A modern day pop-up book, you can read together or click the storybook button and the narrator reads to you. Will they finish their deliveries on time? There are a lot of hungry neighbors, and a hungry cat.

Enter your own dialogue and creat your own personal comic.

The money was flying in last fall's historic Wake County school board elections.

As noted in today's article, campaign finance reports showed that more than $340,000 in hard and soft money was spent during the school board campaign. Conservative businessmen Bob Luddy and Art Pope were easily the biggest contributors, providing $38,000 that either went directly to candidates or to the Wake County Republican Party's campaign efforts.

Critics of the new board are saying it confirms their fears that those who are hostile to public education are behind the new board majority. Luddy said it's "laughable" to say he's directing the board while Pope said it's ridiculous for the other side to make him a "right wing boogeyman."

Today should be a long day for some Wake County school board members.

It will start off at 9 a.m. with the board's facility committee meeting. It will wrap up sometime this evening with the community engagement meeting at Holly Springs High that could end at 9 p.m. or later.

This will mark the first committee meeting of the new board.

The Nissan GTR is one of the most technologically advanced road machines available. Two drifters take on the Nissan GTR in a battle of sliding and slip angles. It is not up to the BBC's Top Gear standard, but still entertaining.

A lot can happen from now till the end of the week when it comes to the
Tri-Nine Conference boys basketball standings. First, you'll need to know the standings entering
this week. The top five spots have state playoff tie-ins UNLESS a team
ranked lower than fifth wins the conference tournament.

Here's a chart showing each team's conference record with how many games they have left and where:

Now follow along as best you can. The possibilities are seemingly endless:

• Apex has locked up No. 1 outright
• Middle Creek, Panther Creek and Cary could all wind up in second place. It's likely that one or more of the teams will tie. If that happens, the tiebreaker for a home playoff game would go to the team that goes the farthest in the conference tournament.
• Cary is perhaps the most flexible team. They could finish tied for second, win that tiebreaker and enter the tournament on the opposite side of the bracket from Apex. Or they could lose twice and watch Athens win all three to overtake them for fourth. Or they could lose twice and watch Athens win two of three and win a tiebreaker for fifth. And in this tournament, nobody wants to finish fifth if they don't have to.
• Athens needs to win to get in. Nobody behind them can amass seven conference wins. The Jags will have three chances at that this week, two coming against top-3 teams.
• Fuquay-Varina is out of contention for fifth. They were swept by Athens, which means even if the Bengals win and the Jags lose out, AD would have that tiebreaker.
• Green Hope is also out of contention for fifth, but not necessarily locked in for the play-in game. With the right breaks, they could still be the 6-seed.
• Fuquay and Lee were two of the hottest teams last month. Lee has won five of their last six while F-V went 4-4 in January.

The Consumerist featured Bundle, an interactive site that uses an eye friendly graphical interface to provide household spending data. Like between Raleigh & Charlotte?

The Triangle 18 Black team won the Black Division for ages 16-18 at
the Mid-Atlantic Power League volleyball tournament played Saturday and
Sunday at the Raleigh Convention Center.

The Pennsylvania Volleyball Academy 18s team was second in the
tournament, which consisted of 48 elite-level Junior Olympic girls
teams in each of two age divisions.

The Blue Division (ages 13-15) title went to the Carolina Juniors Volleyball 15 Blaze of Charlotte.

Triangle swimmers swept individual high-point honors and took four of the top eight places in the team competition at the N.C. Swimming Senior Short-Course Championships held Jan. 28-31 in Huntersville.

Victoria Mitchell, 17, of the Marlins of Raleigh-Wolfpack Aquatics won
the women's MVP award with 127 individual points, and Dominick Glavich,
16, of the YMCA of the Triangle Area Swim Team won the men's award with
137 points.

Mitchell, winner of the 500, 1,000, 1,650 freestyles, became the third
MOR swimmer to win the senior championships high-point award, coach
Paul Silver said.

Durham and Person County commissioners have agreed to explore an economic-development partnership for northern Durham and southern Person counties.

"I think this is a viable thing for us to look at. I'm sure you're almost out of land in the RTP," said Person commissioner Jimmy Clayton.

“I like the idea of long-range planning, 30 years out,” said Durham commissioner Joe Bowser.