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Giving blood, giving back

Ashleigh Hocutt, a donor collection tech for Rex Healthcare, wraps Cade Gipson's arm during a blood-collection drive. Gipson, 18, is a senior at Holly Springs High School.

About 240 people signed up to give blood at Holly Springs High School last week, making it the largest two-day total since Rex Healthcare started hosting blood drives at the school.

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HOLLY SPRINGS

Holly Springs’ Main Street Extension will ease traffic

Holly Springs won a $5.2 million federal grant for an effort to ease congestion near Avent Ferry Road and the N.C. 55 bypass, considered by town staff to be Holly Springs’ worst traffic hotspot.
CARY

Jordan Lake protections would be repealed under bill

Legislation approved in the N.C. Senate committee on Tuesday would repeal the rules meant to clean up Jordan Lake. Sponsors say it hasn’t been working, but environmental advocates are critical.
BUSINESS

It’s Time For Art in Cary

Local art students dipped their brushes in vibrant colors and painted flowers, butterflies, bees and birds on the studio walls at Time For Art Kids, which opened in Cary’s Lochmere Pavilion in April.
CARY

Tensions flare as Wake leaders discuss $810 million school bond

Wake County voters could be asked to approve an $810 million school construction bond referendum in October that would raise property taxes for the average homeowner by more than $145 per year. A heated discussion arose between the school board and commissioners Thursday.
NEWS

Crime Notes: May 22

Crime notes from Apex, Fuquay-Varina and Holly Springs.
MORRISVILLE

Morrisville budget proposal calls for tax hike

Money for transportation is front and center in the coming year’s draft budget.
CARY

David Bench: The force behind Cary Crime Stoppers

David Bench, 70, is Cary’s top civilian cop. That’s what he jokes, anyway, as he sits in a home office bedecked with replica cowboy revolvers, model cars and high-end radio systems.
CARY

On a quiet Cary cul-de-sac, a surprising moment of violence

If police are correct, the case’s mystery is its simplicity: four decades of marriage, a culture-crossing romance that had survived economic troubles and the loss of a child, ended by the suffocation of Sharad Amtey in the family home.
NEWS

Cary budget proposal calls for tax, fees hike

Even a recovering housing market won’t save Cary’s free lunch. The town’s draft budget ends a 20-year decline in tax rates, boosts development fees for the first time in a decade and dips into savings for a third consecutive year.
TRAFFIC

Fuquay-Varina woman killed when Amtrak train hits her SUV

Lynette Renee Fowler, 42, was killed shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday when an Amtrak train collided with her sports utility vehicle where the railroad tracks cross Blount Street in the vicinity of Hoke Street and Hammond Road. She was the only occupant in the vehicle, according to police spokesman...