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The
Wake Forest Police Department opened a
new substation last week. The entire
detective division, seven detectives
headed by Lt. Trent Coleman, now has
offices in the Main Street Station
office park in the space formerly
occupied by the State Employees Credit
Union.
There is no longer a
substation in Fire Station #2 on Ligon
Mill Road. Police Chief Greg Harrington
said the fire department, which
continues to add personnel just as the
police department does, needed the
space.
There is a substation at the
DuBois Center, an office for the
department’s lieutenants in one wing of
the renovated ag/shop building which
also houses a meeting room and offices
for the center as well as a computer
lab.
Harrington said the
longstanding substation in Massey
Apartments is now used mainly by the
part-time parking enforcement officer,
Charles Mosier, who was hired earlier
this year.
Harrington said adding the
substation for detectives has opened up
some space in the main station on East
Owen Avenue.
The police department has 40
personnel and is authorized for 44,
Harrington said. The vacant positions
are for three police officers and a
telecommunicator.
Two of the 40 officers were
recently hired as a dedicated traffic
unit with money from a state grant. The
$150,000 grant from the Governor’s
Highway Safety Program will pay for the
two officers and their equipment for
three years.
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There have been some
garbage, recycling and bulk waste woes
throughout town for about a month.
“Republic had a problem over a two-week
period that resulted in too many calls
to report,” Public Works Director Mike
Barton reported in Town Manager Mark
Williams’ monthly report to the town
board dated March 10.
Republic claims the
situation has been cleared up, and
Tuesday night Barton said the situation
was improving although it did exist for
about a month.
Barton said Republic blamed
the snafus on new drivers and truck
breakdowns. He said the drivers skipped
whole developments or would pick up the
garbage or recycling from one side of
the street and not the other.
Republic has three trucks
working in Wake Forest five days a week.
One mostly does recycling while the
other two handle garbage, but they can
switch to recycling if the one truck is
backed up. Garbage and bulk waste go to
the North Wake Landfill on Durant Road;
recycling materials go to Paper Stock in
Raleigh, which charges $20 a ton to take
the paper, glass, plastic and cardboard.
Wake Forest residents recycle over 100
tons each month. |
