Morning Notes for Oct. 30: County, Meetings, Schools, Around town

Weather: Today: Sunny, 82°F. Tonight: Mostly clear, 48°F. Saturday: Partly sunny, 67°F. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, 48°F. (NWS forecast)

County

• Early voting for the 2026 General Election ends tomorrow (Wake 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

• Researchers Create Light-Activated Cages for ‘Protein Killer’ Molecules Researchers have created a molecular “cage” that keeps protein-degrading drug molecules inactive until they are exposed to low-energy red light. (NC State University)
• How Common Dietary Fats Can Aggravate Chronic Itch A breakdown product from a commonly consumed fat can bind to a receptor associated with psoriatic itch and inflammation. (NC State University)
• 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.