The Triangle Volleyball Club has received confirmation from Guinness World Records that the club officially holds the Guinness World Record for the “most consecutive volleyball passes.”
The record of 110 passes was set Feb. 5 at the Raleigh Convention Center in conjunction with the Feb. 6-7 Mid-Atlantic Power League tournament hosted the TVC.
The heat did not deter a field of more than 200 runners and walkers who turned out Saturday for the inaugural Run for the Heart 5K in Morrisville.
Veteran Triangle road racer Erik Olson, 32, of Durham covered the certified 5K course in 18 minutes flat, organizer Jim Young of Young & Associate timing company reported. Brian Smith, 27, of Carrboro, who set the pace for most of the race, followed in 18:04.
Janice Martin, 39, of Cary won the women's competition and finished eighth overall in 20:20. Cathy Gugerli, 39, of Cary was second in 22:26.
Don't look for the Morrisville Town Council to back the new Wake County school board majority's move toward neighborhood schools.
As noted in Sunday's Cary News, the Morrisville Town Council voted 4-3 to remove from last week's meeting agenda a resolution supporting parental choice and neighborhood schools. Democrats account for five of the seven seats on the council with one Republican and one unaffiilated member.
"I don't feel that the council should be endorsing the actions of other government bodies," said Councilman Steve Diehl, who led the charge to remove the resolution from the agenda.
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CORRECTED TO REFLECT THAT THERE ARE FIVE DEMOCRATS, ONE REPUBLICAN AND ONE UNAFFILIATED ON THE TOWN COUNCIL
Triangle golfers took three of the top 10 spots in a sectional
qualifying tournament played Friday for next month's North Carolina
Amateur Championship.
Zach Edmondson of Morrisville won the qualifier at River Landing's
River course in Wallace by shooting a 3-under-par 69 for a one-stroke
victory over Fayetteville's Jack Keefe and Hampstead's David Donovan,
who each shot a 70.
Raleigh's Cyrus Stewart shared fourth place with three other golfers at
71, and Keith Waters was in a three-man group tied for eighth place at
par 72.
An Atlanta home builder has purchased the remaining lots in Chessington, a luxury residential community in Morrisville, from developer Rusty Ammons.
Ashton Woods Homes paid $2.46 million for 30 lots in Chessington last month. The subdivision is located near the intersection of Davis Drive and McCrimmon Parkway.
Ammons, president of RLA Development, said today that Ashton Woods made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Chessington was to originally offer custom homes priced between $550,000 and $650,000. The target price dropped to $450,000 as the economy deteriorated.
Ammons said the problem now is that custom home builders are having a tough time getting construction loans.
"They're not going to buy lots if they can't get construction loans," he said.
A Winston-Salem company that manages and stores business records has moved into a new facility in Morrisville.
DataChambers Records Management has taken over 24,000-square-feet of space at Keystone Business Park. It will employ five people to start, including Adam Morgan, who moved from the Winston headquarters to be the operations manager.
DataChambers handles document imaging, shredding, file management and record storage for more than 1,000 clients.
The move into Raleigh-Durham was prompted by demand from the company's clients who have offices in the Triangle, Chris Kelley, the chief operations officer, said in a statement.
Those clients include the law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice.
Last year, DataChambers expanded into Charlotte, moving into a new 85,000-square-foot facility at Ridge Creek Business Park.
Lenovo Group, the Chinese computer maker with a headquarters in Morrisville, reported another quarterly loss, as sales lagged in Western Europe and elsewhere.
The company said the operating environment continues to be challenging in a shaky global economy, though the outlook for the PC market showed a "slight improvement."
Worldwide PC shipments increased 1.1 percent during the fiscal first quarter compared with last year. But sales for the quarter that ended June 30 fell 18 percent to $3.46 billion.
