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Welcome to the weekend, readers.

Summer break is officially over for the Durham City Council.

On Monday, the seven members of council will return to City Hall equipped with a fully-funded budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Many of the same challenges, such as housing, remain top-of-mind for city leadership, but the city council also faces unique, more pressing issues as they move into the second half of the calendar year.

  • The city council will need to hire a successor to City Manager Wanda Page, who announced on July 1 that she is retiring at the end of the year.
  • Two infrastructure bonds totaling $200 million are on the ballot this fall in Durham to improve streets, sidewalks and parks.

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Durham

Durham nonprofit Book Harvest announced a literacy partnership with NC State University.

Wake

Three months out from Election Day, campaign finance reports show how the Raleigh City Council election is taking shape.  

Kane Realty is investing hundreds of millions into what’s being marketed as Raleigh’s “West End.”

Orange

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools hosted successful summer literacy programs for students.

North Carolina

School choice advocates are pushing NC lawmakers to boost voucher funding in the state budget.

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Sunny with a high of 97 degrees, a chance of storms.

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