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  • Will a Beloved Raleigh Library Move to Cary?
  • Traditional Southern Fare at Big Ed’s in Garner
  • Eno River Trails Re-Opening in Durham
  • ICYMI: A Guide to the Durham Primary Candidates
  • What’s the Best Local Oktoberfest Beer?
Credit: Photo by Angelica Edwards

Good morning, readers.

Southwest Raleigh residents have relied on the Athens Drive Community Library, housed inside Athens Drive Magnet High School, since it opened in 1978. But in the last decade, due to safety concerns, the pandemic, and other factors, they’ve seen the library threatened with closure and its operating hours starkly reduced. 

That’s why in 2022, residents thought they had come to an understanding with county leaders about the $142 million countywide library bond in 2024. It amounted to a promise, they felt, that they would get a new community library in their neighborhood, one of the densest and fastest-growing in Raleigh. 

But now, Wake County’s board of commissioners is deciding between a site in the neighborhood and one three miles away—in Cary—on property that the school system owns. 

“The Athens Library relocation decision comes down to trust and equity. Will Wake County honor their promise to replace the Library in southwest Raleigh or will they move it to a new town entirely?,” wrote Raleigh City Council member Jane Harrison, whose district includes the library, in an email to the INDY on Monday. 

Read below about the proposed sites and what residents have to say. Have a good Tuesday. 

—Jane

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LOCAL: The city of Raleigh will be turning off non-essential lighting at city facilities through November to protect migratory birds, ABC11 reports.

STATE: Republicans in the General Assembly are proposing a sweeping crime bill that would, among other provisions, make changes to pretrial release, re-start executions in North Carolina, and curtail appeals in murder cases, WUNC reports.

EDUCATION: In a lawsuit, UNC Chapel-Hill’s former provost is accusing the school’s Board of Trustees Board of Trustees of “systematically hiding matters of grave public concern,” The Assembly reports.

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