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The Raleigh City Council ended a months-long debate at a budget work session Monday and voted to increase water rates by 8.5 percent. The increase, down from the proposed 17 percent, will go into effect Friday for Raleigh and Garner. Council also voted to go to a tiered water rate system in December. Photo: Councilor Philip Isley at an earlier council meeting.
The Nazareth Orphanage once occupied 600 acres in Raleigh.
Stolen bagpipes; More trouble on Brentwood Road; IHOP assault; Armed robbery and more.
In the second installment of this two-part series, a historian describes how Raleigh residents witnessed the end of the Civil War.
Council will discuss water rates again; The water conservation council will deliver its report; And the city manager will present a public design competition idea for Moore Square.
In the first of this two-part series, historian Ernest Dollar describes how Raleigh residents witnessed the end of the Civil War firsthand.
Six bags of Cape Cod Potato Chips; Lots of stolen iPods; “1 brown Coach knock-off purse”; Indecent exposure and more.
Finding bullets in your balcony; The weekend’s DWIs; A failed attempt at stealing two cases of beer and more.
