Planners finally table
request for office park

After a long and contentious debate Thursday night, the Wake Forest Planning Board agreed to continue discussion of a seven-building office park along the N.C. 98 bypass to February.
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Was it a park
or just a pond?

A 10-acre tract kept popping up last Thursday night, first in a discussion about the town board’s agenda for Jan. 15 and then during the review of the plans for the Corporate Chaplains of America’s future office building.
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Regional center opens
for business

County and town officials cut the ceremonial red ribbon for the Northern Regional Center’s grand opening Wednesday morning, Jan. 9, and the center staff will welcome the first customers Thursday.
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Chamber wants closer
ties to town

The Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce wants to have closer ties and better communication with the town government, the chamber’s executive director, Jodi LaFreniere, said during last week’s town board work session.
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You have to calculate
to find water use

Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker proposed this week that everyone cut their water consumption to 25 gallons per day per person. The proposal was not adopted by the Raleigh City Council, but it is still being considered.
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Koinonia dinner Jan. 26

The annual Koinonia dinner, auction and silent auction will be held Saturday, Jan. 26, at The Forks Cafeteria beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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Free GED classes
offered at CDC

Wake Technical Community College and the W.E.B. DuBois Community Development Corporation are joining together to offer free on-line GED instruction for anyone in the area.
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Two basketball
programs offered

Wake Electric is seeking applicants for scholarships to two basketball camps where they will learn skills under two of the country’s best coaches.
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What did downtown
WF look like?

The second meeting for the Wake Forest Historical Association will be Sunday, Jan. 13, and will focus on Wake Forest’s historic White Street downtown district.
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Road Roundup

Update: A reader asked why Heritage Lake Road is still not connected to the N.C. 98 bypass. “It seems someone has been dragging their feet in getting this completed. I was part of a Heritage Homeowners Association meeting three years ago in which it was announced that Heritage Lake would be opening within a year. Each year since then, an announcement seems to come out about this time of year saying it will be open sometime the following year. It just drags on and on.
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Now linked to
WakeForestTimes.com

The Wake Forest Gazette and the WakeForestTimes.com, a new web-based information source for the Wake Forest area, have agreed to a mutually beneficial association. You will soon find a link to the WakeForestTimes.com site on the Gazette and there is a link to the Gazette on WakeForestTimes.com. Editor Carol Pelosi will be writing for WakeForestTimes.com and in return, in the future, will have support for the Gazette web site. There will also be opportunities for advertising on both.

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. To begin advertising, call Editor Carol Pelosi at 556-3409 or send her a note at cwpelosi@aol.com.

Second office park,
rezoning approved

Thursday night the Wake Forest Planning Board approved a second office park, this one in the southwest corner of the Siena Drive extension and the N.C. 98 bypass, and recommended rezoning a one-acre tract along Harris Road at the corner of Capital Boulevard to match the highway business zoning for the future Purnell Place shopping center.
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The Growth Rate

Subdivisions in progress:
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Town needs roads, open
space, greenways, library

hat we need in Wake Forest are more and wider roads as well as other transportation such as buses and rail, more greenways, more open space for parks and recreation, an expanded library and equitable funding for the Wake Forest Fire Department, Don Stroud told about 100 people Tuesday morning, including state, county and local officials.
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Joyner Park bids
on agenda

Bids for the first phase of work on Joyner Park were opened Dec. 5, and Tuesday night the Wake Forest Town Board will be asked to agree to award the contract to Harrod & Associates.
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Wake Forest did have
blue-collar jobs

One of the major shifts in the local economy can be seen by comparing the lists of the top 10 employers in 1997 and 2007.
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Farmers’ Market returns
Saturday, Jan. 19

The Wake Forest Farmers’ Market will be back in town Saturday, Jan. 19, from 10 a.m. to noon in the gazebo parking lot on South White Street.
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Enter now for
WEMC Youth Tour

Young people who are high school juniors in Wake, Durham, Johnston, Vance, Granville, Nash or Franklin counties and who plan to enter their senior year next fall are eligible for a $1,000 scholarship and a one-week all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the 2008 Rural Electric Youth Tour.
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Starting a business?
Start here

If you are in the early stages of starting your own business, you will be interested in a five-day workshop next week offered by the W.E.B. DuBois Community Development Corporation.
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Town permits 699
new homes in 2007

There was the expected bump in residential permit requests in December as builders stockpiled some permits for the next year, resulting in 57 permits issued for single-family homes, 28 permits issued for townhouses.
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The editor’s opinion
Inexcusable rudeness

Everyone who appears before any of the town’s boards, from the Board of Commissioners on down, should be treated courteously and politely.
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How to get a notice

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.

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