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The Herald-Sun/Christine T. Nguyen
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| Ava Sorgman, 7, of Chapel Hill sits at Weaver Street Market during the 36th annual Community Fourth of July Celebration on Saturday. Sorgman, who was dressed as Uncle Sam, won first place in the youth ages 6-to-11-years-old category in the costume contest. |
Patriots join for annual parade
CARRBORO -- As wave after wave of bicycle-riding children in star-spangled attire pedaled down a flag-fluttering Weaver Street on Saturday, it was obvious there were a lot of Yankee Doodle Dandies out for July 4. And one Liberty Chick.
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Many blood donors staying home
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CHAPEL HILL -- The negative fallout from North Carolina's unemployment rate of 11.1 percent and climbing is being felt even in the realm of blood donations. As companies shrink, so do the number of donors. |
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Students enjoy giving back through donation
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CHAPEL HILL -- As they awaited their turns for the men and women in white smocks to pierce their arm with a needle and draw blood into a pint-size drip bag, several UNC summer school students in the Great Hall of UNC's Frank Porter Graham Student Union took turns explaining the urge to give the gift of life. |
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Study suggests vast complexity of schizophrenia
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CHAPEL HILL -- A multi-national group of investigators, including a scientist at the UNC, has discovered that nearly one-third of the genetic basis of schizophrenia may be attributed to the cumulative actions of thousands of common genetic variants. The effects of each of these genetic changes, innocuous on its own, add up to a significant risk for developing both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. |
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ChathamArts summer camps continue
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PITTSBORO -- ChathamArts continues its series of summer camps and classes this month in conjunction with Briar Chapel to offer music, painting, bookmaking, and drama to children and an adult drawing class. |
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UNC BRIEFS
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'Giant Beetles' workshop set
Lasers, microscopy topic of meeting
Art and lit series continues in July
Botanical Garden tours Saturdays
Art After Dark back at museum |
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July 3
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Business helps folks turn backyards into farms
CARRBORO -- Rickie White and Chris Guidry picked handfuls of edamame in a friend's back yard in Carr-boro on Thursday, getting ready for a healthful snack of the soybeans boiled in salt water.
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Historic District panel honors builders, homeowners
HILLSBOROUGH -- The Orange County Public Market House may be newly built, but it preserves Hillsborough's historic nature.
Corley Redfoot Zack, the builder of the outbuilding that houses the Eno River Farmers Market in downtown Hillsborough, received a 2009 Preservation Award recently from the Hillsborough Historic District Commission in recognition of new construction of outbuildings in the town's Historic District. The Public Market House is located behind the Orange County Courthouse on Margaret Lane.
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Judge Coleman retires, returns to law practice
CHAPEL HILL -- Alonzo Coleman is officially former Judge Coleman.
Coleman, known by most people as Lonnie, retired as of June 30, when he turned 72, the age when judges in North Carolina are forced to retire, whether they're ready or not.
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The case that Coleman will never forget
CHAPEL HILL -- Alonzo Coleman can tell quite a few stories about his days as a District Court judge in Orange and Chatham counties, but there's one case he'll never forget.
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VERBATIM
"We have a long history of making good alcohol in North Carolina, and the state of North Carolina should be overjoyed that someone is finally going to pay taxes on it."
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