Schools ready to pick plan
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board is scheduled to settle on a redistricting plan Thursday that would move roughly more than 1,000 elementary students.
The plan (above), 9D, has been recommended to the board by school officials. Click the map for a larger image.
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
Nearly 500 Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary school students, mostly from the northwestern corner of the school district, will move to a new elementary school when it opens in the fall of 2008.
On Thursday, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education is expected to approve one of four redistricting plans to move students to the new school. Under the plan recommended by school officials, 1,095 students would be moved to different elementary schools, including 481 to the new school, which has yet to be named but has been dubbed Elementary No. 10 by school officials. The new school will be located at the corner of Dromoland Road and Eubanks Road.
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The story. . .on ice
Orange County Secret Clown Dick Gordon refuses to take another loss to heart–playing the game is about building community. Photo by Isaac Sandlin
By Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer
Whether Dick Gordon is a different guy when outfitted in hockey gear seems to be a matter of debate. According to at least one associate, in everyday life he [...]
Organizers gear up for Carrboro Day
This year’s plan for annual town festival: Don’t change a thing
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
If you need help remembering what day Carrboro Day is, take a glance at the calendar and check out the first Sunday in May. That’s the day, this year and every year.
“That date is chiseled in stone. Then we don’t have to [...]
Board studies OWASA fee hike
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Members of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen offered a courteous but thorough grilling of OWASA officials Tuesday night at Town Hall over the utility’s plan to raise service access fees this year.
OWASA is planning a comprehensive rate restructuring including a jump in some accessibility fees by more than 40 percent. The fees [...]
New senior center will expand weekend schedule
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
When it opens in less than three weeks, the new Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center will have more than just more space.
The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday approved staff positions for the new Seymour Center for seniors in Chapel Hill, enabling the center to provide expanded evening and weekend services [...]
Town faces Lot 5 cleanup
Source: ECS Carolinas / Citizen Graphic by Michelle Langston
By Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer
The Town of Chapel Hill has released the results of an environmental assessment on downtown Parking Lot 5, along with an initial estimated cost of cleanup for the site of $232,000.
A Phase II Environmental Site Assessment and Limited Soil Delineation study was conducted last [...]
Chilton asks legislators to oppose de-annexation bill
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton has sent a letter to Reps. Joe Hackney, Verla Insko and Sen. Ellie Kinnaird asking that they oppose a bill introduced by Rep. William Faison to undo an annexation of the Highlands neighborhood.
Residents of the neighborhood, annexed along with several other neighborhoods in 2005, had petitioned Faison to [...]
Board looks at possible tweaks for town’s revolving loan program
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Be prepared. That’s the message James Harris, Carrboro’s economic director, said is the key to not only a successful new business, but a successful application to the town’s revolving loan program.
In a report to the Board of Aldermen at their meeting Tuesday night, Harris said the 21-year record of the program has [...]
Behind all the Smoke
By Chris Fitzsimon
The fierce behind-the-scenes battle continues over legislation to protect people from deadly second-hand smoke at workplaces, restaurants and bars. Despite his best efforts, House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman has been unable to convince a majority of House members to support his comprehensive plan to protect the public health.
The opposition has coalesced around a [...]
Another regular, irregular Carolina Piedmont spring
Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis). Photo by Ken Moore
By Ken Moore
It’s spring again in the Carolina Piedmont. That means another round of predictably unpredictable weather that sets serious and not-so-serious gardeners into an annual frenzy.
Over the years I’ve come to anticipate that when the exotic Star magnolias and the Bradford pears come into flower it’s time [...]
Ode to an Old Friend
From the 1963 Chapel Hill High School yearbook, the Hillife, Gouger’s sense of humor comes through in labels he applied to this photo of fellow “Banshees Three” singer, Davey McConnell, left, and himself, at right. (Photo by Jock Lauterer, CHHS ‘63).
By Jock Lauterer
When my childhood chum Johnny Gouger laughed, it was no delicate matter.
No, [...]
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