Local teacher named cultural ambassador
Helen Crompton, a British international-exchange teacher at Carrboro Elementary School, has been named outstanding cultural ambassador by the Visiting International Faculty (VIF) Program.
VIF is the largest international-exchange program linking teachers and U.S. schools, sponsoring about 900 international teachers in the state. Crompton teaches fifth grade at Carrboro Elementary, where she is [...]
Be safe
This time of year, you hear the words teenager, excessive speed and alcohol mixed together in news stories all too much.
School is almost out. It’s party season, and all the lectures, all the peer support and every effort to ask, plead and demand that our sons and daughters make responsible choices are up against [...]
By William Schweke
Twenty years ago, North Carolina was not a player in the controversial national competition between states sometimes referred to as “the corporate incentives game.” Today, it’s a “leader” (at least in the eyes of the site location profession) and has set new precedents for how much a job is “worth” with its [...]
By Al McSurely
A favorite last-ditch tactic of the Big Lie is to send out high-ranking officials as rabbits to deflect attention and indictments from their sponsors. Our high-paid, blow-dried TV talking heads are suckers for this ploy. Chattering away, like they did when Cheney/Bush lied us into Iraq, the millionaire talking heads appear clueless to [...]
Tiles from Ali Sobel-Read at N.C. Crafts Gallery
The 2nd Friday ArtWalk is this week, and there’s a special push on to walk Carrboro — and not just on Friday.
The ArtWalk is a traditional time to take to the streets and view displays through the downtowns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Now a group of [...]
John W. Vadney, 84, of Mebane, died Monday at Duke University medical Center.
A native of Albany, NY, he was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church and retired as a telephone repairman.
A mass will be conducted at 11:00 Thursday at St. Thomas More Catholic Church. Burial will follow in the Union Grove United Methodist [...]
Frank Graham Umstead, 91, of Chapel Hill, died April 28, 2007 after a long decline in health. He was born on June 9, 1915 in Greensboro to the late Sallie Reade and John Wesley Umstead, Jr., a fourteen-term N.C. legislator representing Orange County. He was the eldest of the Umstead’s four children and namesake of [...]
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