On Friday night, a giant glowing inflatable statue of the Grinch rose up in Goldsboro to commemorate the annual ‘Light Up Goldsboro’ event.

Allen Cashe, accused of murdering his girlfriend and one of her sons in March 2017, reached a plea deal with the state and will now avoid the death penalty, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

Crews are scheduled the nights of December 13 & 14 to conduct single lane closures on State Road (S.R.) 46 from Hojin Street to S.R. 429 as part building the Wekiva Parkway. During the lane closures, scheduled from 7 p.m.

At Monday’s 4 p.m. City Commission workshop, the commissioners discussed adding a sign for Hollerbach’s Willow Tree Cafe on the highway and in the city limits, and pondered what to do with the site of the former ‘Little Red School House’ that burned down in 2014.

At Monday’s City Commission meeting, the final one of the year, Mayor Jeff Triplett surprised the other commissioners when he appealed the decision of the Planning & Zoning board on the Warley Park project intending to bring over 80 apartments for homeless people to 25th Street.

How Much?

The question is:  How much taxpayer's money is the City of Sanford obligated to spend on the Heritage Park site?

To refresh, this is the city owned vacant or parking blocks east of the Courthouse and west of the Civic Center.