By Kirk Ross Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL—The Chapel Hill Town Council agreed to participate in an effort by the university to set up two pilot neighborhood committees, a move similar to a system looked at during a recent town-gown trip to Madison, Wis. In response to a request from Chancellor James Moeser, the council agreed…
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Services set for Jason Ray
UNC News Services Services have been scheduled for Jason Ray, a member of UNC’s cheerleading team who died this week. Ray, 21, died this Monday at Hackensack University Medical Center. Ray, a UNC senior, was injured in a pedestrian/vehicle accident in Fort Lee, NJ, before the UNC Men’s basketball team game on Friday. He was…
Kirk Osborn dies at 64
By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer Chapel Hill criminal-defense attorney J. Kirk Osborn died in the early hours of Sunday morning. He suffered a massive heart attack on Friday and had been admitted to UNC Hospitals. He was 64. Osborne was known for keeping a remarkably low profile given the extraordinarily high visibility of several of…
News briefs: 3/28/07
Police seek suspect in RBC robbery attempt An unidentified black male attempted to rob the RBC Centura Bank at 300 Weaver St. at 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday. According to police reports, the suspect showed the teller a black handgun, but the teller did not give him any money and he left the bank on foot….
Flux up yonder
Moratoriums are, as Planning Board chair James Carnahan put it, “a crude tool.†Crude, but effective. And, sometimes, entirely necessary to give a local government time to adjust to meet a demand not anticipated. They are also all the rage this spring in Orange County. Carrboro signed on to the idea on Tuesday and, should…
Time for Blue Cross to act like a non-profit
By Adam Searing N.C. Justice Center’s Health Access Coalition Nearly $190 million. That’s the just-released annual “profit†of “nonprofit†NC Blue Cross Blue Shield, NC’s largest health insurer. $3.1 million. That’s the latest annual compensation for Blue Cross CEO Bob Greczyn. In fact, when you add in this year’s nearly $600,000 raise, Mr. Greczyn has…
Dear Carrboro,
You can take the boy out of the paper, but … The confessions of a once-and-future paperboy By Jock Lauterer As veteran Chapel Hill journalist Roland Giduz reminded me last week, I began my newspaper career by hawking his short-lived but zesty Chapel Hill News Leader around town at the tender age of 8. (The…
Grrr…
By Frank Heath Sports Columnist It’s that week again, one of the most difficult times of the year for a Carolina fan. You know the week: the one after the UNC men’s basketball team plays and loses its final game of the season. Much more often than not, that’s what’s happened; not every year can…
Governor Easley’s last chance to lead
By Chris Fitzsimon Governor Mike Easley has had better months, and the way he responds to a recent flurry of bad news may define his last two years in office. Easley presented his budget to state lawmakers in late February, touting his proposal to remove more than half a million of the state’s poorest taxpayers…
Sloshing around in the name of science
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer It’s an area they know fairly well, so it made sense to let Frank Porter Graham Elementary School students lead visitors in an exploration of the frogs, fish and other stream creatures to be found in a newly preserved section of Morgan Creek tucked off of Fordham Boulevard. Thanks to…
New UNC research shows English-only policies not helping Spanish-speaking pre-schoolers prepare
UNC News Services CHAPEL HILL – Contrary to conventional wisdom, English-only pre-kindergarten classrooms may not help native Spanish-speaking children become better prepared for school. According to research by FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spanish-speaking children had better social skills when their teachers spoke some Spanish. “Many early…
Spring Break scheduled for April 2-6
Spring Break for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is from April 2-6, with a Teacher Workday scheduled on Monday, April 9. Classes will resume for all students and staff on Tuesday, April 10. Another important date for April is a delayed opening that is scheduled for April 19. Vacaciones de Primavera del 2-6 de abril…
Take a Walk in the Woods and Pay Attention to the Beech Leaves
Take a Walk in the Woods and Pay Attention to the Beech Leaves By Ken Moore As Dave Cook engagingly describes in The Piedmont Almanac, “There is something conclusive about the day the old brown beech leaves fall.†Dave’s observation is for the fourth week of March — and he is right on target for…
Chandra’s latest is hard to put down
By Erica Eisdorfer Recently, NPR’s Terry Gross commented to The New York Review of Books that it’s hard to interview writers who say they’re motivated by the urge to “tell stories.†She says that very often that’s all there is. They’re full up; they spill. If they’re talented enough, we read. In Sacred Games, the…
Letters to the Editor – March 28
True to Community The best compliment I can give to The Carrboro Citizen, for its first issue, is that it is truly “community.†In an age of increasing media fragmentation of local interest, The Citizen shows that it intends to cover what’s significant for everybody in its community. I have lived in Chapel Hill all…