By Valarie Schwartz As much as any other knowledge, high school students seek to know who they are and where they want their next steps in life to take them. Teachers like Rob Greenberg, who teaches Earth and environmental science at Chapel Hill High School, help them explore beyond typical parameters, and with the “Celebration…
Category: Community
Community Brief: Not just a women’s issue
The Orange County Commission for Women will observe National Women’s History Month with “Domestic Violence is Not Just a Women’s Issue†on March 8 from 12 to 3 p.m.
Community Brief: Heart your local shelter
The Orange County Animal Shelter will hold special Valentine’s Day events on February 14 and 16 to showcase adoptable animals and allow the public more opportunities to visit with pets.
Community Brief: Pauli Murray Awards ceremony Feb. 24
The Orange County Human Relations Commission and the Office of Human Rights and Relations will host the 2007 Pauli Murray Human Relations Awards on February 24 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Recently: Shooting along the stream(ing creek)
By Valarie Schwartz Having grown up with a creek behind my house, it thrilled me to learn when I moved to Chapel Hill in 1994 that Bolin Creek flowed only a few yards beyond my new home. During the five years I lived there, few days passed without spending time with my dog, exploring and…
A short tale of love, lost and found
By Emily Burns Staff Writer Most children taunt each other with the phrase “finders, keepers; losers, weepers†when they find a toy that belongs to another child buried in the sandbox. But as they grow up, not all of them realize that finders shouldn’t always be keepers. James Latta, a security officer at Carr Mill…
Community Brief: Platanos play
The Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate Program and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will co-sponsor a performance of the off-Broadway play Platanos and Collard Greens on March 1.
Community Brief: Holidays shared
The Orange County Share Your Holiday and Toy Chest programs supported more than 2,500 children and families this past Christmas. Through the Share Your Holiday program, the Orange County Department of Social Services paired 313 community sponsors with children or families and provided gifts to 514 children and elderly or disabled adults in the county.
Local woman joins Peace Corps
Laura McIver Boggess, 25, of Carrboro, N.C. has been accepted into the Peace Corps. Boggess departed for Guatemala on Jan. 9 to begin pre-service training as an environmental education Peace Corps Volunteer. After graduation in April, Boggess will work with rural schools to integrate conservation and environmental awareness into the curriculum.
Recently: Friends hope to see a freestanding library in Carrboro
By Valarie Schwartz Having a library within walking distance of my childhood home fed my growing mind and kept me out of trouble. It even provided a safe place to break up with my first serious boyfriend. Throughout life, my local library was the place to go when bored or needing a lift — where…
Conserving water is good to the last drop
By Valarie Schwartz Good news arrived in the mail last week with the OWASA bill: The goal of using only 1,000 gallons of water in my two-person household was reached. With the extra cooking and out-of-state guests in December, I’d prepared myself for it to remain at 2,000 gallons. This assuages my guilt over forcing…
Rooster spurs neighborhood complaints
A Pine Street rooster is too noisy to live in town, a nearby neighbor told the Carrboro Board of Aldermen. At Tuesday’s meeting at Town Hall, Susan Simone, who lives on North Greensboro Street petitioned the board of aldermen, asking for an amendment to town ordinances. “I’m presenting this because I’ve been having a two-month…
Rousing debate draws large audience
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer The Century Center, about as filled as it ever gets, was the scene Tuesday night for an actual debate about the impeachment of the vice president and president of the United States. From the outset, journalist Michael Tomasky (call him progressive or liberal) knew he faced a potentially unfriendly audience….
Martin Luther King Day events in town and on campus
SUNDAY JAN 20 The 23rd Annual University-Community Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. at the William & Ida B. Friday Center for Continuing Education. The Rev. Chancy R. Edwards, pastor emeritus at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville and senior advisor to the governor of North Carolina, is the keynote…
Go Google yourself
By Gaines Steer Hey everybody, if you haven’t ever done so, you had better Google yourself. And yes, I will tell you why…. The ole good news and the bad! It’s like this. My college roommate, Bill (let’s just say it has been around 40 years), decided to Google yours truly. “With a name like…