Good morning! If we can get by the rain, the Memorial Day weekend is going to be gorgeous. Sunny Friday, sunny Saturday and sunny Sunday. That's good for Bud Maxwell's Sunday Memorial Day service, starting at 2 p.m., at Laurel Lawn Cemetery, on Old Deerfield Pike and Cornwell Drive.
5 x 5 Books is a recommendation of five books that appears regularly in this space. Today's installment comes from journalist David Samuels, who has two new books out from New Press: Only Love Can Break Your Heart , which collects a decade's worth of reportage and essays for Harper's and The New Yorker , and The Runner , an expansion of Samuels's well-known New Yorker article on James Hogue,
THE DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION recently elected David McReynolds, founder and president of Columbia Health Plan, as chairman of the board of directors. McReynolds succeeds Stephen Clark as chairman.
President George Maxwell Richards has made a call for a change in the syllabus of universities, so as to provide the intellectual and creative energy that is required to enhance the economic performance of developing countries.
County Auditor Teresa Sutherland also identified $61.8 million in potential cuts the County Council could make this year as it works to find more money for area schools and tax breaks.
The quality and security of open source software is improving rapidly, according to an in-depth analysis of over 250 popular applications including Linux and Apache.
For more than 50 years, the Cape Fear Garden Club has used the money from its annual Azalea Garden Tour to fund local beautification projects. This year, the club expects to distribute at least $70,000 in horticultural and beautification grants.
View comments
Hide comments
