Hope, Eggstravaganza & Highland Cows

👋 Good Morning, Apex! Today is Thursday, April 2, 2026 and this is the 65th consecutive weekly issue of The Peak Weekly.

We traveled south of the border (South Carolina) to the lake for the week to celebrate our 14th anniversary and to let the kids splash in the pool for Spring Break.

It’s been nice to slow down for a bit, but I’m also excited to be heading back later today and looking forward to another great weekend in Apex!

Our Saturday will start with Common Grounds coffee and the Farmers Market (as usual) and then off to the Mayor’s Eggstravaganza before we head to WakeMed Soccer Park for the NC Courage game in the evening ⚽️ 

I also want to draw attention to World Autism Awareness Day, which is celebrated today, as well as International Children's Book Day.

There’s a really cool book called Lights Out Apex, written by an Apex author, where children can explore the Town of Apex with a dog named Dash. You can grab the book on Amazon, and I believe they carry copies of it at the Alleyway Bookstore as well.

Miscellaneous Info:

🎬️ Thursday Night Movie
Tonight at 7pm, The Halle Cultural Arts will by showing Anaconda. It’s free and starts at 7pm.

🚪 Town Offices Closed Tomorrow
Town administrative offices and facilities will be closed on Friday, April 3rd in observance of Good Friday. Trash/Recycling will run on its regular schedule.

🐖 Peak City Pig Fest
This annual two-day event, hosted by Apex Sunrise Rotary Club, is coming up soon. April 10 & 11 at Town Hall Campus. Everything you need to know.

🏞️ Haddon Hall Greenway Crosswalk
Crosswalk rehabilitation is scheduled to begin the week of April 6 at the Haddon Hall Greenway crossing on Haddon Hall Drive. This project, coordinated with the Transportation Department’s resurfacing program, will impact pedestrian and vehicular access at the crossing for approximately one week, weather dependent.

🚻 Upcoming Restroom Renovations
Kelly Road Park restroom renovations are currently scheduled to begin on April 13th and will likely last through April 24th. Apex Community Park restroom renovations are currently scheduled to begin on April 27th and will likely last through May 8th.

🏳️‍🌈 2026 PFLAG Apex Scholarship
PFLAG Apex is will be awarding one or more $500 scholarships to high school students. The purpose of these scholarships is to reward outstanding LGBTQ+ students and allies, to encourage them to continue and complete post-secondary education, and to promote a positive image of LGBTQ+ youth. You can apply here (deadline on the website says March 31, but it has been extended to May 31).

Also, at their next meeting this Saturday, April 4, PFLAG will be hosting a guest speaker at the Halle Center from 7-8:30. Here is more information about the speaker: Dr. Julia Bernards is a local Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a personal and professional passion for the LGBTQ+ community. She is the mother of four children, three of whom have come out as queer and/or transgender. Her PhD dissertation was a qualitative study on Latter-day Saints families' processes on coming to accept a transgender child. She will be sharing her research about the mental, emotional, social, and spiritual journey many parents of transgender kiddos experience—one that is often transformative.

🏠️ Property Tax Relief
Low-income seniors, veterans or those with a permanent disability may be eligible for programs to assist with property taxes. The application for the Property Tax Relief Programs closes June 1, 2026.

📚️ Help Shape the Future of Local Libraries
Wake County Public Libraries is developing a new five-year organizational roadmap to guide priorities, services and investments. Weigh in on the future of local libraries (like the Eva Perry Library here in Apex) through their online engagement tool.

Things to Do This Weekend in Apex:

Friday, April 3

🎶 Live Music: Richard Boston
7pm - 10pm | Oaklyn Springs

🎸 Live Music: Rockzilla
8pm - 11pm | The Backyard Bar

Saturday, April 4

🧑‍🌾 Apex Farmers Market
9am - 12pm | The Depot

🏃‍♀️ Run Club Apex
Meet at 9am | Foxtail Coffee

🎨 SuperFun Saturday
10:30am - 12:30am | The Halle

🧁 Mini Lu Bakery Popup
11-1pm | North Left Mercantile

🫧 Bubbles & Beats
11:30am - 1:30pm | Rudy’s Pub

👉🏽 Mayor’s Eggstravaganza
🥚 2,000 eggs + 🎶 DJ + 🎁 Prizes
1:30pm - 3pm | Norris Park (S. Hughes St)

🎸 Peak City Band
8pm - 11pm | Backyard Bar

🎤 Rudy’s Karaoke
9pm - 11:45pm | Rudy’s Pub

Monday, April 6

📖 The Book Club at Sweetwater
6pm - 8pm | Southern Peak Taproom

🎲 Game Night!
7pm - 10pm | Bottle Theory

Local Business Update:

🍲 Hope Cafe
On Tuesday, Myra Cafe permanently closed. But on Wednesday, in a seamless transition, Hope Cafe took over the location at 76 Hunter Street and is already open for business. Hope Cafe is a Thai restaurant that first opened in Durham about a year ago. That location is rated 4.9 on Google from 298 Google reviews. Their new location now here in Apex serves Thai dishes like Pad Thai, Drunken Noodles, Pad Woon Sen and more.

