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Contributed photo Austin Jones of Boy Scout Troop 316 recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
Jones earns rank of Eagle Scout
Boy Scout Troop 316 and Venture Crew 316 recently came together to celebrate Austin Jones’s achievement of Boy Scouts’ highest rank: Eagle. The son of Dwight and Denise Jones of Apex and a senior at Wake Christian Academy, Austin plans to attend East Carolina University and major in engineering. The Master of Ceremony was Austin’s brother Adam Jones, a Life Scout. Troop 316’s Scoutmaster, Dwight Jones, Austin’s father, welcomed fellow sco...
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Contributed photo Apex High School student Katherine Randle organized a bladder cancer awareness walk after watching her grandmother, Joy Frazier, battle the disease.
Teen organizes cancer awareness walk
As Katherine Randle watched her grandmother battle bladder cancer, the Apex High School sophomore felt helpless. The teenager wanted to do something to help but had no idea where to begin. It wasn’t until a discussion in her English class gave her the impetus she needed. Randle decided she would organize a walk. The first Walk for Bladder Cancer is planned for Saturday, May 4 at 4 p.m. at Salem Middle School. Randle would certainly li...
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Contributed photo The StreetSafe Life Saving Driving Experience will be held Saturday at Apex High School.
Striving to make streets safer
During his many years as a police officer, Doug Darrell became well acquainted with the consequences caused by inexperienced young drivers. More times than he would care to remember, Darrell had to deliver the news to parents that their teenage son or daughter had been killed in a vehicle accident. When Darrell’s two teenage sons began approaching the legal driving age, the retired detective felt compelled to try and make teens more respo...
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Photo by Shawn Daley Apex business owner Tom Colhoun opens mail dated from October.
Missing mail finally arrives
The phrase “the check is in the mail” has become a worn out joke, a sarcastic comment usually made when a person has no intention of ever paying off a certain debt. So, when Apex business owner Tom Colhoun had two lawyers involved in separate transactions tell him that long overdue checks were in the mail, he wasn’t amused. In fact, he was downright mad. As it turns out, Colhoun’s anger was misplaced. Colhoun recently received those che...
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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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