The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre will welcome the Malpass Brothers on Saturday, July 27, at 7 p.m., and tickets are going fast. Advance tickets are on sale for $20 (plus tax) and can be purchased online with a Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover credit card at www.wakeforestrencen…. Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette story Read More »
The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department is hosting a free, monthly outdoor movie series through August at E. Carroll Joyner Park. The third in the series of Family Movie Nights at Joyner Park will feature the film “Mulan” on Saturday, July 27, at 8:30 p.m. Each Family M… Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette ... Read More »
The annual Willie Ray Cookout will be held Thursday, July 18, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Renaissance Centre. Please call the Senior Center office at 919-5 54-4111 to register to attend. The deadline to sign up is July 15, and space is limited to the first 200 people. You are invited to enjoy gr… Click here to read ... Read More »
Tuesday night the Wake Forest commissioners agreed to sell a 0.76-acre lot on Caddell Street to DRCW Investments. DRCW will subdivide the land into four lots, build homes and sell the houses for between $180,000 and $230,000 to owners earning between 80 percent to 120 percent of the Area Median I… Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette ... Read More »
*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon this Saturday, July 20, in the employee parking lot along South Taylor Street behind Wake Forest Town Hall. Local farmers and artisans will have meats, seasonal vegetables, bread, baked good and other local wares for sale. See the … Click here to read the full Wake Forest ... Read More »
The Wake Forest Public Art Commission will host a special reception in the Arts Annex of the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre Saturday, July 27, from 9 a.m. to noon to formally open its 2019 Wake Forest Temporary Sculpture Exhibit and its Spotlight on Wake Forest Artists Exhibit. Light refreshments… Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette story Read More »
The Recreation Advisory Board will host two public meetings in July and conduct an online survey to solicit public input about renovations to Flaherty Dog Park. “Picture Flaherty Dog Park” is the name given to the town’s approach to inviting residents to share their ideas about the park’s future… Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette story Read More »
By publication time Tuesday, July 16, the Wake Forest Gazette knows of six candidates for the Wake Forest Board of Commissioners though not all have filed yet. It is very possible someone else who has not announced will file before noon on Friday. If so, it will be next week’s news. The candidat… Click here to read the full Wake ... Read More »
The other night my husband, thinking of the election of three town commissioners this fall, suggested I write about past town boards. I had been telling him about the board in 1971 when John Lyon was mayor and the commissioners were Dessie Harper, Carroll Trotter, Tommy Byrne, John B. Cole and Ai… Click here to read the full Wake Forest ... Read More »
Marianne Bilski Wake Forest Marianne Bilski, 47, died Sunday, July 7, 2019. She was born May 5, 1972 in Erie, Pennsylvania to the late Howard and Kathleen Short Cable. Beside her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Dan Bilski. Marianne is survived by her husband of 20 year… Click here to read the full Wake Forest Gazette ... Read More »
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