Fresh on the heels of his wife’s victory in the Pennsylvania primary, former President Bill Clinton returned to North Carolina for a series of events in the Piedmont. Clinton spoke to a crowd of several hundred at the Orange County Baseball field in Hillsborough Wednesday. He told supporters that North Carolina will play an important…
Arts Calendar: 04/24/08
Special Events Clydefest Music, food, art and, of course, Clyde Jones are the highlights of the 7th Annual Clydefest, Saturday starting at 11 a.m. This year the festival is at the Bynum ballfield in beautiful downtown Bynum. The fun includes facepainting, fortune telling, critter painting (supervised by Clyde himself) and many “Clyde-inspired†Carnival Games. Entertainment…
Noticia en breve: Vota
Cuidadanos, ¡voten ahora! Lugares y horarios para votar por adelantado en Chapel Hill: Morehead Planetarium, de lunes a viernes, 8am hasta 5pm; Seymour Senior Center, de lunes a jueves de 12pm hasta 8pm. En Carrboro: Carrboro Town Hall, de lunes a viernes de 9 a.m. hasta 5 p.m. Todos los lugares estarán abiertos para votar…
Noticia en breve: Padres prestan atención
Platica sobre el comportamiento del niño en lugares públicos. Martes, el 29 de abril de 8am hasta 9:30am en las oficinas de El futuro, 110 W. Main Street, Suite 2H, Carrboro. Van a ver bocadillos. Piden una colaboración de $2. Llame al 338-1929 x504 ó x501 para más información.
Noticia en breve: DÃa de salud para niños y familias
(Healthy Kids Day and Family Fest) Disfruten de diferentes atracciones para toda la familia mientras aprenden sobre los recursos para la familia que ofrece el condado de Orange. Van a ver juegos y otras actividades para los niños. Este sábado el 26 de abril de 10am hasta 2pm en el Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA, 980 Martin…
Community Calendar: 04/24/08
Special Events Really Really Free Market — First Saturdays from 2:30-5:30pm. Town Commons. Come, swap, take! N.C. Children’s Hospital Benefit Concert with Vince Gill— 100 percent of the proceeds benefit the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology. $50-$100. Wed, Apr 30, 8pm. Memorial Hall, Cameron Ave, UNC Campus. 843-3333, carolinaperformingarts.org
Wild weekend
Might as well just bring a tent and a sleeping bag to the Town Commons next weekend. The sequence of events goes like this: Friday, May 2 — Arcade Fire, Superchunk rock show and rally for Obama Saturday, May 3 — Farmers’ Market 30th Anniversary/First Really, Really Free Market of Spring Sunday, May 4 —…
Letter from the Editor: “In playâ€
Those are the words being used to describe North Carolina by pundits across the country after Hillary Clinton’s win in the Pennsylvania primary. Anyone who kept an eye on the race for the delegates of that state knows that as it wound down, things got downright nasty. Accusations flew, ads got muddy and ABC debate…
Letter from the Editor: Postponed
As you may notice, a flood of letters on the upcoming primary rolled into the office this week — items we feel obligated to print. So, with apologies, we’re bumping a story on the effect of gas prices on the local economy until the primary dust has settled. In the meantime, if you have a…
Letter from the Editor: Call for submissions
A reminder that we are seeking fiction and creative non-fiction works by local authors for to run in MILL, our monthly arts, music and literature publication. Stories should be between 500 and 600 words and should pretty much be suitable for the whole family. Send inquiries to editor@carrborocitizen.com
A week after primary day
By Chris Fitzsimon One week after North Carolina voters head to the polls in the May primary, the General Assembly will convene for its summer session. Lawmakers are likely to spend much of their time in Raleigh struggling to pass a budget based on lower revenue projections and balancing expectations about the session with their…
County, schools need transfer tax
By Mike Nelson I know. No one likes to have their taxes raised. Who would? But sometimes a need is so great that raising a tax is an appropriate course of action. Here in Orange County, we have serious school and park needs. For example, Morris Grove Elementary School, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro system’s newest school,…
Transfer tax irresponsible
By Brian Voyce To present a balance in the editorials and letters on the upcoming vote on the local transfer tax, I present the following guest editorial. Voting for the home equity/local land transfer tax rewards the financial incompetence of our politicians.
Endorsement Letters: Transfer Tax
For the transfer tax With Orange County growing so fast, it seems we need new schools every time we turn around. Somehow we have to pay for educating these new children, who are our future. Counties have very few options in paying for schools. Mostly, they rely on the property tax. Every property owner has…
Thanks Price, Watt
We want to thank Reps. David Price and Mel Watt for their endorsements of Barack Obama, the clear choice for the Democratic nomination. We are glad they listened to North Carolina voters, more than 2,000 of whom have signed petitions over the past two months asking N.C. superdelegates to back Obama.