For the love of music

Band experiences in high school can be costly, but the results are worth it. Support Wake Forest High’s band programs with a great evening of comedy tomorrow. by Clellie Allen WAKE FOREST — Cost of a sousaphone — $5,000; participation in one season of marching band — $500; learning lessons of responsibility, hard work and dedication? Priceless. Spe ...

Wake Weekly earns top honors

WAKE FOREST — The Wake Weekly staff celebrated receiving the 2013 First Place General Excellence award for North Carolina newspapers, 3,500-10,000 in circulation in fun fashion. The honor came on the heels of several other individual awards. Out of nearly 30 papers, Bob Allen received a first place award for lighter columns and editorial page contr ...

Let the good times roll

Wake Forest celebrated its version of Mardi Gras Saturday, with merchants proffering delicious food, acrobats and others performing, and attendees donning colorful costumes to parade down South White Street. Above, Jennifer Turner gussied up with her children, Julia, 7, and Mollie, 5, along with Winn Godier, 8, (in white) and tossed beads to the c ...

Family sledding fun ends in near-tragedy

By Juliet McDonald YOUNGSVILLE — It was supposed to be a vacation night to remember — for the fun of family sledding time, something not too available in Youngsville. Little Parker Bailey, age 3, was having the time of his life Wednesday, Feb. 12, flying down the hill on his tube. His dad, Travis, would come down and help him back up the hill after ...

This Week In History – Mar. 6, 2014

In a recurring feature, The Wake Weekly looks back at what happened this week throughout the years. 1934 •Bloodhounds were brought in to try to catch an arsonist, who once again has struck in Wake Forest, this time burning to the ground the golf cabin at the Paschal Golf Course. Following the scent led the hounds along Durham Road to Wake Forest Ba ...

NCPA elects officers, directors

CHAPEL HILL — Todd Allen, publisher of The Wake Weekly, was elected to the board of directors of the North Carolina Press Association/Press Services for 2014-15 at the association’s 141st annual meeting Feb. 27. Regina Howard-Glaspie, circulation director of the News & Record in Greensboro, was tapped to become the next president. Howard-Glaspi ...

Laugh it up

WAKE FOREST — Comedy returns in larger-than-life fashion to the Renaissance Centre, 403 Brooks St. Saturday at 6:30 p.m. for the annual Rotary Club Comedy Night. The $25 cost and live and silent auctions benefit the Wake Forest High band boosters. Comic guests include the side-splitting Andy Forrester, John Felts and the always corny Greg Fishel, a ...

Candidate filing ends, slates are set

By Clellie Allen The filing period for the 2014 elections ended at noon Friday. Only a handful of races will participate in the May 6 primary election, but some of those races are for key positions such as state senator and Franklin County Sheriff. A few races will be finalized in the primary. When a partisan race has more than one candidate in a p ...

Wake School Board votes for repeal of teacher tenure law

By Juliet McDonald CARY — In a packed room Tuesday night, the Wake County School Board heard from educator after educator as to why the state’s newly passed teacher tenure law should be repealed and a way to raise teacher pay equitably should be found. The board agreed and passed a resolution to that effect, each board member dramatically standing ...

Check your blind spots

WAKE FOREST — A car was forced onto the concrete turn median entering South Main Street from Capital Boulevard Monday at 10:36 a.m., when a driver failed to see another car in her blind spot. Driving north on Capital, the woman in the car reacted to the hazard lights of a vehicle in front of her according to the police report. She merged into the l ...