Carrboro News

County Manager Frank Clifton offered a $185.9-million budget Tuesday that maintains the property tax rate, adds $2.4 million to school funding and includes a 3 percent raise for county employees.

Nine years after launching The Old Ceremony, for instance, Haskins sounds genuinely surprised that the same core of musicians have stuck with him, in spite of the band's original plan to be so large that they'd likely never tour or make any money.

The cities and universities behind a project that hopes to wire Winston-Salem and several Triangle-area communities with ultra-high-speed broadband are well into the process of selecting one or more vendors.

Foreign languages were again the draw for a standing-room crowd that spilled out the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board's meeting room last week.

It's important to invest as much as possible in your dreams, Middle College High School senior Eeyi Oon told her classmates on Friday afternoon.

Brian Gregory Minton, who was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Joshua Bailey, has appealed his conviction saying the case against him was weak and prosecutors bolstered it by using inadmissible character evidence.

Sixth grader Zoe Morris refused to take the standardized tests known as "Measures of Student Learning" that started Tuesday at McDougle Middle School in Chapel Hill.

Triangle towns that currently have some form of outdoor smoking ban on public grounds include Angier, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Holly Springs, Lillington, Morrisville, Raleigh, Rolesville, Selma, Smithfield, Wake Forest and Wendell.

Top athletes from across the state of North Carolina will compete in a second consecutive weekend of track and field as the North Carolina High School Athletic Association holds additional state championships in the sport.

With 2010's terrific comeback album, Magesty Shredding still ringning in some of our ears, Superchunk have just announced its follow-up. I Hate Music is their 10th full-length and will be out August 20.

May 11--DURHAM -- Gov. Pat McCrory's plan for changing the way the state spends its transportation dollars split Democrats in the western Triangle's N.C. House delegation, with some favoring it and some against it.

Residents have worked for nearly 25 years to get a southern branch library in Carrboro.

Long one of the Triangle's more popular young bands, Mandolin Orange is now taking a big step toward the national spotlight.

Harrisburg's own Rebecca Marie Miller will celebrate the release of her debut solo album, "Trojan Heart," this Saturday at the Abbey Bar at Appalachian Brewing Company.

James Blake The assumed ascendance of James Blake never quite happened. Sure, these days the British producer and crooner plays large clubs, and in early April, he released his second LP, Overgrown , on a major label.

Michael Jacobs makes interesting points which will hopefully set off much needed debate in Orange County ), where I've lived for over 30 years, but his "irrefutable message" that Orange County is becoming less diverse surprisingly fails to address the dramatic increases in Latino/Hispanic and Asian populations here over the past dozen years.

The people were a half-dozen customers of Collins and partner Pat Garavaglia, singing and dancing to thank the Balloons and Tunes owners for their kindness and service to the community.

At first glance, it looks like a simple glass Coke bottle. But a closer look reveals a hole at the bottom, a painted plate glued underneath and a chain attached to the bottle cap.

The proposed budget does not call for any property tax rate increase, marking the fifth year in a row that Carrboro has maintained the same tax rate.

"Anyone want to warm up my hand?" asked violinist and guitarist Gabriel Pelli to a small crowd on the Town Hall front lawn Sunday.