To celebrate Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, Orange County Animal Services has reduced the adoption fee for select dogs to $60 through October.
Buses to the game
The Tar Heel Express will provide shuttle service on Saturday for the UNC football game against Idaho.
Outdoor concerts next week
The Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department will offer a “Music on the Streets†program Sept. 24-28.
Police to offer safe drug disposal
The Carrboro Police Department will hold a Drug Take Back on Sept. 27 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Carrboro Town Commons.
Discount rabies shots
Orange County’s Animal Services Department will offer two discount rabies vaccination clinics in honor of World Rabies Day.
Recycling volunteers needed
Volunteers are needed to monitor recycling at the Carrboro Music Festival and Chapel Hill’s Festifall.
Free cholesterol and blood pressure screening
UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy will offer free cholesterol and blood pressure screening on Sept. 20, 26 and 27 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Grief and loss support group
University United Methodist Church will offer a seven-week grief and loss support group beginning Sept. 30.
House Calls, September 20, 2012
This week we respond to questions about anemia and vitamins.
Aerial view, Chapel Hill 1939
Chapel Hill’s pioneering woman photographer, Bayard Wootten, took to the air to make this stunning bird’s-eye view of the campus in 1939.
Come home, Holden
When Carrboro resident Holden Thorp took his family and moved to the big city to become chancellor of our university back in 2008, we all cheered.
Freeloaders, according to Mitt
So Mitt Romney and his multi-millionaire donors think my husband and I are freeloaders, according to a video that’s been circulating recently.
BIG CITY: A dark day in a dark era
Holden Thorp led off the emergency meeting of UNC’s Faculty Council, telling those assembled that he appreciated their effort to convince him to stay.
LETTER: Reelect Obama
I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican; an Independent I am, and I’ve made my decision.
LETTER: Thanks for The Citizen
I’ve never met Robert Dickson or his daughter Susan, the publisher and editor of The Carrboro Citizen.