Speediest readers Frank Porter Graham Elementary School students recently completed the school’s PTA Read-a-thon. Students with the highest number of minutes read by grade level include: • Kindergarten – Michael Heath; • First grade – MarcAndrew Laurenvil; • Second grade –Ke-Rhonda Glenn; • Third grade – Lindsayann Heath; • Fourth grade – Katlyn Edwards; and…
Olympic mathlete
East Chapel Hill High School student Arnav Tripathy will represent the United States at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Vietnam in July. Tripathy earned a spot on the six-member team for the second time. He won a gold medal at last year’s event in Slovenia. The team will train for three weeks prior to the…
Graduation information
Chapel Hill High School graduation will be held June 9 at 2 p.m. at the Dean Smith Center on the UNC campus. Graduating seniors must arrive by 1 p.m. the day of graduation and must attend rehearsal on June 8 at 8:30 a.m. at the Smith Center. East Chapel Hill High School graduation will be…
Town readies park for construction
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer The gold-tinted official shovels turned a bit of dirt Monday, marking the beginning of construction for Southern Community Park. But as most speakers noted during opening ceremonies at the edge of the Southern Village park-and-ride lot, getting to this point took a while. “Sometimes, you have to stick around for…
Grant awarded to new Cedar Grove park
The North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund has awarded Orange County a $500,000 grant for the construction of a new community park in the Cedar Grove township. The county had applied for the grant in order to supplement county funds needed for the expansion of facilities behind the Northern Human Services Center on N.C….
Buckhorn building condemned
The Orange County Inspections Division on Friday condemned the Buckhorn Flea Market building because of serious building, electrical and fire code violations. In April 2006, the Inspections Division and the Orange County fire marshal conducted inspections at the building and found dangerous conditions, including overloaded and improperly installed electrical systems, extremely flammable finishes on walls…
Chapel Hill wins traffic system grant
Thanks to a grant from the NC Department of Transportation, Chapel Hill and Carrboro will get an upgrade to their traffic system. The Town of Chapel Hill will contribute $450,000 to the $5 million project. NCDOT and Chapel Hill will begin designing the project this fall. The upgrades will replace obsolete and aging equipment and…
Best named assistant county manager
County Manager Laura Blackmon has appointed Willie Best as assistant county manager. Best served as Guilford County manager for three years. In addition, he has served as acting city manager in Falls Church, Va., Robeson County manager and Wilson County assistant manager. According to county officials, Best’s immediate focus as assistant county manager will be…
Carrboro honored for fitness
Carrboro is one of seven North Carolina communities honored today in Raleigh as a “Fit Community†by the Fit Together initiative. Fit Together is an obesity and excessive-weight prevention initiative of the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. The Fit Community program rewards communities that improve…
Southern village charrette
The developers of the Village Center in Southern Village will hold a planning charette on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Ascension Hall at Christ United Methodist Church, 800 Market Street. The charrette will focus on the central parking lot in the village center, which is owned by SV Center. The firm’s…
Chatham sets development moratorium
The Chatham County Board of Commissioners voted on Monday to impose a temporary moratorium on certain types of residential development in Chatham County. The moratorium will last no longer than one year and applies to any new residential subdivisions with more than 25 lots or units. The moratorium will not affect commercial developments in the…
Town looks to save well
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen Tuesday night received an emergency petition from supports of the community garden at the new Martin Luther King Jr. Park on Hillsborough Road. The board asked Town Manager Steve Stewart to talk with contractors preparing to move a house and septic system on the site. Under terms of the contract…
Mental health care reductions take effect
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer As planned cutbacks came down this week, the local provider for mental health services defended the move as the only course possible in the wake of lower state funding. On Monday, the Caring Family Network (CFN) put into effect changes to mental health services it offers in its Hillsborough offices….
Obituary: Elizabeth Truitt Insch
Elizabeth Truitt Insch passed away in her home in Chapel Hill on the morning of Friday, June 1, 2007. She was born in Sanford on December 24, 1924, the middle child of James Spencer and Grace Mann Truitt. After a career in the civil service in Panama, she married William Insch of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who…
Obituary: Thelma Horner Duncan
Thelma Horner Duncan Thelma Horner Duncan, 86, of Chapel Hill died Monday morning at Carol Woods Health Center. A native of Alamance Count, she spent almost all of her life in Orange County where she was a member of the North Chapel Hill Baptist Church and had retired from UNC. A funeral service will be…