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Wake County court staff got news Tuesday that the state is offering people within five years of retirement buyout packages. Superior Court Clerk Lorrin Freeman told the Record that she worries that the court could have to start laying off people in the next six months.
Raleigh city councilors voted Tuesday to limit smoking in parks. The council voted 6-2 to approve the ban, with John Odom and Thomas Crowder voting against.
You might see the ladies – and gents – of the Beehive Collective buzzing around Raleigh. The fairly young group, made up primarily of women, gave away $25,000 in grants to two Raleigh-based charities this year. Catholic Charities and the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle were the recipients of the 2010 grant, which was voted on by the 43-member hive.
Zoning requests granted and denied, text changes, updates to action items and emerging issues form the bulk of Raleigh’s first annual report on the 2020 Comprehensive Plan.
More than 40 people showed up at the Player’s Retreat on Hillsborough Street Tuesday night for the Wake County Young Democrats’ annual State of the Union watch party.
The City of Raleigh wants to slowly “dip its toes in” when it comes to allowing food trucks downtown, starting with private property.
The Wake County Board of Education did not put a unanimous stamp this morning on its decision to let AdvancEd, Wake’s high school accrediting authority, proceed with its investigation in February. But board members did vote 6-2 to cooperate with the investigation.
There has been a massive change in the city of Raleigh in the past two years. It’s not something many residents have noticed. Since 2008, the city’s operations have undergone a huge shift — from using separate software and computer systems in each department to merging everything into an enterprise resource planning (ERP) program.
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction presented its projected budget reductions to Wake County Schools at the Board of Education’s work session Tuesday. The budget preview gives the school board an idea of what a 5 or 10 percent budget reduction could look like.
The future accreditation status of Wake County’s high schools remains unknown.
