Wake County voters approved a bond referendum to improve and add libraries Tuesday night, while Cary and Zebulon voters rejected bonds that would have raised their taxes. Voters backed the $142 million libraries bond by a margin of 56% to 44% Over the next ...

Voters in Wake County approved $142 million in new funding to the region’s libraries Tuesday, according to an unofficial tally by the North Carolina State Board of Elections that showed 56.4% of voters backing the bonds referendum.

Jonesboro voters on Tuesday chose not to restore a 1-mill increase to the Craighead County-Jonesboro Public Library Tuesday that would have replaced income lost two years ago when residents cut the library’s millage from 2 mills to 1 mill.

Wake County’s $142 million library bond could be heading to victory, with early results Tuesday night showing strong support for the referendum. With absentee and early votes counted, 26,085 voters supported the bond,