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🌱 How a 1976 school merger still shapes East Garner students’ lives.
Garner, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min readHi Garner! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How a 1976 school merger still shapes East Garner students’ lives.
- Why a Garner family’s grave ordeal may be part of a bigger problem.
- How a Garner-linked business surfaced in a new federal fraud case.
Today's riddle: What has 2 arms and a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Mostly sunny and very hot, with a high of 98 and low of 73 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: Very hot, temps: high: 99, low: 75.
- Saturday: Hot and humid; a p.m. t-storm, with a high of 94 and low of 70 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• ‘More opportunity': Former leaders reflect on merger of Wake, Raleigh schools 50 years later (wral.com) — Wake County educators and leaders reflect on how the 1976 merger of Raleigh City and Wake County schools reshaped opportunities, desegregation, and magnet programs that still affect families in Garner today. One former superintendent recalls moving from teaching in Raleigh to leading East Garner Middle School, underscoring how school assignments and busing changed neighborhood patterns and community life. 
• WRAL Investigates history of burial mistakes in NC. Attorneys believe "hundreds" could be effected (wral.com) — A new federal class action lawsuit over burial mix-ups at Everstory-owned cemeteries revives concerns first raised when a Garner man’s body had to be exhumed after Montlawn Cemetery double-sold his gravesite. Families from Wake Forest and across North Carolina now allege wrongful burials, emotional distress, and poor oversight, while regulators acknowledge complaints but have taken no formal action.
• Wake County man arrested for marriage-related immigration fraud (wral.com) — Federal agents have arrested a Wake County man on charges of lying about his marriage to obtain U.S. citizenship, a case connected to a family already scrutinized for pandemic loan fraud. Investigators previously traced shell companies to an operation called Insurance Centers in Garner, where WRAL reporters once tried to deliver questions in person but received no response.
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It looks like its frozen. Walked up to it and it didn't move at all. The end of the cul de sac on Cliffview (Nextdoor River Oaks)
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