January 17, 2009
The board of Downtown Greensboro Inc. will recommend that the City Council approve a request for incentive money for a controversial new building on historic South Elm Street. The board of the center city advocacy group endorsed the proposed $3.6 million...
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January 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — A draft audit of the books at the financially troubled YWCA turned up no evidence of malfeasance, an official at the nonprofit said Thursday. “The auditors found no sign of misappropriation,” said Judi Rossabi, president of the YWCA’s...
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January 7, 2009
A local development group wants to erect a five-story, $3.6 million mixed-used building at 324 S. Elm St. in the heart of downtown’s historic area. The contemporary design project, which has raised concerns among some property owners and preservationist...
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The president of the YWCA board of directors said Tuesday she believes the financially troubled nonprofit can be saved. “I think the YWCA is going to survive,” said Judi Rossabi, who took over the board leadership late last year. “(But) we have to c...
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January 6, 2009
GREENSBORO - A local development group wants to erect a five-story, $3.6 million mixed-used building at 324 S. Elm St. in the heart of downtown's historic area. The contemporary design project, which has raised concerns among some property owners and pres...
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GREENSBORO - One of the city's most popular chefs and one of its best-known developers will team up to open a new, white-tablecloth restaurant downtown. Avenue will be the centerpiece tenant on the first floor of Center Pointe, Roy Carroll's $40 million...
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January 5, 2009
GREENSBORO - One of the city's most popular chefs and one of its best-known developers will team up to open a new white-tablecloth restaurant downtown. The restaurant, called Avenue, will be the centerpiece tenant on the first floor of Center Pointe, Ro...
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January 4, 2009
On Dec 15, 1935, a High Point woman wrote President Franklin D. Roosevelt about her underwear. She didn’t have any. Neither did anyone in her family. "Please give my children and myself some underclothes or we will freeze to death (in) this cold weath...
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December 23, 2008
The long, steep decline in gasoline prices has screeched to a halt like Santa's sleigh hitting a rooftop. After falling for 89 consecutive days, prices in North Carolina have ticked up a penny or two a gallon in the past week. "It's possible that gas pric...
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The long, steep decline in gasoline prices has screeched to a halt like Santa's sleigh hitting a rooftop. After falling for 89 consecutive days, prices in North Carolina have ticked up a penny or two a gallon in the past week. "It's possible that gas pri...
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December 13, 2008
GREENSBORO - Chip maker RF Micro Devices will lay off approximately 150 workers in the first quarter of next year at its Greensboro operations, a company official said Friday . Jerry Neal , executive vice president for strategic development and a co-f...
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December 12, 2008
GREENSBORO - RF Micro Devices will lay off approximately 150 workers in the first quarter of next year, a company official said Friday. Jerry Neal, executive vice president for strategic development and a cofounder of the company, said RFMD would idle one...
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December 8, 2008
WHITSETT — Bobby Lee Taylor had a big heart. That’s how friends, family and customers remembered the retired Greensboro fireman Sunday. “I hate this,” said Greg Vance as he stood outside Taylor’s Service, a country store on N.C. 61 south of Whit...
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December 5, 2008
GREENSBORO - The YWCA board of directors announced Friday that it has hired Jean Pudlo to serve as the financially troubled agency's interim executive director. Pudlo, the owner of JB Pudlo Consulting, has more than 20 years experience in the non-profit...
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November 29, 2008
Charlie Belton thought he had finally “hit one.” The 69-year-old retired carpenter, who likes to enter sweepstakes, got a letter last month from a Canadian company saying he had won $125,000. The company even sent him a check drawn on a local bank...
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November 27, 2008
GREENSBORO - Employees of the YWCA Greensboro went home thankful Wednesday. They got paid. For the financially troubled nonprofit and its staff, that's progress. On Nov. 14, the YWCA could not pay its 10 full-time workers and about 40 part-timers. "We wer...
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November 24, 2008
State troopers say they put the brakes on street racing in Guilford and Forsyth counties late Saturday and early Sunday by arresting 13 people and seizing 12 tricked-out vehicles, some of which could hit speeds of up to 150 mph. Troopers, who have served...
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November 22, 2008
GREENSBORO - For Sale: 23,500-square-foot , two-story, 37-year-old building on an acre-plus. Location: the heart of downtown's cultural district. Amenities: Indoor pool, gym and dance studio, playground. Price: Undetermined. Tax value: $4 million . Curr...
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November 21, 2008
FedEx Ground officials and Guilford County dignitaries will gather at Triad Business Park in Kernersville today to break ground for the company's $100 million distribution hub. The 10 a.m. ceremony marks the culmination of a 22-month courtship that initia...
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The board of directors of the financially troubled YWCA voted Thursday to consider selling its property in the heart of downtown. The board’s president, Judi Rossabi, said the Y would like to lease the 37-year-old building from a potential buyer and use...
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November 19, 2008
GREENSBORO - Craig Thomas' voice cracked as she described the problems. Homeless families sleeping in their cars. Elderly residents facing the onset of cold weather without electricity. Unemployed people who can't pay their bills. "Since March, with th...
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November 18, 2008
GREENSBORO — The president of the YWCA board of directors said Monday the financially troubled nonprofit is now operating in the red. “We have more bills than we have money in our basic accounts,” said Judi Rossabi, who became the board’s leader i...
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November 15, 2008
GREENSBORO - The YWCA Greensboro faces a growing financial crisis that left the 105-year-old nonprofit unable to make its payroll on Friday. "When you can't pay employees, you can't get any more dire than that," said Mildred Powell, the Y's development co...
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Gas prices in the Triad dropped below $2 a gallon at some stations Friday, a figure not seen in these parts since March 2005. As the global economy has gone into the tank, it means that motorists have paid less for the gas that goes in theirs.The price de...
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November 14, 2008
Gas prices in the Triad dropped below $2 a gallon at some stations Friday, a figure not seen in these parts since March, 2005. As the global economy has gone into the tank, it means that motorists have paid less for the gas that goes in theirs. The price...
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