More than 85 North Carolina counties have active railroad lines running through them. Yet, a lack of widespread information about rail safety and the laws surrounding railroad tracks leads to accidents and even fatalities every year.
For creative and adventurous chefs, incorporating ingredients and making dishes from different cultures is always fun and exciting but it also means having to go to many stores. But at Around the World Market, there are many countries and cultures represented, all in one location.
With the news that a patient who had contracted measles internationally was in Cary, the Wake County Human Services Division of Public Health has been trying to contact people who may have been exposed to the disease.
Going around Cary, you can see there are many buildings and roads named after significant figures. Many of these Caryites are buried at the Hillcrest Cemetery and the Friends of Page-Walker Hotel have the cemetery set up so anyone can go on a self-guided tour and learn about Cary history and the people who created the town as we know it now.
For shoppers in the Morrisville area who are looking for food from Southeast Asia, a good place to stop by for a great selection and even better customer service is Al-Kareem Grocery on Chapel Hill Road.
In the soccer powerhouses of Spain, Italy and Mexico, it is not uncommon to find special schools built around the training schedules of young, elite athletes. But things are different here, where Cary is one of a handful of towns with a soccer school in the United States.
The Town of Cary is currently looking into giving the White Plains cemetery a historic landmark status. That makes this a good time to talk about the man behind that family cemetery who is also buried there, Nathaniel Jones of White Plains.
Every year a limited number of high school students earn scholarships to go and pursue higher education and one of those hard-workers is Angela Duncan from Panther Creek High School.
With the record for most Gold Medals at a single Olympics Games going to a swimmer, swimming gets a lot of attention every four years at the Summer Games. And this year, one local athlete who trained at the Cary YMCA made it to the Olympic trials to show the world what she’s got.
Classic characters such as Cinderella and the Little Mermaid are universally recognizable and most children are familiar with them before they can speak full sentences. But in a production by the Triangle’s Actors Comedy Lab, performers will take these well-known women and present them for a 2016 audience.