As it sets out on a capital campaign for a new facility, the ArtsCenter will host a community forum titled, “Expand Your Center…Come Dream with Us,†on Sunday, Oct. 21 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Feedback, fellowship and a discussion of the future are on tap. ArtsCenter staff will be on hand to share ideas,…
Coaches’ Reports: 9/27/07
Chapel Hill High Field Hockey (via Lew Borman) CHHS girls field hockey racked up another victory tonight. This time against the Mt. Tabor Spartans (Winston Salem.) Coached by Diego Caballero, the Lady Tigers won 2-0. Sophomore Alexis Hebert scored in the first half and senior Taylor Wahrenbrock knocked in a goal in the second half….
Car show this weekend to benefit historic Hillsborough speedway
By Emily Buehler Correspondent If you’ve never been walking on the Occoneechee-Orange Speedway, you’re not just missing out on a peaceful, shady walk through a quiet pine forest. You’re also missing a chunk of local history: The flat main trail, part of the original race track, passes by the concrete grandstand, where you can almost…
Species named after UNC Herbarium botanist
UNC News Services A new, rare species of Boneset or Thoroughwort (genus Eupatorium) has been discovered growing in Carolina bays and similar wet depressions in North and South Carolina. The distinctive Bay Boneset (Eupatorium paludicola) was described by botanist Richard LeBlond, an associate with the University of North Carolina Herbarium, in the botanical journal Rhodora…
CPT benifit
Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT) will hold a Burrito Bash on October 2nd in partnership with the General Store Café in Pittsboro. Tickets will be sold at the door that evening. Tickets will be $15 and entitle the bearer to one of General Store Café’s burritos with chips and salsa. William Burton will be providing music…
Brief: Photo exhibit
Photographers Juan Pons and Mike Dunn will share their passion for nature with visitors to the Nature Art Gallery at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh from Oct. 5th through Nov. 25th in an exhibit: “Glimpses of Nature.†Nature-lovers can meet the photographers at a reception on Oct. 5th from 6 p.m.-9 p.m….
Brief: Garden workday
Gardeners are invited to join the Carrboro Community Garden Coalition for Saturday workdays in the community garden at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1120 Hillsborough Rd., Carrboro. Learn, share or just enjoy the garden. Free. All welcome. Every Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Contact ccgc@riseup.net, 647-9633, or visit www.carrborogarden.org for more details.
Brief: Fearrington House recognized
Gourmet Magazine has recognized The Fearrington House as one of America’s Best Farm-To-Table Restaurants for Romantic and Special Occasion dining. The feature, in Gourmet’s October issue, highlights restaurants, hotels, and inns whose chefs are taking locally sourced ingredients in new and exciting directions.
Brief: Climate forum
On October 4, cities across the United States will convene dialogues to discuss global warming causes, impacts and solutions. Chapel Hill’s event is coordinated by the Town of Chapel Hill, the Foundation for a Sustainable Community of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce and the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives. The meeting is free…
Brief: Sustainability session
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce has partnered with the Foundation for a Sustainable Community, the Institute for Sustainable Development and the Town of Chapel Hill to present the October Seminar, a business workshop on Sustainability. The workshop will take place at the Chapel Hill Public Library on October 4th from 12-4 p.m. Workshop topics…
For the Record: 9/27/07
Editor’s Note: Following is the statement read by Neloa Jones at the Sept. 20, 2007 Orange County Assembly Governments Meeting on behalf of the Rogers-Eubanks “Coalition to End Environmental Racism†(CEER). For nearly one hundred and fifty years, African-American families have lived in what is now known as the Rogers-Eubanks Community. In the late 1800s,…
Exile on Jones Street: 9/27/07
By Kirk Ross Exile on ’08 Race: U.S. Senate Incumbent: Elizabeth Dole (one term) Possible Challengers: State Rep. Grier Martin (Wake), State Sen. Kay Hagan (Guilford), State Board of Education Chair Howard Lee. At least one other major name is considering the race. Conventional Wisdom: National handicappers Cook, Rothenberg and Congressional Quarterly all report the…
Solid-waste transfer station issues endure
By Mark Chilton In 1997, the Landfill Compensation Working Group, a group of elected officials of the Rogers Road residents, proposed 14 compensation items that we believed our local governments owed to the neighbors of the landfill. The Assembly of Governments met on October 30, 1997 to discuss the Working Group’s recommendations. The governments assembled…
Letters to the Editor: 9/27/07
Cook for alderman Please join me on Tuesday, November 6th and vote for Sharon Cook for election to the Carrboro Board of Alderman.  Sharon has been an active member of this community for over a decade. She’s served as a volunteer in our schools, churches and social service agencies.   Â
The Mill: 9/27/07
Loveless in Seattle They gave it a shot, but word out of Seattle is that “Lone Star Love†— a wild-west-post-civil-war musical inspired by The Merry Wives of Windsor and featuring The Red Clay Ramblers — is closing its run and won’t be headed to Broadway after all. According to Playbill, previews scheduled to start…