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For Holly Springs rescue truck, ‘price is not an object’

The Holly Springs Fire Department is getting itself a custom-built fire-fighting, foam-spraying rescue truck for just shy of a half-million dollars.

80-year-old Holly Springs woman dedicated to giving blood

Lorraine O’Brien has attended nearly every quarterly blood drive at a local church for the past decade.

Holly Springs plans for pre-recession rebound

Town planners expect construction in town to hit pre-recession levels in the coming year, according to a draft budget for the municipal government.

Holly Springs mobile-home residents scramble to find new plan

When Joan and Soloane Brown bought a double-wide mobile home and set it up in the Brayton Park community in 1999, they planned to stay forever.

This weekend, it’s turtle time in Holly Springs

The ninth annual Turtle Fest is taking over Bass Lake Park from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and the event will have no shortage of its namesake.

Holly Springs: pro BMX capital?

If international star Daniel Dhers has his way, Holly Springs will become the East Coast’s hub for BMX professionals.

Holly Springs doctor breaks from WakeMed

Tham Sivaraj, one of Holly Springs’ longest-serving physicians, is ending his two-year affiliation with the hospital and resuming his independence practice.

In grief, Holly Springs looks to orphaned children’s future

A Holly Springs businesswoman is raising money for the three children who survived their parents’ murder-suicide.

Novartis set to begin Holly Springs expansion

The proposed $60 million project would be the second major construction since the Novartis plant opened in Holly Springs in 2009.

Superstreet construction not finished yet

The inconvenient debut of Holly Springs’ new road system will drag on a bit longer.

Apartments bring growing pains for suburban Holly Springs

Hundreds of apartments and multi-family units are on deck, following on the heels of new single-family neighborhoods and shopping areas - and the town’s increasing density is bringing growin...

Holly Springs seeks open purses for multi-million dollar baseball project

A hired firm’s report has laid the path forward for a multi-million-dollar municipal athletics park that could include a baseball stadium.

Cary: Land values, aesthetics at stake in local-state fight

Local leaders have been railing this week against House Bill 150, a statehouse proposal to strip municipalities’ power to set aesthetic standards for residential areas. What often goes unsaid,...

Local leaders talk about getting healthier

Healthy lifestyles have plenty of obstacles: Many produce farmers are retiring, farmland is turning into subdivisions and shopping centers, and town regulations don’t always make it easy to st...

Holly Springs football teams could stay home

A plan to reformat the municipal football program has raised parents’ and coaches’ hackles.

Target hits Holly Springs

With a cheer and a surge, the first crowd of eager shoppers pushed through the doors into the pure white light and expansive aisles of Holly Springs’ new symbol of suburban-chic convenience.

In Holly Springs, a new breed of school police

Proportionally, Holly Springs puts more money and manpower into its school-policing program than any of its neighbors.

In Holly Springs, art stands where tornado took grandfather tree

Two years on, the last scars of the tornado are fading.

Holly Springs plans high-speed Internet

This town may be the next to reach for its own high-speed fiber-optic network.

Stand-up comedian who performed in Holly Springs dies in wreck

Brian E. Kiley performed at shows over the weekend at the Holly Springs Cultural Center in Holly Springs, and at the Newton-Conover Auditorium in Newton.