Tuesday evening the Wake Forest Town Board heard from Ray Boylston, a senior associate at RLS & Associates, the consulting firm for the Wake Forest-Rolesville Bus Study, which is complete. After looking at three alternatives – a fixed route through Rolesville, microvans for on-call person trips and a mix of Uber and the microvans – the steering committee agreed on the fixed Rolesville route with enhancements. That new alternative, which increased service hours – 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays – eliminated the $1.25 fare in Rolesville and kept the same route as the first alternative. It also would assess the costs, minus the grants and use of GoRaleigh buses, to each town based on the mileage. Rolesville would be paying a substantial larger portion – 67 percent vs. 33 percent – of the $150,000 total annual cost that Wake Forest because it has more miles. The study and

“Our Story of Faith: The History of Wake Forest Baptist Church 1835-2015” by the Rev. Dr. Timothy Shaun Price has been published and is now available for pre-order sales at the church’s website, www.wakeforestbaptistchurch.org. The church began with a prayer meeting of Wake Forest College students seeking revival and has grown through 180 years to one of the most prominent Baptist congregations in North Carolina. When it finally built a church on the college campus that was completed in 1914 it was acclaimed as one of the finest church buildings in the state and the South and still can awe any visitor. Wake Forest Baptist was the mother church for Olive Branch Baptist Church, the oldest Black church in Wake Forest. It has had noted congregants and pastors, including Dr. William Poteat, the champion of science and evolution during the early 1900s. Most if not all of the college professors

The Wake Forest Police Department is again urging residents to guard against becoming the victim of fraud following more reports of phone scams involving gift cards. Many times it’s hard to tell what is a scam and what isn’t. But whenever someone asks you to pay using a gift card – it’s a scam. Gift cards are often used as part of several different scams, including IRS, jury duty and grandparent scams. When scammers ask for money or demand that you pay them, they’ll direct you to buy a set of gift cards. These gift cards can be for a range of stores or products, including Target, Best Buy, Sam’s Club, Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play. Then, they’ll ask you to give them the gift card number and PIN information from the back of the card. Once they have that information, they can spend your money using the gift cards. Recently,

(I apologize for the late publication of the August building permits. The September and October permits will be published next week.) In August the Wake Forest Inspections Department permitted nine townhouses and 54 single-family homes along with one new commercial building on Finger Lakes Drive and one new multi-family building, Crenshaw Trace on Durham Road, which will be a four-story apartment building for residents 55 and older who will not have to pay more than 30 percent of their income for rent. The Finger Lakes building will be constructed by Focus Design Builders who paid $15,121.39 in fees for a 9,000-square-foot building which will add $1,272,156 to the tax base. Sunbelt Rentals will occupy that building. Crenshaw Trace is being built by Waterford Contracting who paid $184,448 in fees for a building that will add $5,367,200 to the tax base. The inspectors also signed off on the fit-ups for Tarlton

The Wake Forest Police Department is now accepting monetary donations through Saturday, Nov. 21, as part of its 14th Annual Turkey Drive. Area residents can support this worthy cause by submitting online donations via PayPal at http://bit.ly/WFPDTurkeyDrive. Cash and checks written to the Wake Forest Police Department are also accepted. Anyone wishing to contribute cash or a check to this year’s Turkey Drive should contact Det. M.W. Sattler at 919-795-7270 or msattler@wakeforestnc.gov. Due to COVID-19, the police department is currently accepting monetary donations only to this year’s Turkey Drive. Donations of frozen turkeys will not be accepted at this time. All monetary donations will be used to purchase additional turkeys. Officials are considering several options for safely distributing the turkeys this year. Additional information will be provided once plans are finalized. Det. Sattler organized the police department’s first Turkey Drive in 2007. Since then, the department has distributed nearly 9,000 turkeys to needy