http://www.groveproject.org A concentration of local citizen journalists Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:00:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RALEIGH – Results of ongoing disease and food investigations conducted by state public health and state agriculture officials have triggered a recall of jalapeno peppers and avocados distributed in North Carolina. Two samples from a food distributor tested positive for salmonella. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/07/17/state-officials-recall-jalapenos-and-avocados-for-salmonella/ From the Southern Environmental Law Center: Chapel Hill – Environmental organizations will sue Duke Energy Carolinas today over Duke's construction of a new coal-fired power plant at the Cliffside Steam Station that was not designed to meet legal limits on its emissions of hazardous air pollutants, such as mercury, arsenic and ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/07/16/environmental-organizations-will-sue-duke-energy-carolinas-today/ Two ospreys have built a nest in a tall tree near our house. They're beautiful to hear and to see wheeling around the sky, calling to one another, tending things. Can't see young ones yet, but then the nest is pretty big, and when we were in Nags Head we ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/07/06/osprey-nest/ A woman who saw our Trader Joe's bag said she's received an email petition about letting Trader Joe's know that we do in fact want them here. Apparently -- the petition doesn't mean this is true, of course, and others who've received the email can't confirm either -- specialty grocery ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/07/06/rumor-trader-joes-is-looking-at-autumn-hall/ Forwarded. Comment here or contact cwelch@whqr.org if you're interested or know anyone who might be. Hey All -- I'm trying to help out a friend with a cat situation and thought maybe one of you could help or might know somebody who could. My friend Rosie's husband Eric, a Marine, was wounded last week ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/07/05/iraq-cats/ Inspired by WHQR's interview with the folks who are helping to realize the cross-city bike trail, by a picture of Critical Mass-ers amassing on the front page of Saturday's Star News, and by soaring gas prices and snarled weekend traffic, I rode my bike north through the UNCW campus yesterday ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/06/30/meditations-on-mayfaire/ Siena's Pizzeria is not good. It has taken the place of a beautiful open field there at the rounded, historic corner of Masonboro Loop and Masonboro Sound roads, just a few months ago now, along with some other retail and office ventures -- a dry cleaner, a mortgage broker (?). The ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/06/28/siena-restaurant/ WHQR will soon be announcing its first official concert series since... who knows when. The first Soup to Nuts: Live, a spin-off of Saturday night's regular "Soup to Nuts" with George Scheibner, will take place in the WHQR Gallery on Thursday, July 31st. The show starts at 7pm ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/06/26/soup-to-nuts-lives-first-concert/ One of the things the Star News piece this morning on the Pew Center's recently published U.S. Religious Landscape survey didn't mention was this surprising fact about how many Americans are meditating: Almost two-fifths of Americans report meditating at least once a week. This practice is particularly common among Buddhists, but ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/06/24/meditaters-r-us/ I'm taking part in a community project that seems a little dormant right now. New Hanover County's One Book, One Community, whose mission is to "promote literacy and a love for reading, celebrate diversity, and foster a community of readers by providing opportunities to explore and discuss a common text," ... http://www.groveproject.org/2008/06/24/one-book-one-communityone-reader/