Video interview with Vance Remick of Pittsboro General Store Cafe in downtown Pittsboro, NC. The Remicks were celebrating the 5th anniversary of the General Store Cafe.
The Sea Grass Band performs bluegrass dance music at the Pittsboro General Store Cafe in downtown Pittsboro, NC. Filmed by Gene Ga The Sea Grass Band performs bluegrass dance music at the Pittsboro General Store Cafe in downtown Pittsboro, NC.
NC State head football coach Tom O’Brien reads off all the players who attended every single spring practice during halftime of the 2007 NCSU Spring Football Game at Carter-Finley stadium.
Pittsboro, NC mayor Randy Voller talks about last week’s Walking Tour, he discusses the search process for a new town manager and reviews the status of the trees at the Pittsboro Kiwanis park.
We talk with former Chatham County resident Wallace Kaufman about the new book his daughter and he had written about invasive plants.
The first national guide to invasive plants has been written by two former residents of Chatham County and will be published by Stackpole Books later this month. Dr. Sylvan Kaufman, a plant ecologist, is a native of Chatham County and her father Wallace Kaufman lived and worked in Chatham for 34 years. They wrote Invasive Plants to introduce Americans to an environmental issue that has been called the second most important challenge in public natural areas. Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to manage invasive plants, but the authors note that many invasives bring economic and aesthetic benefits, and that eradicating invasive plants is nearly impossible.
In their book they provide a key to identifying over 175 of the most common invasives, including many found in North Carolina. “Identification, however, is only the first step,” says Wallace Kaufman, an award winning science writer. “Understanding the plant’s origins and travels and its role in the natural environment and economy helps explain the human factor and evaluate management options and priorities.”
Sylvan Kaufman serves as Conservation Curator for Adkins Arboretum in Ridgely, MD and holds an undergraduate degree from Vassar and a Ph.D. in ecology from Rutgers University. Wallace Kaufman created several thousand acres of rural residential communities in Orange and Chatham County with unique environmental covenants, including Saralyn north of Pittsboro and Redbud on the Haw River east of Pittsboro. He is a former Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biology Lab at Woods Hole, MA and currently lives in and manages his 200 acre forest in Linn County, Oregon. His last book was a memoir of life and history in Chatham County, Coming Out of the Woods (Perseus Books, 2000)
The Northwood High School Arts Education Department will present its annual spring musical March 28-31 at 7 p.m. in the Benjamin Lee Auditorium on the Northwood campus. The 2007 production is Disney’s Beauty & the Beast.
A Wednesday preview show will have an admission cost of $6.
The Thursday through Saturday shows will have a general admission cost of $8. Admission for senior citizens, students, & children under the age of four will be $6.
For additional information, contact Lori Carlin, Chairperson of the Northwood Arts Education Department, at 919.542.4181 or via email at lmajor@chatham.k12.nc.us
Today’s highlights include: Pittsboro town manager fired, 78-year-old motorcyclist dies in accident, Siler City woman stabbed to death, Northwood track is horrible and the 99 things we love about Chatham County.
BOE member Deb McManus explains the basics of the proposed Jack Bennett Road high school site. Includes mention of accidents on the road. Joint BOE & BOC meeting on 2/12/07.
Upcoming events including the joint Board of Education and Board of Commisioners meeting on Monday, Valentine’s Day, Fearrington Folk Art Festival. Other topics include liqour by the drink, Tom Vanderbeck’s appointment of Karl Ersnt to the planning board, Siler City’s new police chief and the dumpy appearance of Chatham Downs.
