The UNC Health Care System and CIGNA HealthCare of North Carolina announced Monday that they’ve reached agreement on a new contract ending an impasse that threatened to deny CIGNA customers access to UNC and Rex Healthcare services. The new two-year contract takes effect Jan. 1.
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Shelter’s future in limbo
By Charlie Tyson Staff Writer For many, the approach of winter holidays invokes images of warm fireplaces, brightly colored wrapping paper and steaming mugs of hot cocoa savored with friends and family. The hundreds of homeless in Chapel Hill face a completely different holiday season. For Chapel Hill’s homeless population, mid-December brings cold, wet streets…
Police to receive mental health training
Crisis intervention team training will be offered in January to 27 local law-enforcement officers. The purpose of the training is to better prepare officers for encounters with people with mental illness and to increase the chances that those with serious mental illness will receive treatment rather than incarceration. The Mental Health Association in Orange County…
Fire marshall reminds you to be careful
By Charlie Tyson Staff Writer While the film Home Alone has cemented the idea of Christmas crime into popular culture, Carrboro’s holiday season offers less break-ins and slightly less slapstick, with the town’s fire-rescue department reporting a quiet season so far. However, along with colorfully wrapped gifts and time spent catching up with friends and…
Strowd Roses Foundation awards grants
The Strowd Roses Foundation is now accepting applications for grants to be distributed in the first quarter of 2010. The deadline for submitting requests is Jan. 31. Guidelines and application forms are available at strowdroses.org. The foundation awarded grants to 14 local organizations for the last quarter of 2009, bringing more than $470,000 the total distributed for…
Cornucopia House names board
The Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center board of directors elected new officers for 2010. John Grubenhoff was elected chair; Moyer Smith as vice chair; Charlotte Leidy, board secretary; and Pegi Brady, treasurer.
NC faculty named fellows
Three UNC faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The association elects fellows to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The three new fellows are pharmacologist Klaus Hahn and biologists Joseph Kieber and Mark A. Peifer.
Blood drive record
UNC faculty, staff, retirees, students and local residents set a new record for the winter edition of the Carolina Blood Drive on Tuesday, Dec. 15, with 405 productive units of blood collected. UNC sponsored the drive in Fetzer Gym with the American Red Cross, with a goal of 400 units. The next large Carolina Blood…
Two die in train collision
An Amtrak train heading from Charlotte to New York collided with a car Tuesday morning at a railroad crossing in Efland, killing two people. Erin Brett Lindsay-Calkins was driving the car, and she and her 5-year-old son, Nicholas Lindsay, who was thrown from the back seat, were killed.
Timeline: 2009
Following is a month by month timeline of events in 2009. In January Governor-elect Beverly Perdue appoints former Orange County Commissioner Moses Carey as chairman of the state’s Employment Security Commission. Rebecca Clark, champion for justice, community leader and political organizer, dies at 93. Chapel Hill’s Homestead Aquatic Center opens. Saying he’s concerned about the…
2009 in Review: A year of big changes, fading hopes
A year of big changes, fading hopes By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer Early on in January 2009, many in these towns were still focused on the changing of the guard in Washington, D.C. With close to 72 percent of Orange County voters pulling the lever for Barack Obama, the election of the first black president…
Defense in Carson case asks for tipster info
Defense lawyers for the two men charged in the 2008 killing of UNC Student Body President Eve Carson are asking for more information on who tipped off investigators. In a discovery hearing in Hillsborough before Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour , lawyers for Demario James Atwater and Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. asked for information from…
Board of Governors to review tuition proposal, new rules for codes of conduct
The UNC Board of Governors will take up a proposal next week to ask the legislature to approve an alternative to a tuition plan adopted as part of the state’s 2010-11 budget. The General Assembly capped tuition increases at the lesser of $200 or 8 percent for each campus. The board meets next Thursday and…
Local retailers offer mixed report
By Beth Mechum, Staff Writer Local merchants worry about how lingering concerns over the economy, including continued high unemployment, will play out in this holiday shopping season. After a down year last year, the merchants were upbeat about a rebound. So far, a surge of shoppers hasn’t materialized and results are likely to be mixed….
Advanced ‘first-graders’
By Valarie Schwartz, columnist Last week brought a visit with five women who have spent long lives knowing each other. Their relationship started in 1929 as they entered first grade at Chapel Hill Elementary School (where University Square is today), where they continued their schooling until graduation in 1940 (there were only 11 grades at…