September 20, 2009
The founding of First Baptist Church in Kernersville was fueled by revival, like the beginning of many churches, but the 10 charter members couldn’t envision the hard work that the church would face during the next 125 years. Founder’s day was...
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September 6, 2009
This love story didn’t develop overnight. It wasn’t love at first sight. One party not only was suspicious of a new relationship, but also was seriously shy. “I wondered if I would be wasting my time in trying to become his friend,&rdquo...
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August 23, 2009
Pete Oliphant can’t remember when hanging around a car repair shop wasn’t a big part of his life. He was only 6 when his father went into the car-repair business. “I got my first toolbox when I was 5, and I’d try to fix toys and t...
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June 21, 2009
Grayson Sherrell was an exceptional child, an autistic boy full of love and happiness. And his parents, Roger and Donna Sherrell, and others who are helping them are doing exceptional things in Grayson’s memory.Grayson, 6, drowned last Aug. 8. The S...
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June 7, 2009
Jim Watkins remembers when he proposed marriage to his wife, Mickey, like it was yesterday. “We were standing under an apple tree in my Uncle Bill’s orchard in the fall of ’37,” he said. The Kentucky natives were married a few mont...
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May 3, 2009
It was a shocking, horrid summer evening for Harriet Mattes and her family when lightning sparked a fire in the big dairy barn on her family’s historic Lindale Farm. Firefighters worked frantically to keep the roaring fire from spreading to other fa...
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April 20, 2009
Rob Scott is tall and strong, a man who went to college to learn about becoming a lawman. He’s the outdoors type; he loves to hunt and fish. And he can shoulder a lot of wild meat on his 270 pounds and tramp it from the woods. But his degree in crim...
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March 1, 2009
Kernersville icon John Staples' latest book, "Perfect Imperfection," is a keeper, especially for longtime Kernersville residents who can make a game of trying to figure out if they are among the fictitious characters. Or maybe they can guess the identity...
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February 15, 2009
"We knew something was wrong," said Bobbie Johnson. "They brought all of the kids into the school auditorium," she said. That day, April 4, 1968, in that Shreveport, La., school is burned in the former Bobbie Horton's mind. "I was bawling." It was the day...
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February 8, 2009
Polly Gray of Kernersville calls Larry Gray, the second oldest of her five children, her miracle child. She remembers holding him tenderly and loving him soon after he was born at the former City Hospital in Winston-Salem. It was a great moment. That was...
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October 19, 2008
Eight months after becoming Kernersville's town manager, former Mayor Curtis Swisher is still learning about the management side of government. But one thing he learned rather quickly: how to keep his lips zipped when political issues pop up before the Bo...
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August 31, 2008
The Rev. Vernon Brady of Gibsonville is on a mission to help stop the decline in baptisms and membership in Southern Baptist Convention churches. The Rev. Bobby Welch, the outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention who spoke at the 2006 nationa...
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August 21, 2007
GREENSBORO — Tommy Tucker's saxophone is silent. A career that started as a sensational teen musician is over. Tucker died on Aug. 7 at Moses Cone Hospital after becoming ill a day earlier. He was 62. No obituary has noted his passing. His ashes...
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