UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp announced Friday that the school will not ask the UNC Board of Governors to form an airport authority. [Text via the chancellor’s blog] The authority was to begin work as early as this spring to find a an alternative to Horace Williams airport in Orange County.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Here’s our annual Year in Review along with some features tailored to round out your New Year’s Day. A Year of Major Events, Great Elation and Stunning Loss A Hard Year for Schools 2008 Month By Month Editorial: Shock and Sorrow In Memoriam For the New Year: Hometown New Year’s Resolutions New Year’s Food Lore…
Get outdoors on New Years’s Day
Get outdoors on New Year’s Day The annual Eno River Association’s New Year’s Day walk is a decades-old tradition. This year, hundreds of folks, young and old, will enjoy another well-organized walk along the river, welcoming the New Year and celebrating that long corridor of preserved wild lands.
Year in Review: A hard year for school
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer It has certainly been a year of transition in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, with the opening of new schools and facilities and the appointment of new administrators. But while many would like to look back on 2008 and remember the new successes of the sports teams and the first…
Flora: Christmas Ferns
Underwear uncovered in Carrboro
By Margot C. Lester Staff Writer You read it on message boards or overhear it being discussed at Weaver Street or the Open Eye. It’s a virulent meme that spread faster than the Andromeda Strain. In fact, Carrboro Board of Aldermen candidate Katrina Ryan mentioned it in this very paper: “The same residents in Carrboro…
Thorp offers assurances on airport
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp sent a letter last week to Orange County Board of Commissioners chair Valerie Foushee in response to concerns raised by the county over a possible new airport to replace Horace Williams. Barry Jacobs, Foushee’s predecessor as chair, sent a letter on behalf of the board to Thorp last month. In…
Carrboro High School coming into its own
By Mary Lide Parker Staff Writer Only a year and a half after opening its doors, Carrboro High School is well on its way to forming its own identity. In conversation, teachers at Carrboro High often reference the “growing pains†associated with a new school. Alphonso Donaldson, co-chair of the English department, said that while…
Two charged in Yarmolenko murder
Two men have been charged in the murder this May of UNC-Charlotte student and Chapel Hill High graduate Irina Yarmolenko. The Charlotte Observer reports that the two — Mark Bradley Carver and Neal Leon Cassada Jr. — were charged early this morning. Obituary: Irina Yarmolenko
Carey retires after 24 years on board
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer After 24 years on the Orange County Board of County Commissioners, Moses Carey attended his last official board meeting last week. Retiring after six terms on the board, Carey is proud of the work he’s done with the commissioners. He admits there are things that he might have done differently,…
County looks to White Cross for waste transfer station
Update: On Thursday night, the board of commissioners approved the recommended site for the waste transfer station. They also agreed to consider using the OWASA site in conjunction with it. By Kirk Ross Staff Writer White Cross — With varying degrees of reluctance among them, Orange County commissioners are prepared to make a decision tonight…
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Breakdown: The will to find a better way
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer Nicholas Stratas refers to mental illness as a “fragmenting†problem. Stratas, a Raleigh-based psychiatrist and former state deputy commissioner of mental health, explains that as we become adults, individuation takes place – boundaries develop, thoughts, feelings and actions are forged – and we go through a process of internal integration….
Busy holiday weekend ahead
This weekend is as packed with holiday fun as a stocking on Christmas morning. On Friday, Carrboro Town Hall will light its Christmas tree. Music and family fun accompanies the tree lighting, which takes place at 6 p.m.
