Special Events Annual Orange County Egg Hunt for children ages 2-10. Sat, Mar 15, Homestead community Park, 100 Northern Park Dr, Chapel Hill. Children’s entertainment begins at 9:30am and the 20,000-egg hunt begins at 10:30am. Games and a meet-and-greet with the Easter Bunny will follow. Sponsored by the Town of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation…
Community Brief: Egg hunt
The annual Orange County Egg Hunt for children will be held Saturday, March 15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Homestead Community Park in Chapel Hill. The egg hunt is for children aged 2 to 10. Homestead Community Park is off Northern Park Drive off Homestead Road. The celebration is free. Entertainment begins at 9:30…
Community Brief: Library book sale
The Friends of the Library will hold a book sale from Thursday, March 27 to Saturday, March 29. Thousands of books in all categories will be available, but particularly in art, history, biography and fiction, along with classical music CDs. Pre-K through 12th-grade teachers with identification are entitled to a 50 percent discount. Proceeds will…
Community Brief: Musical art
Wilson Library will hold a panel discussion and live music performance as it opens its new exhibit, “Paper Trail: The Poster Art of Casey Burns and Ron Liberti,†a show dedicated to poster art produced for the local music scene. The event is at 5:45 p.m. Monday, March 17 in Wilson Library. The two artists…
Community Brief: N.C. Fund premiere
The premiere screening of the documentary Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the N.C. Fund will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 at Union Auditorium on the UNC campus. The showing will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers and professors. The documentary tells the story of the anti-poverty North Carolina Fund established…
Community Brief: Music benefit
Cat’s Cradle will host a benefit for the Woods Charter School Music Department on Friday, March 14. Playing are Hobex, Great Big Gone and Lynn Blakey & Ecki Heins. Doors open at 8 and admission is $10.
Land & Table Brief: Spring garden tour
The Chapel Hill Garden club will hold its biennial 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…
Land & Table Brief: Market times
Well, they’ve gone and once again prematurely sprung daylight-saving time on us, so let’s call it spring. And by way of making it official, your local farmers’ markets are swinging wide their doors. At the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, springtime hours commence this Saturday — 7 a.m. to noon. The return of the Carrboro Wednesday Market…
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. She hosts the radio show The Splendid Table and writes a column called Ask the Splendid Table for newspapers. Her third,…
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, food editor for the environmental website Grist and founder of Maverick Farms, and Jennifer Curtis, project director for NC Choices, which promotes sustainable local farming. The discussion…
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. River Watch volunteers will teach those interested about collecting and inspecting water samples for microscopic creatures (with an interlude for lunch). Examining the creatures can provide information about water quality. RSVP and get…
Letter to the Editor: Article was off-base
If the sentiment expressed in Peha and Lester’s article “Paper, pencil and chalk†(3/6/08) is the same perspective held by our school systems’ administrators, our children are being done a great disservice. The authors admit “technology has revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives,†yet they conclude “we may all serve children better with paper,…
Letter to the Editor: Dinner Thanks
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the Eleventh Annual Community Dinner celebrating Orange County’s cultural diversity, held on Sunday, March 2. The fact that between five and six hundred people attended the event bears testimony to the multicultural goodwill present in our very diverse community.
Thoughts on CHHS cheating scandal
By Holly Hardin Spending time trying to hunt down graduates who may have had access to Chapel Hill High School keys and discussing how to curb cheating only addresses this problem at the surface. We need to ask ourselves, what about our educational system is causing our students to cheat? Should the students be held…
The wrong tax and the wrong time
By Mark Zimmerman Orange County has always prided itself on being a progressive community that strives for fairness. When the Orange County Commissioners chose to add a referendum to the May 6 primary election ballot imposing a new sales tax on property, known as the transfer tax, it abandoned those principles. The transfer tax is…