April 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — The U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame decided to go west. The hall and museum plans to move to Davis, Calif., a city with a rich cycling history. “I think it speaks well of Greensboro that we made it to the final two,” said Neil B...
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April 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — The U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame decided to go west. The hall and museum plans to relocate to Davis, Calif. a city with a rich cycling history. “I think it speaks well of Greensboro that we made it to the final two,” said Nei...
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April 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — A local task force pedaling the Depot on East Washington Street as the future site for the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame could learn Thursday if its efforts have been successful. The hall's board of directors has scheduled a meeting Wedne...
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April 7, 2009
CHAPEL HILL — You didn’t have to watch the game on TV, or check SportsCenter for the highlights, or even read your morning newspaper to know which team won.All you had to do Monday night was to look up and down Franklin Street.The sight &mdash...
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April 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — This past week’s news about cigarettes — whopping tax increases, public limits on their use and possible new federal regulation — has left Triad smokers gasping for breath. What will they do now — shell out more...
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Call it the anticipation before the celebration. At least, that’s what the Tar Heel faithful hope it will be.From Murphy to Manteo and from Denver to Durham, North Carolina fans spent Sunday looking forward to tonight’s NCAA men’s basket...
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April 4, 2009
Call it a phenomenon, which just happens to be the most mispronounced word in the English language, according to a recent study. Small consolation to Tyler Hansbrough, Roy Williams and the folks in the sports information department at the University of No...
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April 3, 2009
Dell announced additional layoffs at its Forsyth County computer assembly plant Thursday, but as it did for a round of jobs cuts there last month, the company refused to say how many people lost their jobs. “You can say it is manufacturing and rela...
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April 2, 2009
Gas prices have climbed past the $2 mark in the Triad for the first time since November and should continue to rise through Memorial Day.But the long-term forecast indicates that fuel costs should remain in check this summer.“The bigger deal is t...
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Dell Inc. announced additional layoffs at its Forsyth County computer assembly plant Thursday, but as it did for a round of jobs cuts there last month, the company refused to say how many people lost their jobs. "You can say it is manufacturing and r...
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March 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — In April 1938, a 23-year-old novice photographer named John Vachon checked into the King Cotton Hotel armed with his camera, a supply of film and a historic assignment. He’d come to town to take a portrait of America. Vachon&rsquo...
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March 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — The race to land the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame has entered the final lap. A representative of the Somerville, N.J., institution Tuesday identified Greensboro and Davis, Calif., as the finalists for the biking shrine’s new home.
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March 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — The race to land the U.S Bicycling Hall of Fame has entered the final lap.A representative of the Somerville, N.J., institution today identified Greensboro and Davis, Calif., as the finalists for the new home for the biking shrine.&ldqu...
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GREENSBORO — The 800-job, $100-plus-million aviation project the city hopes to land has put its expansion plans on hold, one of at least four local recruiting efforts stalled because of the downturn in the economy. Mayor Yvonne Johnson said Monday t...
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March 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — The old place still looks classy. Credit the fact that it’s had more face-lifts than Joan Rivers. A nip here, a tuck there and a couple of major procedures over the years have kept it functioning at a high level, as it did during...
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GREENSBORO -- Even if you can't play like Ty Lawson or Gerald Henderson, you can sit like them. A Chicago company called Spec Seats will be selling black, padded chairs like the ones players and others used during the NCAA tournament, which ended its run...
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March 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — No wonder they call this event the NCAA tournament . No matter where you look at the Greensboro Coliseum this week, something says NCAA. From the marquee in front of the building to the scoreboard above the court — and on the cour...
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March 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Every year, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament seems to highlight some off-the-court tragedy.It could be a player’s mother who dies of cancer; a sick child adopted by a championship team; or a star athlete gunned down in a...
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March 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — On Wednesday afternoon, Garner Thomas saw his first college basketball player in person. Not on television, but in real life. Up close.Almost close enough to touch. Definitely close enough to dream.So did lots of other fans at the Green...
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March 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — Look for the first tenants to begin occupying the long-awaited Center Pointe condo project within the next 30 days. “I definitely think we can make that goal,” developer Roy Carroll told members of the Kiwanis Club of G...
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Dell remained mum Thursday about the extent of the layoffs this week at its Forsyth County computer assembly plant, but Winston-Salem officials called reports that 300 people had lost their jobs inaccurate. “That number is grossly overstated,&rdquo......
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March 12, 2009
North Carolina’s unemployment picture grew significantly bleaker in January as the state’s economy began to hemorrhage jobs. The Employment Security Commission said Wednesday the state’s jobless rate hit 9.7 percent, the highest level in...
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Fairway Outdoor Advertising of the Triad has introduced what it calls ecofriendly billboards. The new signs don’t use old-fashioned paper or paste. Rather, they’re made of a lightweight material called polyethylene that can be recycled into pr...
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March 11, 2009
GREENSBORO — Employees of two local apartment complexes say they haven’t been paid in nearly five weeks as the California-based company that owns the properties wrestles with financial problems. Workers at two other complexes in Winston-Salem also hav...
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March 6, 2009
GREENSBORO - The Center for Creative Leadership has eliminated 140 positions, or 25 percent of its worldwide workforce, through a process of attrition, buyouts and layoffs, a spokesman said Friday. About half those cuts came in Greensboro, the headquart...
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