“Every child should go to camp,” says Dana Hughes, recreation supervisor at the Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department. Hughes is one of three supervisors in charge of the department’s summer camp program, and she says sign-ups are in full swing for this summer’s camps. “Sign-ups opened in January,” Hughes explains. “But we’ve started seeing more and more people sign up… Read more →
By Faima Ramirez Carrboro Commons Staff Writer It’s less than 40 degrees outside and a sort of static electricity is in the air in downtown Carrboro. In almost every bar, restaurant and living room, people are sitting at the edge of their seats, eyes fixated on the television screen, one hand holding a drink and the other hand getting another… Read more →
By Dorothy Irwin Carrboro Commons Staff Writer The PTA Thrift Shop is much more than the average thrift store, and it is currently expanding its Carrboro location. Often a favorite source of secondhand treasures, the PTA Thrift Shop has also been a staple of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community since it opened in 1952. The store uses its resources to provide… Read more →
By Hannah Weinberger Carrboro Commons Staff Writer EVERYDAY MIRACLES This past June, three firemen received a call from Crescent Green Assisted Living in Carrboro. Capt. Carl Freeman, Driver Josh Asbill and Firefighter Hendrix Valenzuela arrived on the scene to find an older woman unconscious on the floor of the cafeteria of the building located at 624 Jones Ferry Road. “She’d… Read more →
By Cheney Gardner Carrboro Commons Co-Editor Moses Beltran, an immigrant from Mexico City, shares an apartment in Collins Crossing with four roommates. He said he works hard to find construction jobs to make rent every month, but new increases in rent prices could make it impossible for him to continue to live there. “My rent [has] only gone up by… Read more →
By Jacqueline Kantor Carrboro Commons Co-Editor A few miles drive along Jones Ferry Road from downtown Carrboro sits the 269-acre donation to the Triangle Land Conservancy, the Elinor Irvin Nature Preserve. Down the gravel driveway to the left is a fenced-in plot of produce, backed by a large, open-air pavilion. Boxes of vegetables for this week’s shipment of CSAs (community-supported… Read more →
By Jeremy Gerlach Carrboro Commons Staff Writer If you closed your eyes in the Carrboro ArtsCenter auditorium on Saturday night, you might have forgotten you were listening to high school sophomores and juniors. Keeping your eyes shut, you’d probably wonder how ArtsCenter concert director Tess Ocana had snuck bands so similar in style to the Beatles, Mumford and Sons or the Black… Read more →
By Lucie Shelly Carrboro Commons Staff Writer Increasingly in Carrboro, you will find a culture of artisan foods and gourmet gurus. Some of it is imported, and some of it comes from the old mill town itself. But among the French wines, Columbian coffees and produce from the Piedmont, there is something inauspiciously missing: a true Carrboro brew. Arguably, one… Read more →
By Jeremy Gerlach Carrboro Commons Staff Writer A week after construction began on Carrboro’s 300 East Main Street project, nearby businesses are preparing for its effect on their futures. Some may eventually be incorporated into upcoming phases of the project itself, but the current phase, which includes a Hampton Inn and a five-story parking deck, will not displace any of… Read more →
By Lucie Shelly Carrboro Commons Staff Writer I am masterful when it comes to leveraging my bike on to the pull-down rack of the bus, but I am full of self-pity as I teeter away from the grocery store, bags about to break, and wait for the bus to get me up the East Franklin Street hill so that I… Read more →
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