Sometimes a simple gesture of kindness can have a ripple effect in our community.
Published: May. 12, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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I’d like to extend my congratulations to the fine North Carolinians who have succeeded in enshrining bigotry and hatred in our state’s founding document.
Published: May. 15, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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A recent report makes a compelling case that dual language instruction is our school district’s best bet to close the Latino achievement gap and that it can best be offered through a district-wide magnet.
Published: May. 8, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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An easy decision
Published: May. 6, 2012 11:08 AM | Full story
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Last week I had the opportunity to meet with Orange County Commissioner Pam Hemminger to discuss issues related to solid waste management and the proposed transit route and funding.
Published: May. 5, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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Letters: The Vestry of the Chapel of the Cross, an Episcopal parish in Chapel Hill, has passed the following resolution:
Published: May. 1, 2012 5:30 PM | Full story
The yardsticks used to evaluate the elimination of the Mandarin program were only: 1) does it eliminate the achievement gap?; and 2) does it educate students with limited English proficiency?
Published: May. 1, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Last month Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools released a report recommending the “phasing out” of the highly regarded Mandarin dual language program. As a parent with 10 years invested in the program, I was shocked, offended and disappointed by the way the district crafted the report.
Published: Apr. 28, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
This year Habitat for Humanity of Orange County requested a total of $125,000 in HOME funding, exactly one-half of the HOME funding we asked for and received in 2011-12.
Published: Apr. 24, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Your letters continued April 22: Recently, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools released a report on the dual language program. One recommendation has largely been overlooked: the creation of a “dual language magnet school” at Frank Porter Graham Elementary. This recommendation would eliminate a local, neighborhood school, displacing hundreds students.
Published: Apr. 21, 2012 5:00 PM | Full story
Although I have not lived in Chapel Hill as long as Ken Broun has (42 years, not 44), taught at the Medical School (not the Law School), and was never mayor, I think his optimism about 140 W. Franklin St. is misplaced (CHN, April 11, http://bit.ly/HCx2vD).
Published: Apr. 17, 2012 7:04 PM | Full story
Your Letters: Thanks for the invitation of fresh debate on Senate Bill 575. I stand with the comments of Jackie Overton, chair of the UNC Employee Forum. Only wishful thinking can construe the bill to be equitable or fair.
Published: Apr. 16, 2012 12:00 AM | Full story
I am one of those “naïve and uniformed people” Chas Gaertner mentioned who have purchased an apartment at 140 West Franklin Street.
Published: Apr. 10, 2012 7:05 PM | Full story
Autism is not easy. It is not easy on anyone. It is difficult for our community and schools to handle, as we have seen from a recent article on the boy suspended from the school bus (CHN, March 16, http://bit.ly/GKSG2s).
Published: Apr. 7, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
SB 575, the Higher Education Efficiency and Flexibility Act, is part of the assault on public-sector workers and should be stopped.
Published: Apr. 3, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
As a student in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools with a sister in the Chinese Dual Language Program, I find the district’s recommendations for the program distressing (CHN, April 1, http://bit.ly/HdbXG1). I have watched my sister go through the program at Glenwood Elementary School from kindergarten through fifth grade, and she was planning on continuing in the program in middle school.
Published: Apr. 3, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Occasionally, kind souls will say to me, “Thank you for serving on the School Board. That’s a really thankless job.” The truth is that the work is interesting, I serve with colleagues of great integrity, and, in a recent town survey, an astounding 88 percent of the respondents said that the quality of the public schools was important or very important in their choice to move to Chapel Hill.
Published: Mar. 27, 2012 7:11 PM | Full story
The reaction of our political leaders to the announcement of a 148,000 square-foot Chatham Walmart evokes the memory of Casablanca and Capt. Renault’s famous "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here."
Published: Mar. 27, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Imagine lying beside a road for twelve hours in pain and with no mercy in sight.
Published: Mar. 20, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
As I write this, on the Girl Scouts’ 100 birthday, I wish to thank all the local businesses that helped us put on a hugely successful “100 Years of Girl Scouting – Past, Present, and Future” at University Mall on Saturday, March 10.
Published: Mar. 17, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
On Feb. 26, the CHN ran a letter from long-time CHCCS guidance counselor Mary Gratch (http://bit.ly/yw7KJw) regarding Project Ubuntu (CHN, Feb. 8, http://bit.ly/wd2kKa). This is a campaign in which I will travel to every state in the U.S. in support of citizen service. The name comes from an African proverb meaning "My humanity is tied to yours."
Published: Mar. 13, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
A recent guest column by Barbara Trent concerned the vacant Chrysler building occupation (CHN, Feb. 26, http://bit.ly/zJanFN).
Published: Mar. 10, 2012 7:22 PM | Full story
Lydia Lavelle wrote a column about why she was against the proposed amendment to protect traditional marriage (CHN, Feb. 29). I am writing in response to say I stand and support the North Carolina Catholic bishop's 100 percent.
Published: Mar. 7, 2012 12:01 AM | Full story
If driving while talking on the cell phone is dangerous (it is), then it is hypocritical to enact a ban that allows it during emergencies or with family members (CHN, Feb. 22).
Published: Mar. 4, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
The butterfly in Linda Mace's absolutely superb photo in the Chapel Hill News published on Feb. 19 is called the Question Mark.
Published: Feb. 29, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
I would like to commend the Chapel Hill Police Department, especially Patrol Officers Turner and Greenlee, for their professionalism.
Published: Feb. 26, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
A request to drop the mandatory marching requirement for band at Carrboro and Chapel Hill High Schools is under consideration. The concern is that the marching requirement discourages some students from taking band classes.
Published: Feb. 22, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
I would like to commend Mark Schultz for the recent article he wrote about the Chapel Hill 2020 outreach volunteers taking time to listen to the concerns of the Burmese refugees living in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area.
Published: Feb. 22, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
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Published: Feb. 19, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
After protracted and heated debates over many years regarding our solid-waste issues, Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton recently proposed that a new waste transfer station (WTS) be sited on the northwest corner of Highway 86/I-40 in Orange County (CHN, Jan.
Published: Feb. 19, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
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