...or Raspberries, if you prefer. Do you know of someone who has done something deserving of either a high five or a Bronx cheer? Send your Roses and/or Raspberries to editor@nando.com and we'll share them with our readers.
Published: Aug. 26, 2009 4:01 PM | Full story
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Roses to Penny Rich, who collected 75 signatures and $750 in campaign contributions, qualifying her to participate in North Carolina's first municipal voter-owned election program. Rich is the only one among eight candidates for Chapel Hill Town Coun
Published: Aug. 12, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Roses to all the swimmers, coaches and volunteers who put together the Chapel Hill Summer Swim League championships last weekend at Koury Natatorium, with an extra bouquet to the Exchange Pool/Sunset Creek team -- not just for winning the team champio
Published: Jul. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Roses to Kidzu Children's Museum in downtown Chapel Hill, which opened in March 2006 and recently welcomed its 100,000th visitor.
Published: Jul. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Raspberries to UNC for its decision to impose steep new fees on people who use scooters to travel to and around campus.
Published: Jul. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Roses to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system, which last week opened a satellite computer lab at Carolina Apartments in Carrboro.
Published: Jul. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Emil Kang, the director of Carolina Performing Arts, who pulled off a remarkable coup by bringing the magnificent Bolshoi Ballet to Memorial Hall.
Published: Jul. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Dan Greenberg, who used to help East Chapel Hill High School win tennis championships and now will try to coach the Williams College team to do the same.
Published: Jun. 24, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Grady A. Brown Elementary School's Cougars for Character and the teachers who guide them.
Published: Jun. 17, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Derek Brown and Benjamin Senior, a pair of sixth-graders at Phillips Middle School whose scientific acumen and ingenuity recently earned them savings bonds, a trip to Washington, D.C. and a lot of admiration.
Published: Jun. 10, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to the high school students who showed up at the Orange County Commissioners budget hearing last week.
Published: Jun. 3, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Gregg Jarvies, the town of Spring Lake's new interim police chief.
Published: May. 27, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to everybody who helped put together the recent Teachers First Breakfast to honor the teachers and staff members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district.
Published: May. 20, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Laurie Paolicelli and the staff of the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, who swung into action swiftly to organize a rousing community celebration for Anoop Desai, the talented local man who reached the final six on the "American Id
Published: May. 13, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to the organizers and participants in the "Walk With Purpose" fundraiser recently, which raised nearly $5,000 for a program to help young adults who have mental illness.
Published: May. 6, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Chapel Hill Tire Car Care Center, which recently donated dozens of soccer balls to a Triangle-area nonprofit organization that will distribute them to children in war-torn Afghanistan.
Published: Apr. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Dave Thaden, who is retiring as the first and thus far only principal of East Chapel Hill High School.
Published: Apr. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Raspberries to whoever posted letters last weekend pretending to be the developers of the Greenbridge project downtown.
Published: Apr. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses, a bit late, to the organizers, volunteers and participants who made last month's Community Dinner a rousing success in spite of less than optimal conditions.
Published: Apr. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Justin Straus of Chapel Hill, whose way of dealing with a rare form of cancer, chordoma, gave those around him a life lesson on how to endure difficult times.
Published: Apr. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to the Chapel Hill Museum and the Chapel Hill Fire Department, which recently took their collaborative fire safety program to the state legislature, demonstrating the positive things that can happen when seemingly disparate organizations join f
Published: Mar. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to the East Chapel Hill High School chess team, which won the state team championship last weekend, and to junior David High, who was the state's individual high school chess champion.
Published: Mar. 15, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
Roses to the East Chapel Hill High School chess team, which won the state team championship last weekend, and to junior David High, who was the state's individual high school chess champion.
Published: Mar. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to the organizers of the movement to have a state historical marker erected in downtown Chapel Hill commemorating an important but little-known early civil rights protest.
Published: Mar. 4, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Corey Mock, a senior on the wrestling team at Chapel Hill High School.
Published: Feb. 25, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Michelle Dorrance, whose long hours in dance classes and rehearsals have led her to a job working with a broom.
Published: Feb. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to John Santa, a local bluegrass musician and author who has figured out how to turn his passion for playing music into a way to generate money for a good cause.
Published: Feb. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to John Boggess and John Soper, two surgeons at UNC Hospitals who have launched moonlighting careers as rock musicians -- not for individual glory but to raise money for gynecological cancer research and treatment.
Published: Feb. 4, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses to Roland Giduz, whose passing last Friday leaves an absence in Chapel Hill that can never be filled.
Published: Jan. 28, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Roses, again, to Cindi Rigsbee, a reading teacher at Gravelly Hill Middle School in Efland.
Published: Jan. 21, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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