The nearly 80-year-old retailer, which was founded in North Carolina, is opening a new, “landmark” store at Cary’s Fenton.

Salon Evans, her Raleigh shop, is closed for now. She said they closed Tuesday — and remained closed Wednesday — because of immigration action in the northeast Raleigh shopping center on Tuesday.

In Cary’s municipal elections this year, there was a lot of sound and fury surrounding a likely upcoming property tax increase. In the end, it signified, if not nothing, an electorate resigned to the ...