August 15, 2009
The watchdog group Democracy North Carolina offers a piece of advice about the health care reform issue: follow the money. The nonpartisan group says that between 2003 and 2008, the nation’s drug makers, health care professionals and insurance indu...
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August 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — A year ago, officials at the Greensboro Children’s Museum planned to raise about $5 million for a major overhaul of the downtown attraction. Then, the economy tanked. “Frankly, that killed it,” John Cross, chairman of...
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Representatives from North Carolina’s traditional industries — tobacco, furniture and textiles — say they won’t be left out of the green movement unfolding in the Triad.“The textile industry is making strides,” said Pe...
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August 12, 2009
GREENSBOBO — Everywhere you look, somebody is looking back. Downtown officials say they want the city to install as many as eight video surveillance cameras in the center city along Elm and Greene streets. That’s twice the number police...
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August 9, 2009
Friendships sometimes grow out of the stoniest of soils. Just ask Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton. For the two Piedmont residents, the ground that produced their 12-year friendship couldn’t have been much harder. In 1984, she accused him...
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August 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — Daimler Buses North America announced Friday it has received an order from King County Metro Transit in Seattle for up to 500 hybrid buses, one of the largest orders in the company’s history.Although the company declined to put a...
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GREENSBORO — Paving and lighting of the first phase of the $26 million, 4.8-mile Downtown Greenway is complete. Landscaping will be installed this fall and a ribbon-cutting will be held this winter or next spring, but residents of the nearby Warners...
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July 25, 2009
I’d love to learn the details of that pitiful-looking condominium project in the corner of the Shops at Friendly Center . It began with tree-tearing, land-clearing vigor, advertising that the luxury penthouses were selling like hotcakes. But that wa...
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July 23, 2009
Researchers have given the current economic downturn a new name — the crabgrass recession. A majority of the nation’s metro areas, including Greensboro-High Point, have seen their suburban unemployment rates outpace those of their core cities.
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July 18, 2009
OAK RIDGE — Roy W. Berwick, the president of the financially troubled Oak Ridge Military Academy since 2005, has stepped down, effective July 10.The academy’s new board of trustees officially accepted Berwick’s resignation Friday and ask...
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July 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — VF Corp. has failed in its bid to buy Eddie Bauer, the bankrupt retailer known for its outdoor clothing. The Bellevue, Wash., company said today that Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, had entered a bid of......
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GREENSBORO — VF Corp. became one of several suitors Thursday bidding for Eddie Bauer, the Bellevue, Wash., outdoor clothing chain that filed for bankruptcy last month.VF, the Greensboro-based apparel giant, wants to buy the Eddie Bauer brand name, t...
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July 15, 2009
A statement Tuesday from The Friends of Oak Ridge Military Academy has raised questions about the future of Col. Roy Berwick, president of the financially troubled private school. The uncertainty in leadership comes after the mass resignation of the...
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July 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — New York financier Wilbur L. Ross has offered to invest $55 million in a new company that would buy the assets of bankrupt Global Safety Textiles. GST, a subsidiary of Ross’ Greensboro-based International Textile Group, filed for...
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July 6, 2009
The annual growth rate of the Triad’s major cities continues to lag significantly behind Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte, according to new U.S. Census data. Other projections indicate that trend could continue for at least the next two decades, which...
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July 5, 2009
School officials say the financially troubled Oak Ridge Military Academy has canceled its five-week summer programs because of a lack of enrollment. Students were supposed to have arrived on campus Sunday. Word of the decision came on the eve of a critica...
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July 3, 2009
For postcard collectors, it’s not about the words. It’s the images that count. “I never read the messages on the cards,” said Christine Layne, a Greensboro collector. “I just like the way they look. I just go for the pictures...
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June 30, 2009
Greensboro motorists looking for cheap gas may want to shop in High Point. It could be worth the drive. AAA Carolinas reported Tuesday that High Point has the lowest average gas price in the state — $2.53 a gallon. That’s 8 cents cheaper than...
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GREENSBORO — The name David Schenck doesn’t rank with the likes of O. Henry, Dolley Madison and Jefferson Davis. But the late judge does share one thing in common with those more recognizable names. As of today, he too will have a North Caroli...
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June 29, 2009
As health care professionals brace for the spread of the swine flu, they advise patients to use a variety of over-the-counter medicines or prescription drugs Tamiflu and Relenza. And this fall, they’ll have a new vaccine at their disposal. But in 19...
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June 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — A Guilford County man who died June 19 at Wesley Long Community Hospital tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the Moses Cone Health System reported Wednesday . The victim had underlying health conditions. His death is the first in North...
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June 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — Officials at the financially troubled YWCA Greensboro said Tuesday they plan to sell their building downtown, lease a smaller space, cut staff, further curtail services and serve fewer children. Yet, they say, the actions mean the 105-y...
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June 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — For only the second time in the past decade, Greensboro enters the long, hot summer without a significant rainfall deficit. But even with a soggy June, the precipitation total for the year — 21.03 inches — is less than an in...
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June 22, 2009
When it comes to the latest recession, not all areas are created equal. That’s especially true in North Carolina , according to a new report from the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan, public-policy think tank in Washington. The report, which loo...
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June 20, 2009
Officials at GTCC want to offer furniture design courses on the High Point campus. GTCC President Don Cameron says he’s begun talks with officials at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Mich., about setting up the program. Cameron and...
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