Beginning this week a contractor working on behalf of the Town of Wake Forest will conduct stump grinding operations along various streets throughout Wake Forest. Leaf & Limb Tree Service is scheduled to grind stumps along the following streets: Appleberry Court Capcom Avenue Clatter Avenue Connector Drive Cornwell Drive Crendall Way Crimson Clover Avenue Dargan Hills Drive Dimock Way East Cedar Avenue East Jones Avenue East Pine Avenue Federal House Avenue Flemming House Street Forestville Road Forgotton Pond Road Golden Star Way Heritage Hills Way Heritage Knoll Drive Heritage View Trail Kembe Ridge Drive Linslade Way Loring Lake Road Marshall Farm Street Ripley Woods Street Rose Angel Circle Wall Road Wallridge Drive Willington Place Woodland Drive It is the town’s policy to grind the stumps of trees removed from town rights-of-way in order to make the re-planting of trees possible in the fall. Representatives from 811 will mark underground utility

The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources (PRCR) Department will sponsor a free Special Needs Resource Fair on Saturday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Richland Creek Community Church at 3229 Burlington Mills Road. The event will include over 25 professional vendors that specialize in providing to children and adults with special needs an array of services, including therapeutic, health and wellness, educational, recreational, music, financial and legal. The fair is designed to offer local families the opportunity to learn about dozens of programs, services, products and resources – all in one location. “As the needs and demands of residents with special needs continue to grow, the Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department is committed to working diligently to continue meeting those needs,” PRCR Director Ruben Wall said. Local businesses and non-profits scheduled to participate include The Miracle League of the Triangle, Brain Balance, Allied Rehab,

The Friends of Wake Forest Library are back on their accustomed schedule of holding their used book sale the first weekend in May at the same time as Meet in the Street. This year the sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2, in the Ledford Center at 120 North Wingate Street on the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus with thanks to the seminary for providing the space. Members of the Friends are invited to begin shopping at 8 a.m. for the best selection. If you are not a member, you may join at the door; memberships begin at $5. The Friends cannot accept credit cards; the sale is cash or checks only. The Friends use the money from the sale to provide materials and extra activities at the Wake Forest Library on East Holding Avenue that the county-wide library system does not fund. They are

Spring is a wonderful time for gardeners and for the farmers and vendors who make up the Wake Forest Farmers Market, which will be open this Saturday, April 25, from 8 a.m. to noon. There are spring greens galore along with spicy radishes, cool green onions, lots of eggs of all colors from free-range hens, local honey, pasture-raised meats, baked goods of all kinds, and assorted craft items. For a full list of vendors and their wares, go to www.wakeforestfarmersmarket.org and you can also find the market on Facebook.

Put on your fancy hat and your walking shoes and join the Wake Forest Garden Club for its annual Mad Hatter’s Tea, Garden Market and Garden Tour. The festivities are on Saturday, May 9, and are at the Wake Forest Historical Museum at 414 North Main Street in Wake Forest. The Tour, Garden Market and Classic Car show begin at 10 am. and go until 4 p.m..  The plated tea will be served from 11 am until 2 pm. This year the theme of the tour is pools, barns and backyard retreats, and all 10 gardens are located in or around the North Main Street Historical District. Pottery, jewelry, paintings and other art will be on display and available for purchase in our Garden Market, along with locally grown plants. Local classic car aficionados will have their prized vehicles on display and will be happy to share experiences and expertise

Wake Forest’s popular spring street festival, Meet in the Street, will be back on South White Street Saturday, May 2, for the 35th year, bigger and better than ever. Instead of confining the vendors and the fun to just one street, they will spill over into South Taylor Street and Brooks Street. And there will be more than 100 artisans’ booths along with food, live music, street performances and children’s activities. The popular beer garden will return. It is all free – except when you buy that painting or that necklace – and will last from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is presented by the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce and Wake Forest Downtown Inc.  

The CenturyLink Community Relations Team is once again hosting a Community Yard Sale with proceeds benefitting the Franklin County Relay for Life. The event is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, April 25, in the company parking lot at 14111 Capital Boulevard, just north of Wake Forest. Bobby Shatterly, Area Plant Supervisor and volunteer chairman for the CenturyLink Relay for Life team, is enthusiastic about this annual event. “We encourage people in the community to reserve a spot, and then get busy with their spring cleaning at home. It’s the perfect time to turn unwanted items into cash!” Yard sale spots are sold for $20 each, and 100 percent of the money raised goes to Relay for Life. All the proceeds from selling merchandise belongs to the seller. Anyone interested in reserving a spot needs to contact Stacey Arnold at CenturyLink. She can be reached via email

Area residents are invited to attend the 4th Wake Forest Memorial Flag-Raising Ceremony on Monday, May 4, at 11 a.m. The service will be held in Centennial Plaza, in front of the Wake Forest Town Hall, 301 South Brooks Street, to honor Anderson “Mitchell” Munn who served his nation in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Members of Munn’s family have been invited to participate in the ceremony which will include patriotic songs, special remarks, a memorial wreath laying and the ceremonial flag-raising by members of the Wake Forest High School JROTC. After raising the American flag, the JROTC will raise the U.S. Navy service flag in recognition of the military branch in which Munn served. Both flags will fly in Centennial Plaza throughout May. Photographs and other remembrances of Munn will be displayed in Centennial Plaza during the ceremony, then in the town hall lobby through the end

As the Gazette reported in the April 15 issue, the schedule for replacing three bridges in Wake Forest has changed again. A fourth replacement project, the bridge over Horse Creek on Purnell Road, is underway and should be finished in midsummer. The three bridges are those over Sanford Creek on Forestville Road, over Richland Creek on West Oak Avenue/Wall Road, and over Smith Creek on Rogers Road. The Forestville Road replacement project was scheduled to begin this month but has now been pushed back to begin Wednesday, July 1. The work on West Oak Avenue, once planned to begin in July will now begin in late September. The work on Rogers Road, which includes widening the road from its intersection with South Franklin Street to the intersection with Forestville and Heritage Lake roads, is slated to begin in March 2016 and be completed that August. Now that we know Columbia

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street this Saturday, April 25. *Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution, will be at the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street from April 17 through May 31. This is one of only six North Carolina museums selected to host the exhibit, which is free and will be open to the public every day except Memorial Day during the exhibit. *The always popular HerbFest will return for the second of its two weekends – April 24-26. Find the largest selection of non-GMO organic herbs, heritage tomatoes, heirloom vegetable plants and local perennials. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. *The Old Campus Trek, when current Wake Forest University students, faculty and