Using trash in a brilliant and creative way an entrepreneur in Kenya is utilizing discarded plastic soda bottles and converting them into bottle bulbs. By scaling the simple idea, people in Kenya can afford light on sunny days in dark rooms they otherwise would have had to pay dearly for electricity to illuminate. Missionaries departing … Read more
Reports of a brown bear in Wake Forest were confirmed on Tuesday by a local eyewitness. The brown bear (Ursus Arctos) typically does not roam anywhere near North Carolina. That’s what made this sighting so unusual. Risking life and one limb a staff photographer from the Wake Forest News spent about six seconds stalking the … Read more
I think we’ve all been there at one time or another. “I believe I can fly.”
Russell Gay & Associates is a commercial real estate company with more than 35 years of experience developing high-profile commercial properties for sale and lease in Cary, Raleigh and Wake Forest, N.C. They do awesome work. Recently they announced a new project in Cary, the Maynard Office Center. We don’t really know how pissed off … Read more
WCPE, the classical radio station headquartered in Wake Forest is getting their groove on by celebrating Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2013. WCPE’s Music Director William Woltz said, “We will hear from Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn,” says Woltz who is also co-host of Allegro. “Jennifer Higdon, Joan Tower and other composers who are shaping … Read more
The Rev. Shawn Dobbins, a 2007 graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, has just been hired on as the pastor for the Hebron Baptist Church in Hebron, Kentucky. He replaces the Rev. Dr. Shawn Edwards, who left Hebron Baptist in Dec 2011 and thus ends the vacancy left. If anyone from SEBTS still remembers the … Read more
A substitute teacher who worked at Wake Forest’s Jones Dairy Elementary School was arrested Friday and charged with indecent liberties with a child. Brian Holt Self, 49, of 301 Black Swan Way, is accused of taking advantage of three victims under the age of 16. “I believe that he told me that there were eight … Read more
Wait for it…keep watching the video. Here’s a hint, the creepy stuff starts happening at the 8 second mark. It’s Alive! Looks like bagworms are making a go of it in some parts of Wake Forest. What starts as a little tiny egg, turns into one big freaking problem as the bagworms multiply. One day … Read more
From 2010, Brian Young rides his BMW motorcycle through town on July 4th. He recorded a bit of the ride as he entered Wake Forest’s historic district. He also road by the Baptist Seminary and then out towards the west on Hwy. 98.
