Buses are coming
to Wake Forest

Within the next few months Wake Forest commuters will be able to ride an express bus to downtown Raleigh then ride another bus home at the end of the day.
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The Growth Rate

The special use permit for The Alexan at Ligon Mill, a 288-unit apartment project, was approved on May 15, 2007. The permit will expire next month unless the developer, Trammell Crow Residential, requests an extension. TCR had planned to do most of the construction this year, including building two lanes of Ligon Mill Road from its present end beside Wal-Mart and extending the road north to Caveness Farms Avenue, grading the entire four-lane width and removing the sewer lift station in the right-of-way.
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Board votes 2.5%

The Wake Forest commissioners and mayor returned to an empty meeting room Tuesday night to take action after a closed session to review the performances of Town Manager Mark Williams and town attorney Eric Vernon. Everyone, including reporters, had left earlier because no action was expected.
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New walking tour guide

Pictures and house descriptions in new booklet
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Taking the pulse
of our town

The Triangle Business Journal will focus on Wake Forest Friday, April 18, when six panelists will examine the economic health of our fast-growing town and its future.
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Holding Village
to get underway

One of the biggest single developments in Wake Forest and the first Traditional Neighborhood Development, Holding Village, will begin to take shape this summer if all goes as planned.
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Herbfest opens
April 18

What was originally a one-weekend plant sale has become a 10-day spring festival about everything herbal, green and beautiful.
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Two changes to
Six Sundays roster

Gail Joyner, chairman of the Wake Forest Cultural Arts Association, announced this week two changes to the line-up for Six Sundays in Spring. Jason Adamo will replace the Mambo White Boys on May 4 and Thad Cockrell, a Wake Forest native, has been signed for Mother’s Day, May 11.
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Hoops for WF
return May 17

The 13^th annual Hoops for Wake Forest, a basketball tournament that provides fun for its participants and funding for local nonprofit groups, will return to Brooks Street in downtown Wake Forest on Saturday, May 17.
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Spring’s varietyoffered at market

The vendors at the Wake Forest Farmers’ Market are offering a veritable banquet of spring foods. Just picked butter-crunch lettuce, spinach, kale, strawberries, scallions, rainbow-colored radishes and herbs were on sale last week. Why not find out what else will be under the tents this Saturday, April 19?
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Rabies clinic
May 1 in WF

Wake County Animal Care will hold a rabies clinic in Wake Forest Thursday, May 1, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Northern Regional Center, 350 East Holding Avenue.
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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.
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Kilowatt Ours’
shown on Earth Day

How much coal do you burn a day? None, you say. Think again. Every time you flick on a switch on a light, a computer, a stove you are using electricity made at least in part by burning coal. Wake Forest’s power comes from Progress Energy, which burns coal at its Roxboro and Mayo plants.
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Asthma Coalition
sponsors picnic

The Wake County Asthma Coalition will host a family picnic May 10 to celebrate World Asthma Day and Asthma Awareness Month.
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Steps for Schools
5K race April 26

Steps for School, a new 5K race sponsored by the Key Club students at Wake Forest-Rolesville High School, will benefit vocational school students in the villages of Kaihura, Uganda.
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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.

Board approves
$11.4 M town hall bid

The bids to build Wake Forest’s new town hall were substantially lower than the $12.6 million architect Steven Hawley had estimated, and the winning bid, with all the alternatives, was $11,437,000.
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Board OKs first
$110,000 for birthplace

Last year the Wake Forest commissioners agreed to give $110,000 a year over five years to the Wake Forest Birthplace Museum for the construction of the exhibition annex behind the Calvin Jones House. The gift was made with the proviso the birthplace show it had received at least an equal amount from other sources.
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Three local
women honored

Three Wake Forest women were honored Saturday at a luncheon at the North Raleigh Hilton hosted by the local chapter of Eta Phi Beta Sorority, and more than 250 people applauded them and five other honorees.
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CPC sends site
review forward

xTuesday morning the Comprehensive Planning Committee reviewed the revised site plan review requirements, Section 13 in the zoning ordinance, and voted to send it to the planning board.
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Early local voting
in May 6 primary

Wake Forest area residents will be able to cast their votes early in the May 6 primary at a convenient location.
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New web site
features Wake Fores

NBC-17 has unveiled a new web site about and for Wake Forest with interactive features, videos, comments and news.
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10,000 expected
at Meet in the Street

More than 10,000 people are expected Saturday, May 3, for the 28^th annual Meet in the Street in historic downtown Wake Forest.
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Money-raising opportunity

Last week Wake Forest Community Council President Carolyn Furr announced an unusual money-raising opportunity for local nonprofit groups and clubs.
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WF Singers
entertain April 13

You are invited to dream along with the Wake Forest Singers and guest harpist Anita Burroughs-Price Sunday, April 13, at 7 p.m. for their concert at Franklin Academy High School, “Catch the Spirit – Ponder Your Dreams.
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New car raffle

If you like the looks of the 2008 Nissan Sentra parked in front of the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce office, it can be yours if you buy a $250 ticket and win the raffle. And you have a one in 80 chance.
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Library Friends
meet April 22

The Friends of Wake Forest Library will hold its annual meeting Tuesday, April 22, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Northern Regional Center on West Holding Avenue. The public is invited.
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Time to toss
those used books

The annual used book sale organized by the Friends of Wake Forest Library will be held Saturday, May 3, at the old, old Winn-Dixie in what was Wake Forest Plaza at the intersection of Brooks Street and East Elm Avenue. The sale is the same day as Meet in the Street.
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Summit to be held
at town hall

Because there will be one-stop voting for the May 6 primary in the Community House during the last part of April, the third annual Community Leadership Summit sponsored by the Wake Forest Human Relations Council will be held in the board room at town hall.
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MLK Committee
needs new members

The Wake Forest Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration Committee invites everyone interested in joining the committee or learning how to support the annual celebration to its meeting on Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m. at Friendship Chapel Baptist Church on Friendship Chapel Road.
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Road Roundup

Heritage developer Andy Ammons said he is still waiting for the N.C. Department of Transportation to give him the final approval to connect Heritage Lake Road with the N.C. 98 bypass.
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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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