Chris Fitzsimon The summer is winding down and Labor Day is just around the corner, the day that traditionally marks the real beginning of the fall campaign season, when political commercials are on television around the clock. If past campaigns are any indication, the ads won’t shed much light on how candidates want to address…
School Brief: Lunch cost rises
As a result of rising food and fuel costs, meal prices will increase this year in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools cafeterias. Price increases do not affect students who receive free and reduced price meal benefits. Breakfast prices increased by five cents, to $1.10 for students and $1.55 for adults.
School Brief: ESL welcome centers
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will open two special facilities this year to serve students and families for whom English is a second language. A Welcome Center will open on the Lincoln Center site in a mobile unit. The district’s English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) Coordinator and translator will move into this space, along with a secretary and…
School Brief: CHS band fundraiser
The Carrboro High School Band Boosters will hold a yard sale on August 23 to raise money for the school’s band program. The yard sale will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Southern Village Green on Market Street. The boosters will also sell raffle tickets for a chance to win prizes donated…
School Brief: Teacher laptops
In the next year, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district will put laptops in the hands of all its high school teachers. After Carrboro High opened last year with laptops and docking stations for each classroom, administrators saw unexpected benefits to teacher recruitment and teacher retention.
For the Record: Statement by Elizabeth Edwards
Editor’s note: Following is a statement released by Elizabeth Edwards after her husband, former U.S. senator and presidential and vice presidential candidate John Edwards admitted in an interview last week on ABC’s Nightline to having an affair just prior to his announcement that he would make a run for the Democratic nomination for president. The…
School Brief: Phoenix Academy move
Phoenix Academy will move into a new building in September. Phoenix Academy, the district’s alternative program, has been housed in the three mobile units on the Lincoln Center site. Phoenix Academy will move into the recently renovated pottery shop behind Lincoln Center.
Sports Brief: Hot Stob tourney
Carrboro Recreation & Parks and the North Carolina Horseshoe Pitchers Association sponsored the Hot Stob Horseshoe Tournament and held it Aug. 9 at Hank Anderson Community Park. The winners in each bracket were: Championship class: 1. Rivers Prewette of Eden 6-0 2. Carolyn Lloyd of Chapel Hill 4-2 3. Buck Prewette of Eden 1-5
Softball standings
The Carrboro Recreation & Parks 2008 Fall Co-Recreational Softball League Standings, as of August 12, are: 1. Cliff’s Meat Market/T-Roy’s Towing 5-0 2. Ghost Riders 5-0 3. 300 E. Main St. 4-1 4. Cozart-Seagroves 4-1 5. Bread & Butter 3-2 6. Armadillo Grill 2-3 7. Fearrington 1-4 8. Pink Floyd 0-5 9. Sluggers of Catan…
A big-leaved threat
by Ken Moore I’m always impressed by those large round leafy stems that seem to have grown six to 12 feet overnight along roadside banks and ditches. This fast-growing plant is promoted by the nursery industry as a miracle tree, the fastest growing one in America. For the homeowner, this exotic (non-native) royal paulownia, royal…
Park prep continues
Chapel Hill is on the verge of opening up Southern Community Park. Well, part of it. Crews at what will be the town’s largest park have finished up or are closing in on completeing picnic areas, a dog park, a connection with the Fan Branch Greenway, play areas, a roller hockey rink, basketball courts, outdoor…
New Carrboro High School principal chosen
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education last week appointed Kelly Batten as principal of Carrboro High School. Batten has served as assistant principal of Leesville Road High School in Wake County for the past six years. Before entering administration, he taught social studies at Sanderson High School, also…
County opposes nuclear plant expansion
by Kirk Ross Staff Writer The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously last week to pursue objections to the expansion of Progress Energy’s Shearon Harris nuclear plant. The county will seek an extension of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s comment period about the expansion and hold a public hearing, tentatively scheduled for Sept 2., to…
Aldermen approve cap on towing fees
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Carrboro Board of Aldermen last week voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that limits the fees charged for towing cars from private property. The move comes amid a towing controversy at Abbey Court Apartments, where in July management began towing vehicles that were parked in the apartment complex’s lot…
Recently: The fading of red on the head
By Valarie Schwartz Fifteen years ago, on the date that I write this (Aug. 4), I sat in a restaurant in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with my eight-year-old son, looking at a newspaper after having ordered our breakfast. This remains a memory because it was the first time I had to adjust the length of my…
