The Middle College High School at Durham Technical Community College will hold open houses June 18 and 25 from 3 to 5 p.m. The Middle College program allows 11th- and 12th-grade students to earn honors-level high school credit while taking college courses. Students considering enrollment and their parents are encouraged to attend an open-house event.
School Brief: LAX class
Carrboro High School will hold a Men’s Lacrosse Academy July 12-18. The camp is aimed at giving skills instruction during an intensive two hours of play every evening for seven days. The camp will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. each day at the Carrboro High School Practice Field.
School Brief: Clown camp
The ArtsCenter Stage and the Youth Performing Arts Conservatory will hold a summer camp for students aged 13 to 18. The camp, called Comedy, Combat and Clowning, will feature classes in stage combat, improvisation, ensemble work, masks, text work, clowning/comedy and more.
School Brief: Coaching award
East Chapel Hill High School forensic coach William Warren recently earned a first diamond from the National Forensic League. Coaches in the league receive one-tenth of the points earned by their students, and coaches who receive 1,500 points earn first diamonds.
School Brief: Museum opening
Julie Dermody’s fourth-grade class of English Language Learners open their museum, “Our Life,†today (Thursday) at Scroggs Elementary School. For the year-long project, students made multiple trips to the Ackland Art Museum and used resources from UNC’s Wilson Library, riding free Chapel Hill buses for the field trips. A local artist assisted students in creating…
For the Record: 55 anyone?
This may sound crazy, but once upon a time, during another oil crisis, a Republican president suggested that this country might want to conserve. In fact, one of the conservation measures he pushed for and won was a reduction in the speed limit to 55 miles per hour. Sometime later for reasons too many to…
For the Record: Ouch
During this season of budgets there is a lot of concern about what looks like a big year for tax hikes. Many of us as well are already digging deeper to cover fuel costs directly and inflation driven by them indirectly. Then there’s the simple fact that the making and selling of housing, now in…
‘This is our time’
Editor’s note: Following is the closing of remarks by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois in St. Paul, Minn. on Tuesday, June 3 upon the conclusion of the Democratic Primary season. The Senator became the party’s presumptive nominee for President of the United States after reaching the necessary delegate count to secure the nomination. He is…
Senator Dole: Vulnerable on children’s health
By Adam Searing Two new statewide polls show a virtual tie in the race for U.S. Senate between incumbent Senator Elizabeth Dole and Democratic challenger Kay Hagan, a state senator from Greensboro. This is obviously sparking some worry over at the Dole campaign, where Dole’s name recognition and millions in donations have perhaps made her…
The money shuffle in Raleigh
By Chris Fitzsimon Many of the decisions state lawmakers make this session will be influenced by November’s election and legislative leaders in both parties have plenty of people to help them figure out how certain issues will play with the voters. The Democratic Caucus in the House and Senate each has its own political consultants…
Chatham extends building ban
by Catherine Rierson Staff Writer Last week the Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved a six-month extension to the development moratorium to complete several major land use ordinances. The moratorium expires December 2, and applies only to residential developments with at least 26 residential lots.
School board to meet on grading system, policy changes
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meets tonight (Thursday) at 7 at the Chapel Hill Town Hall on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The board will consider in a work session a proposed change to student grading that would emphasize consistency and add a floor of 61 to the numeric grading scale. Opponents…
UNC professor to lead community journalism efforts
UNC News Services The National Newspaper Association (NNA) has named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jock Lauterer its point person on community journalism for the trade association’s nationwide membership primarily of non-daily newspapers. Lauterer is a lecturer in community journalism and news writing at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication,…
Healthy Kids Campaign plans Saturday celebration
Fresh on the heels of winning kudos Tuesday night from the Town of Carrboro for community gardening, the Orange County Partnership for Young Children plans a celebration of its Healthy Kids Campaign Saturday from 3-5 p.m. at Carrboro Elementary School. The campaign has set up two gardens in Carrboro — one at the school and…
The Mill: Bee arty
Here’s a true test of artistic ability: a beehive hairdo art contest sponsored by the Beehive Hair Salon. Bring your artistic representation of the ‘do by 7 p.m. Saturday, June 28. It can be any medium, style and size — as long as it fits in the salon — and all ages are encouraged to…