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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June 17, 2009
OAK RIDGE — Oak Ridge Military Academy is trying to partner with an investor in a deal that would rescue the cash-strapped school from closure, the school’s president said Tuesday. If the deal goes through, Roy Berwick said the investor would...
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June 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Great Recession continues to play havoc with a proposed $42 million , mixed-use project that would have been one of the biggest ever erected downtown. “It is not going to be built as it was previously envisioned,” said...
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June 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — The ousted executive director of the financially troubled YWCA Greensboro has sued the association for wrongful discharge, among other claims, and leveled some charges of her own. Adrienne Y. Witherspoon’s suit, filed Wednesday in...
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June 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — A precision metal fabrication company plans to close its operations here, putting 121 people out of work.Metalcraft of Mayville notified city officials today of the closure, which will begin about Aug. 17 and be completed by Sept.
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June 6, 2009
GREENSBORO — Efforts to establish a manual to guide downtown development could take another step forward at a public hearing Monday. However, an attorney for several unidentified property owners has asked the Greensboro Zoning Commission to delay t...
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June 3, 2009
Duke Energy said Tuesday it wants a big raise in electricity rates at a time when many customers find it hard to pay their bills. The Charlotte-based energy company said it has asked the N.C. Utilities Commission to increase its base rates by an average o...
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June 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — Lindy and Linda Duncan didn’t get to watch President Barack Obama’s speech Monday about General Motors filing for bankruptcy.Instead, they bought a car — a GM product at that. The Duncans spent the noon hour at Terry L...
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May 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — UNCG officials are considering the Weaver Foundation property downtown as a possible site for the university’s proposed pharmacy school. Preliminary plans also call for the 4.3-acre plot next to the Greensboro Children’s...
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May 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — This won’t be the first feature story on Daniel Seddiqui and it won’t be the last. Not with 35 states down and 15 to go. Not with 35 jobs down and 15 to go. This week, the 27-year-old Californian has come to Greensboro where...
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May 19, 2009
Despite the ailing economy and rising gas prices, road trips in North Carolina should increase by 5.6 percent this Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start to the summer driving season. “I would define it as a modest jump,” Brendan Byrne...
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May 18, 2009
Preservationists plan to survey at least 30 North Carolina counties, including several in the Piedmont, to create a census of the area’s textile heritage assets. They plan to use the information in their ongoing efforts to establish a 700-plus-mile...
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May 16, 2009
Efforts to restructure the ailing U.S. auto industry swept across North Carolina for a second day Friday, as General Motors joined Chrysler in ridding itself of unneeded dealerships. Industry leaders say the actions of the two automakers over the p...
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May 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — Two familiar faces will soon sign off at WFMY News 2.Evening co-anchor Kent Bates and sports anchor/director Greg Kerr will leave the station at the end of the month, general manager Deborah Hooper said Thursday.Hooper would not give a...
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May 13, 2009
After almost 10 years of planning, work has finally begun on Gateway Gardens , the city’s fourth public garden and the first built since 1991 . “Aren’t we excited,” said Ann Steighner , chairwoman of Greensboro Beautiful , a volu...
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May 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — If you long to vacation in your own hometown, here’s a chance. Both the Greensboro Convention & Visitors Bureau and Downtown Greensboro Inc. are offering contests that include free stays in various Gate City hotels, meals in l...
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May 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — The employees at I.H. Caffey Distributing Co. didn’t spend a lot of time crying over spilled beer.They checked on an injured employee, relocated their computer system and began loading trucks. The first shipments of Miller, Coors...
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OAK RIDGE — Oak Ridge Military Academy, struggling to stay afloat financially, has laid off 11 workers and decided to dismiss school a week early. “We are still fighting the fight,” President Roy Berwick said of the school’s econom...
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May 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — They range in age from 60 to 101 . They represent the thousands of people who lived in the five former mill villages owned by Cone Mills. They recall those days — the hard times and the happy times — with nostalgia.Finally......
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May 1, 2009
North Carolina has identified its first “probable” cases of swine flu, a state health official said Thursday. Dr. Jeffrey Engel, the state health director, said the two cases involved an Onslow County resident and a traveler who visited Wake C...
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April 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — Citing delivery problems from unspecified suppliers, Honda Aircraft Co. announced Thursday that it has delayed production of its $3.9 million HondaJet aircraft by a year. “Our suppliers are going to be late delivering some parts t...
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April 25, 2009
HIGH POINT - Over the past century, the furniture market has put this city on the map. The semiannual event, which marks its 100th anniversary today, has turned High Point into an international destination, dominated its downtown with acres of showr...
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April 16, 2009
The Chicago-based company that owns Four Seasons Town Centre filed the biggest real estate bankruptcy in U.S. history Thursday , but the action should have no immediate impact on how the mall here operates. “It’s business as...
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April 15, 2009
At this time of year — April 15 — it’s all about the numbers. Those on the tax forms. Those on the calendar. And those on the clock. The big number, of course, is how many hours until midnight, the tax filing deadline. For those who stil...
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April 10, 2009
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament — won Monday night by North Carolina — isn’t just about layups and rebounds. It’s about dollars and cents. It’s about book deals, T-shirt sales and printing contracts. What Dick Vita...
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