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- Cary’s Mayor Reflects on Town Manager’s Departure
- On the Hunt for NC’s Biggest Trees
- A Ukrainian School in Raleigh Keeps Culture Alive
- ICYMI: A Growing Activist Group
- Preserving a Community Space
Good morning, readers.
When Cary mayor Harold Weinbrecht learned that his town manager of nearly 10 years had created a harmful work environment for town staff and spent over a million dollars on an unauthorized land purchase, among other overreaches, he felt blindsided.
“I remember going home and staring at the TV with it being off for hours, going, ‘What is going on? How did I get here? What happened? Why did he do that? He’s my friend. I thought he was my friend. How did I not see that?’” Weinbrecht told the INDY of learning about the actions of former Cary town manager Sean Stegall.
I sat down with the mayor at Cary’s town hall this week to talk about the events leading up to Stegall’s resignation and how the town is responding in the aftermath.
Read more from that conversation below, and have a good Tuesday.
—Chloe
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ENVIRONMENT
Tree Spotting
Two arborists, on the hunt for the state’s biggest leafy giants, take their quest deep into the woods, Jonathan Pattishall reports for The Assembly.
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EDUCATION
Safe Harbor
Founded at the start of the war in Ukraine, the Ukraine House school in Raleigh has been a source of solace and community for refugees and longtime immigrants, NC Newsline reports.
ICYMI
Gaining Ground
A Cary activist group is outgrowing its modest origins in a local retirement community to include more than 700 official members, Jasmine Gallup writes for the INDY.
LOCAL: Chapel Hill-based nonprofit Extraordinary Ventures, which provides jobs and training to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, will open a thrift store at Carrboro’s 125 W. Main Street, Chapelboro reports, preserving a longtime community space.
LOCAL: Fuquay-Varina and Holly Springs are launching on-demand microtransit services, WRAL reports.
STATE: Though uncertainty lingers, some Venezuelans in North Carolina are celebrating the arrest of the country’s autocratic president, Nicolás Maduro, WUNC reports.
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