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Photo by Valerie Headlee Baucom Elementary School parent Maria Kennedy, left, presents longtime teacher Connie Cronk with a with a certificate commemorating an engraved brick given by the student body. The brick will be placed in the brick walk in front of Baucom’s entrance. Cronk will retire at the end of the school year.
Students run toward good health
Scores of students recently participated in the Eighth Annual Baucom Buddies Marathon held at the school campus. The event, originally organized by longtime physical education teacher Connie Cronk, is designed to help promote a healthy lifestyle. Apex police officers and firefighters handed out medals to all the participants at the finish line. There was also a special ceremony to recognize Cronk for all her accomplishments at the school....
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SAVOR Fuquay-Varina April 27
Residents of southwest Wake County are invited to attend SAVOR Fuquay-Varina on Saturday, April 27 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. in the Stephens Hardware parking lot on Broad Street in downtown Varina. This is a culinary event with over 20 local restaurants and caterers serving samples of their specialties. Beverages will include sweet tea, bottled water, beer from Aviator Brewing Company, Hosanna Brewing Company, and The Brick Bar and Grill, and wine ...
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Contributed<br> Brian Egler is photographed wearing the medal he was able to pick up two days after the race in Boston.
Local runner reflects on Boston Marathon experience
Holly Springs resident Brian Egler has completed 12 previous Boston Marathons. Last Monday’s race, his 13th, he was unable to finish. Egler was running as part of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and was a half mile from the finish line when the explosions went off near the finish line on Boylston Street. Officials stopped all the remaining runners on the course. “I had ...
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Contributed | Porter Farms<br> The morning of March 22, the small strawberry plants and their blooms on Porter Farms lay safely blanketed in layers of ice. The ice protected the blooms from deadly frost.
Growing goodness in spite of the elements
It takes approximately six weeks for strawberries to transition from flower to fruit and because the growing season for strawberries straddles winter and spring, those six weeks are delicate times for the plant. Frost is an ever present danger. There was one week during this past winter, when the plants had already begun to flower, that the perfect storm of falling temperatures, wind speeds and a low dew point created a perfect storm for fr...
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Crime Reports
Police reports: May 13-19
An arrest was made in an alleged assault reported May 13 off Gumdrop Path. An arrest was made in a May 13 incident reported off Reunion Park Dr. allegedly involving assault on a female. Larcen...
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Police reports: May 6-12
Breaking and entering and larceny from a motor vehicle were reported May 6 off Chenworth Dr. The case is under further investigation. Larceny was reported May 7 off E. Moore St. Juvenile petitio...
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Police reports for April 22-28
An arrest was made in an April 22 incident reported off Bullhead Rd. allegedly involving assault on a female. Larceny was reported April 22 off Moore St. The case is under further investigation....
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Police reports for April 1-7
Arrests An arrest was made in an April 6 incident reported off Shackleton Rd. allegedly involving simple assault. An arrest was made in an April 7 incident reported off Upchurch St. allegedl...
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Apex police reports
Arrests Christopher Trent Pridgen, 22, of Raleigh was arrested Feb. 12 on shoplifting concealment of goods and simple possession of marijuana charges. Donald Earl Medlin, 25, of Zebulon was ...
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