15-year-old was student at Smith Middle School By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Quincy Bowens is being hailed as a hero for his last act — trying to get his two-year-old cousin safely inside as more than a dozen bullets raked the front of the apartment complex in Durham where his aunt lives. Bowens, a 15-year-old…
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Budgets are done — on to the election
Coleman announces, others to follow By Kirk Ross Staff Writer The first Tuesday in November might seem like a few months and a few dozen degrees Fahrenheit away, but election season is right around the corner. Or it was until Monday, when Carrboro Board of Alderman member Dan Coleman broke the ice and became the…
Board of Aldermen wind up session
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer In a lengthy Tuesday night meeting at Town Hall that will be its last until August, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen hailed the approval of a major piece of downtowns redevelopment, reworked the town rules on affordable housing, OK’d a swim club for the Winmore subdivision, set new rules for…
County settles on budget, tax increases
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted 4-1 to increase county property taxes by 4.7 cents and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro special district tax by 1.5 cents as part of the $173.6 million fiscal year 2007-08 budget. The increases bring the county property tax to 95 cents per $100 valuation…
UNC concludes community meetings on Carolina North development plans
University planners say this is a first pass at the initial phase of development at Carolina North. Source: UNC Chapel Hill By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Planners for Carolina North concluded their series of community meetings last week with the third presentation of the school’s efforts to craft a design for Carolina North. Jack Evans,…
Students honor staff, teachers
UNC News Services Students at UNC recently honored three faculty members, one staff member and six teaching assistants for excellence in undergraduate teaching and service to students. The 2007 Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Awards honored faculty members Marcie Fisher-Borne, an adjunct faculty member in social work; Hannah Gill, Ph.D., a lecturer in international studies;…
Carolina “champ†and “priceless gem†Hyatt succumbs to cancer at 73
 Ronald Wesley Hyatt. Photo Courtesy of UNC News Services UNC News Services CHAPEL HILL — Officially, Ronald Wesley Hyatt was a professor, coach and faculty marshal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for nearly 40 years, and a winner of the state’s highest honor, the Order of the Long-Leaf Pine from…
Board studies middle school redistricting
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education last week considered proposed middle school redistricting that could move more than 200 students to different middle schools. School officials are redistricting in order to prevent “orphan†segments – small segments of students who are assigned to different middle schools than the rest of…
“Segregated†schools hinder reading skills
 UNC News Services Children in families with low incomes who attend schools where the minority population exceeds 75 percent of the student enrollment under-perform in reading, even after accounting for the quality of the literacy instruction, literary experiences at home, gender, race and other variables, according to a new study. The majority of black and…
McCarthy fails physical, Chapel Hill looking again
Tom McCarthy, Chapel Hill’s newly appointed police chief, will not be able to take over the duties of the job due to health issues, town officials announced late Wednesday. “As you know, I have worked hard to keep myself in shape and be ready for this great opportunity. I am very disappointed that I was…
News briefs: 6/28/07
Moratorium approved The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted 4-1 to approve a four-month moratorium on residential development in the Joint Planning Transition Area portion of the Carrboro Northern Study Area. In February, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved a six-month moratorium in the Northern Study Area, to begin April 26. However, because 2,800…
Plant rescue
The Town of Chapel Hill is sponsoring a plant rescue from July 2–8 at Southern Community Park on Highway 15-501. Clearing of the Southern Community Park site is scheduled to begin on July 9. The public is invited to rescue any plants currently growing within the clearing limits at the park site. Anyone interested in…
County set to approve tax increases
The Board of County Commissioners on Thursday voted 3-2 to approve a resolution of intent to raise the county property tax by 4.7 cents and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro special district tax by 1.5 cents in the fiscal year 2007-08 budget. Commissioners Mike Nelson and Barry Jacobs voted against the resolution. Nelson said he was opposed…
UNC seeks alternative to Horace Williams, RDU for AHEC
At a legislative hearing on the impact of closing Horace Williams airport, UNC officials confirmed that they would support plans to re-open a search for an alternative site to Horace Williams and Raleigh Durham International. In his presentation last week at a joint hearing of key House and Senate appropriations subcommittees, Kevin Fitzgerald, UNC’s top…
Weaver Street employees ask board to reconsider
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer About two dozen employees and owners of Weaver Street Market showed up at a board of directors meeting Tuesday night to debate a plan to move the cooperative’s food preparation operations to Hillsborough. Laurel Goldstein presented a petition signed by roughly 100 employees asking that the board call a halt…