Most of the personnel and equipment Wake Forest has sent to the areas in western North Caolina affected by Helene remain there this week, though the crew and two trucks Wake Forest Power sent did their jobs and have returned home. However, a different Wake Forest Power crew and truck are ready to leave or will leave today for the west coast of Florida for the clean-up and recovery after Hurricane Milton strikes there this evening. They are responding to a mutual aid agreement. Remaining somewhere in the mountains are a Wake Forest fire engine and the brush truck with five fire fighters and eight Wake Forest Police officers and their vehicles. We can only hope they all remain safe as they undertake some dangerous

On Thursday,  October 10,  town officials will be in Centennial Plaza to officially launch “Go Wake Forest,” and they are inviting townspeople to join them, even though the new vehicles replaced Raleigh buses in Tuesday, Oct. 1. “Go Wake Forest” is a new ridesharing transit service that operates similarly to Uber and Lyft by connecting riders directly from their doorstep to anywhere in Wake Forest’s jurisdiction and Raleigh’s Wakefield neighborhood. (Editor’s note: When you click on the underlined words, you get to a map with just faint streets. If you click anywhere in the map you get a message that it is within the areas noted above.) (Editor’s note: There are two ways to use the van service. One is to download the app from the

Tuesday night, October 8, 2024, the members of the Wake Forest Planning Board voted unanimously to approve both the new downtown plan and the comprehensive overhaul of the Unified Development Ordinance. After Jack Carso went through all the chapters in the proposed downtown plan, there was some discussion about parking decks. Matt Davis said it seemed to him there were “an awful lot” of parking decks and Elaine Sheppard said she had seen a lot of comments about the lack of parking during the implementation of the plan. Jennifer Currin, the interim planning director, said there was no timeline for implementation. There was no public comment. Adam Redler made a motion to approve, Anna Shope seconded and the vote was unanimous. Jackie Berg also went

100 Years of History – By Carol Pelosi We have had a few diversions in the last few weeks in the chronology of Wake Forest history, but we left off in 1940 with the strict Baptists on the town board renting the new Community House to fraternities for – gasp! – dances. Dancing was … well, I’m not going to repeat all the jokes about Baptists and dancing. If you don’t know them, find a Baptist and ask. Baptists might have been concerned about, even opposed to, Dr. William Poteat’s teaching of evolution, but they loved Dr. Billy and he explained it to them. The communal Baptist uprising across the state – almost the next thing to a march on the campus – only happened