According to the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, Chapel Hill and Carrboro support 75 nonprofit agencies.
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Getting the green business thing down
RECENTLY . . . So, you think you’ve got the whole “green†thing covered.
Carrboro calls NC-connected auteurs
Calling all Tar Heel filmmakers! This year, for the first time, the Carrboro Film Festival will accept film submissions with connections to anywhere in North Carolina.
Summertime peace and freedom
Ah, that lazy, hazy days of summer feeling that sweeps over our towns as we feel the easing-against-the-seams that comes after the student population has greatly diminished.
Farm with a view
Betty Sue and John Yow don’t know how long the Orange County land they live on has been in her family.
Everybody’s kid
After attending a panel discussion on teens and substance abuse hosted by the United Church of Chapel Hill in January, discussions with those who know the teen scene led me to six weeks of collecting data and stories.
Integrating into the hearing world
Madison Jackson was a year old when her parents, Corrine and Nick Jackson of Apex, learned that she could not hear.
‘Feels like family’ — Carrboro United Methodist turns 100
“There’ve been a lot of changes since it was on Main Street,†Ward said of the church. “I never gave any thought to women†being deacons or pastor while growing up. “Everything changed, but I’m OK with it.â€
Not by bulbs alone
These folks don’t garden by bulbs alone. As their neighborhood name suggests, they are gardening in the woodlands.
Advanced ‘first-graders’
By Valarie Schwartz, columnist Last week brought a visit with five women who have spent long lives knowing each other. Their relationship started in 1929 as they entered first grade at Chapel Hill Elementary School (where University Square is today), where they continued their schooling until graduation in 1940 (there were only 11 grades at…
A walk on the Hollywood side
By Valarie Schwartz Taking the “perp walk†might have been the best thing that happened to Travis Kukovich, owner of William Travis Jewelry, during this recession. Such a humiliating walk generally ends with doors slamming behind one; for Kukovich, some pretty marvelous doors opened. This story twists together many threads, but in its simplest telling…
Recently: Radio station powered by volunteers
By Valarie Schwartz, columnist With a Chapel Hill-located antenna and a reservoir of volunteer sweat, Carrboro has hosted WCOM, its own nonprofit 100-watt radio station for five years. At 103.5 on the dial, the low-power FM station has proven the power of grit and gumption, providing 24/7 programming without an ounce of corporate control or…
Through community support, a need is met
By Valarie Schwartz, columnist As a board member of the OCRCC, Miriam Slifkin’s words resonated as I walked into her living room and she said, “Welcome to the place where the Orange County Rape Crisis Center was formed.†Many meetings and 36 years later, Slifkin still supports the center that she founded. “If I had…
Recently: Saying the word aloud
By Valarie Schwartz, columnist There used to be words that people simply did not say in “polite company.†The “C-Word†was one of them. But it’s pretty much unavoidable, now, in these days when the latest statistics show that during the course of a lifetime, one in four people will get the C-Word — cancer.
Recently: The market with a soul
By Valarie Schwartz, columnist The Carrboro Farmers’ Market continues bridging divides, as it brings the dream of a new locovore paradigm closer to reality. Thanks to a woman who was willing to be the axle, a wheel of food for the needy began to spin 15 weeks ago, but a new revolution began last Saturday.