instructors must hold…
Lunch Menus 9/11/08
Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Lunch Menus Sept 12 — 18 Elementary Friday — Whole Grain Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce & Garlic Bread; Corn Dog; California Mixed Vegetables; Sweet Yellow Corn; Banana Pudding Monday — Hamburger on a Bun; Fish Nuggets; Lettuce & Tomato Salad; Tater Tots; Peas & Carrots; Fresh Apple Halves Tuesday — Three Cheese…
Sports briefs: Fall softball 9/11/08
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks 2008 Co-Recreational Fall Softball league standings are, as of Sept 9: Division A Cozart-Seagroves 10-2 Cliff’s Meat Market/T-Roy’s Towing 9-2 Ghost Riders 9-3 300 E. Main St. 6-5 Bread & Butter 6-5 Division B Armadillo Grill 6-6 Pink Floyd 5-7 Toof Haus 3-8 Fearrington 3-8 Sluggers of Catan 0-11 Sept….
