Morning Notes for Oct. 29: County, Meetings, Schools, Around town

Weather alert

• Special Weather Statement: Special Weather Statement issued October 29 at 5:06AM EDT by NWS Raleigh NC Patchy fog has developed this morning, with the lowest visibilities occurring along Interstate 85. Visibilities may be reduced to one quarter mile or less at times. If you are driving this morning, re (National Weather Service) Weather: Today: Mostly sunny, 76°F. Tonight: Mostly clear, 50°F. Friday: Mostly sunny, 81°F. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, 51°F. (NWS forecast)

County

• Wake County EMS subscription annual enrollment period opens (Wake County)

Meetings

• Land Use Advisory Committee, Nov. 3, 2026 Agenda not yet posted (hollyspringsnc.civicclerk.com)
• Board of Adjustment, Nov. 2, 2026 2 agenda files posted (hollyspringsnc.civicclerk.com)

Schools

• Help keep our students safe this Halloween (Wake County Public School System)

Around town

• NC State’s Athletic Traditions Over the course of almost a century and a half, NC State fans have handed down pregame and game-day traditions that create excitement and enhance the experience at athletics contes (NC State University)
• Chornobyl Dog Population Shows Genetic Signatures of Directional Selection The latest research on the wild population of dogs in Chornobyl reveals that the genetic differences between these dogs and other similarly isolated dog populations is likely evide (NC State University)
• Web of Wonders: Meet the Spiders of North Carolina From the black widow to the jumping spider, arachnids have a bit of a reputation. But with more than 1,000 species of spiders in North Carolina, these eight-legged creepy-crawlies (NC State University)
• NC State Leads $1.79M NSF Project to Uncover How ‘Hydroclimatic Whiplash’ Fuels Appalachian Wildfires Researchers are working to determine whether rapid shifts between extremely wet and extremely dry weather conditions increase wildfire risk in the Blue Ridge Ecoregion of the south (NC State University) Morning Notes is a daily digest of what Holly Springs’s public bodies published, linked to the original. Have something for tomorrow’s Notes? Send a news tip.