The Middle College High School at Durham Technical Community College will hold an open house on Friday 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 the events.
School Brief: PTA tax session
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools PTA Council will hold an informational session on the transfer tax ballot issue on April 23 at 7 p.m. in the media center at Smith Middle School. The session will include a presentation by county representatives, a question-and-answer session, information regarding how the tax might benefit schools and discussion among…
Obituary – Margaret Ellen Barrett
Margaret Ellen Barrett, age 60, died Friday April 11. She was born on February 15, 1948 in the old Watts Hospital in Durham. She grew up in Chapel Hill and graduated from the Chapel Hill high School in the last class to graduate from the old high school downtown. She attended Brandeis University and later…
Piedmont farm tour returns this weekend for 13th year
Where can you ride the Eggmobile or the Mulchmobile; buy fresh produce, meat and cheese; learn about sustainable farming; or see cows, fainting goats, ducks, llamas, donkeys, sheep and even UNC mascot Rameses? The answer, of course, is the 13th annual Piedmont Farm Tour, sponsored by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), on Saturday, April…
Beyond the rain barrel
By Giles BlundenSpecial to The Citizen As the drought lingers on in North Carolina, there is much discussion about how to more effectively use our water. The reality is that even in a drought year, the Piedmont still got 32 inches of rain. In many parts of the country, this would be considered a huge…
Land & Table Brief: Beer awards
Carolina Brewery took home a few awards from the Hickory Hops Beer Festival in Hickory, North Carolina. The Carolinas Championship of Beer included 120 entries from 30 breweries in the Southeast. Carolina Brewery’s Alter Ego Altbier brew took second place overall. The brewers also snagged gold awards for Alter Ego Altbier and Flagship IPA, silver…
Our friend, the morel
Here at The Citizen, we often extol the value of a good walk in the woods. Occasionally the rewards offered by such an endeavor are pleasing to the palate as well, evidenced, we hope, by the lovely bowl of morels pictured at right.
Water Watch: Wednesday, April 16
LAKE LEVELS University Lake: 0’ 1.25†below full Cane Creek Reservoir: 7’ 5.5†below full PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH Jones Ferry Water Treatment Plant: 2.94†Cane Creek Reservoir: 2.70â€
So many favorites
By Ken Moore The cool weather extension of the flowering of native trees and shrubs is resulting in a visual overload. The colorful images range from redbud flowers carpeting the ground, to the spectacle of whole roadside forest edges dripping with pale-violet hanging flower clusters of the deadly, non-native Chinese Wisteria, Wisteria sinensis.
A complicated ballot full of critical choices
Voters tune into new registration rules, new county commissioner districts and contested races from the top of the ticket to a local tax referendum By Kirk Ross Staff Writer With news reports along the presidential campaign trail now including datelines like Raleigh, Greensboro and the UNC campus, this spring’s primary season is heating up. Set…
Series to focus on immigration issues
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer A community series of presentations and discussions this month seeks to address the hard questions surrounding immigration issues. The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Education is conducting the series on Sundays throughout the month at the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus.
Plans for northern area proving hard to nail down
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Somewhere close to 90 minutes into a board of aldermen discussion on how to shape development in a much-studied area in northern Carrboro, Town Attorney Mike Brough politely encouraged them to cut to the chase. Rather than hash over types of zoning strategies and what they might yield, he said,…
Recently: Long-haired music from a short-haired man
By Valarie Schwartz If you think that all classical music was written by long-haired men who are long-dead, think again. Ari Picker is writing a symphony, and he’s very much alive — with close-cropped hair. Picker, 26, grew up in Bynum, took no music lessons as a child and only started playing instruments (piano and…
Music Calendar: 04/10/08
Thursday April 10 The ArtsCenter: Shelby Lynne 8:30pm $27 Blue Horn Lounge: Windy City Slim & Ken Yow 10pm Cat’s Cradle: Between The Buried and Me, Lye By Mistake, Giant, Knives Exchanging Hands 7pm $14 The Cave: Early: John Amos Late: Spider Bags, Turpentine Brothers, Limes $5 General Store Café: Jazz with Club Boheme 8:30pm…
Obituary – Margaret McCaull Carmichael Lester
A celebration of the life of Margaret McCaull Carmichael Lester will be held from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 19th, in the North & South Parlors of the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. For more information, contact Margot Carmichael Lester at 967-3477.
