November 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — A year ago, a small claims case such as this routinely ended in an eviction order and a padlocking by a deputy sheriff. But with rental vacancies rising, these days it’s not so cut-and-dried. The elderly man and his adult daughter...
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November 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — Sometimes, you have to spend money to make money. But in the case of a planned aquatics center, which proponents say would dwarf other competitive swim facilities on the East Coast and pump $14 million into the city’s economy in o...
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November 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — The information revolution has officially run amok. After 89 people were caught viewing pornography on public computers at the Central Library in the first six months of 2009, the Greensboro Public Library has taken action to make it mo...
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November 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — By 4:45 a.m. Thursday, the lights came on in one kitchen after another at LeMans Apartments on Lawndale Drive, where Twa Har prepared for his 90-minute carpool to a Perdue Farms chicken plant.
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November 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — Five hours. That was a long time for a pregnant woman to be on her feet waiting in line to get a filling at the dentist. Not that Stephanie Atkins, one of 549 people processed for treatment by 1 p.m. at the Missions of Mercy dental clin...
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November 4, 2009
RUFFIN — Nervously, the clerks recounted, the driver walked into French’s Corner Country Store and Grill for a pack of cigarettes and a cup of ice. That’s when they noticed the silver Dodge Durango.
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October 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — The sidewalk known as “The Block,” the city’s most visible magnet for loitering and public drinking for 20 years, has just been cleaned up — in one week.
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October 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — The last time the market tanked and the Great Depression set in, the solution was clear for the Queen Anne transitional with the wraparound porch at Greene Street and Fisher Avenue. Divvy it up into flats, nail up some kitchen cabinets...
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October 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — Every Southern town has an Atticus Finch, or needs one. Like the lawyer Gregory Peck played in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” he’s the first to stand when someone enters the room, man or woman. And he’s the last to dis...
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October 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — One more fish pond at the city limit was making room for one more shopping center, but that’s not what drew the crowd. No, the crowd on the banks of Baldwin’s swimming hole gathered to witness something rare and sweet: vindi...
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October 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — This used to be known as an “oxymoron,” a $5 crossword clue denoting a contradiction in terms:“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”But since June 2004 at City Hall, a corps of patient switc...
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October 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — The location of artistic benches, which were removed from the Downtown Greenway on Friday after neighbors complained, looked good on paper but ignored some basic urban topography. Just a stone’s throw from where the benches were r...
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October 1, 2009
MCLEANSVILLE — In the interest of time, what’s not wrong with this picture of a North Carolina prison yard? First, trickling fountains, a handcrafted windmill and a wishing well don’t belong. Nor do marigolds, banana plants, walking trai...
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September 27, 2009
“Hey Grandma,” one of Spc. Ben Bryant’s recent letters from Afghanistan home to Greensboro begins. “Recovering from a 7 day mission. We have been all over looking for bad guys. Found a couple ...”
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September 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — This is the kind of job where you might turn up an antique Coca-Cola bottle clean enough to take to the Super Flea. And the scuttlebutt is that a worker inside found a stash of silver dollars — of rare vintage, no doubt — be...
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Greensboro College has a new interim president, following a spring and summer of financial uncertainty that brought the historic liberal arts school to the brink of bankruptcy. C. Brent DeVore, 68, who retired two months ago from a long career as presiden...
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September 14, 2009
GRAHAM — It was Sally Field’s Oscar moment: The character of Norma Rae, about to be dragged from her job on the factory floor, stages a last act of defiance. She scrawls “UNION” on a piece of cardboard and stands on a table, while...
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GREENSBORO — Until now in southwest Guilford, you had to come to the city to play ball, paddle a boat or fish in a park. No longer: With the opening of Southwest Park, county residents have 80 new acres to play along the banks of Randleman Lake &mda...
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September 13, 2009
Once in a while, on an outwardly calm sea, a story breaks loose from its moorings and veers into uncharted waters. Such was the riddle behind of a packet of love letters — found stashed in an old piano bench in Fisher Park — written by a myste...
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September 9, 2009
More than 60 people have signed up to adopt a puppy that had been set on fire and left for dead in Greenfield Park in August, but the dog must first recuperate before being released for adoption.Animal cruelty investigators as yet have no leads in the cas...
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September 6, 2009
Even as Guilford County’s mental health authority braces for another round of deep cuts from Raleigh, the local agency sent more than $3.2 million in state funds back for the year ending June 30, and sent $4.6 million back the previous year. Why? Un...
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August 30, 2009
HIGH POINT — At William Penn High School, the curtains over the stage were heavy burgundy velvet, like a king’s robe.Before integration sent the first two Penn students, Miriam and Brenda Fountain, across town to white schools 50 years ago thi...
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August 23, 2009
Greensboro’s new ban on front-yard parking has been on the books for a month, and so far, inspectors say the calls swamping city switchboards fall into three categories: 1. My neighbor parks on his front yard. Give him a ticket. 2. It’s my lan...
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August 18, 2009
Although the H1N1 virus isn’t the dangerous swine flu initially feared, Guilford County health and school officials have met to plan for what they expect will be back-to-school outbreaks of the illness. “It is not gone,” said Connie Jone...
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August 13, 2009
BETHANIA — Community gardens, biodiversity, the “locavore” food movement — what if it turned out that all these brainy concepts are as old as Muddy Creek and the people who settled here 250 years ago? They were Moravians, a dozen...
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