By Katie Spencer Carrboro Commons Writer In the green mountains of Honduras, Chapel Hill resident Hunter Barbee found the familiar logo of his favorite coffee shop. And it wasn’t Starbucks. It was Carrboro’s own Open Eye Cafe. Barbee, 22, was touring a coffee farm in the small highland village of Copan with a group that…
Land & Table Brief: Green workshop
Central Carolina Community College will host the workshop Green and Passive Solar Case Study and Design Lab at the Pittsboro Campus. It includes an exercise to determine optimal lot siting for green building and an exercise to design or modify a home plan to optimize renewable energy and more. The workshop is from 9 a.m….
Land & Table Brief: Garden Tour
The Chapel Hill Garden Club will hold its Spring Garden Tour Saturday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, April 13, from noon to 4 p.m. The tour is self-guided and includes 10 private gardens. Refreshments, exhibits, a raffle, live music, demonstrations and plant sales will be held at the Botanical Garden….
Land & Table Brief: Market times
At the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, springtime hours are in effect — 7 a.m. to noon. The return of the Carrboro Wednesday Market is just around the corner: Mark your calendar for April 9. The Hillsborough Farmers’ Market is now open Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to noon at 128 N. Churton Street and Wednesdays from 3-6…
Land & Table Brief: Splendid table
Cookbook author and radio personality Lynne Rossetto Kasper will visit the Fearrington Barn on Thursday, April 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. to read from her book The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Supper. The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by McIntyre’s Fine Books. More information at www.fearrington.com
Land & Table Brief: Agriculture talk
The 3CUPS coffee shop will host a forum on Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss gaps in local agriculture infrastructure. Leading the discussion are Tim Philpott, founder of Maverick Farms, and Jennifer Curtis of NC Choices, which promotes sustainable local farming. The discussion will focus on continuing to expand local agriculture. The event…
Land & Table Brief: Haw workshop
The Haw River Watch will host a Macro-Micro Workshop on Saturday, March 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bynum Beach. Volunteers will teach attendees about collecting and inspecting water samples for microscopic creatures (with an interlude for lunch) to test water quality. RSVP and learn more from Cynthia Crossen at 967-2500 or riverwatch@hawriver.org
Cell Phone Snaps: 03/27/08
Wendy Richesin-Dodd of Carrboro sent us this shot and a few other photos of multiple Xs in the sky. She shot the photos last month near Carrboro Plaza. Send your Cell Phone photos to editor@carrborocitizen.com
Water Watch: Wednesday, March 26
LAKE LEVELS University Lake: 0‘ 2.5†below full Cane Creek Reservoir: 11‘ 1†below full PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH Jones Ferry Water Treatment Plant: 4.62†Cane Creek Reservoir: 4.11â€
Follow the redbuds and dogwoods
By Ken Moore Native pink-flowered redbud, Cercis Canadensis, is right on schedule beginning its three-week-long flowering. It will be followed in a week or two by the pure-white Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida. The combination of these two native trees’ spring awakenings gives us four to five weeks of flowering with a dramatic overlapping of the…
University celebrates Eve Carson’s life
By Susie Dickson Staff Writer The atmosphere was more celebratory than tearful as thousands of students, faculty and Carolina community members came together on Tuesday to honor and say a final goodbye to UNC Student Body President Eve Carson. Carson, an Athens, Ga. native who came to UNC as a Morehead-Cain scholar, was shot and…
Newspaper still exists
Proprietors say it’s full speed ahead After a year of producing The Carrboro Citizen, Robert Dickson and Kirk Ross, publisher and editor, respectively, and owners of the newspaper, said Thursday that the enterprise is going strong after a year. Thanks to a loyal and growing readership, The Citizen is now the most widely read weekly…
Recently: Dreaming to express yourself in ways you can’t say
By Valarie Schwartz We all have dreams. Besides the big ones, like world peace, there are the ones that come with sleep, serving as guides or revelations into our unconscious. “Dreams don’t tell us things we already know about ourselves,†Marilyn Dyer told me. “What would be the point — they’d be a waste of…
Beyond the crisis: Revisiting the community-based model
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer Debbie Carraway is 37, works in information technology and has bipolar disorder. For 14 years, until just a couple of weeks ago, she was a client of Marilyn Ghezzi, a therapist at Caring Family Network. Caring Family Network no longer provides therapy services in Orange County, and Carraway is feeling…
Middle School redistricting planned for fall
By Susie Dickson Staff Writer One hundred Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools middle school students could be moved to different schools under a proposed redistricting plan that will be considered by the school board in a work session tonight (Thursday). The proposed redistricting plan includes changes that would shift the Chinese-English dual-language program to McDougle Middle…