Liverpool: Carolina’s Beatles Experience will headline the Six Sundays in Spring concert on Sunday, May 17, recreating songs the British rag-mops brought to the US. Six Sundays in Spring is a Wake Forest tradition, concerts on the lawn on fine spring afternoons. The concert event now is held in the amphitheatre at E. Carroll Joyner Park on Harris Road. 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. Other acts scheduled to perform during this year’s concert series are Jeanne Holly on May 24; and Gravy Boys on May 31. To view this year’s concert schedule, visit www.wakeforestnc.gov/2014-concert-schedule.aspx. New

Ken Berger, a nationally recognized sportswriter for The Columbia (S.C.) Record now retired, will speak about his career during what many consider to be the heyday of sports journalism on Sunday, May 17, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Wake Forest Historical Museum. The museum on North Main Street is currently hosting a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America. The exhibit and the Ken Berger program are both free. Berger called himself an “accidental sports writer” because, as a new college graduate, he hardly knew which baseball teams were in the National League or the American League. But he was a natural storyteller with a down home vocabulary and a knack for listening. He gave his readers what he describes as “literature in a hurry.” He was honored as South Carolina’s Journalist of the Year in 1996 and was named three times by the Associated

The Wake Forest Farmers Market is now advertising on the front page of The Wake Forest Gazette, and the ad has a link to the market’s website where Market Manager Robin Hendricks posts a lists of that week’s vendors every Friday. Check it out. If you have shopped sometimes or shop regularly, you know there is an astonishing range of items – food and otherwise – available at the market. You can find everything from seafood fresh from the North Carolina coast to doggie treats to knit caps and scarves to pasture-raised meats to fresh eggs to baked goods to seasonal fruits and vegetables. The market is open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday in the Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street in front of the town’s Renaissance Centre. For a full list of vendors and their wares, go to www.wakeforestfarmersmarket.org and you can also find the market on Facebook.

 One new commercial building – a Valvoline quick oil change – and 46 new homes – 42 single-family and four townhouses – were permitted by the Wake Forest Inspections Department in April. The Valvoline facility is being built at 2005 South Main Street by Maxco Construction out of Monroe. The company paid $14,936 in fees, and the improvement value was listed at $684,380. The inspections department also issued a permit earlier in April to Cecil Holcomb Renovations to demolish the brick home that stood there for decades. The fee was $240. The townhouses are being built by Dan Ryan Builders from 1418 to 1424 Montonia Street in the Franklin County section of the Richland Hills subdivision. The Town of Wake Forest will get the town property taxes, and Franklin County will get its property tax levy. The total fees were $11,350.50 and the total improvement value is $318,248. The single-family

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street this Saturday, May 16. *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. *Help develop the Wake County Transit Plan by attending a public meeting Wednesday, May 13, at 6 p.m. in the ground floor meeting room at Wake Forest Town Hall. See article about the planning in this week’s issue. *Relay for Life of North Raleigh/Wake Forest Saturday, May 16, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Heritage High School. The next meeting for the volunteers