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Miscellany

Meeting? What meeting?

The Town of Carrboro had a problem sending official notification of the annual Board of Aldermen retreat on Monday. The board, mayor and senior staff met for several hours. Mayor Mark Chilton apologized for the error Tuesday and said Town Manager Steve Stewart was notifying members of the media and offering an apology for the breakdown in communication.

According to Chilton, the press was not notified save a posting in the lobby at Town Hall.

Members of the media and interested members of the public are commonly notified of upcoming meetings via email and through the town’s website.

No members of the media were present at the retreat and materials presented at the meeting have not been posted on the town’s Web site or made available.

The town did issue the following press release and meeting plan on the retreat:

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Miscellany

Circadian clock and cancer progression linked

This from UNC:

UNC study: Tinkering with the circadian clock can suppress cancer growth

CHAPEL HILL – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill have shown that disruption of the circadian clock – the internal
time-keeping mechanism that keeps the body running on a 24-hour cycle –
can slow the progression of cancer.

The study disputes some of the most recent research in the field
indicating that alteration of this daily cycle predisposes humans and
mice to cancer. The UNC researchers found that genetically altering one
of four essential “clock” genes actually suppressed cancer growth in a
mouse model commonly used to investigate cancer. The findings could
enable clinicians to reset the internal clock of each cancer cell to
render it more vulnerable to attack with chemotherapeutic drugs.

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Food

Glasshalfull’s V-Day menu

Chef Ricky Moore at Carrboro’s Glasshalfull just emailed us the official menu for Valentine’s night. Now, you certainly can head over there on the 14th and order off the regular menu, but why would you want to pass up this menu created especially for two:

First Course
Oyster, Leek and Truffle Soup
Or
Frisee’ Salad, Shitake Mushrooms, Parmesan and Sherry Vinaigrette

Main Course
Each dish serves two guests, please choose one:
Fish: Salmon “Chateaubriand” with Salsify, Snow Peas and Caviar-Champagne Buerre Blanc
Or
Duck: Honey Roasted Magret Duck Breast, Butternut Squash, Red Cabbage and Pear Vinegar Sauce
Or
Lamb: Grilled “Heart of the Lamb Leg”, Garlic Potato Puree, Hazelnut Green Beans and Rosemary Jus

Sweet Course
Chocolate-Chiptole Pot de Crème and Passion Fruit Milkshake

This “menu for lovers” is $60 per couple (plus tax and gratuity). Reservations are recommended. Call 967-9784.

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Community

Remembering Central High School

The Orange County Historical Museum is kicking off its special exhibit in honor of Central High School on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Mt. Bright Baptist Church in Hillsborough. The event will present the important journey of the historically black Central High School. The Central Community Band will perform and a panel of speakers – including students, teachers, coaches and principals – will talk about their experiences at the high school. The Orange County Historical Museum opens the special exhibit, Remembering Central High School: Looking Back, Facing Forward, on Feb. 15. It will run through March. For more information visit the website www.orangehistory.org.

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Community

Woods Charter School Graduate Returns

Nicole Gerber, 22, a graduate of Woods Charter School in Chatham County, is the first graduate to return to Woods to teach. Gerber graduated in 2004 and is returning to the 10-year-old charter school. She can tell her students about growing up in Zambia, Mali and Benin, among other places. First-hand experiences can fascinate and inform often better than words in a book. This school year Gerber is teaching 117 students in several high school classes.

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Community

Orange County Board of Commissioners Special Meeting Notice

Members of the Orange County Board of Commissioners will be taking a tour of the Waste Transfer Station in Greensboro on Thursday, Feb. 12. The tour will be hosted by the Orange County Solid Waste Management Department. They will be departing from the Link Government Services Center, 200 S. Cameron St., Hillsborough, at 12:30 p.m.

Members will also be taking a tour of some of the Orange County Schools on Wednesday, Feb. 18 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. They will be departing from the OCS Administrative Offices, 200 E. King St., Hillsborough, at 12:30 p.m.

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Arts & Music

Arts Awards

The Orange County Arts Commission has announced its arts awards. Here’s the list:

Orange County Arts Commission Awards Grants
The following organizations and individuals have been awarded Arts
Grants by the Orange County Arts Commission to support arts programming
during the Fall 2008 grant cycle. Representatives will accept their
grant awards from the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County on
February 3rd, 2009 at the Central Orange Senior Center in Hillsborough.

* ArtsCenter
* Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center
* Central Elementary School PTO
* Deep Dish Theater Company
* Susan Filley
* Estes Hills Elementary School
* Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library
* Grady A. Brown Elementary School Cultural Arts Enrichment
Committee
* Hillsborough Elementary School PTA
* Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and Orange County
* NC Literary Festival (hosted by University Library at UNC)
* Orange Charter School
* Public Arts Office, Town of Chapel Hill
* Wendy Spitzer
* Richard Tazewell
* Emily Weinstein
* Women’s Voices Chorus

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Weather

Snow maybe

Snow?
Snow?
Stay tuned on this one. Snow possible later tonight. Forecasters are calling for rain for a few hours with a changeover to snow as a cold front moves in.
Here’s the NWS discussion page for all you weather geeks.
And Wunderground’s by-the-hour forecast.
We’ll try to put up any links on closings or panicked mobs at local grocers.

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Food

Loco for chocolate

Two of our favorite local food producers are collaborating to bring more sweet goodness to our taste buds. Beginning Feb. 4, 10 varieties of Locopops will be available at Matthew’s Chocolates (170 N. Churton St.) in Hillsborough. And on Feb. 6, all Locopops outlets will begin offering Matthews Chocolates Barks. The Chapel Hill location is at 231 S. Elliott Rd.

You can read more about Matthew’s Chocolates for Valentine’s Day in the February Mill, included in this week’s Citizen.

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Arts & Music

EVENT: Art and music collide

The Bizart Collection presents “local artists and musicians coinciding” from 6 to 9p.m. on Fri., Feb. 13 at Bleeker Street Gallery (406 E. Main St.) in Carrboro. The gallery will feature works from Justin Blatt, Justin Hall, Todd Emmert and Chief, accompanied by musical guests Impossible Arms, Inspector 22, Rayswore, Smurt1 and Password to Larkspur Lane. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page.

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Arts & Music

READING: Steve Cushman

North Carolina author Steve Cushman will read from his latest book, Fracture City on Tues., Feb. 5, 7 to 8 p.m. at Market Street Books in Southern Village.

For more information on this or other events, visit www.marketstreetbooks.com, or call 933-5111.