The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department announced today it has extended the registration deadline for the Adult Men’s Spring Softball League until Friday, March 3. League play will begin in mid-March with games played primarily on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings… Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette story
The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts will host the Paperhand Puppet Intervention on Saturday, March 4, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For over 15 years the Paperhand Puppet Intervention has been creating original large-scale puppet extravaganzas complete with gian… Click here to read the full Wake … Read more
Next Tuesday, March 7, the Wake Forest Planning Board and Town Board will hear proposals for two new subdivisions – one entirely within Franklin County – and the two together will add an estimated 849 residents in their 300 single-family homes. The Reserve at Richland Creek with 160 homes off St… Click here to read … Read more
There are empty seats on two of the Wake Forest advisory board, the Historic Preservation Commission and the Human Rights Council. Anyone who lives in town or in its small extraterritorial jurisdiction may apply, but candidates for the historic preservation board must live in the North Main hist… Click here to read the full Wake … Read more
Area residents are invited to the Cougar Walk of Champions on Saturday, March 25, at 1 p.m. This one-of-a-kind community celebration will honor the 2016 Wake Forest High School football team, winners of last season’s 4AA state championship. The team’s championship appearance marked the fourth ti… Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette … Read more
Wake Forest is not exactly New Orleans, but Wake Forest’s take on Mardi Gras will be a day of fun for the whole family on Saturday, Feb. 25. This fifth annual Mardi Gras Street Festival is free and runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. A highlight is the Mardi Gras Walking Parade – please … Read more
A Night of Comedy has proven to be wildly successful for its sponsors, the Wake Forest Rotary Club and the Wake Forest High School Band Boosters, who share the work and the proceeds. It returns Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre, and only 250 $30 tickets are available becau… Click here to … Read more
The next R.I.S.E. workshop – Rise, Inspire, Succeed, Empower – will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at the Alston-Massenburg Center at 416 North Taylor Street. Designed for young women ages 11-18, the free workshop will be hosted by Wake Forest Commissioner Anne Reeve and Ruben Wall, director of the… Click here to read … Read more
One of the four cases reviewed on Jan. 19 by the town’s technical review committee was a site construction plan for a Fairfield Inn on 3.5 acres at 12051 Retail Drive. Also in January the Wake Forest Planning Board and the town commissioners lifted the height restriction to allow the constructio… Click here to read … Read more
During a 30-minute Wake Forest Town Board meeting Tuesday night the only dissents came when Commissioner Greg Harrington voted no on a waiver to allow alcoholic consumption during Meet in the Street and Commissioner Margaret Stinnett voted against a letter backing the City of Raleigh’s request fo… Click here to read the full Wake Forest … Read more