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Teacher Transfers: Not Going Away

Posted by | Aug 1, 2012 |

I have been writing this column for well over a year.  I’ve written on topics as mundane as grocery shopping and as critical as the state education budget.  I’ve written about highly emotional topics such as Amendment One. ...

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Photo Stories: Basil Twist, Puppeteer

Posted by | Aug 1, 2012 |

I am so excited to announce a new series of photo stories! For the next year I am going to share a behind the scenes look at Carolina Performing Arts. Nearly all of us who live in Chapelboro have had the opportunity to see...

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The 'New Way'

Posted by | Jul 31, 2012 |

While other athletic departments put Band-Aids on the ills of big-time college sports and some coaches and administrators may be sitting on secrets in the wake of the Penn State scandal, UNC finds itself with a golden...

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4-H…Growing Tomorrow’s Leaders

Posted by | Jul 31, 2012 |

When you think of 4-H, the first image that pops into your mind is probably a cow, right?  Same thing happened to me until I got to know 4-H better.  Now when I think of 4-H, the image that pops into my mind is the U.S.  Capitol...

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High Score! My Take on Video Games

Posted by | Jul 31, 2012 |

Video games. Those are the two favorite words of most kids. Your kids seemingly can sit in front of a Wii, Xbox, Nintendo DS, and so on, for the whole day. Now think back to the days when your weekends were spent with your nose...

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Rapid Response on Fire Insurance

Posted by | Jul 30, 2012 |

Orange Grove Fire Station #2 is open! It took four months to build and cost about $90,000. It’s a simple fire station that will restore fire insurance for hundreds of families in Orange Grove’s Fire District. Orange...

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ST:TNG on the Dock of the Bay

Posted by | Jul 28, 2012 |

Fourth Week: Fathom Events. I’d never heard of them before, but they’re a nationwide cinema-event coordinator. Monday night, they were in a bunch of Raleigh theaters celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Next...

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Party Animals

Posted by | Jul 27, 2012 |

The Triangle, especially Chapel Hill, is considered a really smart place — where there are more PhDs per capita than any other metropolitan statistical area [still looking for the citation, but I really have heard it from...

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Submitting

Posted by | Jul 26, 2012 |

My heart slides to the bottom of my churning stomach like a walrus traveling slowly but inevitably down a ridiculously long and terrifying water slide culminating in a pit of lava. Hitting ‘submit’ on this internet...

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