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Groups ask for town
funding
in next budget |
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Tuesday night representatives
from the Wake Forest Cultural Arts Association,
the Wake Forest Birthplace Museum, the Wake
Forest Boys and Girls Club, the Downtown
Revitalization Corporation and the Child Care
Services Association asked the commissioners to
include their funding request in next year’s
budget.Click
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Board renews Williams’
contract,
adds 3.5% to salary |
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Tuesday night the
Wake Forest commissioners voted to renew Town
Manager Mark Williams’ contract and give him a
3.5 percent raise, bringing his salary to
$108,412 as of July 1. The figure includes the
3.5 percent cost-of-living-adjustment Williams
is recommending for all employees and elected
officials.
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DuBois alumni president
asks
for pledges to pay attorney, audit |
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Lawrence Perry, president of the
National Alumni Association of DuBois High
School, sent a letter to some alumni last week
asking they pay their annual pledges as quickly
as possible in order to pay the attorney and CPA
he has hired.
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DuBois update |
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The food bank at the DuBois
Center will resume June 8, interim center
director George C. Jones Sr. said this week.
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No decision yet
on town hall site |
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The Wake Forest Town Board met in
a short closed session at the end of the regular
board meeting Tuesday night to discuss
purchasing the site for the new town hall, but
they returned to the board room only to adjourn
the meeting.
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A WF tradition, the 4th
of July
celebration, needs your help |
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Since 1973, people in Wake
Forest have worked to produce the annual
Fourth of July celebration with its
fireworks and stadium show, children’s
parade and events in Holding Park.
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Chamber news
Bring food to tomorrow’s BAH |
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Be sure to be carrying a bag
of canned or boxed food when you go to this
month’s Business After Hours.
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Parks and rec news
Holding Pool opens May 27 |
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The pool in Holding Park at 133
W. Owen Ave. will open Saturday, May 27,
offering open swimming as well as water
aerobics classes, swim lessons, lap swim
times and parent-child swim times.
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Please send information about upcoming
events to
info@wakeforestnc.com
Send your stories to: Editor: Carol Pelosi
CWPelosi@aol.com
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Board approves flood damage
prevention ordinance |
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Saying he was going to do
something that would “get me in hot water with
my colleagues,” a number of whom had lobbied him
to kill it, Commissioner David Camacho strongly
supported and voted for the Flood Damage
Prevention Ordinance and was joined by all his
fellow commissioners.
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Town has 2 miles of gravel
on 22 streets |
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All or part of 22 streets in the
Wake Forest town limits are not paved, and at
$300 a foot it would cost $3.25 million to pave
them all. That could be cut by $50 a foot or to
$2.75 million if curb and gutter were not
included.
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County terminates program
at DuBois Center |
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The Wake County Work Force
Development Board terminated its contract for
the HopeBuilders program with the DuBois Center
effective the end of April because, Director
Regina Crooms said this week, “They don’t have
the infrastructure. There’s nobody there.”
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CPC agrees with plans
to extend town’s future area |
Tuesday morning the Wake Forest
Comprehensive Planning Committee agreed that
Planning Director Chip Russell should pursue
discussions with Rolesville and Franklin County
about land to the east and northeast where the
town may expand in the future.
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Forget the ‘canes. It’s
b-ball
season as Hoops hits the street |
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Hundreds of avid basketball
players of all ages and sizes will hit the
asphalt, not the hardwoods, Saturday for the
11th Hoops for Wake Forest.
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News of the arts
‘Oliver!’ opens Thursday
at Franklin Academy |
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The musical “Oliver!” will hit
the boards later this week as the first Wake
Forest production by The Road Less Traveled
Theatre.
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Road Roundup |
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(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.)Click here for the complete story |
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Financial column
Time for spring cleaning?
By Louis Mullinger, Edward Jones |
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Now that we are well into May,
you might look around your house and yard and
decide it's time for a little spring cleaning,
if you're the sort of person who does that kind
of thing.
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