Holly Springs News

Western Wake Crisis Ministry's month-long "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" campaign is well underway.

About 400 students, parents, grandparents, instructors and members of the armed forces celebrated Memorial Day with songs, poems and a flag-folding demonstration at Holly Grove Elementary School on May 25.

Wake County and its municipal partners will hold several rabies and microchip clinics from through Saturday, June 30.

Cindy Sequeira, a freshman at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, is fed up with the annual tuition increases.

If you worry that state road planners have run out of new ideas for building the Triangle Expressway across southern Wake County from Holly Springs to Garner, you might be encouraged to learn that, at least, they have come up with new colors.

The owners of the Shotwell Landfill, who were to request on Monday a quadrupling of the waste the facility receives annually, instead asked to put off consideration of the matter by the Wake County Board of Commissioners.

A Zebulon couple already awaiting trial on charges of ethnic intimidation now face additional charges of using video cameras to intimidate their alleged victim.

Charles Mitchell Lassiter, 24, of Old Stage Rd., has been charged with careless and reckless driving, speeding in excess of 55 mph, and driving while his license was revoked.

He may have named some towns off the top of his head when he suggested Fuquay-Varina, Apex and Holly Springs.

Murder defendant Jason Williford, 32, left, spoke quietly with his attorneys in Wake Superior court Friday, May 18, 2012 as the day's testimony began.

A man who robbed the KFC/Taco Bell restaurant off N.C. Highway 55 bypass in Holly Springs Wednesday night is still on the loose, according to Holly Springs police.

By Gregory Childress gchildress@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6645 CHAPEL HILL - The town and its two transit partners will have to kick in more money next fiscal year to cover the cost of operating the town's fare-free bus system.

Rex Healthcare’s and WakeMed Health & Hospitals’ latest debate heated up last September, when Rex won state permission to build a 50-bed hospital in Holly Springs.

The 12 Oaks residential community in Holly Springs, which was taken over by a court-appointed receiver in 2009, has been bought by a Chicago private equity real estate investment firm.

Relay For Life of South Wake will be held on May 19-20 at Holly Grove Middle School, 1401 Avent Ferry Road, Holly Springs beginning at 12 noon.

District 3 Cobb County Commissioner JoAnn Birrell will offer updates and answer questions during her quarterly town-hall meeting Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Mountain View Regional Library .

The N.C. High School Athletic Association baseball brackets have been posted. Green Hope, East Chapel Hill, West Johnston and Wakefield earned No.

Deadlines Thursday by 5 p.m. is the deadline for submission of items to be submitted for the following week's paper, and they can be faxed to 919-552-7564. E-mailed submissions go to ncatrine@raleighsouthonline. com.

Eric Charles Lundberg, born June 19, 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut and was currently residing in Fuquay-Varina with his beloved wife Judy Giles Lundberg, when he passed into heaven's kingdom May 1, 2012, at age 47.

Shamitta Rekea Aydlett, 21, of Fuquay-Varina was arrested April 15 on failure to appear and resisting a public officer charges.