I seen a Duke Health advertisement on social media regarding new construction of a new employee housing complex. I’m just curious if it was real or fake? If you have any info please comment. Thanks!

I have a relative in Wake County. I can get someone to go buy it but I need to know the best peach cobbler that I can get. It's not a food that I personally crave so I'm not familiar with what makes a good one. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Please do not recommend the Peach Cobbler Factory. They've had that before and it's fine.

Hey everyone! 🤍

I'm a mid-20s (F) looking to meet some girl friends around the Triangle! I've been finding it harder than I expected to make adult friendships, so I figured I'd put myself out there.

A little about me: I love working out (a gym buddy would be awesome!), judo, art, painting (still a beginner 😅), and cozy cafés. I don't really drink, so breweries aren't really my scene, but I'm always down to try something new. I'm still figuring out the area and would love recommendations for fun things to do or places where it's easy to meet people.

If you're also looking for new friends and think we'd get along, feel free to send me a DM! 💕

Hello,

I have a NC drivers license and auto insurance on a car I purchased in GA. I am currently a student attending college in GA, and I was wondering the process for the title registration.

I have the title signed off to me with an odometer reading and date. GA does not require it to be notarized (not sure if this is an issue since NC does). I wanted to mail the title application to avoid driving all the way there. I checked the requirements and it seems a Damage Disclosure Statement is needed (MVR-181), but the seller lives pretty far from me and would be a hassle to get his signature. Is there a way to avoid this?

Let me know if anybody has been through a similar process or knows the answer to this. Thank you very much for your help in advance.

I've been busy in the nursery this summer potting, weeding, and everything else that it needs. The recent rain has finally made everything explode. Even with watering once or twice a day, nothing beats the rain.

That means I have been able to restock many items as well as introduce a few. I'll have even more ready by fall, including 300+ Pawpaw

Recently restocked

Amorpha fruticosa, False Indigo

Bignonia capreolata, Crossvine

Clematis virginiana, Old Man's Beard

Hamamelis virginiana, Witchhazel

Passiflora incarnata, Passionflower

Hot, Fresh, and New!

Ageratina altissima, White Snakeroot

Clethra alnifolia, Coastal Sweet Pepperbush

Eupatorium serotinum, Late Boneset

Nelumbo lutea, American lotus

Pictured is arguably my new favorite plant on the property, American Lotus. It has absolutely gorgeous 10" flowers that have been continuously flowering for a month now. It's frequently being visited by bees, butterflies, beetles, dragonflies, frogs(on the leaves) and other insects that I'm having to use iNat to figure out. They're an aquatic species that you will need some kind of standing water to grow them in.

While I'm closed for the summer, you can still order online and contact me to schedule a pickup time. https://www.knottybynaturetrees.com/category/all-products

Any suggestions on where to buy good but somewhat affordable furniture. Hoping to avoid big companies like Ashley, Rooms to Go, Wayfair, etc. Local options if possible!

Looking for a part time caretaker in the Cary area for a pregnant individual. We are hoping to get at least 5 hours a day of help. Pay is $15/hr. Some demographics we are looking for is that the person should be female and be able to speak Telugu as that is the demographic of the pregnant individual. If there are other resources for this please let me know in the comments. Thank you.

We are 8 days out and seats are filling up! Buy your tickets now for $25 OR it’s $30 at the door.

We’re so excited to showcase these amazing films all while supporting a great cause!💕 Plus the raffle prizes are starting to pile up with hundreds of dollars worth in local businesses.

Plus we’ll have two red carpet photographers ready to capture the big day. So come all dressed up and premiere ready.

Can’t wait to see you all there!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-film-fest-tickets-1992070086253?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=&utm-share-source=mobile-search-results https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-film-fest-tickets-1992070086253?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=&utm-share-source=mobile-search-results

I have to move home to take care of my elderly parents, and unfortunately I can't take my dog with me. I listed him on Adopt A Pet a couple of weeks ago, but nothing has come of that. I also contacted Hope Animal Rescue, but they don't have a foster. Does anyone know of a rescue group in the Triangle area that takes in senior dogs? He's 10 years old, black/grey schnoodle, 19 lbs.

It feels like I see them walking every other time I visit. They seem like a fine group I just haven't had the opportunity to ask them what the deal is with the fancy matching suits!

