From the blog of Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht, covering the week through September 5, 2011. In compliance with North Carolina election law, CaryCitizen has edited Harold’s Blog this week to omit any campaign-related references. You can read Harold’s Blog in its complete form at http://haroldweinbrecht.com.
Cary, NC – This week was a light week as mayor due to the Labor Day holiday. Read more
Story from staff reports. Photos by Karl Fisher.
Cary, NC – The RailHawks put away Tampa Bay 2-0 on Saturday night on a pair of goals from the colorful and entertaining Pablo Campos! Read more
Story by Lindsey Chester. Photo by Chris Adamczyk.
Cary, NC- Cary Players holds their own version of the Oscars known as the Pietzsch Awards. Nominees for this year were recently announced, causing a media frenzy. Maybe you know someone on the list. Read more
Cary, NC – Photographer Tom Mousseau shared these volleyball pictures from a match last week between the Cary High Imps and the Apex Cougars. Read more
Story and photo by Hal Goodtree.
Cary, NC – I just checked my calendar. It’s 2011. We no longer need newspapers to tell us how to vote. In that spirit, CaryCitizen will begin running a series that lets candidates tell their stories in their own words. Read more
Story and photos by Hal Goodtree.
Cary, NC – U.S. Congressman David Price (D-NC, 4th) paid a visit to Carolina Preserve in western Cary on Tuesday evening. The community posed some tough questions. Price, despite his avuncular and folksy way, had some tough answers. Read more
From the blog of Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht, covering the week through August 28, 2011. Harold’s Blog is edited for CaryCitizen by Matthew Young. Photo of Hurricane Irene damage at ECU by Jenn.
This week was a busy one with a long council work session, a council meeting, and an unwelcome visit from Hurricane Irene. Read more
Cary, NC – This week, photographer Clint Slusser joins the Wide World of Cary Sports team with coverage of Panther Creek (1-1-0) triumphing over Sanderson on Friday night, 50-0. Read more
Story by Matt Young. Photos from Untold Experiences of a Navy Corpsman.
Cary, NC – Cary resident C. Gilbert Lowery joined the Navy in 1954 when he was 19. Like many people who served their country in our wars, Gil Lowery was reluctant to talk about it for many years. Today, he is just another guy in Cary, a tax accountant. He has just written his first book entitled The Untold Experiences of a Navy Corpsman. Read more
Story by Leslie Huffman, photo of Bogue Inet Pier on Emerald Isle by Zach Frailey.
Cary, NC – Mercifully, we were spared in Cary from much of damage caused by Hurricane Irene. Was the storm over-hyped by the media? You wouldn’t think so if you lived in Dare County or New Bern. Has Irene veered 50 miles west, things could have have been much worse. As it was, tens of thousands of people lost power in Wake County.
Early warning, government preparedness and little luck spared us this time around. Now it’s time to weather the after-storm. Read more