The ArtsCenter is offering a one-day opportunity on Saturday, June 14, to visit a very unique garden melding art and nature. Designed by Rick Hermanson, the garden incorporates sculpture with water features, mosaics, a collection of Japanese Maples and more. All proceeds benefit The ArtsCenter. Tours will start every hour from 10 a.m. to 3…
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OWASA public hearing
Board wants comment on rate raise The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will hold a public hearing tonight (Thursday) to allow customers to speak to the board of directors about the proposed budget for fiscal year 2009, which starts July 1 and includes a 24 percent increase in monthly water and sewer rates. The meeting…
Uncommon impressions
Entering The Uncommon Garden is like stepping into another world. Reality vanishes, and a magical, serene jungle takes its place. You won’t want to leave. The air is cool, and running water can be heard from all directions. Dead trees are transformed into sculptures, and Japanese maples grow at angles among cedars, ferns, pools, and…
Recently: Running with a story
By Valarie Schwartz After writing a story yesterday about Scott Adams’ quest to run across North Carolina, I hardly slept last night. Phantom aches in my lower torso kept waking me up, making me wonder if I shouldn’t be encouraging him in my writing to just run as far as Chapel Hill and the arms…
Community Calendar: 06/05/08
Special Events The Secret Life of Turtles: A Family Program — Sunday, June 8, 2–4 pm, with Bob Palmatier, naturalist and environmental Educator. Learn about turtles living in the Triangle area. NC Botanical Garden, $22/family or $12/single. 962-0522. Computer classes — free computer classes: Internet, Email, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, NC Live. Registration required. Wednesdays, Jun….
Community Brief: Low-cost rabies vaccination
The Orange County Animal Services Department has organized four low-cost rabies vaccination clinics. They are: Wednesday, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Orange County Animal Shelter at 1081 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd; Wednesday, June 18 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at Fairview Community Park, Hillsborough; Wednesday, June 18 from 6…
Community Brief: Fall softball
The Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department will sponsor a 2008 Fall Co-Rec Softball League on Tuesdays and Thursdays from late July through October. Each team will play one or two games per week, followed by a double-elimination tournament. A team fee of $608 is required, with at least $150 due at registration. To register, call…
Noticia en breve: Festival Latino
Actuaciones de Latin Project, Carnavalito, Los Gallegos mariachi y más. Fútbol para adultos y niños. Premios. Vendedores de comida. Información sobre los servicios en la comunidad de la salud. Toman la presión sanguÃnea gratis. El sábado 14 de junio, 3-8pm. Forest Hills Park, 1639 University Drive, Durham. Para más información, llame al 560-4355.
Noticia en breve: Concierto gratuita
La orquesta sinfónica de Carolina del Norte presenta el noveno concierto anual de música clásica. El viernes, 13 de junio, 8pm. Market Square de Southern Village, Chapel Hill. ¿Qué opinas? ¿Cuáles son las cosas que le interesan? DÃganos. Aceptamos sugerencias y comentarios al correo electrónico betsy@carrborocitizen.com.
UNC professor to lead community journalism efforts
UNC News Services The National Newspaper Association (NNA) has named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jock Lauterer its point person on community journalism for the trade association’s nationwide membership primarily of non-daily newspapers. Lauterer is a lecturer in community journalism and news writing at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication,…
Recently: Seymour Center takes the “senior†out of aging
By Valarie Schwartz It’s already been a year since the Chapel Hill Senior Center on Elliott Road closed and the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center opened on Homestead Road. Not only did it move, the name has stuck — the seniors who use it have dropped “senior†from their vernacular when they refer to their…
Community Calendar: 05/28/08
Special Events Computer classes — free computer classes: Internet, Email, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, NC Live. Registration required. Wednesdays, Jun. 4 through Aug. 6, 7:00pm, Carrboro Cybrary, 100 N. Greensboro St., Carrboro, 918-7387, cybrary@co.orange.nc.us, www.co.orange.nc.us/library/cybrary First Sunday — monthly celebration on historic Hillsboro Street in downtown Pittsboro. June 1st 12 – 4pm. Music by Rootsie 1–3pm….
Civic Club awards scholarship
Dog Man and other animal tales, books to dog-ear
Our good old dog Corncake died a year and a half ago. Corncake had been, to put it politely, of a mixed variety. That was fine with us. We loved her and mourned her passing. After a while, we began to hanker for a dog again. One day I got a call at work from…
Noticia en breve: “Last Fridays†en Hillsborough
Escuche a música, vea al grupo de danza, haga unas artesanÃas y camine por las calles mirando el arte. El viernes, el 30 de mayo, 6-9pm. El centro de Hillsborough (Churton Street).