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Food pantry struggles to meet growing need

The Take and Eat Food Pantry of North Chatham, with dozens of combined volunteer efforts to provide food for eligible neighbors, has been challenged recently to meet client needs. Published: Oct. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Prison Ministry chaplain to preach

Caroline Craig Proctor, executive director and chaplain of the Presbyterian Prison Ministry, will preach at Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church on Sunday, Sept. 27 at 10:30 a.m. Published: Sep. 23, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Exhibition opening

During the season's final Last Fridays celebration in downtown Hillsborough, the Hillsborough Gallery of Art, 121 N. Churton St., will open a new exhibition with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Published: Sep. 23, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Music from one end of town to the other

Suppose you start at the Carrboro Town Commons today at about 6 p.m. and set out on a leisurely walk east on Weaver Street through downtown. Published: Sep. 20, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Tune Town

The streets and businesses of downtown Carrboro will come alive with music Sunday with the 12th annual Carrboro Music Festival. Published: Sep. 16, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Celebrating literature

John Grisham, Elizabeth Edwards and Pulitzer Prize winners Douglas Blackmon, Rick Bragg and Elizabeth Strout are among the authors who will be on the UNC campus this week for the North Carolina Literary Festival, which runs Thursday through Sunday. Published: Sep. 9, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Arts Notes

FESTIVALS/EVENTS Published: Sep. 9, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Education Center blossoms at Garden

Knock another jewel in our local crown. Published: Sep. 6, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

A new way of looking at nature

Robert Johnson is an information gatherer. Published: Sep. 6, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

aRTS LISTINGS

FESTIVALS/EVENTS Published: Sep. 2, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Kiln opening

Renowned potter Mark Hewitt will hold one of his popular kiln openings this weekend at his studio near Pittsboro, featuring hundreds of pots decorated with a new luminescent granite glaze made from locally mined "Chapel Hill gravel." "Everyone knows the tan colored gravel on pathways around the area, but not many people know how beautiful it is when you melt it at 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit," he said. Published: Sep. 2, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Dead Sea Scrolls talk opens Jewish Studies series

A talk by a pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls research will kick off a series of community events sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Published: Sep. 2, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Julia Anne Risk William Anthony Hood

Weddings. Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

Heidi Charron Allen Smith

Allen Smith, son of Becky Smith and the late Bruce Smith, will be married to Heidi Charron this October in Chapel Hill. Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

Anne Carlson Houston Dr. Andrew Johnston Wagoner

Miss Anne Carlson Houston of Greensboro and Dr. Andrew Johnston Wagoner of Chapel Hill were married Aug. 8, 2009, at the First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro. The Rev. Dr. Sidney Franklin Batts performed the double-ring ceremony. Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

Laura Kasson Andrew Fiss

Laura Kasson and Andrew Fiss were married July 12, 2009, at Vassar Chapel in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

Summer memories on the Hill

Ah, summer. Those precious days of vacation trips, visits with family and extra time spent with our children. Summer brings back all of the feelings of childhood that I treasure so much: long days of playing, hot summer nights catching fireflies, blo Published: Aug. 10, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story

NOTABLE

Karishma Desai, a rising sophomore at East Chapl Hill High School, performed her Bharathanatyam arangetram on July 18. Published: Aug. 5, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

Wedding

Sara Saberi Published: Aug. 2, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

CELEBRATIONS

Wedding. Published: Jul. 26, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

Dean overcame personal loss to lead UNC women

The house at 610 North Street often surprises passersby. It breaks the pattern of other houses in this historic neighborhood by facing away from the street. Instead it looks east toward Glenburnie across a wide lawn welcoming the dawn each day. Bui Published: Jul. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

celebrations

ANNIVERSARY Published: Jul. 19, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

celebrations

WEDDING Published: Jul. 12, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

Battle for garden never ends

If you read this column with any regularity, you might think that life in the garden on Trout Lily Lane is all sweetness and light, colorful flowers in every view and sweet perfect vegetables on the table each night. Published: Jul. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story

celebrations

WEDDINGS Published: Jul. 6, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story

celebrations

ENGAGED Published: Jun. 29, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story

celebrations

Melanie Fehrenbacher Published: Jun. 22, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story

celebrations

Wedding Published: Jun. 15, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story

WEDDINGS

Emma Batchelor Published: Jun. 8, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story

Turning kitchen and yard scraps into Black Gold

I had a co-worker who used to say, "When springtime comes, a man's mind turns to compost." Published: May. 11, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story

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