PTA Thrift Shops recognized its volunteers at the organization’s annual volunteer appreciation day. From left: Volunteers Donald Cooper, Kelly Bennett, Dorothy Horton, Karen Trocke-Kandah and Sheryl Emch. Photo by Barbara Jesse Black
By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer
With volunteers contributing more than 14,000 hours in 2006, it’s no surprise that the PTA Thrift Shops’ annual volunteer appreciation day [...]
The following is a statement from Speaker Joe Hackney on the House budget.
Just months before the start of this decade, Hurricane Floyd slowly pushed through eastern North Carolina. The storm pulled heavy rains along with it, but at first appeared to be nothing more than another relatively anonymous hurricane.
The truth proved to be far [...]
By Adam Searing
North Carolina Medicaid is the state health program that covers almost one million children from very low-income families. It also covers another 600,000 people, but only if they fit into very specific categories such as lower-income pregnant women, parents in poverty, very low-income elderly folks and poor people with serious disabilities. In [...]
By Kirk Ross
After a long weekend of negotiation between my conscience and my palate, I’ve finalized an internal agreement to give up corporate pork.
I know, I know, it seems impossible given the general pervasiveness of wonderful barbecue — not to mention that we are at the dawn of another grilling season. But based [...]
Thank you for reporting on the situtation with the Caring Family Network consolidation of services in Orange County. This is a disturbing development, and you did a service to the general public by bringing this to our attention. I think it’s important to add a few key points to your coverage, however.
Jock Lauterer
By Jock Lauterer
Look, I’ll be straight up with y’all: this ain’t spin.
While I have no financial capital invested in this paper, I do have a vested interest in the well-being of The Carrboro Citizen. Because I was present at the moment of conception and birth, if you will, I consider myself this paper’s Fairy [...]
Holly tree that is located at Carrboro’s future fire station site is estimated to be 200 years old. Photo by Ken Moore
By Ken Moore
Please Note: In my enthusiasm last week for “hugging” that 200-year-old Persimmon tree on the university campus, I failed to credit Betsy Green Moyer, photographer and co-editor of Paul Green’s Plant [...]
Linda Hazel Rickman Comer, age 66, died Sunday, May 20, 2007, in Chapel Hill, NC, from complications related to Alzheimer’s Disease. Linda was born August 14, 1940, in Durham, NC. Her parents were Aylor Louis Rickman and Hazel Dowdee Rickman. She was a graduate of Durham High School and Watts School of Nursing. She was [...]
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