The city of Raleigh has implemented new rules for its upcoming St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday. The rule change is the latest response to last November’s Christmas parade when 11-year-old Hailey Brooks was struck and killed by a pickup truck carrying a trailer. The driver of that vehicle, 20-year-old Landen Christopher Glass, was charged with misdemeanor […]

The City of Raleigh is giving out one million dollars in grants to small businesses. The application went live on Monday. Business owners are eligible for up to $10,000, according to ABC11. Businesses will learn if they are receiving funds by June 5th. The Raleigh Small Business COVID-19 Relief Funds may be used to cover the day-to-day […]

Don’t miss this premier event. Join the City of Raleigh and Wake Public School System representatives for the Small Disadvantaged Minority & Women Owned Business Expo, Thursday, January 23, 6pm-9pm at Southeast Raleigh High School, 2600 Rock Quarry Road, Raleigh, NC. The event is FREE. Give your business a voice with personal one-on-one conversations with […]

The City of Raleigh’s initial meeting to address Moore Square food distribution alternatives will be held at 7 p.m., Monday, September 16 in the Zanzibar A&B Room of Marbles Kids Museum, 201 E. Hargett Street. The sole focus of the meeting and the group’s subsequent meetings will be finding alternates to Moore Square and any […]

The City of Raleigh’s Public Art and Design Board has approved Chris Fennell, an artist from Birmingham, Ala., to create site-specific public art for the Halifax Park Community Center. Mr. Fennell was selected out of a pool of over 60 artists representing 13 different states in the mid-Atlantic and the southeast. The Public Art and […]

Source reduction can conserve resources, reduce pollution, and help cut waste disposal and handling costs. It avoids the costs of recycling, composting and landfilling. Reducing the amount of solid waste we each generate is the first step. We can all look at the things we do every day that make garbage and see which ones are […]