Elementary Friday — Cheese Pizza; Pepperoni Pizza; Sloppy Joe on a Bun; Garden Salad; Green Beans; Chilled Applesauce Monday —Chicken Nuggets w/BBQ Sauce & Wheat Roll; Beef Tacos w/Salsa, Cheese, Lettuce & Tomato; Spanish Rice; Sweet Yellow Corn; Fresh Apple Halves Tuesday — Pork Egg Roll; Mozzarella Cheese Sticks w/Marinara Dipping Sauce; “Fun on the…
Category: Schools
CHS presents Little Shop of Horrors
The Carrboro High School Theater Department will perform the rock musical Little Shop of Horrors tonight (Thursday) through Sunday in the Culbreth Middle School auditorium. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Carrboro Theater Department students and parent volunteers have constructed four versions of “Audrey,†the larger-than-life talking and singing…
Odyssey of the Mind teams advance to World Finals
Two Odyssey of the Mind teams from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools qualified to compete at the World Finals in Iowa, May 27 to 31. The teams qualified at the state competition, held April 4 at Wingate University. The East Chapel Hill High School team won first place in the Technical Problem category. Team members are…
Pedersen a finalist for education award
Superintendent Neil Pedersen was named one of three finalists for the 2009 Jay Robinson Leadership Award. The award is presented annually by the Public School Forum to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to education in North Carolina. The other finalists include Dudley Flood, an educational consultant, and Shirley Prince, superintendent of Scotland County…
ECHHS student to attend political leadership retreat
East Chapel Hill High School junior Madeline Parker has been named one of 50 young women to attend Running Start’s Young Women’s Political Leadership Retreat in Washington, D.C. in July. Parker was selected from a pool of 5,000 applicants. Running Start is a nonprofit organization that encourages young women to run for political office. Workshops…
CHS receives design award
Carrboro High School was named the 2009 Best High School by the Southeast Chapter of the Council of Educational Facilities Planners International. Carrboro High was the school district’s first high school to receive Silver LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The school was designed by Moseley Architects.
McDougle Middle School students fight hunder
McDougle Middle School students celebrated their efforts against community and world hunger at an assembly on April 3. Students collected more than 1,000 non-perishable goods to contribute to the food pantry operated by the Interfaith Council and raised more than $1,700 to contribute to Heifer International.
ECHHS math team wins regionals
The East Chapel Hill High School Algebra II team won first place at the regional contest on April 2 in Greensboro. This is the second year in a row that the ECHHS team has won the contest. Students Connie Zhong, Sheila Demg and Daniel Liu placed in the top 10 percent and will compete in…
Phillips to present plays
The Phillips Middle School Drama Department will present two one-act plays Friday through Sunday in the school’s auditorium. Students will perform Sorry, Wrong Number and The Hitch Hiker. Friday and Saturday’s performances will begin at 7:30 p.m., while the Sunday performance will start at 3 p.m. Tickets are $3 and will be sold at the…
East principal Dave Thaden announces retirement
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer After three decades as an educator in Chapel Hill, much of that as the first and only principal at East Chapel Hill High, Dave Thaden announced this week that he’s stepping down. Thaden cited his 30-year mark and a need to focus on his health as the reasons for this…
Orchestras earn superior ratings
The Chapel Hill High School Orchestra and the Culbreth Middle School Orchestra both earned superior ratings at the 2009 North Carolina Orchestra Performance Assessment at Methodist University in Fayetteville on March 31. The orchestras were judged based on rhythm, intonation, tone quality, musicianship, dynamics, technique, balance, interpretation and stage presence. More than 65 schools participated…
Urinetown at CHHS
Chapel Hill High School will present the award-winning satirical comedy musical Urinetown in the Hanes Theatre at Chapel Hill High, April 23-25 at 7:30 each night. The production is the first in the district to be entered in the North Carolina Theater Capital Awards, the high school equivalent of the Tony Awards. Tickets are $8…
Hall of Fame Dinner
The Chapel Hill High School-Lincoln High School Hall of Fame Dinner will be held April 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel Hill High cafeteria. This year’s inductees are Woody Burns, 1982, wrestling; Donald Clark, 1962, football; Edric Cotton, 1970, football; Danny Dunaway, 1988, football; Anne Frautschi, 1977, tennis; Ron Hodgkin, 1988, football; and Joe…
College sports seminar
The East Chapel Hill High School Athletic Booster Club will present “So You Want to Play a Sport in College?,†a seminar for high school students who are considering playing a sport in college and their parents, on May 4 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the East Chapel Hill High School Media Center. The…
Evita at Cedar Ridge
The Cedar Ridge High School Cultural Arts Department will present the musical Evita in the Cedar Ridge auditorium, April 30 to May 2 at 7 each night. The musical recounts the story of Eva Peron, who rocketed to world fame in 1946 as the ambitious wife of Argentina’s president Juan Peron. Tickets are $7 for…