Rain, rain,
wonderful rain

es, it rained a lot. And yes, Falls Lake has rebounded dramatically and by Wednesday at noon was at 248.8 only 2.7 feet below its normal level of 251.5 feet above mean sea level.
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WF bus service
being considered

The Triangle Transit Authority is considering extending express bus service to Wake Forest, but the proposal has not yet been approved.
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CPC to hear new
Bishops Landing plan

The Wake Forest Comprehensive Planning Committee will meet Tuesday, March 18, at 7:30 a.m. at The Forks Cafeteria to review a second iteration of the plan for Bishops Landing subdivision, an extension of the current Bishop’s Gate on N.C. 98 (Wait Avenue).
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Budget, CIP hearings
top town agenda

The Wake Forest Town Board will hear from residents Tuesday night about their wishes for next year’s capital expenses – the Capital Improvements Plan – and next year’s budget
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Legion Post 187
to celebrate 89^th birthday

The American Legion’s founders served in World War I and they were “still serving” when their successors fought in the second World War – just as every generation of Legionnaires have served their comrades from all wars since. But serving fellow veterans is just one of the many ways that the American Legion serves America. They were and still are the embodiment of the 89-year-old organization that is celebrating a birthday on the 14^th of March 2008.
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Truck caused
Friday’s outage

It was a truck, not the weather, which caused a large power interruption Friday afternoon, leaving about 2,250 Wake Forest Power customers in the gloom.
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Easter Egg Hunt
Saturday, March 15

The town’s Parks and Recreation Department will again sponsor the annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, March 15, in Miller Park behind town hall.
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Where is the Harricane?

Keith will explore that state of mind on March 16
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Free Pre-GED/GED
classes offered

If you or someone you know dropped out of school early and wants to earn a GED diploma to get a better job, you or they need to know about the offer of free classes being offered this spring.
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Neuse Clean-Up
Saturday, April 5

Want to help Mother Earth with some spring cleaning?
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Green Medal, poster
winners announced

Janet Wallace, the owner of Montessori Children’s House in the historic Mill Village, will be awarded the 2008 Civic Green Medal Award for her excellence in environmental education at the school.
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Volunteers needed
for Autumn Arts

We are just ready to swing into spring, but we also need to plan for this fall and the Autumn Arts Festival in October.
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Road Roundup

A subcontractor has begun clearing the right-of-way for the final leg of the N.C. 98 bypass.
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Quilt raffle
to help library

The Friends of the Wake Forest Library will raffle off a beautiful quilt that has been donated by the Wake Forest Quilting Friends at the annual membership meeting Tuesday, April 22.
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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.

Water merger
payoff on schedule

The Town of Wake Forest and its residents are on schedule or even a bit ahead of schedule in paying off the cost of the 2005 water and sewer merger with Raleigh, Deputy Town Manager Roe O’Donnell said this week.
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The Growth Rate

This is an incomplete list but gives readers a taste of the residential building underway in town, which had a population of about 5,700 in 1990. The town’s planning department estimated there were over 25,000 residents in mid-2007. You can calculate 2.6 residents for each dwelling unit. The town has approved 6,592 homes that remain to be built, including these below
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Are you ready
for city of 60,000?

Wake Forest, which now has a population just over 25,000, will grow to 60,000 people by 2035, John Hodges-Copple, the planning director for the Triangle J Council of Governments, predicted Friday.
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Legion ready
for move

There will be a bitter-sweet dinner and meeting at the American Legion Hall on East Owen Avenue tomorrow night, March 13.
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The Easter Bunny
visits the market

Peter Rabbit himself will be hopping into the gazebo parking lot in downtown Wake Forest Saturday, March 22, for the Wake Forest Farmers’ Market.
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Studios plan
special events

Studios and shops in Wake Forest’s historic downtown will be open Friday evening, March 14, for the monthly Art After Hours.
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Town selling out of
rain barrels

Town of Wake Forest has sold all of the 300 rain barrels it originally ordered and has placed an order for another 200.
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Slam Jam Youth
3-on-3 tourney

The second Slam Jam Youth 3-on-3 Youth Basketball Tournament will be held Saturday, May 31. It will begin at 11 a.m., but the exact site has not yet been set.
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Telephone book
recycling underway

The bins are open and there is no waiting to recycle those 2007 and older telephone books.
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One-stop voting site
added for primary

The North Carolina and the Wake County boards of election anticipate there will be a heavy voter turnout for the May 6 primary.
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J.C. Penney deep fryer recalled

Wake Forest Fire Chief Jerry Swift sent out a message this week to inform area residents that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and J.C. Penney have announced a voluntary recall of about 27,000 Cooks Deep Fryer that were sold at the Penney stores and in its catalogs from August 2007 through January 2008.
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Help a child learn to dig

The Friends of Wake Forest Library are planning a gardening program this spring, one for adults who want to help children learn to garden. Local Master Gardeners will discuss projects and programs designed to interest children in gardening.
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Board adds
items to the A list

Thursday night the Wake Forest commissioners and mayor pulled five items from the B list to the high priority A list for this year’s capital spending.
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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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The Gazette wants to be where you learn about what is happening in the Wake Forest community.