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OAK RIDGE – Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Golden Acres neighborhood off Alcorn Road in Oak Ridge on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 2, after neighbors reported hearing multiple rounds being discharged from a firearm.

Upon arrival, deputies determined the shots were fired from a home in the 4900 block of Golden Oaks Drive, and that shots had been fired from the home periodically throughout the day and into the evening before someone called 911.

Deputies repeatedly tried to make contact with Alan Stuart Safrit, a 66-yearold white male and Golden Oaks Drive resident who is believed to have fired multiple rounds from a firearm; Safrit also had an outstanding warrant for communicating a threat to a neighbor.

Deputies on the scene reported hearing multiple rounds strike nearby trees and believed residents were in danger, so the neighborhood was put on lockdown for a period of time; after further investigation, deputies found no evidence the gunshots were intentionally directed at other persons or property and no injuries were reported.

Safrit was taken into custody about 8:30 the following morning.

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OAK RIDGE – Oak Ridge Town Council will consider reducing the speed limit on Peeples Road from 45 mph to 35 mph.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has concurred with the town’s request for the reduction, Town Manager Bill Bruce said in a July 30 memo to the council. The request included a petition signed by 25 property owners seeking the lower speed limit.

Bruce is asking the council to approve or deny a certificate of municipal declaration to repeal the 45 mph speed limit on Peeples Road, a twolane road that runs between N.C. 68 and Alcorn Road.

If the council approves the declaration, the speed limit would be established at 35 mph, as required by state law for unmarked roads in municipalities.

“All roads in Oak Ridge are 35 mph unless otherwise marked,” Bruce said.

In other business, Bruce is asking the council to approve Oak Ridge’s agreement with Guilford County for animal shelter and animal control services. The contract increases the town’s costs from $15,715 to $21,513 in the fiscal year that started July 1, Bruce told the council. The agreement shortens the term from five years to three years.

The agreement dates back to 2000 and was last renewed in 2016, according to Bruce.

Separately, the council will consider approving a budget amendment to add $447 that was raised last fiscal year to the restricted fund for Oak Ridge’s new site honoring veterans. Efforts to raise $150,000 for the project in Heritage Green Park on Linville Road recently got underway.

The council will also consider declaring the town’s 2005 GMC Sierra truck as surplus.

“With the recent purchase of a new (pre-owned) work truck for the Parks and Recreation Department, the town’s older work vehicle is no longer needed,” Bruce said.

If the council declares the vehicle as surplus, Bruce can sell the truck.

Oak Ridge Town Council will meet Thursday, Aug. 5, beginning 7 p.m. at Oak Ridge Town Hall, 8315 Linville Road. Citizens may attend in person, and the meeting will be livestreamed on the town’s YouTube channel and a link to the recorded meeting will be added to its Facebook page. For a detailed meeting agenda, visit www.oakridgenc.com.

Photo by Chris Burritt/NWO Summerfi eld Farms owner David Couch is exploring the idea of refurbishing this deteriorating farmhouse on Pleasant Ridge Road for a farm-to-table restaurant.

SUMMERFIELD – Refurbishing the Thomas farmhouse for a farm-to-table restaurant is one of the “starter ideas” being explored by developer David Couch as he plans the residential and commercial development of about 1,000 acres in Summerfield.

The deteriorating house is located on Pleasant Ridge Road across from Summerfield Farms. An organic garden behind the house would supply the restaurant, according to sketches prepared by designer Victor Dover and his colleagues hired by Couch.

South of the farmhouse, which is surrounded by barns and other decaying buildings, is one of Couch’s cattle pastures that Dover envisions preserving as open space. A row of cedar trees across the pasture from Pleasant Ridge Road would shield the view of housing from the view of passing motorists, he said.

Such development would preserve long vistas, one of Couch’s goals, according to Dover.

“We don’t have the plan yet; we don’t have the numbers yet,” the designer said during a July 26 meeting of the Summerfield Planning Board. But he added, “That kind of idea is what we can do in many places on this property.”

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