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Tuesday
Wake County voters assured a larger Wake Forest library by voting by an
overwhelming margin for the $45 million in library bonds.
Seventy
percent of voters said yes.
By
about the same margin, the county voters also approved $92 million to help Wake
Technical Community College expand and $50 million for the county’s open space
program designed to protect streams and the Neuse River as well as provide room
for recreation and wildlife.
The
county library system plans to expand or replace libraries in Cary,
Fuquay-Varina and Wake Forest. The local library is at the top of that list,
and the plan is to add 3,000 square feet to its current 5,000.
The
Northeast Regional Library in Wakefield that will open in 2010 is being paid
for by $35 million in bonds voters approved in 2003.
Tuesday’s
vote means that the Wake Forest library will have to move to other quarters for
about a year while the expansion is underway.
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