Chapel Hill Police Officer Jim Orbich has been selected for recognition at this year’s ASIS Law Enforcement Appreciation banquet. ASIS International (ASIS) is the largest organization for security professionals, with more than 35,000 members worldwide. Officer Orbich has worked for the Chapel Hill Police Department for 15 years. He has served as a defensive tactics…
Category: Community
Livestock help
Two programs have been announced for drought-stricken livestock producers and horse owners in the state. The Equine Partners Hay Relief Program will help horse owners with the cost of moving hay purchased outside North Carolina. For information, call the department’s Hay Alert toll-free hotline at 1-866-506-6222. Gov. Mike Easley presented a plan to provide up…
Study encourages shared food-processing facility
Commissioners to consider facility for use by individuals, businesses By Susan Dickson Staff Writer A recently completed feasibility study indicated a strong justification for a shared-use food-processing facility in Orange County, according to a report presented to the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday. The three-month study included surveys of potential users, a site evaluation…
Carrboro Community Garden wreath
By Ken Moore For 20 years, the holiday greenery that has adorned the columns of Carrboro’s Town Hall has been the result of the time and creativity of members of the Carrboro Community Garden Club. Now, this group of gardeners is not your typical garden club organization. It does not belong to a Garden Club…
Recently: Charmed by chocolate
 By Valarie Schwartz There may be a delicious, downright decadent way to not gain weight: Mid-morning hot chocolate followed by a piece of (preferably dark) chocolate in the afternoon or evening. If I’d met Bob Droog before he opened up his luscious Chocolaterie Stam in Chapel Hill North this past March, perhaps my suspicions…
Community Briefs: 12/06/07
Senior theater The Prime Time Players company will present two one-act plays geared for a senior audience on Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. at the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center at 2551 Homestead Road in Chapel Hill. “Life Begins at Eighty†is a play by local writer Charles Stern…
Community Calendar: 12/06/07
Special Events Mark Hewitt Pottery Holiday Kiln Opening – Sat, Dec 8, 9am-5pm; Sun, Dec 9, noon-5pm. For directions, visit www.hewittpottery.com or call 542-2371. Coalition for Peace with Justice – Open house fundraiser with door prizes, items for sale. See the new office and resources available. Sat, Dec 8, 2-6pm. 1821 Green St, Durham (near…
Another wild aster for your garden
By Ken Moore We’ve finally had some killing frosts and winter is beginning to settle in. This is the season we are accustomed to being the hosts of garden mums, Chrysanthemum x morifolium, with their neon-like orange, yellow and red colors, as well as the quieter colors of pink and white of Sasanqua Camellia, Camellia…
Recently: Holiday magic at Emerson Waldorf Faire
 By Valarie Schwartz Magic happens regularly at the Emerson Waldorf School, but it’s been a few years since the holiday magic going on this week has stood on its own. “It was combined with the Fall Faire, but that got to be too big, so we’ve moved it back to the Christmas season,†said…
Pen pals
 Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Coleman Elizabeth Coleman’s fourth-grade class at Estes Hills Elementary School was visited last week by their pen pal, Sgt. Justin Young, who returned from Iraq in October. Students wrote Young and other soldiers letters as part of their language arts curriculum and learned about Iraq during social studies. In addition,…
Land & Table Brief: Green building
GreenPros will offer a Green Building Construction Strategies Course over two sessions on December 4 and 6 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. To register, call 542-6495 ext. 223. Cost is $70 and includes both sessions. Attendees can learn such techniques as advanced framing, moisture management and decorative concrete floor work. This series is sponsored by…
Land & Table Brief: Drought workshop
Orange County is holding a second informational workshop entitled “Dealing with the Drought†about ways to cope with the drought for well water users in rural areas. This workshop will be held November 29 at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of New Sharon United Methodist Church, 1601 New Sharon Church Road, in northeastern Orange…
Farmer’s Market now open all year
By Jack Carley Staff Writer The Farmers’ Market will come to a close right before Christmas this year, as usual. But the subsequent winter months may now seem less bleak: The “locally grown, nationally known†Carrboro Farmers’ Market will open year-round beginning January 5, the first Saturday of 2008. From January until March, the market…
Elementary school construction faces obstacles
 By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Construction of the new Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary school could be delayed because a neighboring developer has not yet granted a necessary easement. The school is under construction on the corner of Dromoland and Eubanks roads. Orange County officials and M/I Homes, the developer of the neighboring property, have not…
School brief: School system to hold third annual Financial Aid Night
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will hold Financial Aid Night for students and their parents tonight (Thursday) at 7:00 in Chapel Hill High School’s Hanes Theater. The program will provide information on how to apply for financial aid for postsecondary institutions, including four-year colleges, community colleges and technical schools. Representatives from a university financial aid office,…