Chapel Hill High School won a coin flip Saturday to get the top seed in the Carolina-6 Conference's girls basketball tournament. That means, if they win their semifinal game on Wednesday, that the Tigers would host the finals for both boys and girls in the Carolina-6 Conference  tournament on Friday night.

One hundred twenty-eight competitors turned out for the Bushido Judo School's 11th annual Bushido Challenge and N.C. Judo State Championships on March 12 at the Central Children's Home in Oxford.

Bushido Judo School  won the team trophy and Fayetteville-Fort Bragg Judo finished second in the USA Judo- and North Carolina Judo-sanctioned competition, Sensei Andres Andreu reported.

An Israeli company called Shalag Industries Ltd., said today it will open a new plant in Granville County, investing $17 million and creating 42 jobs.

The company, which has one manufacturing plant in Israel, received a $110,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund, which provides financial assistance to attract new economic activity and jobs to the state.

The company produces nonwoven fabrics that are used in hygiene and wipes products. The company's customers several big players in the hygiene and wipes business, including Johnson & Johnson, Nicepak and Kimberly Clark.

The palnt's jobs will pay an annual average wage of $39,966, not including benefits. That's higher than the average Granville County wage of $33, 020. The addition will also be a boost for the area economy. In August, Granville County's unemployment rate was 10.4 percent.