Two projects were presented at Tuesday’s Carrboro Board of Aldermen meeting that could improve students’ transportation to elementary schools and eventually to Carolina North.Aldermen discussed implementing a bicycle connection from UNC to Carolina North that would go through parts of Carrboro.
Chapel Hill to feel new pulse A new nightclub is coming to 136 E. Rosemary St. this month, with a tentative opening night of Feb.
Residents, community leaders and business owners met at the Chapel Hill-Carborro Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting Tuesday to discuss how local businesses can positively impact future development of the area’s economy.
UNC’s attempt to expand its business school is meeting resistance from some residents and environmentalists — but UNC holds that construction will not affect protected natural areas.
Some local students should start brushing up on their French after their middle school received a grant to encourage global education.
The combined effects of a $7.7 million funding deficit and even further reductions mandated by the state could force Orange County Schools to cut teacher, assistant teacher and assistant principal positions within the district.
A local elementary school is giving its students a less formal way to show off their writing talents in front of their classmates, teachers and family. Mary Scroggs Elementary School is bringing back its “Writer’s Cafe” tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the school to give its students an audience with which to share their work.
Overcrowding should not be out of the ordinary this weekend, despite the fact that Homecoming and Halloween will coincide. Agencies and businesses that handle the increase of people in the Chapel Hill area are not expecting larger numbers on Sunday as a result of Saturday’s events.
Lisa Napp started her career in education as a day care preschool teacher while she was a student in college. “I didn’t really know I wanted to be a teacher until almost graduating from school,” said Napp, who attended the State University of New York at Fredonia as an undergraduate.
After an unexpected resignation, a local school board is left with one empty seat and two options to fill it. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education must replace former member Joe Green, who resigned Sept. 17 after accepting a position as the Executive Director of Educational Opportunity Programs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis.
