Mayor Vivian Jones spoke Monday night during the annual State of the Town Dinner at The Forks, addressing everything from resurfacing town roads to the $1.1 billion federal grant that will reshape the present CSX rail line, give the town a railroad station and provide for train service direct from here to Charlotte several times a day.
The editor will attach it to the message she sends out to subscribers every Wednesday when the Gazette goes on line. For others, just send me a note and I will send you one.
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The Wake Forest Gazette is happy to announce that the town’s history book, “Connections . . . 100 Years of Wake Forest History” that was published in 2009 for the town’s centennial, has been digitized and is now available for free at https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/248642?ln=en#?xywh=-2068%2C692%2C4326%2C2510.
The people who made it happen are Sarah Soleim at the Wake Forest Historical Museum and Kristen Merryman at the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.
It has also been recently reprinted and is now on sale at the Wake Forest Town Hall.
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