Carrboro The ArtsCenter Center Gallery—community photography contest East End Gallery ELEMENTS—the fifth annual Community Art Project through May 28 The Beehive Salon Sincerely Yours—works depicting life in Chapel Hill by Washington Capps
Low-cost rabies vaccination
The Orange County Animal Services Department organized four low-cost rabies vaccination clinics. They are scheduled for: Wednesday, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Orange County Animal Shelter at 1081 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd; Wednesday, June 18 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at Fairview Community Park, Hillsborough; Wednesday, June 18 from…
Community Brief: Cougar football
Those interested in becoming a member of the Carrboro High School football team will need to attend a family meeting on Wednesday, May 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the Carrboro High Media Center. Items to be discussed will include summer camps, summer conditioning and next season’s varsity and junior varsity schedules. For information, contact Jason…
Community Brief: Fall softball
The Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department will sponsor a 2008 Fall Co-Rec Softball League. The adult co-ed league will play on Tuesdays and Thursdays from late July through October. Each team will play one or two games per week, followed by a double-elimination tournament. A team fee of $608 is required, with at least $150…
Community Brief: Healthy party
The Orange County Partnership for Young Children will hold “The Healthy Kids Campaign Celebration†on Saturday, June 7 at Carrboro Elementary from 3 to 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served and events include a review of the campaign projects, a cooking demonstration and a community garden tour. To attend, RSVP by Friday May 23 to…
Music Calendar: 5/22/08
Thursday May 22 Blue Horn Lounge: Tennessee Jed 9pm The Cave: Chop Chop, Reid Johnson, Filthy Bird, Soft Company 9pm $5 General Store Café: Bo Lankenau & Friends 8pm Local 506: Northern State, American Princess 9pm $8 Nightlight: Veronica Blood, Dead to Society 9:30pm $3 Weaver Street Market: After Hours 6pm
Residents, officials question biosolid plans, regulations
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer A request by the City of Burlington to renew its expired biosolid applications permit has environmentalists and officials from Orange and Chatham counties asking for better studies and tighter oversight of the program. Orange County has more than 3,000 acres of farmland that are regularly sprayed with biosolids — a…
Severe weather
Strong storm headed east. Golfball sized hail in Siler City. WRAL Map National Weather Service: AT 440 PM EDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF PITTSBORO…MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. IT HAS PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL NEAR SILER CITY.
The catalpa of blackberry winter
By Ken Moore As usual, Mother’s Day and the university’s commencement have been accompanied by the typical cool stormy weather of “blackberry winter,†signaled by the flowering of wild blackberries along roadsides and woodland edges. This past weekend’s blackberry winter weather was particularly stormy, as it delivered more needed rainfall, hopefully not the last before…
Budget cuts can’t match sluggish economy
Manager calls for 3.23 cent tax increase by Kirk Ross Staff Writer The town is cutting expenditures by close to 6 percent, but taxes are headed up under a budget proposal detailed for the Carrboro Board of Aldermen at Town Hall Tuesday night. Town Manager Steve Stewart outlined a $18,476,375 budget that delays vehicle purchases…
Recently: Tar Heel born, bred and moving to Richmond
By Valarie Schwartz Last Friday, Stephen Allred looked comfortable and relieved in his office on the west side of South Building, where he has been executive associate provost since March 2004. The day before, it had been announced that colleague, friend and fellow Equinox band member Holden Thorp would begin occupying the offices on the…
IFC makes plans for new shelter after deal with town, UNC
by Rich Fowler Staff Writer The Inter-Faith Council finally has the land it needs to build a new men’s residential facility, thanks to an agreement between UNC and the Town of Chapel Hill. The university is buying 13 acres of land on Homestead Road from Duke Energy and will lease about one and a half…
Century Center buzzing
by Kirk Ross Pardon the pun, but it didn’t take too long last Tuesday for the buzz downtown to get around. Late Tuesday morning, calls and emails poured into The Citizen offices about a large number of bees swarming next to the Century Center, specifically in the Foster Holly (Ilex x attenuata) on the northeast…
School budget fueling tax increase
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district has requested a budget increase of more than $6.8 million this year, including more than $2.4 million to fund salary and benefit increases and other state mandates. This would be a 12.5 percent increase over last year’s budget.
Obituary – Irina Yarmolenko
Irina “Ira†Yarmolenko had a sunny spirit, a quick smile and friends everywhere she went. She wasn’t supposed to die at age 20. The UNC Charlotte sophomore was found Monday, May 5, 2008 next to her car on the banks of the Catawba River in Mount Holly. Yarmolenko was born in the Ukraine but grew…