The Moaners’ new release, Blackwing Yalobusha, is already gathering the group a splendid set of review as the duo, just back from a trip south that included Austin, New Orleans and Hattiesburg, get ready for their release party at Cat’s Cradle. For the record, out this month on Yep Roc, guitarist Melissa Swingle and drummer…
Ty and Tyler Steal the Show
By Frank Heath Sports Columnist If it’s mid-March and people around Carrboro aren’t thinking about basketball, something is wrong. But folks around this sleepy mill town are thinking about hoops, which can mean but one thing — the UNC men’s basketball team is still in the NCAA Tournament, so all is right. This truth comes…
Emergency Medicaid expenses studied
Most state Emergency Medicaid spending funds childbirth and pregnancy-related complications for uninsured women, emergency care for sudden-onset problems and end-stage complications of chronic conditions, says a new study from researchers at the university and the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence. According to the study, Emergency Medicaid spending, which represents about one percent of the state’s…
Of Radishes and Rims
It is entirely appropriate to take a moment or two out of March Madness to appreciate a frenzy of activity of a different kind. Just a short drive out Jones Ferry, Old Greensboro, N.C. 54 or Mount Carmel, there are people hard at work nurturing seedlings, weeding through coldframes, getting crops in the field and…
Not My Grandfather’s Newspaper
By Robert Dickson Staff Writer This is the column where I’m supposed to tell you that this isn’t my grandfather’s newspaper. He’s the gentleman you see in the photo accompanying this piece. He and my grandmother started a paper in Raeford, bought another one and merged them into The News-Journal in 1928. The more I…
Peak Oil movies and talks scheduled
Well, nothing lasts forever. That’s essentially the message of a couple of upcoming local screenings — the “nothing forever†in question being the good life, as we’ve heretofore known it, here in the U.S. of A. On Sunday, March 25, from 1:00 to 5:00, the Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist will be hosting…
News briefs: 3/21/07
Tests show powder sent to campaign not harmful According to preliminary test results from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services lab, white powder contained in a letter that arrived at John Edwards’ presidential campaign headquarters in Southern Village on March 14 was not harmful. Edwards’ staff evacuated the building after a staff…
Blunden Wins N.C. Sustainability Energy Leadership Award
Blunden with N.C. State Energy Office Director Larry Shirley. By Mary Beth Bardin Staff Writer Whether he’s riding his bike to work in rain or shine, advising councils on environmental issues or designing affordable co-housing communities, Giles Bluden is always thinking about sustainability. That’s why on March 8, Blunden, president of Blunden Studio, a green…
County looks at waste options
The Orange County Board of Commissioners on March 13 postponed a vote on the site of the county’s future waste transfer station, requesting more information from solid waste director Gayle Wilson and County Manager Laura Blackmon. The board is considering three transfer station sites, including two sites off U.S. 70 in the Eno Economic Development…
Nearly a century later, town gets name on paper
You hold in your hands the inaugural edition of The Carrboro Citizen. (You folks reading from afar on the Web, well, you’ll just have to imagine it.) This is not the first newspaper based in Carrboro. Roland Giduz rang us up the other day to talk newspaper history and remind us that he had a…
Town looks at changes in rules for downtown projects
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen set the date on a public hearing on proposed changes to the town’s land use ordinances that could ease the way forward for residential and mixed-use projects downtown. The board is studying a revision that would swap requirements for open and recreational space for residential developments downtown for “urban amenities 
Schools lay out construction, repair needs
Representatives from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools on Tuesday presented their capital funding needs to the Orange County Board of Commissioners. Steve Scroggs, Chapel Hill-Carrboro superintendent of support services, projected that CHCCS will need $136 million over the next ten years to keep up with growth in the district. Orange County Schools…
Aldermen ready moratorium plans
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen will open a public hearing Tuesday on plans for a six-month development moratorium on nearly 4,000 acres north of town. The hearing is scheduled during the board’s regular meeting at Town Hall, which begins at 7:30 p.m. (Check www.carrborocitizen.com for exact times and details). Mayor Mark Chilton said the moratorium…
Local folks say war no more
 As the war on Iraq entered its fifth year this week, our community observed this somber occasion with several actions. On Monday night, a vigil was held in front of the post office on Franklin Street. Carrboro Citizen photographer Isaac Sandlin was there. He tells us: “It was really quiet out there. The people…
Market time
Alamance farmers Alex and Betsy Hitt look over seedlings in their greenhouse. Sheila Neal is as calm as a mother can be while her son Hank, an affable toddler, sends the last few carrots on his plate floorward. And she’s remarkably calm when you consider the pace she been keeping in preparation for the opening…