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Since 1947, The Wake Weekly has been reporting the news from Wake Forest and beyond. Today we continue to focus on this regional center along with the towns of Youngsville, Rolesville, Wendell, Zebulon and Knightdale.

If sanctuary cities won’t cooperate, defund them
03/10/2025

If sanctuary cities won’t cooperate, defund them

The newly inaugurated president has set an extraordinarily high bar for his second term with executive orders to secure the border, increase fossil fuel production, end the federal government’s DEI programs, revive the economy and much more. Because Trump’s agenda is wide-reaching, expectations ...

Lawmakers made right call on relief
03/10/2025

Lawmakers made right call on relief

When the North Carolina General Assembly voted unanimously on Oct. 24 to appropriate another $604 million for disaster relief, Gov. Roy Cooper said it wasn’t enough. He was obviously right — and very wrong. Included in the $3.9 billion package the governor proposed two days earlier were massive ...

Wake Forest board to hear proposal on social district
03/10/2025

Wake Forest board to hear proposal on social district

The Wake Forest Board of Commissioners will hear a proposal Tuesday night that would create a social district in the downtown area. A social district is an area where alcoholic beverages can be consumed outside of the establishment in which they are sold. The proposal is for a phased approach to the...

Six charter schools to open in 2026; one renewal declined
03/10/2025

Six charter schools to open in 2026; one renewal declined

Six applications for charter schools opening in the fall of 2026 gained approval, and one renewal for this fall was declined on Monday by the North Carolina Charter School Review Commission. Community School of Digital and Visual Arts in Durham, a kindergarten through eighth grade institution founde...

ACC media rights legal fight raises issues beyond sports, money
03/09/2025

ACC media rights legal fight raises issues beyond sports, money

Legal battles pitting the Atlantic Coast Conference against two member schools have attracted attention primarily on the sports page. But the disputes raise questions extending beyond stadiums and arenas. A dozen state attorneys general and North Carolina’s leading business lobbying group have add...

New businesses coming to Wake Forest
03/09/2025

New businesses coming to Wake Forest

The following businesses were issued a building permit to operate in Wake Forest in the month indicated: September 2024 • The Now Message, 11108 Ligon Mill Road, Ste. 120. • Emerald City Associates LLC, 745 Merritt Capital Dr., Ste. 103. • ProAudio, 5103 Unicon Dr., Ste. L. • Lighthouse Chir...

Government official encounters disinformation after Helene
03/09/2025

Government official encounters disinformation after Helene

Just a day after Helene passed in late September, I found myself restless to do something to help. An event with that scale of destruction often highlights the skills we lack. But I knew that folks were without water, and bringing them water was something I could do. I threw on my Town Council name....

Will Elmo find a new home?
03/08/2025

Will Elmo find a new home?

The 19-inch black and white TV was rolled into our classroom each day to watch ninth grade physical science on WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill. We were introduced to basic concepts of physics and chemistry, the states of matter, principles of energy, electricity and magnetism and Newton’s laws, with actual...

Can NC Republicans win governor’s races anymore?
03/08/2025

Can NC Republicans win governor’s races anymore?

As of 2020, the national Republican Party had only won the popular vote in one of the previous eight presidential elections. The political class believed this failure represented a serious indictment of the GOP, even though Republican presidents held the White House for 12 years in this period. But....

Wilson County earns top livestock honors
03/07/2025

Wilson County earns top livestock honors

The N.C. State Fair Livestock officials have released the winners of the N.C. State Fair’s Junior Livestock Sale of Champions.Annah Claire Sullivan of Lucama showed the Grand Champion junior market steer. The winning $23,000 bid was placed by N.C. Farm Bureau Insurance, Farm Credit Associations of...

North Carolina doesn’t overcharge drivers
03/07/2025

North Carolina doesn’t overcharge drivers

Our state levies a motor fuels tax of 40.65 cents per gallon. This is one of the highest rates in the nation — but don’t jump to conclusions. North Carolina doesn’t spend more on highways than the average state. And motorists aren’t being overcharged. With so much data accessible online, it....

East Wake downs Louisburg in tournament
03/07/2025

East Wake downs Louisburg in tournament

The East Wake Warriors defeated the Louisburg Warriors 70-41 for third place in the Navy bracket of the South Granville Holiday Invitational Dec. 31. East Wake managed to find the basket early in the first quarter with Jacob Byers and Pierre Crespo combining for the first 13 points. Eric Johns and N...

Garment workers are taking on Nike. Americans should support them
03/06/2025

Garment workers are taking on Nike. Americans should support them

Absent in the raging debate over trade policy and tariffs is a truth about the economy that those of us in poorer countries know all too well: U.S. corporations and their billionaire owners profit from massive supply chains that exploit low-wage workers in the Global South. For decades, these unregu...

Thomas, Arthur vie for District 6 commissioner seat
03/06/2025

Thomas, Arthur vie for District 6 commissioner seat

Incumbent Shinica Thomas and challenger Jacob Arthur are vying for the District 6 seat on the Wake County Board of Commissioners. Thomas, who is running as a Democrat, was elected to the board in 2020 and serves as its chairperson. Republican Jacob Arthur won his primary election by a wide margin in...

Getting the entire elephant under the tent
03/06/2025

Getting the entire elephant under the tent

The puzzler asks, “How do you get an 800-pound elephant under a tent?” The answer is one step at a time. First, you get the trunk, then the head and so on and so on. For our present discussion, the elephant symbolizes gambling and the tent represents the state of North Carolina. Gambling is bein...

MAGA prepares for civil war while Dems swoon over Taylor Swift
03/05/2025

MAGA prepares for civil war while Dems swoon over Taylor Swift

If there ever was a modern nation “fiddling while Rome burns” it is the America of the 21st century. No matter what happens in the community on all sides around us — homelessness, mass killings, the death of civics education in schools, sports gambling, rampant sexual abuse in the churches, in...

Protect the public policy that enabled my invention to help people see
03/05/2025

Protect the public policy that enabled my invention to help people see

“How can you help the people around you?” My mother’s words were front of mind when, in the late 1990s, I moved from China to the United States as a postdoctoral research associate to continue my research in augmented and virtual reality technology. I was awarded a National Science Foundation ...

Major League Table Tennis will travel to Raleigh in September
03/05/2025

Major League Table Tennis will travel to Raleigh in September

Major League Table Tennis will make its way to Raleigh, N.C. for the very first time as they play at the Triangle Badminton and Table Tennis Club from Sept. 20-22. With the viewership of table tennis continuously on the rise, fans in the United States have been able to get their fill from the MLTT.....

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