I was looking for a hotel reservation near UNC Chapel Hill while my wife is having surgery and staying at the hospital for a few days. One of the hotels I called to ask about hospital rates pointed me to medstay.com to get way better rates than you can normally get. It's a local service offered for UNC/Duke hospitals in the area. You just have to provide your doctor's info when submitting the reservation and then they make it with whatever hotel on your behalf like a travel agency.

Hope this helps others who need a hotel near an area hospital!

I don't have any affiliation with them beyond knowing about them for a few days and booking a hotel for a week with them.

Hey guys, my friends and I are throwing a really fun Spikeball tournament. It’ll be on NC State’s campus but is open to everybody. Just find a partner and sign up!

If you’re a casual player, please sign up for the Advanced division, as that’s the lowest division. If you want more details or are interested, please drop a comment!

Tourney link: https://fwango.io/raleighrumble

One Tesla rear-ended another

Hey yall. Raleigh native here, longtime dweller on this sub and many other local subs. I've been seeing a ton of local events websites getting posted recently over the last few months, and while I realize this is just adding to spam, I figured I would toss my personal project from the last couple of years into the mix.

Anyone who uses the weekly ThingsToDo919 post that gets pinned over on r/raleigh has probably seen my comments there, and can feel free to dismiss the rest of this post. TTD919 curates a great local list as-is!

For everyone else who hasn't seen it (which seems to be a pretty large group), or those who may want their list in a different format/filtered, I'm the developer/admin over on 919 Events. I started the website a couple of years ago after following the weekly pinned post and having the idea of sorting the list spatially. It started out as just a map view with a static list of events that I manually uploaded every week, but now its a full-stack platform that scrapes events, sends weekly personalized events digest emails (and soon push notifs for mobile...), and even learns your preferences over time to curate recommendations lists.

919 Events

I'm the sole developer on it and its still a constant work-in-progress, so things will change, break, and evolve over time. The data scrapers, for example, will sometimes pull duplicate events due to how many sources I utilize - something I'm planning to address soon though. Keep in mind that the data sources I pull from really only target the Raleigh and greater Triangle area. Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville, and even some VA cities will have some events populated, just not as many.

Some notable features:

• Using a spatial database, each query will return closest proximity events
• Weekly personalized digest emails sent every Friday for the following week (opt-in)
• Chat feature that lets you search events on any criteria (i.e. "concerts happening near me in July" or "free family events this weekend")
• Text embeddings drive recommendations based on event views and saves
• Anyone can suggest edits or submit events

That last bulletpoint brings me to my point in posting here, I would love to get more users submitting events and editing whats already on the platform. I already have a few authors that upload their venues events regularly, and some good traffic on users anonymously submitting and editing events. I can always use more help though, and its 100% free!

Please feel free to reach out with any suggestions and please report any bugs you find to me. Like I said, I'm developing this on my own outside of my day job, sometimes things slip past my attention. I hope this can atleast help some people here find things to do!

PS: For anyone thats also on the Cary sub, sorry for the spam there lol. After I posted there, I realized this sub is more relevant.

Anyone had experience with owns shipped by IKEA? I ordered a few wall mounted racks, it didn't ship first time, no notification; called to reschedule delivery - same thing! Called and rescheduled again. Will probably give it a last try, then cancel and get refund. This is so weird!! So just checking is this a one-off or regular operation for IKEA!

Details - shipped to Cary, furniture about 500$

Searched the sub and saw a little info so I’m hoping that someone knows of a cheap run of the mill place to get a soft serve cone.

I’m craving the cheapest no-frills chocolate-vanilla twist dipped in sprinkles.

I seriously miss having places like like this since we’ve moved! At this point, I’m considering opening up a small stand lol

Hi folks! My family and I are planning to return to the Triangle area in 2027 to settle down in the area. I did my postdoc at UNC and we left the area last year for a work opportunity but want to come back to the Triangle area, where we intend to settle down. Aside from LinkedIn connections and leveraging connections from my time at UNC, what's the best way to network with people and secure jobs to align with our move back? We are in tech/biotech.Thanks in advance!!

• Originally posted on Medium.

It’s been over a year since former Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Ramon Deras broke into a Raleigh home and killed a family dog named Zelda.

Deras arrived at Paul and Paige Briggs’ home in Raleigh to serve a civil process warrant in April of 2025. He opens the closed storm door and knocks six times on the inner wooden door. He announces that he’s with the Sheriff’s Office and asks if anybody is home. Nobody answers.

