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Not guilty of
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On Tuesday afternoon, Bettie
Murchison, the former director of the DuBois
Center and now the director of the W.E.B. DuBois
Community Development Corporation, went to the
Wake Forest Police Department where she charged
with embezzlement and felony conversion of
property, taken to the Wake County Public Safety
Center in Raleigh, and released later that day
on a $200,000 cash bond.
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Board OKs Main Street
application |
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“The state of
your downtown is good – and getting better,” Tom
Iversen, the outgoing chairman of the Downtown
Revitalization Corporation told the town board
last night, and later the commissioners passed a
resolution approving the DRC’s application to be
a member of the Main Street Program sponsored by
the state Department of Commerce.
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WF regional center
construction in October |
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Construction for Wake County’s
Northern Regional Center in the heart of Wake
Forest should get underway in October.
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Gazette resumes
advertising |
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Publisher and editor Carol Pelosi
has begun selling advertising for The Wake
Forest Gazette.
Sales had ceased last year when she was ill and
had to suspend publication, and the advertising
banners currently at the top of the page are
left over and out of date.
She is offering two simple affordable plans for
businesses who want to advertise. For more
information, call her at 556-3409 or send a
message to
cwpelosi@aol.com .
The free online newspaper has a monthly average
of 6,379 individual hits, and Pelosi wants to
thank all her readers. |
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Apology and correction |
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Last week, haste led to an error
in the article about tree-trimming, in which I
left question marks in place of a person’s last
name. I apologize sincerely to Rob Edwards, one
of the three members of the tree-trimming crew.
The other members are supervisor Robert Riley
and David Elliott. |
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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.)
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events to
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Send your stories to: Editor: Carol Pelosi
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Board rethinking
town hall site |
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The Wake Forest Town Board took
at least two steps backward recently – and
perhaps one forward last night – in its quest
for a new town hall site.
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Birthplace request
sidetracked
by South Brick House |
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Despite a lengthy presentation
about the benefits of town participation in the
planned museum annex at the Calvin Jones House,
action on the request for $550,000 was delayed a
month Tuesday night after Mayor Vivian Jones
questioned the fate of the South Brick House.
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Where can people
find food? |
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At the beginning of the year,
elderly people and families finding it hard to
stretch minimum-wage paychecks could find food,
clothing and even some household appliances and
furniture at three sources in town: Tri-Area
Ministries, the Dubois Center and Operation
Harvest.
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How should Franklin
Street look? |
South Franklin Street, that wide,
rather bare link between N.C. 98 Business and
the N.C. 98 bypass as well as a connection to
downtown Wake Forest, is due for a make-over.
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From the chamber
Want to be a leader? |
Do you want to be leader, to play
a part in town government or community affairs?
You need to enroll in this fall’s Leadership
Wake Forest program sponsored by the Wake Forest
Chamber of Commerce.
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Three open seats
on advisory boards |
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Two members have resigned from
the Wake Forest Human Relations Council, and a
member of the Historic Preservation Commission
must be replaced according to town policy
because of lack of attendance.
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Financial column
How will you pay for health care?
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones |
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When you retire, some of your
regular expenses are going to go down. But
others are going to go up, and topping the going
up list is health care. Well before you retire,
make sure you have the resources necessary to
deal with those doctor's visits and prescription
drugs.Click here for the complete story |
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