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Foxy 107.1 and 104.3 presents the one and only Frankie Beverly and Maze live in concert at the Koka Booth Amphitheater on September 28th. Listen for the cue to call to win your free tickets. Just be the 10th caller at (800-467-3699) to win! The Philadelphia born Beverly started the group as Raw Soul in […]

Customers of the four Barnes and Noble  bookseller locations in Wake County can purchase books, using a special bookfair code—11117702—and send a percentage of the proceeds to support the book collection of Wake County Public Libraries.   On August 24 from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. customers can contribute to the library by shopping in these […]

The Green Chair Project will host a ‘Love Your Neighborhood’ furniture drive this Saturday to help families affected by the recent flooding in Chapel Hill. According to a report on WRAL, flooding affected an estimated 150 residents earlier this month; 40 of those people had to be rescued. The water levels, which had risen to higher than 4 […]

Join the Durham Business & Professional Chain for the One O’clock Lunch, 1:00p.m.-2:30p.m., Thursday July 25, 2013, Blue Coffee Café located at 202 N. Corcoran Street, Durham NC. Have a conversation with guest speaker Dr. Paula Newman about achieving the illusive balance between work and play. Dr. Newman is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Durham, […]

Come swing with North Carolina Central University’s alumni drummers and Thomas Taylor as they kick off the school year. Taylor, a jazz drummer and professor in NCCU’s Jazz Studies Program, and some of his former students will present a concert and fundraiser in the B.N. Duke Auditorium on the campus of NCCU on Sunday Aug. […]

A new graphic is making the rounds on the internet. It shows the extreme pay disparity between North Carolina teachers and other teachers across the country. The graphic focuses specifically on pay changes in the last decade. It doesn’t look good for our state. North Carolina has not increased teacher pay in five years, according […]

For more than 20 years, Moses Mathis has collected bicycles, repaired them and given them to needy kids in the Fayetteville area. Mathis, also known as the Bicycle Man lost his battle with a long illness earlier this week. Mathis’ wife says the bicycle distribution will continue this Christmas, but isn’t sure if it will […]

Each year, the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic, one of the nation’s premier celebrity golf events, strives to raise money to help find a cure for cancer and change these statistics. But they cannot do it alone; they need your help. The 20th annual Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic is scheduled for August 23 -25, […]

In August, Wake County Public Libraries will be providing community service in area libraries.  In partnership with the American Red Cross, the Bloodmobile will be stopping at three Regional Libraries. To register in advance for donating blood, search www.redcrossblood.org and log in as Wake Library.  Walk-ins will also be accepted. Also, in partnership with Wake […]

The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin has sparked a national outcry to change the stand your ground law, gun laws locally and nationally and put an end to racial profiling. After the verdict what’s next?

Robert Peterson, the award-winning head coach for the girls’ soccer team at Green Hope High School in Cary and a social studies instructor, went before a judge yesterday on child porn charges. Forty-three year old Peterson faces six counts of third-degree exploitation of a minor, according to WTVD. Cary police have said the charges are […]