The Prime Time Players theater group is looking for 10-minute original plays written by local playwrights to present in the group’s spring festival.
Category: Community
Monthly gardening class
Monthly gardening classes will be taught by Maria Hitt at the Martin Luther King Jr. Park community garden, 1120 Hillsborough Road, beginning Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Spay Neuter Day set for Tuesday
Orange County Animal Services will celebrate “Spay Neuter Day†on Tuesday as part of its effort to combat pet overpopulation in Orange County.
Black History Month film screening
ChathamArts’ Sustainable Cinema Series will honor Black History Month on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Fearrington Barn with a special screening of two films – The Loving Story and Wolf Call.
Youth baseball coaches needed
The Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department is accepting volunteer coach’s applications for the 2012 Youth Baseball Program, which runs from mid-April into mid-June.
CH police dept. honors employees
The Chapel Hill Police Department held its annual award ceremony for 2011 on Jan. 31.
Celebrating Black History Month
Chapel Hill Transit staff performed Why Should I Move?, a reenactment of the day in 1955 in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, at University Mall on Feb. 4.
Translation Research
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s minority student caucus will host the 33rd Annual Minority Health Conference.
Living revolutionary war
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough will hold its 12th annual Revolutionary War Living History Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Advisory committee needs members
Orange County seeks applicants for Adult Care Home Community Advisory Committee.
Valentine’s food truck rodeo
Food trucks from around the Triangle will host the First Annual Valentine’s Day Food Rodeo and Fundraiser on Tuesday at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Reduced animal adoption fees
Orange County’s Animal Service Center’s adoption fees are reduced by half for the first annual Valentine’s Adoption Event continuing through Tuesday.
Love the Haw River
The Haw River Assembly will host its Love the Haw River 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw on Saturday from 7 p.m. to midnight.
Exhibit opens at Stone Center
The work of artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier will be featured in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC today (Thursday) through April 30 in an exhibition titled: “Dry Run: Defining Determination, Testing Reconstruction.â€
Carrboro resident wins photo honors
Carrboro resident Bill Swindaman has won awards for two of his images submitted in the 2011 Audubon South Carolina Nature Photography Contest, co-sponsored by the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association.