Garner News

2 7:40 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/43913/ GARNER, N.C. - WalMart announced today that the company has withdrawn plans to build a WalMart Supercenter in Southeast Raleigh at the Sunnybrook site.

The new sheriffs are in town. Tuesday's overwhelming victory by John Tedesco in a Wake County school board runoff means busing for diversity and other established policies will be squarely in the crosshairs of a new majority taking the reins of the 140,000-student Wake system Dec.

The NAACP says it will sue the Wake County School Board if it ends its controversial busing policy.

4 11:06 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/44035/ GARNER, N.C. - Sheila Spence works in a nursing home 40 to 50 hours a week.

Garner's Mayor Ronnie Willams, left, shakes the hand of the winner. slideshow John Tedesco won the School Board District 2 seat by a landslide with 6,658 votes, 75.96 percent of the 8,765 votes cast, according to the Wake County Board of Elections unofficial results.

Jeff Majewski, president and owner of TCG Graphics , has announced that the company was a bronze sponsor for the WakeMed Foundation Society of 1961 Gala, held on Oct.

While incumbents in Apex and Garner were able to keep their positions, Holly Springs and Fuquay-Varina will see new faces on the town council after two incumbents were defeated.

A 54-year-old Garner woman who went missing Monday morning said she was kidnapped and managed to flag down a passing ambulance driver who called 911 for help.

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Garner police are looking for 54-year-old Shelia Towell Shaner. Authorities say she was last seen Monday morning around 7:40 a.m. leaving for work from her Aberly Place apartment off Timber Drive.

We had a mix up in this week's editions of The Herald of Johnston County and The Garner-Clayton Record.

A retroactive change in North Carolina law allows thousands of students who came close to getting a high school diploma to finally collect their sheepskins.

Greensboro's Battleground Restaurant Group will debut its latest chain in the Triangle soon.

Wake County school board candidate John Tedesco received two endorsements Thursday -- just in time for next week's critical runoff.

29 12:18 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/43776/ GARNER, N.C. - The Grand Opening of White Deer Park will take place with a ceremony Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Garner residents and guests can visit the new park, 2400 Aversboro Road, adjacent to Garner's Lake Benson Park.

" October 22, 2009 - " It's finally here! After months of planning & practice Rozlyn Sorrell of Vocal Precision Studio of Garner and her students will perform a Showcase of an eclectic arrangement of music this Saturday night at 8pm at the Garner Historic Auditorium.

At the end of a long day that began with his opponent, Cathy Truitt, withdrawing from and conceding in the District 2 Wake school board election runoff, a tired John Tedesco wasn't quite ready to call himself the winner - and officially, he isn't just yet.

24 11:39 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/43590/ GARNER, N.C. - More than 600 students in Garner went the extra mile today for their school.

22 4:00 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/43527/ GARNER, N.C. - A Garner woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly having someone set her home on fire and then filing an insurance claim.

Garner Police have charged Muhammad Aleem, age 20 of no known address, with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle as a result of this morning's shooting.