She’s got a list

Mayor wants an arborist, cultural arts office and local transportation
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The Growth Rate

Update: The long needed North White Street sidewalk should become reality this spring.
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Board to reconsider
Jones Avenue

Business and property owners along East Jones Avenue, a one-block street between South White Street and Brooks Street, came to Tuesday night’s town board meeting as a body to support Graham Cawthorne, who pleased with the board to change the traffic direction along the street.
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No surcharge here
manager says

Last week Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker suggested a 50 percent surcharge on all water bills, including those in Wake Forest.
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$83,000 may have
found a home

The very last unspent money from the 1999 bond issue, $83,000, may be used as one of the projects in the Northeast plan.
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Caught between
two counties?

Franklin County, established in 1779, and Wake County, formed in 1771, have been neighbors for a long time, but they are still not sure just where the line dividing them falls.
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Muddy Water training
begins next week

The first Muddy Water Watch training begins next week, Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the Brier Creek Community Center.
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From the chamber
March madness returns

Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are on sale for the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce’s annual March Madness Reverse Raffle and Auction, which will be held this year at Luck Stone on Star Road on Thursday, March 13, beginning at 6 p.m.
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Meeting evokes
the spirit of downtown

With words and old pictures and menus, Wake Forest native Durward Matheny led about 50 people through the South White Street downtown he remembered Sunday afternoon.
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A reader’s opinion

Hospital survey was a scam

I was appalled but not shocked when I recently read “Rex and HMA surveyed Franklin County residents in late December. Most indicated they favored the new hospital.”
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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.

Planning issues twine
through retreat

Planning and growth were the background texts and the foreground issues through last week’s town board retreat.
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Board agrees to
Warren Park sale

Tuesday night the Wake Forest commissioners agreed to go forward with an upset bid procedure for the undeveloped J.L. Warren Park south of the N.C. 98 bypass.
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Second meeting for
Wake Union Place

There will be a follow-up neighborhood meeting about Wake Union Place, the shopping center proposed for the former Parker-Hannifin (Schrader-Scovill) site.
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Barnhill low bidder
for third bypass leg

When bids were opened Tuesday, Jan. 15, for the third and final leg of the N.C. 98 bypass, Barnhill Contracting Company, which was the contractor for the first leg, was the apparent low bidder at $11,546.015.76.
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Town may tunnel
for North Loop

One of the priorities in the 2005 streets and sidewalk bond issue was $3.3 million to build part of the North Loop from North White Street to North Main Street, and at that time the plan was to build a bridge over the CSX railroad line or, a cheaper alternative, to construct an at-grade crossing.
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You can learn about
a drought solution

Several businesses, managers for the N.C. Legislative Building and area conservationists will present “Talk-n-Walk: A green solution for drought: rainwater harvesting” Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the third-floor auditorium of the North Carolina Legislative Building, and they would like everyone interested to come.
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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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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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Road Roundup

Update: The new plan to improve the flow of traffic on South Main Street – two travel lanes and a center turn lane from Forbes Road north to Forestville Road – is on track but will not become reality until 2009, Deputy Town Manager Roe O’Donnell said during last week’s town board retreat.
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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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