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County ponders long-term plan

By RACHEL ULLRICH | August 29

After 25 years the Orange County Board of Commissioners is re-examining its comprehensive plan. The plan, meant to guide the long-term well-being of ...

City briefs

August 29

Teacher released from jail after bond is reduced A 46-year-old teacher at Phillips Middle School in Chapel Hill, who was arrested earlier this month ...

Campus briefs

August 29

Football ticket registration ends at 5 p.m today. The deadline to register for football tickets to the UNC vs. Virginia Tech game is at 5 p.m today. The ...

Community center set to spruce up

By KAYLA CARRICK | August 29

After 26 years the Chapel Hill Community Center at 120 S. Estes Drive has started to show its age. Participants in swim classes and basketball leagues ...

Pauper Players hits it rich

By Will Halicks | August 29

Pauper Players will launch its fall season in style with a bigger budget, two spiral staircases and an onstage orchestra. Lori Mannette, one of the ...

Nonprofit to lose director

By Eric Shepherd Martin | August 29

Melissa Radcliff, executive director of the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County, will step down Sept. 4 after more than a year at the position. While ...

Shorthanded, UNC rolls on

By NICKI JHABVALA | August 29

The No. 4 North Carolina (1-1-0) women's soccer team is used to setting records. But the Tar Heels are not known for setting the ones like they recorded ...

Katrina alters tourist market

By NICOLE NORFLEET | August 29

It's why you stand and watch when a fight breaks out in the Pit or why you turn your head to look at a car accident as you drive by. People are attracted ...

Miller ready for big league shot

August 29

Andrew Miller, the 21-year old who dangles a cannon by his left side, got the call he's been waiting on since the day he was born. The Detroit Tigers ...

Police log

By Staff Editor | August 29

A Durham man was arrested early Monday on charges of driving while impaired, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Bradford Jett, 35, of 3812 Old ...

Committee looking to reduce textbook costs

By KATHRYN BALES | August 29

A committee on textbook prices is working to keep capitalism out of on-campus sales and to save students from high prices. Student Body Vice President ...

Study reports effect of teachers' gender

By ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS | August 29

Thomas Dee, an economics professor at Swarthmore College, sparked an academic firestorm when he published a study suggesting that students learn better ...

Arts brief

August 29

PlayMakers announces change in upcoming show Screen actor Ron Perlman, who was scheduled to appear alongside Oscar nominee David Strathairn in PlayMakers' ...

Dude, where's my bike?

By ERIN ZUREICK | August 29

A recent surge in bicycle thefts on campus has prompted University officials to urge students to take extra precautions. Eleven bicycles have been ...

Daily Dose

By Staff Editor | August 29

One man's trash is another man's treasure. Edward St. John, an 83-year-old man from Blackstone, Mass., who retrieved a $1 million winning lottery ticket ...

Tourism numbers up for July

By JESSICA SCHONBERG | August 29

The common conception is that when students leave for the summer, Chapel Hill goes into hibernation until mid-August. But Laurie Paolicelli, executive ...

Singing groups seek to recruit fresh voices

By Emily Luger | August 29

Hark the sound of Tar Heel voices. All-male, all-female and co-ed a cappella groups around the University are warming up for a busy year with auditions ...

Leaders push campus arts

By David Berngartt | August 29

For those yearning for a year of visual art on campus and a bevy of performing arts groups to take in, this year might be of note. The Arts Advocacy ...

Storms could spike mosquito numbers

By Joe Collevecchio | August 29

With Tropical Storm Ernesto brewing off Florida's coast, North Carolinians need to be on the lookout for more than storm clouds. Rain brought by hurricanes ...

Police log

By Staff Editor | August 28

At 1:59 a.m. Sunday, police arrested five individuals for vandalism and affray at 100 E. Franklin St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. From ...