Mayor Keith Weatherly and Town Council members Bill Jensen and Bryan Gossage face no opposition in November, and all three call themselves slow-growth candidates.

Don Frantz was declared the winner Tuesday from last week's hotly contested vote for the Cary Town Council, District B. The Wake County Board of Elections voted Tuesday to certify the final results from the Oct. 9 election.

Wake school board candidate Martha LaVance has announced she will concede the District 3 race to Kevin Hill.

53-vote lead can't be changed by 52 votes yet to be counted.

Don Frantz leads Vickie Maxwell by 28 votes; provisional ballots to decide race.

Incumbent Jessie Taliaferro's decision Thursday to concede to challenger Rodger Koopman solidifies the City Council's shift to a majority dominated by members who favor tighter growth controls.

The political landscape in Wake County's two biggest cities changed dramatically Tuesday when voters elected predominantly slow-growth candidates, including incoming Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht.

Critics of the Wake County school board failed to make any gains Tuesday as supporters of the district's current policies won one contested race and took both slots in a runoff in another.

Slower growth - or better-managed growth, anyway - is in again in Cary, where voters ousted their mayor Tuesday and gave his replacement several supportive colleagues.

Voters in Wake County's two largest cities sent a strong message Tuesday by electing a slate of candidates who campaigned on either slowing growth or requiring more of developers.

Wake and Raleigh voters approved more than $275 million in new bonds by better than a 2-to-1 margin Tuesday, giving local leaders the money and the mandate needed to continue a public sector building boom.

2 endorsed candidates address poverty.