Sep 222025
When many southwest Raleigh residents went to the polls in 2024 to cast a “yes” vote for Wake County’s $142 million public libraries bond, they expected that a successful bond referendum would ensure that their community library would remain in their community. County staff, they say, had made the community that promise in 2022 after the library, housed inside Athens Drive Magnet High School since it opened in 1978, was thrice threatened with closure and saw its operating hours starkly reduced due to safety concerns and the pandemic. “We supported the bond based on this promise and if we are betrayed, we should never forget it,” Yevonne Brannon, a neighborhood activist and former county commissioner, wrote…
2025-09-22
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