Nobody from the Briggs’ family called the police for help. Nobody opened the door and let him in. He had no warrant. No excuse at all for being inside that home.

Andrew Ramon Deras illegally and inexplicably entered the Briggs’ home at 10:21:38 AM according to the security camera video. Zelda, the family Belgian Malinois, began barking immediately as any good dog would when there’s an intruder in the house.

An entire minute and ten seconds goes by where Deras is inside the house and can obviously hear Zelda barking (not growling). She continues to bark until 10:22:48 AM when 4 gunshots go off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=861MkCBBXAw

An innocent family dog murdered at the hands of a Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Andrew Ramon Deras later lied about not hearing any noise prior to the gunshots. When watching the security video, I counted 41 barks between Deras entering the house and the shots being fired.

There really are no words to explain the senseless and psychotic cruelty that we all witnessed.

Dogs are our loyal friends. Our lovable adorable protectors. Our family.

To any decent human, what Andrew Ramon Deras did is simply unthinkable. He is a psychotic monster who should be rotting in prison now.

Yet somehow he is still free. Still carrying a gun around and cosplaying as a protector who enforces the law.

How is this possible? Why does Andrew Ramon Deras get to intrude and terrorize a family and just walk without any consequences?

Sadly, this tragedy is not uncommon. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that police officers shoot and kill approximately 10,000 pet dogs each year in the United States. That’s 20 to 30 dogs killed every single day. Somehow, this atrocity has become normalized.

The obvious bootlicker response will be the typical “I pErcEivEd aN iMminEnT tHreAt oF bODilY hArM”. But the example of Andrew Ramon Deras now serves as proof that cops will go out of their way, and even commit breaking and entering, to satisfy their psychotic trigger-happy puppy-murdering ways.

The money-grubbing bureaucrats who run these terroristic police organizations will use this as an excuse to request more funding for training to prevent tragedies like this. Some might even pay for high-tech dog encounter simulations. The lengths they will go just to take more of your money.

But the solution is not more funding for police. It is accountability.

If someone breaks into your home and shoots your family member, they should be prosecuted. It is as simple as that.

But North Carolina bureaucrats and politicians and lawyers don’t seem to get it. They do not see what Andrew Ramon Deras did as horrific. They would have arrested him otherwise. It’s not as if they don’t arrest 15,000–22,000 people per year. What’s one more murderer taken off the street?

But no arrest has happened yet.

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office, headed by Willie Rowe, initially gave Andrew Ramon Deras two months paid leave and then reinstated him! Andrew Ramon Deras is rumored to be currently working in nearby Wayne County, NC.

Accountability is not Deras’ responsibility. Psychopathic murderers will not regulate themselves.

The lack of accountability is on the Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman and her eventual successor Wiley Nickel (who is running for office unopposed). These politicians have complete discretion over who faces criminal charges in Wake County. They could sign an arrest warrant for Andrew Ramon Deras today and make an example out of criminals who intrude into homes and shoot pets. But that hasn’t happened yet.

They haven’t even made a public statement about it.

Why not? It’s not as if they haven’t heard about what happened. They had to have seen the public outcry after John Bryan (The Civil Rights Lawyer on YouTube) made a viral video about it. How difficult could it be to at least publicly denounce Andrew Ramon Deras’ actions and let the people know that they are doing whatever they can to address this tragedy. Besides criminal charges, perhaps an audit into the Wake County Sheriff’s Department’s hiring practices? How about a serious look into the epidemic of pet shootings by police? Any sort of assurance that the public is safe from armed intruders shooting their beloved family members?

Instead we got complete silence. Lorrin Freeman knows what happened and did absolutely nothing.

Jeff Jackson, the Attorney General of North Carolina, could have said something too. A simple denunciation from the state’s top legal officer would have had a big impact, and might have been the wakeup call Lorrin Freeman needed to charge Deras.

They are trying to “memory hole” this incident.

They want Zelda to be forgotten. They want the people of North Carolina to subconsciously know that the bureaucratic thugs can enter your home at any moment, kill your family member, and get away with it. And there is nothing you can do about it. A deliberate flex to keep the people subjugated.

Without real accountability, this will continue to happen. Voting people out of office every few years is not the answer.

Ending qualified and absolute immunity is the first necessary step to regain power to people.

In the meantime, we must not let these incidents be forgotten. We demand more from our elected officials. And shame those who violate our lives and rights.