If you are wondering, here is the answer to the construction around Gateway Commons shopping center. On the northwest side, the new building will be a Meineke Car Care Center. On the southwest side, that new building will be a Dollar Tree. Finally, though the editor has not been out there to check on any progress, when the grading begins the site behind the shopping center on Friendship Chapel Road will be the Wake Forest Charter Academy.
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The editor likes to keep in touch with the snowfall on Tug Hill and her home town of Redfield, N.Y. This morning the news in the Syracuse Post-Standard was for lots of snow but more down to the south. Binghamton, down on the southern border, this morning received 8.8 inches in four hours.
There was no current news from Tug Hill, but Judy Tompkins, who lives on the easterly side of Redfield, and Carolyn Yerdon, an official snow measurer who lives on the west side, reported some totals on Jan. 29 with Judy sending them on in her column for the local newspapers.
“As of the beginning of the week, our snow total was 154 inches, with 26 inches arriving on Monday and Carolyn Yerdon has had a total of 274 inches. She said that as long as we have this much snow we might as well go for the record snow fall of 420 inches in the winter of 1996-1997. I think that the road crews are wondering where they are going to put it all and is there enough time in the days for them to move it all. We appreciate all of their efforts.”
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The Wake Forest Town Board will hold its annual planning retreat Thursday afternoon and most of the day Friday in the new Renaissance Centre, and much of the discussion will be about the projects and the costs the commissioners plan on including in two or three bond referendums next May.
These items were the top of the list a year ago; they may be changed, discarded or new items added during this week’s discussions. A year ago the list came in at about $35 million for everything, but since then items such as the cultural arts center has become reality as the Renaissance Centre and is being paid for through a loan. That takes $12 million off the list – or the commissioners could add more projects to add back the $12 million.
* Phase II Joyner Park development with a community center and playground, mostly paid now by the town at $8.8 million.
* Smith and Sanford Creek Greenway, which would be largely paid through a grant.
* Phase III Smith Creek Greenway, with about half paid by a grant.
* Dunn Creek Greenway, with its cost being born by the town.
* Rogers Road widening at the same time DOT rebuilds the bridge, $280,000.
* West Oak Avenue pedestrian underpass, most paid through grants.
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