Downtown Carrboro is known for its food. An array of local, unique restaurants, food trucks and dives has given a modern, updated feel to the former milltown. Ken Yowell, owner of calavela empanada and tequila bar, located in the same building as the Hampton Inn at 570 E. Main Street, wanted a piece of that modernized pie, and he got… Read more →
Editor’s note: Carrboro Commons asks Latino daily laborers what their opinion is regarding future workers’ center in El Centro Hispano’s new permanent location in Carrboro. Cualquiera que haya pasado por allí se habrá dado cuenta. En el cruce de Davie Road con Jones FerryRoad, decenas de trabajadores latinos aguardan a que un patroón solicite sus servicios. Esta escena tiene… Read more →
Editor’s Note: Carrboro’s Hispanic Center wants to create a workers’ center, so that Latino laborers have more dignified work conditions. A diario, especialmente de lunes a viernes, decenas de hombres se agolpan en la esquina de Jones Ferry con Davie en Carrboro, junto a la gasolinera. Esperan. Esperan a que un coche se detenga y a que su conductor les… Read more →
Es viernes y el reloj marca las cinco de la tarde. En Carrboro, en la 103.5 FM, suena “Vivir mi vida” de Marc Anthony. Desde el local de WCOM LP FM, en el 300 de East Main Street, cinco alumnas de The University of North Carolina (UNC) se dirigen a los oyentes de Carrboro a través de las ondas de… Read more →
“Lo único necesario es que cada uno traiga sus zapatillas de tennis”. Eso es todo lo que se les exigió a los niños y niñas, padres y madres, que participaron en el Hispanic Tennis Carnival del pasado domingo 15 de septiembre en Carrboro, organizado por el Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department en colaboración con la Durham Orange Community Tennis Association… Read more →
By Melissa Abbey Carrboro Commons Staff Writer Every Friday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., instead of heading to a popular local hangout, a group of Latino high school students crowds into the tiny WCOM FM radio studio next to Cat’s Cradle. Inside, they arrange themselves around the broadcasting equipment – a computer, soundboard and five or six microphones –… Read more →
By Jeremy Gerlach Carrboro Commons Staff Writer According to the 2010 Census, there are no Hispanic-owned restaurants in Carrboro. There are chain Latin-themed establishments, yes, but none are owned by the Latino community that comprises more than 13 percent of Carrboro’s population. Yet on any given morning, you can walk past tienda after tienda – and by night, taco truck… Read more →
By Trevor Kapp Carrboro Commons Staff Writer Editor’s Note: In an earlier version of this story, Special Education Teacher Holly Duncan and Reading Teacher Maria Arbiol (pictured below) were not correctly identified in the captions. The Commons apologizes and regrets the error. Lupita Cortes speaks fluent Spanish with a nearly perfect accent, which is particularly audible when she pronounces words… Read more →
By Corey Inscoe Carrboro Commons Co-Editor In just a few days, Senior Lecturer William Maisch’s Spanish 255 class at UNC-Chapel Hill will sit down with Hispanic elementary school students in Chapel Hill and Carrboro to read Spanish-language books. Dr. William Maisch, senior lecturer of Spanish, speaks to his Spanish 255 students about their APPLES Service-Learning program, which will place his… Read more →
Por Alexandra Mansbach Carrboro Commons Reportera Traducido por Leah Szarek Algunos de los estudiantes en Carrboro High School están tomando el aprendizaje al próximo nivel — el nivel internacional. La Academia de Estudios Internacionales, o AIS según la sigla en inglés, en Carrboro High School prepara a los estudiantes para vivir y trabajar en un mundo diverso. Los estudiantes aceptados… Read more →
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