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Category: Schools

Art for Haiti

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Artwork by advanced art students from Chapel Hill High School and East Chapel Hill High School will be exhibited at The Open Eye Café and the Looking Glass Café in Carrboro. The pieces, part of an Art for Haiti event, are personal responses to the tragedy in Haiti. The exhibit will be held from 2-6…

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Regional music groups

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Students from the three district high schools have earned seats in various all-district and all-region musical groups. Students named to the All-District Band from Chapel Hill High are Sara Aratake, Alex Boyd, Rebecca Clemens, Eric Jiang, Shiyi Li, Yiying Li, Graeme Roberts, Jonathan Schermer and Alex Yan. Students named to the All-District Band from East…

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Contest winners

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Winners of the 2009 Sallie Markham Michie Essay Contest were recently announced by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Magna Carta Dames. Twenty of the contest’s 36 winners are students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. The purpose of this annual essay contest is to challenge students in grades five through 12 to…

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Meals on Wheels

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Staff

Students with disabilities in the FOCAL program at Chapel Hill High School participated in a community-oriented cooking project funded by a grant from the Council for Exceptional Children of North Carolina, under the leadership of EC transition facilitator Emily Davis and EC teachers Erin Smith and Dara Heller. The students prepared frozen meals and desserts…

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Crumbs from the Table re-scheduled for this weekend

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

The East Chapel Hill High School theater department will present Crumbs from the Table of Joy this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. It’s 1950 in the South and Godfrey Crump has just lost his wife. Finding solace in Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement, he pulls up stakes and moves his teenage daughters…

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Armadillo Grill receives certificate of appreciation

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

Students participating in Chapel Hill High School’s Tobacco Reality Unfiltered (TRU) Crew presented the manager of Armadillo Grill in Carrboro with a certificate of appreciation for the restaurant’s compliance with the new smoke-free law. The TRU Crew at Chapel Hill High School recently earned the distinction of being the most active TRU group in Orange…

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Documentary featuring CHCCS aired Monday

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

The documentary High Five: Achieving the Dream premiered on UNC-TV on Monday, Feb. 1. The original special profiles the professional learning community initiative and examines how the Triangle High Five Regional Partnership works to improve public education in Triangle-area schools. The High Five Regional Partnership was formed in April 2004 as a union of five…

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Board of education meeting Thursday

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

There will be a Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meeting this Thursday at Chapel Hill Town Hall. The work session includes discussions on the honors course options for social studies and science for 2010-12, delaying expansion of the Dual Language Program to McDougle Elementary for an indefinite period of time and the Capitol…

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Wedding dress display

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

A charming collection of dresses and memorabilia will be displayed at University Baptist Church in Chapel Hill as part of Chapel Hill student Ellie Simpson’s fundraiser on behalf of Rock Against Cancer this Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The display will include items belonging to several generations of church members and will include dresses,…

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Calligraphy class at Chapel Hill public library

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

UNC sophomore Zoe Wei, a gold medal winner at the National Youth Calligraphy Competition in China, will conduct a class in East Asian Calligraphy at Chapel Hill Public Library this Saturday from 4 to 5 p.m. The class is free, but advance registration is required to ensure enough brushes and ink for everyone. RSVP to…

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Chapel Hill High School teacher wins national honors

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Staff

History teacher William V. Melega received the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Citizenship Education Teacher Award. The VFW chooses three teachers each year for the award, one each from elementary, middle and high school. Teachers are nominated by their peers and enter into local and statewide competition. Each teacher receives $1,000 dollars for their…

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Three years in, Carrboro High hits a winning stride

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Staff

Beth Mechum Staff Writer An atmosphere of success has taken hold on the Carrboro High School campus. The field hockey team now plays more competitively with both East Chapel Hill and Chapel Hill, the women’s golf team helped start a high school women’s golf league in the area and the men’s soccer team beat conference…

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Local students in Central District Honor Bands

Posted on January 28, 2010January 28, 2010 by Staff

Students from the district’s middle schools auditioned for seats in the North Carolina Central District Honor Bands. The auditions were held on Saturday, Jan. 9 at Stanford Middle School. Students from Culbreth Middle School included: Maura Jones, seventh chair clarinet, symphonic band; Jisoo Yu, 14th chair clarinet, symphonic band; Ray Damron, 10th chair trumpet, symphonic…

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Gold and Silver Key Awards for local students

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Staff

Four students from Carrboro High and Chapel Hill High earned Gold and Silver Key Awards at the Eastern North Carolina Regional Adjudication of Scholastic Art in Wilson. Moo Da, originally from Burma, via Thailand, received a Gold Key while representing Carrboro High. She submitted a sgraffito tile self-portrait in traditional Karen dress. She is a…

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Aidan Marshall wins geography bee

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Staff

Eighth-grader Aidan Marshall was the winner of the Culbreth Middle School National Geographic Geography Bee. He will compete at the state level later this month. Sixth-grader Jocelyn Reckford was the runner up. Other finalists included eighth-graders Andrew Cook, Murat Calikoglu and Alican Arcasoy, seventh-graders Stephen Nuttall, Randy Savage, Maya Sokoletsky and Matthew Clawson and sixth-grader…

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