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Saturday
afternoon and evening were noisy as
thunderstorms rolled through, but they
were quiet for the crews in the town’s
electric department. Public Works
Director Mike Barton said there was only
one instance of a problem in the
afternoon when a tree limb fell on a
line along Wake Union Church Road.
“Saturday night the whole
town blinked,” Barton said, when the
Progress Energy transmission line to the
town’s substation had a problem. Then on
Sunday morning two trees fell on a line
along One World Way off Burlington Mills
Road. The line leads to The Body Shop
and South Forest Business Park. “Our
tree-trimming’s working.”
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By the time you read this,
the former Hollowell grocery store on
Roosevelt Avenue will be history. It has
also been Steven’s Book Store for
several years after the grocery store
closed and John Lyon opened the
supermarket in the plaza behind the
store. After Dick Stevens moved his book
store to Raleigh, the building has been
home to several businesses including a
karate gym and NAPA.
The store building and the
brick, two-story Unity Three building
that faced North White Street are being
demolished to make way for a new CVS
pharmacy.
The master plan for CVS, a
modification to a special exception, was
approved last October. James T. Street
II of Wake Forest and his Alpha
Development Group, acting as Evanston
Horner LLC, will build the drugstore
with parking in the northeast corner of
Roosevelt and White. Future plans call
for renovating the existing strip of
stores and offices, now empty, and
improving the parking lot.
CVS will move from its
present location in Wake Forest Plaza on
Elm Avenue and Brooks Street. A pharmacy
has been in that space since the 1980s
when T.E. Holding III built the plaza
and moved Holding Drugs from a building
on South White Street now occupied by
Burkenstocks Restaurant.
There was talk about a year
ago of a second CVS on Rogers Road next
to BB&T bank, which just opened, but
those plans have apparently been shelved
for now.
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The Wake Forest Town Board
will hold a called meeting Wednesday,
May 3, at 7 p.m. in town hall to review
the performance of Town Manager Mark
Williams and the town attorney, Eric
Vernon. The commissioners will go into a
closed session for the review, but they
may take action at the end of the
meeting or wait until their regular
session on May 16.
Williams’ salary now is
$101,694.75. His last raise, which was 6
percent, was approved in February of
2005 but became effective July 1 of that
year. Williams also receives the annual
cost of living adjustment along with
other town employees. In 2005, it was 2
percent. |
