Carrboro News

Carrboro Citizen art director Liz Holm has been named the recipient of seven awards in the 2009 North Carolina Press Association Best Ad Contest.

At the end of the first day of election filing in Orange, a single name was down to run for one of three open Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board seats -- and it belonged to a newcomer.

As has become a Fourth of July tradition, last Saturday included a trip out to Bolin Brook Farm in the Calvander community, where the Earnhardt family has for many years hosted a blueberry pancake breakfast for friends and neighbors.

"The 10-by-10 Festival in the Triangle" is an international festival presented by the Carrboro ArtsCenter featuring a series of ten minute plays.

Saturday is the Fourth of July, and along with fireworks, ice cream and stars and stripes, the holiday means music.

Patriots join for annual parade BY DAN E. WAY : The Herald-Sun Jul 5, 2009 CARRBORO -- As wave after wave of bicycle-riding children in star-spangled attire pedaled down a flag-fluttering Weaver Street on Saturday, it was obvious there were a lot of Yankee Doodle Dandies out for July 4. And one Liberty Chick.

She went to Julliard and played viola in Mozarta s motherland, but she was best known for her muffins, staff writer Jesse DeConto writes in this Sunday's Chapel Hill News.

Wes Tillman is the community celebrations supervisor for the Town of Chapel Hill.

While some candidates have already announced their intentions to run, their efforts won't become official until they make the trip to the county board of elections office in Hillsborough to sign on the dotted line and pay their filing fees.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our country's 233rd birthday and ... tomato season.

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Carrboro Alderwoman Randee Haven Oa Donnell announced her re-election bid Monday at a solar panel installation on the Town Commons.

The Carrboro Cybrary announces Creative Connections at the Cybrary Art Walk, to be held on Friday, July 10 from 6:00 pm-9:00 pm at the Carrboro Century Center, located at 100 N. Greensboro Street.

Farmers worried about fertilizer and land-use rules had a message for the Board of Aldermen: you're either with us, or against us.

Candidate filing for the 2009 Municipal Elections and the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School Board will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, July 6 and end at noon on Friday, July 17 at the Orange County Board of Elections office located at 110 East King Street in Hillsborough.

Something's going on in the Heritage Hills neighborhood that may be the wave of the future.

Revised water-conservation standards are now in effect for OWASA customers based on recent actions by the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and Orange County.

Jana Sartor's 3-year-old son, Ezra, loves watching his garden grow. His family is one of many working together in the James Street Community Garden, the latest of three sites developed under the Growing Healthy Kids Project.

It could have been the refrigerated air pulsing into the upstairs room at the Ackland Art Museum.

With Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton announcing he will seek a third term in office, initially it seemed Carrboro's elected offices would remain status quo.