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Music Calendar: 6/28/07 – 7/05/07

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Staff

  Australian rockers Radio Birdman will play at Cat’s Cradle on Friday, June 29. Thursday, June 28 The Cave: Alex Bowers, 7:30pm. Eric Sommer, 10pm Reservoir: Fighting Poseidon, Adam Thorn & The Top Buttons, The Gondoliers. 10pm Weaver Street Market: The Tim Smith Band. 6-8pm Friday, June 29 Arts Center: Transzenders. 8:30pm. $10 Cat’s Cradle:…

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County Commissioners June 26 Agenda

Posted on June 22, 2007June 22, 2007 by Susan Dickson

The Board of County Commissioners meets Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road. The commissioners are set to approve the 2007-08 fiscal year budget. Here’s the agenda: 1. Additions or Changes to the Agenda 2. Public Comments 3. Proclamations/Resolutions/Special Presentations a. Resolution of Commendation to the Master Aging Plan…

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County set to approve tax increases

Posted on June 22, 2007June 27, 2007 by Susan Dickson

The Board of County Commissioners on Thursday voted 3-2 to approve a resolution of intent to raise the county property tax by 4.7 cents and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro special district tax by 1.5 cents in the fiscal year 2007-08 budget. Commissioners Mike Nelson and Barry Jacobs voted against the resolution. Nelson said he was opposed…

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Playing with heart

Posted on June 21, 2007June 23, 2007 by Staff

Eric Montross at his Father’s Day Camp last weekend. Now in its 13th year, the camp raises money for special projects for the N.C. Children’s Hospital. Photo by Brian Strickland Catching up with Eric Montross By Kirk Ross Staff Writer When you think of Eric Montross, the words “high-performance liquid chromatographer” probably aren’t the first…

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UNC seeks alternative to Horace Williams, RDU for AHEC

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

At a legislative hearing on the impact of closing Horace Williams airport, UNC officials confirmed that they would support plans to re-open a search for an alternative site to Horace Williams and Raleigh Durham International. In his presentation last week at a joint hearing of key House and Senate appropriations subcommittees, Kevin Fitzgerald, UNC’s top…

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Trumpet-creeper: Just one of our great native vines

Posted on June 21, 2007June 21, 2007 by Staff

By Ken Moore Our roadsides are so filled with flowering wild plants that it frustrates me to focus on just one or two for description in The Citizen. Right now, I have to celebrate the Trumpet-creeper. Some folks call it Trumpet Vine or Cow-itch Vine. There are likely other names associated with this common native…

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Weaver Street employees ask board to reconsider

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

By Kirk Ross Staff Writer About two dozen employees and owners of Weaver Street Market showed up at a board of directors meeting Tuesday night to debate a plan to move the cooperative’s food preparation operations to Hillsborough. Laurel Goldstein presented a petition signed by roughly 100 employees asking that the board call a halt…

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County looks for mental health funds

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Orange County commissioners criticized the state’s mental health system reform on Tuesday after hearing funding requests from local mental health programs that have lost state funds through the changes. In a budget work session, the Board of County Commissioners considered funding requests from county mental health programs Club Nova and…

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Carrboro board approves budget

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Following that — a sharp exchange over annexation With little fanfare or discussion Tuesday night, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a $19.6  million budget that would raise the town’s tax rate by roughly 3 cents to 65.37 cents per $100 valuation. Last-minute touches to the plan, reviewed Tuesday…

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Board names new principal

Posted on June 21, 2007June 23, 2007 by Staff

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board on Friday appointed Jacqueline Boyd Ellis as principal of Chapel Hill High School. Most recently, Ellis served as director of middle school programs for Wake County Public Schools She was principal of Culbreth Middle School from July 2003-January 2007, where she was selected as the 2005-06 Chapel Hill-Carrboro Principal of…

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News briefs: 6/21/07

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

OWASA approves rate increase The OWASA Board of Directors last week approved water and sewer rate increases and rate structure changes. Monthly water charges will increase about 6.25 percent, while monthly sewer charges will increase about 13.75 percent. The percentage increase will depend on a customer’s pattern and volume of water use.

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For the Record

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a petition from a group of employees at Weaver Street Market who are concerned about the impact of moving production from Carrboro to a new facility in Hillsborough. The petition was presented to the cooperative’s board of directors at a meeting in the Carrboro Elementary School auditorium…

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Exile on Jones Street

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

By Kirk Ross Columnist From the people who brought you massive purges of voter rolls in Florida, Ohio and elsewhere, some helpful suggestions about North Carolina’s electoral system. Seems the feds think we have too many voters on the rolls and we ought to get to whacking some folks off. That helpful federal advice comes…

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Time to reform the reform

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Staff

By Mike Nelson  Mental health reform in North Carolina has come off the tracks and it’s time to take a good hard look at what went wrong and take corrective action. May was Mental Health Month in North Carolina, which is a good time to admit that the State of North Carolina’s experimental reform of…

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Letter from the editor: The importance of summer

Posted on June 21, 2007June 21, 2007 by Staff

By Kirk Ross Editor The heat is bearing down already and those afternoon showers that truly deserve the name “cloudbursts” are beginning to roll ‘round to slick up the streets and coat the pavement with a low-hanging layer of steam. The creeks are lazy, as they usually are here, and University Lake and Cane Creek…

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