Tuesday night’s town board meeting came in different, unrelated chunks, beginning with the first act when Commissioner Nick Sliwinsk moved to take the agenda item — the second reading for the proposed Friday Night on White curfew — off the agenda and everyone agreed. Sliwinski said his was the only vote against tabling the ordinance at the work session. He continued to reflect on what other commissioners said then, and had a few “informal conversations” about the curfew. Immediately afterward, the board went into a closed session to consult with their attorney, Hassan Kingsberry, but it only lasted about six minutes. There was no explanation afterward. Then there was a public hearing about the former nursing home on South Allen Road — long abandoned — where Stacy Woodhouse with GWP Developers of Warrenton plans to renovate the building and lot and turn it into apartments for veterans and others 62

100 years of history In the 1920s, the Wake Forest Town Board regulated the playing of Victrolas on Sundays. If you have Victrolas, you have music, and people, particularly young people, want to dance. Dancing, not just the Charleston but the Lindy Hop, the two-step and the tango, was the rage. Edward, the Prince of Wales who danced the night away in London, visited the United States in 1924, inspiring the song, “I Danced with a Man who Danced with a Girl who Danced with the Prince of Wales.” The 600 or 700 young men on the Wake Forest College campus knew what was happening around the country. They had radios; they went to the movies. Wake Forest had two theaters, the Collegiate where Shorty’s is now and the Forest across the street where Fidelity Bank stands. There had been movies in town for years; in 1915, H.E. Joyner was

On Thursday, June 13, Wake Forest Police obtained arrest warrants on the following individuals in connection with several vehicle break-ins and a car theft on May 30: All will be charged with seven counts of felony breaking and entering a motor vehicle, felony larceny of a motor vehicle, felony larceny, and felony conspiracy; four counts of misdemeanor larceny; and one count of misdemeanor conspiracy. Police say most of the vehicles targeted on May 30 were unlocked. As a result, officials are again urging residents to consider adopting the “9 PM Routine.” The 9 PM Routine is a national campaign that encourages residents to create a nighttime routine consisting of basic safety measures, including locking your doors, closing your garage, making sure no items are left visible in your car, and turning on your porch lights. Most cars that are broken into are unlocked. Criminals walk through neighborhoods, trying vehicle door

When you get your annual property tax bill from Wake County later this fall, you will see a new fee, either $44, $121 or $231, for the new Wake Forest utility, Stormwater Management. To learn about the new stormwater office in town government and the fee, do the following: go to the town website — https://www.wakeforestnc.gov, click on the Engineering Department, click on Stormwater Management, while there click on Stormwater Utility in the box at the left, and scroll down on the stormwater utility page to see the fee schedule. This is how the new fee is assessed: “The fee is based on the amount of impervious surface on a property, such as roofs, driveways, and parking lots that contribute to the generation of stormwater runoff.  “An ‘impervious surface’ is a hard surface on a property that does not allow rain to soak into the ground such as, but not