The political maneuvering, jostling, gossip and innuendo has been going on for months and will continue, but us mushrooms, not privy to it all, will get some political clarity later this spring when the candidates pay a fee and declare they will run for election.
In Wake Forest the contests will be for the offices of mayor and two commissioner seats. Our current mayor is Vivian Jones, who has held that seat since 2001, six terms. The two commissioners who are finishing their first four-year terms are Keith Shackleford and Nick Sliwinski. Candidates for mayor will pay a $50 fee; candidates for commissioner pay a $15 fee.
The filing period will be from 8:30 a.m. on July 7, 2025 to 12 noon on July 18, 2025 at the Wake County Board of Elections.
The Wake County Board of Elections will hold two weeks in July open for candidates to declare, from 8:30 a.m. on July 7, 2025 to 12 noon on July 18, 2025.
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Wake Forest: As you continue your plans to Wake Forest Wake County with your 584 acre CPA 23 03 ETJ expansion and plans for R3 rezoning the last wildlife corridor that remains, expect significant opposition like you have never experienced before. EVERYONE now really knows what sustained, smart growth involves and how it erased trees, wildlife and open spaces. Your preoccupation and non-mandated goal of adding another 60,000 citizens in the next 15 years, which will double our population, must be halted. The outside national companies have built mediocre to average copy and paste housing HOA developments where real neighborhoods used to be constructed as recently as ten years ago. Apartments, condos, townhouses and homes with no room to move about now are coming off the assembly lines as we watch soon after clear cutting and leveling are completed. It’s 2025 and time for new leadership. It’s time for a new slogan, too. Sustained, smart growth, must not be sustained and it’s not smart either. Quit complaining people, do something. Say no to Fill the Hole. Wake Forest: Where the college used to be and a forest once stood.