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Electric fuel
charge may jump
by over 300 percent |
If
the Wake Forest commissioners approve Town
Manager Mark Williams’ recommendation, the fuel
rider on town residents’ electric bills will
jump from $3.60 to $11.00 for 1,000 kilowatt
hours.
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Commissioners air concerns |
There was a short agenda for
Tuesday night’s town board work session, leaving
the commissioners time to ask questions about
traffic signals, a building that does not meet
the town’s appearance standards, signs for
downtown, dirty streets and orange barrels.
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Lone Star restaurant
approved
despite many questions |
The Wake Forest Planning Board
unanimously recommended approval of the master
plan for a Lone Star restaurant on Durham Road
and Retail Drive even though members, town board
members and a neighbor questioned a wetland and
stream buffers, the number of parking spaces and
narrowing Warmoven Street from Crenshaw Hall
Plantation subdivision to two lanes.
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Theater group will now
call DuBois Center home |
It is a
perfect fit.
Bettie Murchison, director of The DuBois Center
in Wake Forest, has been searching for a way to
include theater in the center’s school of the
arts.
Kevin Holmes, director of the Road Less Traveled
Theatre, had been searching for a permanent home
for the traveling troupe.
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Tidbits around town |
The
Town of Wake Forest has a new logo, a tree that
you will find on the web site, stationery and
town publications.
It is actually a tree in Wake Forest. You can
find it at the intersection of Front Street and
East North Avenue. If those street names confuse
you, the tree is in front of the unused seminary
dormitory across from The Corner ice cream store
where North Main Street begins after the
seminary campus
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The editor’s opinion
A drop to drink? |
There
are three things in this week’s county news.
A blue ribbon committee held its first meeting
to discuss ways to meet Wake County’s exploding
growth, but I could not find any mention of
future water sources.
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Road roundup |
(Road roundup is a standing
feature of the Gazette, designed to keep people
informed about the progress of the various
street and road projects in town. New projects
or updated projects will appear at the top of
each week’s column in blue.)
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Williams steps down as fire
chief
after six months |
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David
Williams Jr., who officially became the
full-time chief of the Wake Forest Fire
Department on July 1 of 2005, will step down
sometime this year when the board of directors
chooses a new chief.
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Planners question notices,
recusal
and form in zoning changes |
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Tuesday
night’s only public hearing before the Wake
Forest Planning and Town boards was about
state-mandated changes in the town’s zoning
ordinance, but planning board members had lots
of questions.
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Rolesville planning for
growth
fashioned to its standards |
Rolesville was Wake County’s
first incorporated town outside Raleigh, but for
years it was also one of the smallest with a
population hovering between 600 and 700 people.
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Koinonia Foundation dinner
set for Saturday, Jan. 28 |
One of Wake Forest’s quieter
charitable organizations is the Koinonia
Foundation which began in 1990 after members of
a Wake Forest Baptist Church Sunday School class
organized it as a nondenominational Christian
organization dedicated to spreading the gospel
of Christ by serving others, providing support
to individuals and to other organizations.
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The editor’s opinion
Why don’t we? |
After
talking with Rolesville Commissioner Frank
Eagles about that town’s attitude toward and
standards for development, all I can say is: Why
don’t we do the same?
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The editor’s opinion
Amens to two of Pete’s wishes |
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It has been a long time since Pete Hendricks and
I stood around a bonfire in a field out on
Jenkins Road, back when there was only one house
on the dirt road. He was on the county soil and
water conservation board, I was on the county
planning board, and we both had concerns about
sprawling land use, water pollution and soil and
environmental degradation.
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Financial column
Make resolutions you can keep
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
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Do
you remember any of the New Year's resolutions
you made for 2005? If you do not, it may not be
such a tragedy. After all, you still may have
had a good quality of life even if you did not
get to the gym three times a week, learn a new
language or take that gourmet cooking class. On
the other hand, you can make a big difference in
your future if you make and keep financial
resolutions for the coming year.
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