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Rumor that beguiling temptress is
saying at least six people are thinking
of, entertaining thoughts of or are
serious about running for a seat on the
town board this summer and fall. There
may be more possible candidates; if you
know of any, sit next to me and tell
all.
There will be three
contested seats in the November
election: Commissioners Stephen
Barrington, Velma Boyd-Lawson and David
Camacho. Barrington, who is now the
executive director of the Franklin
County Chamber of Commerce, has said he
will not seek another term.
The filing period changed
by the North Carolina General Assembly
since the 2005 election is from July 6
through July 20. Candidates can file and
pay the $15 fee at town hall to Town
Clerk Joyce Wilson MMC or at the Wake
County Board of Elections office in
Raleigh.
You must be a resident of
the town, but if you live near town and
have a real itch to be in the political
thickets, you can petition for a
voluntary annexation of your home. This
method has been successful in two
instances. Just be prepared to pay town
taxes as long as you live there.
People who have just moved
into town, who have moved inside town
and who have changed their name for any
reason need to either register to vote
or change their registration by Oct. 12
to be able to vote.
The election is Nov. 6, and
the new or re-elected commissioners will
take office at the town board meeting on
Dec. 18.
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Among the several casualties
in the DuBois Center disputes last year
you can probably count the DuBois Jazz
Festival after seven years of life. It
was a joint effort of the DuBois Center
and the Wake Forest Cultural Arts
Association.
Kathryn Spiegel, the
cultural arts chairman, said four groups
met on Nov. 28 to talk about a community
music festival: folks from the DuBois
Center and the DuBois Community
Development Corporation, Bob and
Elizabeth Johnson and other parents from
Franklin Academy representing the Graham
Johnson Cultural Arts Endowment and jazz
students at the academy, along with
members of the cultural arts
association.
(They) decided that it
would be better to do some kind of
community music festival that would
appeal to the whole community, Spiegel
said. Lawrence Perry and Dianne Laws
from the DuBois Center were asked to see
what people in the neighborhood around
the center would like. Other people were
to ask band teachers at the high schools
about how workshops for students should
be organized.
Spiegel said that there has
not been much action. The bottom line
is that we are not much further ahead
about a community music festival than
when we met in November.
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The reason for the high
exterior walls at the CVS drug store
under construction at White Street and
Roosevelt Avenue is not because the
building will have a second story but to
conceal the rooftop heating and air
conditioning systems. |