🎥 621 Productions
The production company located downtown is relocating on April 6. They are moving right down the street, 0.8 miles away on the same street and same side. The new address on April 6th will be 320 N Salem St Suite 205 Apex, NC 27502.

🐰 Easter Deliciousness
Utica Bakery is baking TONS to meet the holiday demand! No need to preorder. Full menu plus holiday extras available for walkup customers on Saturday from 10am - 6pm. Utica Bakery will be filling handcrafted pastries fresh to order: stuffed bread rolls, tomato pie, Easter Cassata, Pizza Rustica, Italian cookie boxes, sausage bread, Easter bread, NY Cheesecake, Tiramisu & lots more!

🌷 Adventures in Bloom
Hosting a workshop today from 6:30pm - 8:30pm, Hoppy Easter Cookie Decorating Workshop. And on April 9, they are hosting a Paint Your Pet Workshop from 6:30pm - 8pm.

🏣 Post Card Project
The Postcard Project is North Left’s year-round love letter to Apex and the people who make this town feel like home. Each season, we design and curate locally inspired postcards that anyone can pick up for free, fill out, and send to someone who needs a little encouragement. No rules. No purchase required.

🎨 Art Club
Each month, Artfully Apex picks a project, like an Emily Lex Workbook or Gelli Printing kit and the needed supplies for it at special pricing. With Art Club, you get a monthly email invite to purchase the coming month's project. If you already have an item or don't care to purchase, don't sign up for the coming month. Join the art club here.

🚜 The Peak Weekly Farm Series

Welcome to our new series all about getting to know the local farms in Apex.

From fresh produce and flowers to free-range eggs and more, there’s a lot happening right here in our community that many of us don’t even realize.

Each week, we’ll feature an Apex farm or two and showcase their offerings.

Supporting local farms is a simple way to strengthen our community, eat fresh, and feel more connected to the place we live. Visiting farm stands, picking strawberries and blueberries when in season, signing up for a CSA, or hitting up the Apex Farmers Market every Saturday morning are all great ways to support local farms and the farmers who work hard to provide freshly grown food and other products to the residents of Apex.

We hope this series helps you discover a few new favorites right around the corner.

Po Hous Farms

This article was written by The Peak Weekly’s content contributor, Susan McGrath

We’re starting the series with Po Hous Farm, a family-owned and -operated farm located at 2300 Richardson Road. Po Hous is a sprawling farm that is open from mid-April through October. They offer strawberry picking (coming soon, check out their Instagram @pohousfarm to stay up to date), a farm stand featuring a wide variety of produce all summer long, and a family-friendly pumpkin patch in the fall.

Everything they sell is grown right on their farm. They also have a small store on the property where you can buy local honey and other products. And they offer free-range eggs year-round.

During strawberry season, you can pick your own strawberries or buy a bucket of freshly picked ones. At the farm stand you’ll find over 20 varieties of produce (including cauliflower, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes, peppers, corn, and so much more). They also sell pumpkins, mums, vegetable plants and flowers, sourdough bread, free-range eggs, homemade ice cream, honey, canned/pickled goods, BBQ sauce, cider, handmade gifts, garden flags, and Po Hous Farm merchandise.

A new addition to the farm is Highland cow experiences that offers mini photo sessions and cuddling, brushing, and feeding their Highland calf. To learn more or make an appointment, check out their website at pohousfarm.com.

So be sure to come out and support Po Hous Farm when they open for the season in mid-April! You can also find them at the Apex Farmers Market every Saturday morning, April through October.

Spring & Summer Hours:
Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm
Sunday 10am-6pm

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.pohousfarm.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pohousfarm
Instagram: @pohousfarm

Civic News:

👨🏻‍💻 New Information on the July 2024 Cyberattack
The Town of Apex announced this week that approximately 22,000 residents may have had personal data compromised in the July 2024 ransomware attack - and that the stolen data has been recovered with FBI assistance. Town Manager Randy Vosburg framed the recovery as a legal victory, noting the town secured a Temporary Restraining Order from Wake County Superior Court compelling cloud provider Bublup, Inc. to return the data.

That's the press release version. The Town's own incident disclosure page and the underlying court filing paint a far more alarming picture.

According to the Town's formal Notice of Data Incident, unauthorized actors had access to Apex's systems for ten days - from June 23 through July 2, 2024. The categories of data potentially stolen go well beyond what the WRAL coverage conveyed. The Town's disclosure lists: names, Social Security numbers, driver's license and passport numbers, financial account information, credit and debit card numbers, email addresses, usernames and passwords, dates of birth, health insurance information, medical conditions and treatment information, medical record numbers, patient account numbers, and phone numbers.

The underlying case, 24CV032253-910, filed October 9, 2024 - is publicly viewable on eCourts, and shared the Town's complaint and affidavit. The scope of what was stolen is pretty staggering.

