Buddhist assembly seeks bigger temple
When a small group of Vietnamese Buddhists bought property on Forestville Road in 1987, few could imagine the world they would end up creating in northeast Raleigh.
Students, parents resist moves
The Daleys of North Raleigh are among the families unhappy about school reassignments.
Education store relocates to grow
North Raleigh's Teach Me Store has more than doubled its size since opeing 17 years ago and recently moved to Spring Forest Road near Capital Boulevard.
Let's all resolve to do better
Eisley: The new year brings more or less annual opportunities for vast self-improvement, or at least self-delusional promises of sensational progress.
Readers' takes on 2008
For me, the most important local news story of 2008 was the brawl at Triangle Town Center.
Poor economy deflates newcomer's plan
Stan Norwalk campaigned last year on a handful of core issues: increasing spending for education and mass transit while curtailing urban sprawl.
Resolved to review my life
Lane:If you open my nightstand drawer and dig under the few random souvenirs I have saved, you will find sheets of paper neatly stacked, dated by the year -- scribbled with New Year's resolutions.
Homeless man an ex-school worker
Shaffer:In the woods off Raleigh's Poole Road, behind a BP gas station, half a dozen homeless men have built a tent village so elaborate that it features a set of wind chimes made from compact discs and beer cans.
A hotel Brier patch
Hoteliers are jockeying for position in Brier Creek, snapping up land and drawing up plans to build more than 800 rooms in the booming section of northwest Raleigh, The News & Observer's Jack Hagel reports.
Get off to a good start
Project Enlightenment, an early childhood education and intervention program of the Wake County Public School System, is hosting a series of workshops for parents with young children.
Rider is living the life
Saylor:Riley will jump for treats -- caramel corn and vanilla cupcakes to be precise.
Wake Forest mayor to speak on town's birth
Wake Forest Mayor Vivian Jones will be the speaker for the first 2009 meeting of the Wake Forest Historical Association.
Recycle your holiday waste
The City of Raleigh is making it easy for its residents to "go green" in the post-holiday season by collecting discarded natural Christmas trees at the curb with regular yard waste.
History in the making
The Raleigh Elks Lodge invites veterans and their families to a free lunch during a Veterans History Day celebration.
Winter nature walk
Where do animals go in the winter? A nature instructor will lead an afternoon walk Saturday afternoon at Durant Nature Park for children 3 to 5 years old and explain how animals survive the winter.
Take it off, sensibly
If losing weight is one of your New Year's resolutions, consider getting help from a group of healthy, like-minded folks.
Teens rob, assault Raleigh man
Four teenagers, at least one of whom was armed with a handgun, assaulted and robbed a 42-year-old man walking in the 4100 block of Deep Hollow Drive about 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 28, according to police reports.
Crime briefs
A man unloading his car at a residence on the 3200 block of Ridge Mill Run was accosted by three or four men who pulled up behind him and stole his laptop computer, a GPS unit and two cell phones.
Deputy sheriff charged with sexual battery
A Warren County deputy sheriff has been charged with two counts of sexual battery after incidents in which female shoppers were accosted in stores, Raleigh police said last week.
