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Building permits
may be slashed
to 60 percent for 2006 |
If the Wake
Forest Town Board accepts the recommendation its
comprehensive planning committee made Tuesday
morning, the building permits for all current
developments would be cut to 60 percent of their
current allocation.
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Commissioners preserve
200-foot
buffer for neighbors |
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The
Wake Forest Town Board worked hard Tuesday night
to shape the conditions for a 2.75-acre site on
Siena Drive in same spirit as the planning
board’s recommendation.
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Murchison says work to
continue
despite board’s no vote |
Although the board of directors of the National
DuBois Alumni Association rejected her proposal
to lease or rent space in a renovated building
on the 17-acre campus, Bettie Murchison plans to
continue three contract programs with no
interruptions in service.
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You can get a free tree
seedling
on Friday, March 3 |
Free tree seedlings
– Eastern Red Cedar, Redbud, Shumard Oak and
Green Ash – will be given away to town and area
residents Friday, March 3, at the Wake Forest
Town Hall at 401 Elm Avenue.
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Sponsorships available
for March 4 art auction |
The organizing committee for the
March 4 art auction to support the DuBois School
of the Arts and celebrate John Pelosi’s 70th
birthday is now selling $100 sponsorships.
Sponsors will receive 10 of the $10 tickets and
recognition at the event.
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Heritage Day at Rock Cliff
Farm
offers varied family fun |
The
B.W. Wells Association will again open Rock
Cliff Farm off Stony Hill Road for a full day of
tours, games and exhibits at the retirement home
of North Carolina’s pioneer ecologist and early
botanist.
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The editor’s opinion
Wake Forest’s water war |
The American West has seen a lot of water wars,
and one may be beginning in Wake Forest, pitting
the town board against developers.
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Financial column
2 ways to boost retirement income
By Louis Mullinger,
Edward Jones |
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If you have several years to
go until retirement, now is the right time
to determine about how much annual income
you can count on as a retiree. And if it
looks like you might be coming up short, you
need to take action soon.
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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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Most speakers favor DAB
site
for new town hall |
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Six of the
seven men who spoke during Tuesday night’s
public hearing about a site for Wake Forest’s
new town hall urged the commissioners to choose
the site on Elm Avenue between South White and
Brooks now occupied by DAB.
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DuBois staff to join
Murchison;
new director hired |
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Lawrence
Perry, president of the National DuBois Alumni
Association, called a meeting for 11 a.m.
Wednesday to introduce the DuBois Center’s new
executive director, George C. Jones Sr. of
Raleigh, but Jones found himself without a
staff.
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Raleigh water plant stops
most releases into troubled stream |
Operators at Raleigh’s E.M.
Johnson Water Treatment Plant are no longer
releasing treated water into an unnamed stream
that flows through Sheffield Manor subdivision
on Raven Ridge Road and then into Falls Lake.
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Singers needed |
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The
Wake Forest Singers are rehearsing now for their
2006 season and need more voices to fill out the
chorus.
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Kiwanis offers a fishy
family
fund-raiser: lobster bingo |
The
entire family is invited to a fish-based
fund-raiser the Wake Forest Kiwanis Club will
sponsor Saturday, March 4, at The Factory.
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News of the arts
It’s time for all that jazz
on March 18 |
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The seventh annual DuBois Jazz
Festival will be back in its old stomping
grounds with a cast of favorites on Saturday,
March 18.
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From the library
Genealogy program in March,
not last week |
Some
of the branches in the editor’s family tree may
have cracked off, because there was a terrible
error in this article last week.
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From the chamber
Reverse Raffle next big event |
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The
Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce’s biggest
fund-raiser is the March Madness Reverse Raffle,
sponsored this year by The News & Observer. It
will be held Thursday, March 2, at 6 p.m. at the
Wake Forest Civic Center on Capcom Drive, and
some $100 tickets may still be available.
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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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