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Board, manager
ready
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“The fire
department issue is the biggest issue facing us
right now,” Wake Forest Town Manager Mark
Williams said during the town board’s budget
work session last Wednesday.
“I am not against the fire department,” Williams
said. “My concern is the taxpayers of this
community deserve the best fire service we can
afford to give them.” His position is that the
town needs to use its money in the best way, the
most efficient way, and to do that the town
needs to work closely with the fire department.
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The Growth Rate |
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If you
have questions about what is being built where,
please call 556-3409 or send a note to
cwpelosi@aol.com and we will try to answer
it.
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Board stays with
54-cent tax rate |
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Although
they discussed the needs of the Wake Forest Fire
Department, the town commissioners stayed with
Manager Mark Williams’ proposed budget, keeping
the tax rate at 54 cents per $100 valuation with
10 cents earmarked for the fire department.
The commissioners did settle one perhaps
contentious matter: an increase in the size and
tax rate for the downtown municipal service
district. They agreed to both. The service
district will now be the central core
Renaissance Plan area (with a couple of
exceptions) and the tax rate will be 17 cents
per $100 when it had been 10 cents.
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The market will
celebrate children |
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Children
will be indulged and appreciated Saturday at the
Wake Forest Farmers’ Market.
They will receive balloons, eat the Vollmer Farm
Famous Strawberry Ice Cream, make clay pottery,
and decorate the gazebo parking lot with
sidewalk chalk art.
They can keep time to the music with bamboo
clacking sticks, and there will be a special
children’s performance on the hammered dulcimer.
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How to advertise |
You can
now advertise your business or service in The
Wake Forest Gazette at a reasonable cost.
A rotating banner at the top of each page costs
$75 a month, and a listing in the business index
costs $25 a month. To begin advertising, call
Editor Carol Pelosi at 556-3409 or send her a
note at
cwpelosi@aol.com. |
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We welcome . . . |
The Wake
Forest Gazette welcomes and encourages readers
to send us letters about local issues and
announcements about local events including, but
certainly not limited to, church bazaars,
fund-raising events by local groups, plays,
sports, or dinners.
The Gazette wants to be where you learn about
what is happening in the Wake Forest community. |
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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
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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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Concrete plant,
fire
station on agenda |
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The Wake
Forest Planning Board will have an exceptionally
long agenda Tuesday, June 5, that includes
requests for a special use to locate a concrete
plant in South Forest Business Park, to rezone 4
acres on Forestville Road for the town’s third
fire station, and to rezone 87 acres along Wait
Avenue, Oak Grove Church Road and Gilcrest Farm
Road for homes and a retirement community
similar to Springmoor in Raleigh.
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DuBois, NCSU sign
historic agreement |
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People
from across the Wake Forest community applauded
Friday morning as Lawrence E. Perry, president
of the National Alumni Association of DuBois
High School, and Arthur Rice, associate dean in
the College of Design at North Carolina State
University signed an agreement for a study that
will lay out the path for the renovation of the
historic DuBois School campus.
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Dry, dry, dry . . .
and no rain |
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Wake
County has not yet slipped into the drought
category although local gardeners would dispute
that. The North Carolina Division of Water
Resources continues to label Wake as abnormally
dry although every county to the south is
already in a moderate drought condition.
The only possible rain forecast for the next few
days is scattered afternoon showers, and any
widespread rain is still days away.
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Redecorated
Birthplace
plans open house |
The Wake
Forest College Birthplace – also known as the
Calvin Jones House – looks more like the home it
once was these days, thanks to Susan and
Sherrill Brinkley.
And the North Main Street neighbors and
interested people will be invited to an open
house there on Tuesday, June 26, between 5 and 7
p.m. It will also be a time for neighbors to ask
questions about the building plans.
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How
to get a notice |
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If you are
reading The Wake Forest Gazette but do not
always remember to find it each week, let Editor
Carol Pelosi send you a notice on Wednesday
evenings that the newest edition is online.
Just send her an e-mail at
cwpelosi@aol.com and she will add your name
and e-mail address to her notification list. The
messages are sent as blind copies to respect
your privacy.
The free online newspaper had a monthly average
of 7,645 hits from individual computers for
September through December, 260 a day in
December. The editor thanks all her readers. |
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Financial column
Timely investing for children
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones (Financial planning) |
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If you
have young children or grandchildren, you may
want to start investing for them - and you
should. As you invest, however, you'll need to
keep a couple of key dates in mind - because
they can make a difference in your family's tax
situation and your control of your child's or
grandchild's assets.
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