The Orange County Human Relations Commission is soliciting nominations for the 2007 Pauli Murray Human Relations Awards. The Paul Murray Award is presented annually to one Orange County youth, adult and business that served the community with distinction in pursuit of equality, justice and human rights for all citizens. Nominations must be submitted by January…
Land & Table Brief: Learn to farm
The Orange County Cooperative Extension and the Economic Development Commission are accepting applications for a new program designed to train apprentice farmers in small-scale, sustainable vegetable and fruit production. The “People Learning Agriculture Now for Tomorrow†program will cover the basic how-to’s of whole-farm planning, marketing, pests, diseases, weeds, planting and harvesting, soils, fertility and…
Links to goodwill at CHS
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer During their first annual holiday project, Carrboro High School students raised $4,200 to support needy families this holiday season. Over a two-week period, students bought and sold purple, black and white paper links – Carrboro High’s colors – in their homerooms. Purple and white links were 25 cents, while black…
Scroggs’ blog
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has formed a long-range facilities committee that will meet this winter and spring to review the district’s construction needs, and the public is invited to submit input via a new district blog. The committee will be directed by Steve Scroggs, assistant superintendent for support services. Scroggs has created the “Bowtie Blog 
Math competition held
Smith Middle School students scored highest of any school team in North Carolina in the American Mathematics Competition 8 for middle school students. Students from Smith and Phillips middle schools participated in the competition. Smith students Arun Ganesh and Richard Lu earned perfect scores in the competition – the only two perfect scores in the…
School Brief: Teacher supply grants
In January, the East Chapel Hill Rotary Club and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation will open a teacher supply store where teachers can use $100 vouchers for free materials. In the first stage, the store will offer materials to kindergarten, first-grade and second-grade teachers in all district elementary schools. The organizations plan to add…
School Brief: Meal price increase ahead
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education will tonight (Thursday) consider increasing school meal prices by 10 cents. If approved by the board, the price increases will take effect January 23, 2008. Lunch prices will increase to $2.50 for elementary lunches, $2.75 for middle and high school lunches and $3.35 for adult lunches. The board is…
School Brief: Carrboro gathers for the pantry
Carrboro Elementary School students recently collected nearly 600 cans of food for a canned-food drive to benefit families in need within the school and through the Inter-Faith Council Food Pantry. The students’ goal was to donate 50 cans per grade, in honor of the school’s 50th anniversary, but students surpassed expectations and collected 590 cans…
School Brief: Battle of the Bulge winners announced
The results are in, and Carrboro Elementary has been announced as the winner of the second annual Chapel Hill-Carrboro Battle of the Bulge challenge. From Sept. 7 to Dec. 7, teams of faculty and staff from nine district schools worked to make healthy choices and lose weight. The Carrboro Elementary team lost the most weight,…
School Brief: Financial aid night planned
Orange County Schools will hold a Financial Aid Night on January 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the Orange High School auditorium. Parents of students who are planning to apply for financial aid are encouraged to attend. Representatives from the College Foundation of North Carolina, Elon University, N.C. State University and the Durham Technical Community College…
High-tech helmets reveal information about hits to the head
Is there a limit to the amount of impact a football player’s head can handle before the player suffers a concussion? The answer is yes … and no, say researchers at UNC. High-tech helmets worn by some UNC football players over the 2004 to 2006 seasons yielded new data challenging theories about these mild brain…
Kids more active when playground has balls, jump ropes
Children play harder and longer when their child-care centers provide portable play equipment such as balls and jump ropes, more opportunities for active play and physical activity training and education for staff and students, according to researchers at the UNC School of Public Health. “Childhood obesity is an epidemic that threatens the future health of…
Carrboro High winter sports
Carrboro High School 2007-08 Wrestling Sat Dec 22 Red Raider Duals at Newton-Conover HS, 9:00 Sat Dec 29 Athens Drive Duals, All Day Sat Jan 5 Sonny Inskip Tournament Northern Durham HS, All Day
Coaches’ Reports: 12/20/07
Culbreth Middle Boys’ Basketball (via coach Mike Harris) 12/11/07 The Cougar varsity boys survived a tenacious effort by Smith last night. It was a team effort that pulled Culbreth to victory, 43-36. Keenan van Name led the Cougars with 12 points and an overall great game at both ends of the court. Drew Davis came…
Wendy’s cleanup complete
A large green containment system downstream from downtown has been removed, and work to repair sewer infrastructure on and to the Wendy’s on Greensboro Street is complete, town officials said.