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  • Debating Growth in Wendell’s Elections
  • Finding Thoreau’s Flowers in Raleigh
  • Durham OKs Tenant Protection Ordinance
  • Preserving a Historic Durham Cemetery
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Credit: Photo by Chloe Courtney Bohl

Good morning, readers.

Three seats on the Wendell Board of Commissioners are up for election this November, and eight people are vying to fill them. The motley crew includes a self-published poet, a restaurant owner who’s suing the town for alleged false arrest, and the frontman of the Raleigh band American Aquarium. Several of the candidates are running for local office for the first-time. Only one is an incumbent.

But while the candidates’ backgrounds are diverse and, in some cases, unusual, they seem to be in agreement about the most important issue facing the eastern Wake County town: its growth. Wendell’s population has almost doubled in the last five years to over 17,000, making it one of the fastest-growing municipalities in the nation.

This election is all about how and where Wendell should grow, and what the boom in new housing and development means for affordability, historic preservation, local businesses, open space, and its small-town identity.

Read more about the election below, and have a good Tuesday.

—Chloe

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