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Renovations at East End Park and Long Meadow Park are being delayed due to increasing costs. Durham Parks and Recreation is seeking $15 million in federal grants to close the funding gap for construction at both parks, which were approved by voters via bond referendum in 2024. East End Park and Long Meadow Park received $42 of the $85 million earmarked in 2024 for parks; the other $43 million went to the new Merrick Moore aquatic center.

Once the calendar page flipped to October, the fall announcements for exhibitions and art openings came happily flooding into my inbox, ushering in a season that’s chock-full of compelling new work from established museums, storied art spaces, and burgeoning new venues.

This is an excerpt from Miracle Road: The Story of Research Triangle Park. It is published with permission from Duke University Press. While watching a Battlestar Galactica episode on a long plane flight in 2008, Ned Sharpless, a polymath oncologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was struck by the ingenious weapon the show’s villains had deployed to destroy space travelers from Earth.

Our public schools provide far more than just an education. They provide breakfast and lunch for kids whose families are struggling to make ends meet. They provide on-site mental health counseling, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. They provide a chance for kids to play organized sports without having to pay expensive club fees. They provide individualized education and accommodations so that all students can learn and succeed. They provide community, connection, and belonging.

How an oncologist’s sci-fi-inspired insight, layoffs at a pharma giant, and the unique culture of Research Triangle Park birthed a major cancer innovation.

How an oncologist’s sci-fi-inspired insight, layoffs at a pharma giant, and the unique culture of Research Triangle Park birthed a major cancer innovation.

As a DPS graduate and a current DPS parent, we join the Durham Public Schools Board of Education in opposing two disastrous tax-related constitutional amendments on ballots this fall. This is why.

Like Boba tea, “startup hubs,” man buns, and faith in the two-party political system, the heyday of Durham music festivals undoubtedly peaked somewhere in the mid-to-late 2010s, never to be quite the same again. But while many hallmarks of that boom time—Moogfest, Art of Cool, Beats N Bars, DURM Hip-Hop Summit—are no longer, the tradition has continued in various forms in the years since.

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Name: Maddie Segal Age: 39 Party affiliation: Democrat Campaign website: https://www.maddiesegal.com/ Occupation & employer: Director of Industry Engagement, The Plant Based Foods Association Years lived in the area: 8 1. What is your past or current involvement with Wake County Public Schools? What makes you qualified for this job? “As a WCPSS parent, the success of our public schools is personal to me.