Holly Springs News

The contradictory changes are in the budget approved Wednesday by the Senate, and in a major transportation funding law approved by the House earlier this month.

Students and staff at the newly-designated Holly Springs Elementary School STEM Academy have a lot to be thankful for this year.

A $5.2 million grant, awarded earlier this month, will pay 80 percent of the construction cost for the Main Street Extension.

The sudden shutdown of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city because of year-old data is likely to prompt questions at a local meeting with federal regulators.

Triangle towns that currently have some form of outdoor smoking ban on public grounds include Angier, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Holly Springs, Lillington, Morrisville, Raleigh, Rolesville, Selma, Smithfield, Wake Forest and Wendell.

Tata awarded a $130.1 million contract for the project to replace all pavement and make improvements to 11.5 miles of the expressway from U.S. 1/64 in Cary to U.S. 264 in East Raleigh.

The Holly Springs Volunteer Fire Department is looking for more volunteers to assist with the organization's annual Memorial Day road race.

When Joan and Soloane Brown bought a double-wide mobile home and set it up in the Brayton Park community in 1999, they planned to stay forever.

Relay for Life of South Wake, serving the towns of Holly Springs and Fuquay-Varina, will be held on May 18-19 at Holly Grove Middle School, located at 1401 Avent Ferry Road in Holly Springs, beginning at noon.

The Holly Springs Volunteer Fire Department is looking for more volunteers to assist with the organization's annual Memorial Day road race.

The Triangle's microbrewing industry has busted through a new set of state lines with a series of distribution deals.

Despite continued complaints from drivers about unexpected bills, big late fees and poor customer service, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said Thursday that the Triangle Expressway continues to see a steady increase in traffic.

A measure that limits the state's preschool program mainly to 4-year-olds from families who live at or below poverty passed a House committee Tuesday, despite a mother's plea that the tighter restriction would exclude children in need.

Now, small departments say they can't afford not to have canines, which can be trained to identify drugs and explosives, find missing or wanted people, locate evidence and protect their handlers.

On behalf of the Holly Springs Cultural Center, I want to thank everyone who was part of our sellout season this year.

Joyner, Michelle Miniutti and Jackie Hudspeth are the founders and owners of Bombshell Beer Company, a craft brewery slated to open in Holly Springs in mid-summer. It was the love of good craft beer that helped forge a strong friendship among the Holly Springs women and it that same passion that has led to their business venture.

Tham Sivaraj, one of Holly Springs' longest-serving physicians, has broken his contract with the hospital, ending his two-year affiliation and resuming his independent practice.