Wendell News

Summer vacation ended today for thousands of Wake County students who attended the first day of classes for year-round schools.

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The Great Depression might have delayed Rosa Mae Perry's education, but she didn't let hard times stop it.

Commissioners took a series of steps last week designed to reduce the town's shortfall on debt payments to the city of Raleigh.

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In a split vote, commissioners adopted a budget last Monday night, but the debate proved anything but routine.

Agnes Baran lives down the street from the construction site for the new Cleveland High School on Polenta Road in Clayton.

Change has become a constant in our world these days. All over the eastern Wake County region the landscape is changing.

The Rowan County Sheriff's Office reported that while conducting a traffic stop at 299 U.S. 29 and East Ketchie Street in China Grove, Anthony Laronn Davis was arrested and charged with driving while impaired and possession of a controlled substance.

Police went fishing earlier this month and they caught a whopper. Working together on a drug interdiction effort June 17, police from Wendell and Zebulon stopped a car on U.S. 64/264 just east of Rolesville Road.

Allison Baker, 41, resigned from her post as principal of Carver Elementary School in Wendell.

Janice Jones of Mark's Variety Pickup in Wendell said hard times mean more people at her store are playing the odds.

Pender cooperative extension director Wayne Batten grills up some of the Pender products on sale at the Farmers Market at Poplar Grove Plantation in a monthly eat-local promotional cookout.

When Wendell Elementary School principal Winston Pierce goes out to dinner, it's not uncommon to see her scribbling frantically on a paper napkin.

Out in the Midwest and elsewhere, some hard-hit small towns are taking "Town of" out of their names.

The treasurer of the newly-formed PTSA at East Wake's School of Engineering Sciences resigned Friday after keeping more than $200 in PTSA dues for 10 months without depositing them.

The recipient of the Sam Narron Baseball Award for the 2008 - 2009 School Year is Kyle Sanders of North Johnston High School.

This rural Johnston County community is the kind of place where Chevy might film a TV commercial: Corn stalks sway in fields just beyond the water tower, kids hustle on the T-ball diamond, and the Fourth of July parade serves as the year's biggest party.

The suggestion surfaces every time people try to re-imagine high schools that would more effectively reach all of their students.

If it's an athletic contest involving East Carolina and North Carolina, there's no escaping The 'Retha Factor.