Farm tour this weekend
Stanley Hughes, of Hurdle Mills, still farms the land his grandfather bought in 1912. His Pine Knot Farm, near the Orange and Person county line, is one of 30 operations on this year’s Piedmont Farm Tour. Photo by Kirk Ross.
Spring annual marks Earth Day celebration
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Stanley Hughes isn’t the kind of fellow you meet every day in downtown Carrboro — just Saturday. That’s when Hughes is in his spot at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, moving dozens of head of broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower and stacks of collards and kale.
Most of the time you’ll find Hughes hard at work on one of the many fertile plots of land he farms around Hurdle Mills. Some of the land he owns was passed down through his family, who moved to Hurdle Mills in 1912. Some of the land he leases from cousins or neighbors.
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Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch
Paw-paw blossoms have had a rough time this year. Photo by Ken Moore.
By Ken Moore
Wow, we now know that because of that recent record-breaking late cold snap, peaches, strawberries and blueberries are going to be really pricey this harvest season. Wait till you see the prices on pawpaws! Well, you probably won’t see [...]
Wind wallops area
The corner of Poplar Avenue and Elm Street in Carrboro saw some of the worst of Monday’s wind storm. Photo by Kirk Ross
Power outages, traffic jams and plenty of debris as gusts topped 50 m.p.h.
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Monday was clear, but anything but calm as gusts of more than 50 miles per hour knocked down [...]
County to seek smaller increase
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
As the county gears up for budget season, officials say they hope to limit the tax-rate increase this year.
State law requires the county manager to submit a budget to the Board of County Commissioners by May 15 and the board to approve a budget by June 30. The board will work through [...]
Carrboro resident’s case to be heard
Sima Fallahi and her daughter Leila at home in Carrboro. Photo by Jackie Helvey Courtesy of Carrboro.com
By Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer
Carrboro resident Sima Fallahi and her daughter, Leila, were due good news. They got some this past Monday when Fallahi was informed by her attorneys that an immigration judge had granted a motion to reopen [...]
Price says showdown looming over war funding
By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer
Fourth District U.S. Rep. David Price said he thinks the country is headed for a constitutional crisis as Congress and President Bush square off over funding for the Iraq war.
Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, said he expects the president to veto a narrowly passed emergency-funding bill that includes a timeline for ending [...]
UNC Folklore, ArtsCenter in tune for show
UNC News Services
Bluegrass, black gospel, country and a steel guitar sound rooted in the black church will come together in a celebration of North Carolina’s grassroots music on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro.
The “Carolina Breakdown” concert will feature the innovative bluegrass of the Tony Williamson Band of Siler City, the sacred [...]
Symbolic sprinkling
Photo by Kirk Ross
It wasn’t a groundbreaking, but a symbolic sprinkling of rainwater on native plants that marked the official event celebrating the pending construction of the new North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Visitor Education Center Saturday on Laurel Hill Road.
The center is the first building at a major U.S. campus to be designed [...]
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Pig out on the green
The Chapel Hill Police Department will host the annual “Pig Out on the Green” barbecue fundraiser on Sunday to benefit Special Olympics of North Carolina.
The fundraiser, which will take place on the green at Southern Village, will run from 2-6 p.m. Tickets to the benefit are $10 and include barbecue “and [...]
Redistricting in limbo
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
After hours of heated discussion, tears and pleas for equity across the district, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education postponed a decision on a redistricting plan and instead voted to rework one of the four proposed plans while rejecting the other three.
The board is redistricting in order to move students to a [...]
Mary Scroggs, 85, schools advocate
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
Longtime board of education member and outspoken schools advocate Mary Scroggs died last week. She was 85.
Scroggs, who served on the school board from 1961 until 1977, is known for her work toward desegregation as well as for the construction of several schools at a time when schools were extremely overcrowded.
“When [...]
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