Town residents received free medical screenings and information Saturday as part of an annual fair organized by students.The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program, a University organization, put on the fair with the goal of informing residents where they could receive low-cost local medical services.
About eighty people spent their Sunday with their feet in the mud, shoveling and digging rice paddies on a farm that wasn’t theirs.The crowd was participating in the latest Crop Mob event at Edible Earthscapes farm in Moncure, about 25 miles south of Chapel Hill.
Men wearing 18th century red coats with shiny gold buttons, the uniform of the British army during the Revolutionary War, camped out in the middle of downtown Hillsborough on Saturday.The Loyalists’ camp stood across the field, where actors were demonstrating parts of camp life, such as cooking soup in front of a hemp tent.
Chapel Hill still has work to do to achieve racial equality.This was the central message of Monday’s speakers at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Rally, March and Worship Service in downtown Chapel Hill.
Susan Soleil moved her bookbinding business from Rochester, N.Y., to Carrboro two years ago, just as the recession started to hit.“It was not a very good time to start a business,” she said. “But now, everything is fine.”
The sound is fuller and warmer. The records are artistic and classic. And it’s tradition.Those and other reasons drew community members such as graduate student Heather Wilson to the ninth annual Carrboro CD and Record Show at the Carrboro Century Center.Wilson said she owns 600 vinyl records, which is little compared to her friend, who has more than 4,000.
Orange County, which already recycles more plastic bottles than any other county in the state, is being encouraged by state officials to conserve even more.The N.C. General Assembly placed a ban on disposing plastic bottles, oil filters and wooden pallets in landfills across the state. The ban took effect Thursday.But while Orange County is running out of space in its landfill, town leaders don’t anticipate the ban to help much.Town officials estimate the Orange County landfill will last only three more years before filling up.
When Jeff Polish started his act Saturday, it wasn’t in a restaurant where he typically performs.Instead, it was in the Carrboro ArtsCenter, which has 355 audience seats.But the stories weren’t any less intimate.The act, called The Monti, encourages community members to tell stories to an audience, abiding by four rules: all stories must follow a particular theme, be true, be under twelve minutes and told without notes.“It’s just plain, old-fashioned, simple storytelling,” said Polish, the founder of The Monti.
