An idea worth exploring We have no illusions that funding schools will be anything but a perpetual struggle between the passion of parents and educators and fiscal realism. The annual debate changes from year to year, but the fundamental reality that we can’t afford all we’d like doesn’t, and most of the time there aren’t…
Letter to the editor
Unsprawling Carrboro Sprawl is becoming recognized as a major problem for regions and we need to tame it here locally. Sprawl generally takes the form of low-density single-family home developments and their attendant strip malls. Sprawl increases commuting and car use, it increases parking requirements, and it often alienates those lured to the suburban life…
Letter to the editor
Employees voices needed Kirk Ross’ recent article about Weaver Street Market’s Food House plans was a timely and clear articulation of Ruffin [Slater]’s vision for Weaver Street Market. I’m concerned however, as a bread baker whose job is moving to Hillsborough, that an article admitting his plans have raised concerns among workers fails to give…
Letter to the editor
Leadership vacuum Re: the June 7 article “Mental health care reductions take effect,†I think the fundamental problem with the reform effort is a lack of leadership from anyone with the right combination of clout and concern. Outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Carmen Hooker Odom and Governor Easley both own a large share of…
Letter to the editor
Fox-owned? I was at the Monday forum. I heard about sixty parents and teachers pleading, often eloquently, to make full funding of our schools our community’s top priority. And you give three paragraphs to the one gentleman who put his own concerns above our childrens’? Tell me, is The Carrboro Citizen a subsidiary of Fox…
WSM employees call for moratorium
Just got a fax saying that a group of Weaver Street Market employees will call for a moratorium against the coop’s proposal to move its food prep operations to Hillsborough. According to the fax, more than 100 employees have signed a petition calling for the moratorium. It will be presented to the coop’s board of…
County Commissioners June 18 Budget Work Session Agenda
The Board of County Commissioners meets for a budget work session on Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the John M. Link Government Services Center on South Cameron Street in Hillsborough. Here’s the agenda: 1. Opening Comments 2. Fiscal Year 2007-08 County Capital Budget 3. Health Department Programs • Public Health Reserve Corps Program • Families…
Obituary: Max Paul
Max Paul, 87, died on June 13 at the Chapel Hill Rehabilitation Center. He was born January 10, 1920, on the Lower East Side of New York City to immigrant parents. After graduating from high school, Max worked odd jobs during the Depression until enlisting in the U. S. Merchant Marine, serving in the Mediterranean…
AHEC/ Horace Williams hearings
Powerful testimony today from AHEC doctors and pilots about concerns over the move to RDU. Dr. Bill Henry, chair of UNC’s pediatric cardiology division, set out the case against the move calling the university’s stance that it’s either Horace Williams or RDU “a false choice.” Henry, noting that appearing at the legislature in opposition of…
Legislature to hold hearings on AHEC, airport closing
Editor’s note: This story will be updated around 1 p.m. today with remarks from today’s hearing. By Kirk Ross Staff Writer University administrators, Area Health Education Centers officials and a host of physicians from UNC Hospitals will appear before a joint House and Senate committee today (Thursday) to review plans to close Horace Williams Airport…
Flora: Catalpa country
By Ken Moore Columnist “The other day I saw an ad in the local paper – ‘Catalpa worms for sale, twenty-five cents a dozen.’†No, that’s not from last week’s Citizen. It’s from Paul Green’s Plant Book. I’m wondering if he was referring to a long-ago issue of the paper from our neighboring town. The…
A visit with the lily man
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Early this week, just off the gravel road that leads from what one might call downtown Haywood, Jim Massey was chatting with Miz Thang, an artist from Hawkinsville, Georgia who’s been touring the countryside “drivin’ and lookin’.†Naturally, a stop at Massey’s Holly Hill Daylily and Crinum Farm was on…
Riding into retirement
After 32 years on the Carrboro beat, Officer Bob hits the road By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer While Officer Bob Murdaugh says he’s the only person of his acquaintance who’s ever been bounced from the Boot Hill Saloon during Daytona Beach’s annual Bike Week, certainly it must have happened to many hundreds of other individuals….
Rabies case near Cedar Grove
ies on Monday. The dog had been submitted to the State Laboratory of Public Health for testing after it was shot and killed last Thursday after biting or scratching a person and fighting with another dog. The dog, which was in the area of Highway 49 and Wade Loop Road north of Cedar Grove, had…
New principals appointed
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education last week appointed two new principals and one new assistant principal. The board hired Philip Holmes as principal of Ephesus Elementary School. Holmes replaces Susan Wells, who was recently named principal of Culbreth Middle School. Holmes served as principal of Burton Geo-World Magnet School in the Durham Public Schools…