Knightdale News

Q: You are a modern day Annie Oakley and many know that you are a pretty good shot and have recently started a shooting group with a friend.

The Knightdale Farmer's Market opens 4-7 p.m. Thursday, June 6, at 207 Main St., Knightdale.

Knightdale mayor Russell Killen speaks against House Bill 150 at a Wake County Mayors Association press conference in March.

Both towns have grown by more than 10 percent in the two years ending last July, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Local 3-year-old aspiring soccer players receive some heads-on experience at the hands of Active Kids Soccer League Director Darin Dixon in 2003.

The first three hours were easy – the sun blazed, music pulsed, and Naylor could hear the laughter of children bounding around in an inflatable bouncy castle nearby.

East Wake Animal Hospital is conducting a rabies clinic 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 14, at 2100 Zebulon Road, Zebulon.

Zebulon officers took Richard Gardner Ennis, 50, of 510 Sallinger Street, Knightdale, into custody before he ever exited the bank.

During a recent visit with children at Richland Creek Elementary and Sanford Elementary schools, members of the Knightdale-Wake Forest alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority donated school supplies and copies of a new children's book.

Friends of Bruce Hemmingway are having a fundraiser 2 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at the Rudinos Restaurant, 4022 Village Park Drive, Knightdale.

Former Knightdale Mayor Billy Wilder and I are writing "Images of America: Knightdale," to be published in the fall of this year.

Jimmy Seth Perry, 62, of 200 Stone Path Drive, Fuquay-Varina, is charged with common law robbery.

The town of Knightdale has defended itself vigorously against accusations by former police officer Vickie Powers that the town unfairly demoted her and subjected her to a hostile work environment.

The man, who police say is Jimmy Seth Perry of 200 Stone Path Circle in Fuquay-Varina, handed a teller a note, an arrest warrant says, "putting her in fear of bodily harm." Raleigh police were told that the robber left the bank in a taxi that headed east on New Bern Avenue.

NCDOT Secretary Tony Tata said Tuesday that the project to redo of 11 miles of Interstate 40 through Wake County cannot be delayed.

Since Vickie Powers filed a lawsuit against Knightdale on Dec. 20, Knightdale has spent $31,000 in attorneys fees, according to town staff.

The Public Safety Committee at its meeting on May 6 instituted a new policy which requires wrecker services to have a tow yard within five miles of Knightdale in order to respond to towing requests through the town.

Mike Marsh, who began working at Stained Glass Associates at the age of 17, bought the downtown Knightdale business after the former owner passed away.

Tomisha S. Owens, 34, of 788 Chestnut St., Henderson, was arrested May 10 on a charge of failing to appear in court.

Kyree Reginald Easter, 21, of Wilmington was being held in the Wake County Detention Center when Garner police served him with arrest warrants on Friday.