Month: July 2014

Chatham County Historical Society historic homes tour to showcase Pittsboro

The Chatham County Historical Association (CCHA) invites the public to take a trip down memory lane during its bus/walking tour on Saturday, September 13, 2014, showcasing a number of Pittsboro’s appealing and alluring historic homes and buildings. Hom…

Register for the Northwood softball clinic

The Northwood High School Lady Charger softball team will conduct their second annual softball clinic on Saturday, August 2, at Northwood’s Softball complex in Pittsboro. The clinics will be open to girls ages seven through 14 and divided into two sess…

How big a burden is registering to vote?

The left has been howling about how the new voter reform law will discriminate against minority and young voters. Being a politically active college student myself, I decided to find out how hard it is to register to vote. Dreading what I had come to believe was the horrible strain of registering, I decided to go ahead and register to vote in the county where my school is located. I went online to the State Board of Elections site and went to its voter registration page. On that page, I found the Board keeps the voter registration form readily available along with steps of how to submit it. Keep in mind, due to all the horror stories on the news I was expecting a 20-page document that made me detail every inch of my life. But that’s not what I encountered. Instead, I found a one-page document that required the most minimal information: my name, my address, my birthday, my signature, and my driver’s license number or last four digits of my Social Security number – and actually both numbers are optional.

Books: Showing us as it once was, is, or could be

Why do we read books? For entertainment, of course, first and foremost. But the best books also challenge us emotionally and intellectually to see the world in a different way, as it really is, or as it once was, as it could be, or, perhaps, as it will…

Experience the 2014 ACC Football Kickoff

The 2014 ACC Football Kickoff is set for Sunday, July 20 and Monday, July 21 at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C. The event brings together local, regional and national media with ACC student-athletes, coaches, administrators and bowl partners f…

What is the white fluffy stuff on my shrubs?

I get lots of gardening questions from visitors when I am working in my pollinator garden at Chatham Mills. Several people have asked me what is the white fluffy stuff they are seeing on the stems of shrubs. I have also seen quite a bit of this “problem” at the pollinator garden. At first I thought they were mealybugs but upon closer inspection I discovered they were nymphs of the flatid planthopper.