The Commentators

This is Sharon Kebschull Barrett of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro PTA Council. What gets your attention when it comes to our schools? This year, voters face important choices, with eight people running for four seats on the school...

By Matt Bailey As local election season heats up in Chapel Hill, you’re bound to hear some candidates talk about how things used to be wonderful back in the old days, but that we’ve gotten off track in recent years.  So, what...

By Lew Margolis A student accompanied me to a recent football game at Kenan stadium to encourage conversations about concussions and football.  Holding signs asking, “how much brain damage from football is o.k.?” we invited...

By Julie McClintock We go about our lives not noticing when big changes are afoot. Most people are busy with a demanding job or just getting their kids ready for school. Now changes are too big not to notice. Near Whole Foods...

By Ryan Ellefsen, Director of Bands and Orchestras, East Chapel Hill High School I have to admit that I wasn’t as excited to start this school year as much as I had been for all the others. That feeling has been gnawing...

The legal definition of a single family home is “a residence housing one family or household or one that is designed for one family only.” Betsy and I have lived in one of these for 38 years, in a nice Chapel Hill neighborhood...

By Barbara Foushee: I celebrated the Fourth of July by participating in the community reading of Frederick Douglass’ “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”; the speech was given in Rochester, NY, on July 5, 1852 at the...