Join your neighbors and help the Town of Wake Forest celebrate Arbor Day Saturday, March 22, at the E. Carroll Joyner Park near the amphitheater.   The day will begin with a Tree Seedling Giveaway and Arbor Day Expo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the Arbor Day ceremony at 11 am. During the tree seedling giveaway, Urban Forestry Board (UFB) members, town staff and volunteers will distribute 2,600 eastern red cedar, wild plum and swamp chestnut seedlings to area residents while they last. Volunteers will be available to help residents decide which seedlings grow best in their respective yard conditions. For more information about the tree seedling giveaway, visit www.wakeforestnc.gov/tree-seedling-giveaway.aspx.  The Arbor Day Expo is a family-friendly event featuring a variety of service-oriented civic groups, nonprofit organizations and other local associations that promote proper tree care, environmental stewardship and community service.   As part of the expo, UFB members will

On Saturday, March 29, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the official North Carolina Bicentennial War of 1812 Re-enactors will muster at an encampment on the grounds of the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street with their knapsacks, muskets, tents and cannons and invite everyone to come listen to their stories, see how their fire their weapons and experience a bit of war 200 years ago. It is all free and open to everyone and should be a wonderful day.  There will be a battle reenactment that will also mark the 239th birthday of Dr. Calvin Jones and his part in the defense of American soil. An actor who loves to portray Jones will be on hand throughout the day. After training as a doctor in Massachusetts, Calvin Jones arrived in Raleigh in 1803 as a pioneer in the fields of medicine, politics, and military life. By 1807,

One of the requests back in the mid-1990s before the present Wake Forest Library was built was that it include a conference or meeting room. As we wait for the library to be expanded from 5,000 to 8,000 square feet, it may be reasonable to ask if the community needs to have a conference or meeting room in this public building.  We have a large number of civic, interest and philanthropic organizations in town that meet in a variety of places. Karen and Don Winstead open the small rooms at The Forks Cafeteria to several groups, many of which hold lunch or dinner meetings. Some boards meet at the Wake Forest Historical Museum or at the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce. At least one group meets in the Northern Regional Center.  Are there other groups that need a place to meet or are there individuals such as literacy or homework

During next Tuesday’s Wake Forest Town Board meeting, the commissioners will be asked to authorize Finance Director Aileen Staples to sell bonds to provide the funds for new street lights and underground utilities along North Main Street and the reconstruction of the John B. Cole Substation on West Cedar Avenue.  The amount of the bonds will not exceed $2.5 million, Staples said, and they will be repaid through the electric system’s revenues.  The North Main lighting project is the first of a town-wide project to improve street lighting.  The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in town hall with a public hearing about the proposed update on the five-year Capital Improvement Plan. The commissioners held a work session Wednesday, March 12, about that plan. There will also be a public hearing about a request for contiguous annexation submitted by Ammons Property Limited Partnership for the 73 acres at the end of