The Carrboro Board of Aldermen continued two public hearings at a meeting on Tuesday.

The board continued a public hearing on a conditional use permit request for the Colleton Crossing Architecturally Integrated Subdivision until Jan. 27.

In addition, the board continued a public hearing on amending the town’s land use ordinance relating to water quality buffers until Feb. 24.

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The ArtsCenter
Center Gallery: Orange County Artists’ Guild Studio Tour preview

Carrboro Branch Library
“Moving the Line: The Art of Drawing”
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11/30
Chapel Hill Tree Lighting
Downtown Chapel Hill
The annual community tree lighting at University Baptist Church. 6pm
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Photo by Ava Barlow. Crook’s Corner’s Bill Smith

It may seem natural for a chef to adore Thanksgiving, but for Bill Smith, chef of Crook’s Corner, his love for the holiday isn’t really about the food. “Thanksgiving’s my favorite holiday because it’s based around a dinner party and you don’t have to worry about gifts,” he laughs. “The pressure of gift shopping is an enormous hassle that spoils Christmas, if you ask me.”
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Photo by Ava Barlow. Carrboro resident April McGreger makes sauerkraut in her kitchen by fermenting shredded cabbage with sea salt and juniper berries.

Already, the aromas swirling around in April McGreger’s kitchen were pretty overwhelming to a first-time visitor.

Slices of chunked pumpkin were in the middle of a long simmer in copper pots on the stove, the scent mixing with lemon juicing in progress. Then the sweet potato yeast rolls came out of the oven.
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11/26-12/14
The Little Prince
Paul Green Theatre
This encore presentation of last season’s hit by PlayMakers Repertory Company runs through Dec. 14.

11/26
Pre Turkey Day Jam
Cat’s Cradle
Jon Shain and friends Django Haskins, Mark Simonsen, Greg Humphreys, Valentino and the Piedmont Shieks and others team up for the annual benefit for the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service.
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Carrboro Branch Library
Storytime, Saturdays at 10:30am.
Toddler Time, Thursday at 4pm.
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The ArtsCenter
Tales of Light, a puppetry performance by Hobey Ford. Tales based in Native-American stories to teach about nature and community. Dec. 5. 10am (grades K-3), 11:30am (grades 4-6). Dec. 6, 11am (grades K-6).
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The ArtsCenter
The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Caitlin Cary (12/6) 2nd Friday Open Jazz Jam (12/12)

Blue Bayou Club
Open Blues Jamm (12/2) AC Bushnell & HappyJoy Band (12/5) The Fusticks (12/5) Contagious Blues Band (12/6) Open Mic Night (12/9) Too Much Fun (12/13) Open Blues Jam (12/16) Fever & The Falling Raid (12/18) Cyril Lance & Outskirts of Infinity (12/19) Matt Hill & the Buzzkills (12/20) Open Mic Night (12/23) Open Blues Jam (12/30) Armand & Bluesology w/ Will McFarlane (12/31)
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Photo by Ken Moore. Evelyn Sims holding a native oregano for her garden.

When asked, “Why do you garden?” Evelyn McNeill Sims was at first a bit startled as she leaned back in her seat, and after a few moments of thoughtful silence responded, “Well, that’s just what you do! I can’t imagine not doing it!”

That sentiment was expressed last spring, a few days before I presented the Botanical Garden’s 9th Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture, an annual celebration of wildflowers endowed by Evelyn’s daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Ed Preston, in 1990, on the occasion of Evelyn’s 90th birthday.
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photo by Ava Barlow. New school board member Gregory McElveen

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously last week to appoint Gregory McElveen as the newest member of the board.

The board selected McElveen from a pool of seven applicants to fill the seat left by Pam Hemminger, who submitted her resignation in order to serve on the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
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Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

The Chapel Hill Town Council received a report from Town Manager Roger Stancil outlining how he plans to achieve $2,482,000 in budget cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year.
The plan, reviewed at the council’s meeting Monday night at Town Hall, includes $1.8 million in reductions achieved mainly by not filling vacancies and freezing new positions. Stancil said the goal was to cut as much as possible without compromising services to residents. He acknowledged that some departments would be understaffed, but did not think it would cause severe delays.
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Susan Dickson
Staff Writer

Carrboro High School could have a cultural arts wing as soon as 2010-11, two years sooner than previously anticipated, but the project remains unfunded.
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Margot Carmichael Lester
Staff Writer

It’s all doom, gloom and pestilence if the latest housing data from the National Association of Homebuilders is to be believed.

Overall housing starts for October declined 4.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 791,000 units – and 38 percent less than October 2007’s 1,182,000 units. That’s the slowest pace on record since the U.S. government began tracking housing data in 1959.
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