Articles by Rebecca Putterman

Carrboro day laborers struggling to make a living

Chapped hands in the frost of the early morning. Boots stained with old, flaking paint. Faded sweatshirts layered atop too-thin a T-shirt.

Barely warm and rarely hopeful, they await the disappearing promise of an honest day’s work.

On any given day, dozens of men await construction and landscaping work on the corner of Jones Ferry Road and Davie Road in Carrboro.

Carrboro Latinos get new advocate

The Carrboro Latino community met its new advocate Tuesday — a Durham organization that came to fill the void left by El Centro Latino.

Set to open in Carrboro on April 1, the Durham-based El Centro Hispano will replace Carrboro’s Latino-focused resource center that closed last year.

Carrboro Latino Center plans for rebirth

Before Carrboro’s main resource center for Latinos closed its doors in December, the Triangle community was already discussing ways to save it.

In a town hall meeting tonight, Carrboro officials, former El Centro Latino staff and leaders of a Durham-based Latino nonprofit will meet with community members to discuss exactly how El Centro will be reborn.

Orange County H1N1 vaccination numbers drop

With a stack of Valentine cards ready for addressing, nurse Fran Whitfield passed the time in Lenoir Hall last week on the off chance that someone might stop by for an H1N1 vaccine.

Her continuing education reading sat out on the table, and two scrawled pages of the beginning of a manuscript were held down with a bottle of hand sanitizer.

Smoking ban leaves local businesses uncertain

Disc jockeying on the bottom floor of East End Oyster and Martini Bar didn’t have the best effect on Myles Bacon’s lungs.

Bacon, who coaches the Carolina Team Handball Club and works at East End part time, said the second-hand smoke inherent to the bar scene was hurting his athletics.

“You walk out at night and you just don’t feel great,” he said.

Haiti victim recounts the pain, anxiety

When her husband was severely burned in a gas station explosion during Haiti’s earthquake, Yvita Louis could only apply cold water and Vaseline to his charred skin.

Schools outline Tomorrow goals

When the 17 UNC-system campuses were asked to respond by May with their plans to complete the goal that system President Erskine Bowles gave them in December, some campus task forces didn't think it would be possible to complete that goal.

After closing its doors in late November, the Carrboro-based nonprofit El Centro Latino is working to reopen.

El Centro Latino’s board will discuss tonight how to collaborate with other local Latino-serving nonprofits to provide the community with resources it needs, supported by some Carrboro town officials.

Latinos to get help banking

Leer en español.

Latinos recibiran ayuda del banco

Tania Herrera vive al día.

Vino a los Estados Unidos de México hace cinco años. Tiene trabajo fijo, y habla inglés casi sin acento.

Pero Herrera, quien vende teléfonos móviles y contratos de móviles en Don José Tienda Mexicana en Carrboro, usar un banco le incomoda. No tiene ni crédito, ni cheques personales, ni ahorros.

Articles by Rebecca Putterman

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