Residents inflamed
by smoke, ash

People who live along Wait Avenue (N.C. 98 east of town) awoke Friday morning to thick smoke coming from the Bowling Green subdivision where a subcontractor was burning stumps and other debris from land clearing.
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King celebration
Jan. 24 at Friendship

The celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday will be Thursday, Jan. 24, at Friendship Chapel Baptist Church on Friendship Chapel Road off South Main Street.
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Drought drags on
with little change

The story of the disastrous drought of 2007-2008 is that everything remains the same.
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Steering group working
to make visions reality

The Wake Forest Community Plan Steering Committee began working this week to shape the broad vision for the town’s future expressed during the two community meetings into a realistic plan.
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Rehearsals begin
for WF Singers

Rehearsals will begin Thursday, Jan. 31, at St. John’s Episcopal Church for the 2008 season for the Wake Forest Singers, and the group hopes to welcome more singers.
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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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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.

The Growth Rate

A reader said the Gazette’s information is all about northern Wake Forest (Heritage, N.C. 98, etc.) and asked, “What about southern Wake Forest?” going on to mention several projects around the Forestville Road-U.S. 401 intersection: a shopping center at the intersection that has a Lowes Food Store along with a planned Harris Teeter across the street, a subdivision planned across Forestville Road from the Stonegate subdivision and a large townhouse and condominium community being built by Centex along 401
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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 on Wake Union Church Road near Capital Boulevard.
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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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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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Road Roundup

Barnhill Contracting, the Tarboro firm that built the first leg of the N.C. 98 bypass, was the apparent low bidder last week for the 1.55-mile third leg that will extend from Retail Drive to N.C. 98 at Thompson Mill Road.
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Readers leave downtown vacant

I have a very big bone to pick with the 200-plus people who went to the first town vision meeting last April and the 100 or so who were at the second meeting in November.
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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.

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.