Olde Wake Forest, a 10-lot infill subdivision on an extension of North Wingate Street, will be back before the Wake Forest Planning Board Tuesday night, May 5, with minor changes after the town board voted four to one against approval in December 2013 and Wake Superior Court Judge Elaine Bushfan remanded the subdivision request back to the town board in August 2014. In 2013 Commissioners Margaret Stinnett, Zachary Donahue, Greg Harrington and Anne Reeve found that the developer, Geer Street Properties owned by Sanford Bailey, had not provided enough evidence to support one of the four required findings, that the project would not be detrimental to the neighborhood or adjacent properties. Bushfan’s order said the town board must “make additional finding supporting its basis for the denial of Petitioner’s application.” During the public hearing about the project in 2013, neighbors said they feared construction runoff would flood their properties and

About that Gettysburg Cyclorama, the 376-foot painting of Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. When Brief Bits said last week that it was displayed in Wake Forest in 1965, it was probably really displayed at that other Wake Forest, the university. This time it was the editor who was in a situation similar to the anxious grandparents who turn up here in June, expecting to watch a grandchild graduate from Wake Forest University. No wonder the museum is doing brisk sales with the new T-shirt: “Wake Forest: Where the college used to be.” It was in Winston-Salem in the new Groves Stadium there that the huge painting was probaly displayed. Ed Morris, the director of the Wake Forest Historical Museum, said this last week: “The large 365 degree painting was owned for years by Wake Forest University and was given to them after they moved from here. Groves Stadium was

The search for a new Wake Forest town manager has been narrowed to three candidates, Human Resources Director Virginia Jones said this week. The town commissioners and Mayor Vivian Jones will interview those three, all men, Wednesday and Thursday of this week in town. Virginia Jones said they will seek to keep the candidates’ identities private. She did say some of the men are from North Carolina and declined to say whether any Town of Wake Forest employees are among the three or applied for the position. Deputy Town Manager Roe O’Donnell, who will become the interim town manager on May 1 and remain in that post until the new manager takes up his position, has said he did not apply. A total of 92 people applied during the country-wide search which was conducted by Developmental Associates of Durham. That consulting firm, which has worked with the town for years

The Wake Forest/Northern Wake Relay for Life is moving to Richland Creek Community Church on Burlington Mills Road, a move made to control expenses and dedicate more funds to the American Cancer Society’s work to find a cure and support survivors. The Relay serves Rolesville, Wake Forest and North Raleigh and will be held Saturday, May 16, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Teams are needed from businesses, schools, families, churches and neighborhoods to raise funds during the time leading up to the Relay. You can sign up at www.RelayForLife.Org/NorthernWakeNC or call Marty Coward at 919-760-3520 or martycoward@nc.rr.com for details. You can also attend a team meeting Thursday, May 7, at 6:30 p.m. upstairs in the Mill Room at The Factory on South Main Street. This year’s Relay features a pancake breakfast May 16 from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Plates are $5 per person and include three hotcakes, two sausage patties and

Capital Transit, a four-part vocal jazz ensemble with musical accompaniment, will headline Six Sundays in Spring’s second concert Sunday, May 3, in E. Carroll Joyner Park’s amphitheater. Last Sunday’s free concert had to be moved to the Renaissance Centre in downtown Wake Forest because of the wet and the cold, but the weather is forecast to be sunny and warm this weekend. The concert runs from 5 to 7 p.m. with the winners of the Wake Forest Has Talent competition performing at intermission. Food and refreshments will be available for purchase, but concert goers may also bring a picnic. Alcoholic beverages, along with gas and charcoal grills are not allowed. Park visitors are reminded that firearms and unleashed pets are also prohibited. Capital Transit’s repertoire sometimes reflects the New York group, Manhattan Transfer, but they also branch out into blues, swing, pop, and doo-wop. The group is unique in using