Free hotdogs, a DJ, kids’ activities and the Good Neighbor of the Year award at the amphitheater. Twenty years in, nearly 7,000 people have been through it.

An outpatient imaging center opened on Durham Road offering MRI, CT, ultrasound and mammography, and pitching itself on price. Here is how to read the pricing claim before you book.

Eleven food trucks, inflatables, a DJ and a trick-or-treat route through downtown shops, free for children 12 and under. Sensory bags are available, and two different dates are circulating.

A family pupuseria at 927 Durham Rd, and why a dedicated Salvadoran kitchen is a better signal for a town’s food scene than another mixed menu.

Four state filings, $919 million, and 233 beds, including two new hospitals in our towns. Plus the Atrium merger that stalled and what it means for northern Wake.

Volaris becomes the airport’s 19th airline and takes RDU to a record 91 nonstop destinations. Three flights a week from 16 October, and what a low-cost carrier does to fares.

Co-owners Mina Luka and Wael Feloboss opened on 25 August, nearly three months behind the target date. A 6 a.m. open in a commuter town is the part worth watching.

The Planted Bean sells common and rare houseplants out of a disco-ball-and-macrame room in downtown Wake Forest. Owner Sarah Calvelli built the audience before she built the store.

A retro game and collectibles shop on Wait Avenue, stocked from weekend garage sales rather than a distributor, running tournaments and D&D nights in what its owner calls a geeky, nerdy YMCA.

The New York chopped-salad chain is open at 11108 Ligon Mill Rd. What a national brand’s site model saw in that corridor is the more interesting story.