Many Wake Forest residents do not know of South Forest Industrial Park, which is physically separate from most of the town and located well off busy Burlington Mills Road, but it is an important part of the town. Marla Akridge, president of the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce, which operates the town’s economic development efforts, underlined that importance Tuesday night when she spoke to the town commissioners during their work session. She brought along the presidents of two thriving businesses in the park, Robert Earnhardt of Superior Tooling and Keith Moffat of Moffat Pipe. Akridge wanted the commissioners to know that there is the potential for a townhouse development in the northeast quadrant where One World Way meets Burlington Mills and that there could lead to problems. “It’s hard to mix an industrial park with residential,” she said. Her interest is to keep the park thriving and, as much

Town staff are calling it “the Moss Creek thing,” and it is a classic combination of misinformation by well-meaning people leading to – well, the possibility that people would attend the next Wake Forest Town Board meeting wearing hazmat suits. Deputy Town Manager Roe O’Donnell tried to explain it Tuesday during the board’s work session. It begins with the City of Raleigh constructing a large sewer line from Burlington Mills Road to the wastewater treatment plant, a sewer line that parallels the Smith Creek Greenway that leads to the new bridge over the Neuse River, linking the town’s greenway system to Raleigh’s and a state system. At that same time, the state Department of Transportation closed the unofficial parking lot that had grown up through the years at the head of the greenway trail and permanently blocked access to the greenway from there. Because of this, the town is incorporating

There will be special events and a widespread display of student art sponsored by Wake Forest ARTS during Friday night’s Art After Hours in downtown Wake Forest. You will find the student art in the following shops: Wake Forest Elementary art will be in the NC Specialty Shop, Richland Creek Elementary will be in the Storyteller’s Book Store, Heritage Elementary and representatives from Wake Forest ARTS will be in Ollies, and Wake Forest Middle will be in B&W Hardware. Volunteers from the North Raleigh Wake Relay for Life will be in some stores to accept donations for the event and show people how they can honor loved ones battling cancer or remember those lost to cancer. Pam Jay at Next Consignment Boutique is one of the store owners supporting the Relay for Life. “We are donating 10 percent of that day’s sales to the American Cancer Society,” Jay said. “That

With a strong contingent of 65 trained docents and an outpouring of financial support from the community, the Wake Forest Historical Museum will open its doors Friday, April 17, for a six-week display of the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit, Hometown teams: How Sports Shape America. The exhibit is free and the museum will be open every day for the rest of April and through May except for Memorial Day. The hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Director Ed Morris would like a few more docents, and there will be another required docent training session after the exhibit opens. It is light work; no heavy lifting. All parts of the museum will be open so make sure you look through the exhibit hall with its large collection of college sports memorabilia.

Visit downtown Wake Forest on Friday, April 10, and help save lives during Art After Hours Cancer Awareness Night, benefiting Relay For Life and the American Cancer Society. Volunteers will be on hand in select stores accepting donations and showing you how to honor loved ones battling cancer or remember those lost to cancer, as well as providing cancer prevention tips. Currently, Relay For Life is recruiting teams from schools, families, places of worship, neighborhoods, businesses, etc., to participate May 16 at Heritage High School. Relay is a community-based event where team members set up campsites and take turns walking in honor of those who’ve battled cancer. Each team has at least one participant on the track at all times, and cancer survivors and caregivers take a celebratory first lap. Relay teams are committed to finishing the fight against cancer and raise funds to support the American Cancer Society’s lifesaving