We’ve heard a lot about the Utility department, but according to the Town's own filing, the compromised data spanned every single major department: Water/Sewer/Electric Utilities, Police, Fire and Rescue, Public Works, Planning and Inspections, Human Resources, and Finance.

The filing also states that all town services - emergency and non-emergency - were "degraded as a result of the loss of Data."

That degradation has been anything but theoretical. In the 21 months since the attack, Apex residents have dealt with missing utility bills, unexplained billing spikes, lost solar credits, and a town that suspended late fees for 19 months while overdue balances ballooned to $5.9 million. The town is now reinstating late fees and disconnections as of July 1.

The Town says there is no evidence the data reached the dark web. But does “no evidence” necessarily mean it didn’t happen?

Either way, it took nearly two years to start notifying the 22,000 people whose most sensitive information - medical records, Social Security numbers, financial accounts, passwords - was in the hands of criminal actors.

In my opinion, residents deserved to know the full scope of what was taken, and how deeply it compromised their town's operations, long before now.

With that said, Mahaffey’s data breach was also swept under the rug (with the help of the same lawfirm used here) and nobody has been notified to this day on that one, so it’s not exactly surprising to me that Vosburg would take the least transparent route available to him and then play it off like a big win.

🗓️ Upcoming Town Meetings

Monday, April 13
Planning Board Meeting
4:30pm | Town Hall

Tuesday, April 14
Town Council Meeting
6pm | Town Hall

Note: The April 14 Town Council meeting will include a legislative hearing to consider the adoption of a 12-month moratorium on data centers.

A Look Ahead:

April 10 & 11
Peak City Pig Fest | Town Hall Campus

Saturday, April 11
Spring Shred Day | Public Works Dept

Wednesday, April 15
Free Wednesday Morning Movie | The Halle

Wednesday, April 15
Concert Series: Shana Tucker | Halle Cultural Arts

Friday, April 17
Downtown Apex Boutique Crawl | Downtown Apex

Thursday, April 23
Learning Lunch: National Poetry Month | Senior Center

Thursday, April 23
CommUniversity: Spring into Sustainability | Senior Center

Saturday, April 25
Disc Golf Tournament | Apex Nature Park

Saturday, April 25
EarthFest | Town Hall Campus

Sunday, April 26
Love Local Showcase | Downtown Apex

Friday, May 1
Apex United Methodist Church Annual Barbecue | Apex UMC

Saturday, May 2
Peakfest | Downtown Apex

In Case You Missed it

🍣 Gas Station Sushi
Akami Sushi was recently recognized by Southern Living as one of the region’s best sushi spot. “The words ‘high-end’ and ‘gas station sushi’ aren’t typically used in the same sentence,” the magazine wrote. “But in the South, some of the best eateries are found in gas stations. Akami Sushi in Apex, NC proves just that.”

☕️ Foxtail Sweetwater
The second location of Foxtail Coffee is now open in Sweetwater. They are open daily from 6:30am until 7pm at 1451 Richardson Road in Suite 126.

🍺 The Local
Formerly Vicious Fishes, The Local is now open. Lunch and dinner food truck every day along with coffee, smoothies, soda, dirty sodas, beer, wine, selzer and more.

👱‍♀️ Blo Bar Dry Bar
Blo Bar believes that blow outs have the power to uplift you and enhance your day. But beautiful hair is just the beginning: they also offer makeup and other luxurious services, too. Now open, located between Mr Dumpling and Doherty’s Irish Pub.

💿️ Hunky Dory
The vinyl record store, Hunky Dory, is set to open any day now. They’ll be upstairs above the antique store.

🥐 Popovers Cafe
Fresh baked popovers, signature Turkish tea and French press coffee are now being served at Popovers Cafe in downtown Apex. Located in the old Villa19 location at 219 N Salem Street, Suite 103 - pop in and see them!

♻️ Recycle Bin Upgrades
Recycling bins are being upgraded from 65-gallon to 95-gallon. You’ll receive notice when your neighborhood is on the schedule. It will happen on the same day as your trash collection.

🚧 2026 Road Rehab Project
The road resurfacing and patching project has been awarded. Construction is expected to begin this month. The full packet showing what roads are a part of this project can be seen here.

🚐 Library On the Go
Wake County’s new Bookmobile is hitting the road for a sneak peek tour. While it’s primarily for children, the 24-foot Bookmobile carrying more than 2,000 books also features a small section of adult titles, making sure parents and caregivers don’t go away empty handed. It will be at the Crowder County Park on April 20, the Eva Perry Regional Library on April 24, and the Middle Creek Community Library on May 11. All events are 10am - 12pm. Full schedule here.

📝 Zencity Community Survey
The Town of Apex has partnered with Zencity for its semiannual Spring Survey to gather feedback from residents. If you soon see social media ads sponsored by Zencity asking for feedback, they are indeed the official partner conducting the survey. More info here.

A Final Note:

Thank you for taking time out of your day today to read this week’s edition of The Peak Weekly.

As always, if you have any ideas of how to make this newsletter better, want to nominate a local business or organization to be featured, or anything else, please respond to this email or email me directly at [email protected]

See you next Thursday... 😘