November 13, 2008
GREENSBORO — The tracks through the snow lead to St. John’s Chapel in Valle Crucis, where a homeless man prepares to join the morning worship. The glow of the rising sun splashes off the steeple. Lights blaze through the windows. Greensboro artist Wi...
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November 12, 2008
GREENSBORO - Destination downtown. That's the message of a yearlong, $50,000 effort aimed at attracting more visitors to Greensboro's center city. Officials call it the most comprehensive advertising campaign in downtown's history. Although officials ha...
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October 30, 2008
Here’s a scary thought. Halloween falls on a Friday this year. That makes North Carolina’s highways particularly deadly, AAA Carolinas says. The last time Halloween fell on a Friday, in 2003, the state tied for the sixth highest number of traffic...
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October 28, 2008
GREENSBORO — The Weaver Foundation has commissioned a group of architecture students from UNC-Charlotte to play a game of “what if.” The assignment: look at a three-block area in the downtown cultural district, including property owned by the foun...
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October 24, 2008
Forget the Phillies and the Rays, the teams facing off in the World Series. And the Yankees and the Red Sox. And the Braves and the Mets. Local youth baseball teams — and thousands of others across the country — can’t use those nicknames on their u...
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October 21, 2008
Gas prices at several Triad stations have dropped below $3 a gallon for the first time since February, continuing a five-week plunge that still hasn’t hit bottom, a national forecaster said Monday. “We don’t expect (prices) to stop at three,” said...
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October 19, 2008
Jack Lucas' Medal of Honor hangs in a display case at High Point University, symbolizing more than one man's bravery. It represents a promise kept, a sacrifice made and a thank you to Lucas' alma mater. His widow, Ruby, presented the medal to the universi...
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October 15, 2008
GREENSBORO - Hang up and drive. Hang up and live. That's the message AAA Carolinas wants to get out to cell phone users in Guilford County. This week, the Charlotte-based motor club began putting up posters at selected gas stations in Greensboro, High Po...
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October 11, 2008
GREENSBORO — George Rettie didn’t take the bad news well. “It was kind of devastating,” Rettie, a woodworker at a local building supply company, said Friday. “(But) I didn’t break down and cry or anything. I’m thinking, we need to put a plug...
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October 10, 2008
Frantic investors, including thousands in the Triad, lost more than their shirts Thursday. “I think (they) have lost their heads,” said Jonathan Smith, managing partner of Greensboro’s Jonathan Smith & Co. Investment Counsel and a registered inv...
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October 9, 2008
Here’s some good news for the beleaguered driver: Gas prices could drop to $3 a gallon by the end of the year. And here’s some bad: It will probably take longer for North Carolina motorists to see those prices than it will for drivers in the rest of t...
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GREENSBORO - Fincastle's Diner, one of downtown's most popular eateries, may have to relocate because of a long-running lease dispute. Negotiations between the diner's owners and its landlords, Trace Holdings, began in April, when the most recent lease ex...
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October 5, 2008
One spring day back in the early 1960s, while my father and I worked his 3-acre tobacco crop, I quizzed him about the old days. “Dad, did the Great Depression have much of an impact on you?” I asked. “Son,” he replied, “the Depression is still i...
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October 4, 2008
GREENSBORO - Nobody likes parking tickets. "It's been a continuous problem for Greensboro ," said Juanita Nall , a South Elm Street merchant. "People get mad if you write tickets. People get mad if you don't." Enter Downtown Greensboro Inc. , the center c...
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FedEx Ground has moved a major step closer to locating a $100 million package hub and its approximately 260 new jobs in a business park straddling the Forsyth and Guilford county lines. A spokesman said Friday night that FedEx Ground has purchased about...
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October 3, 2008
GREENSBORO - FedEx Ground has moved a major step closer to locating a $100 million package hub and its 259 jobs in Kernersville. A spokesman said Friday night that FedEx Ground has purchased 120 acres in Triad Business Park, but stopped short of announcin...
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GREENSBORO — Here’s the latest scuttlebutt: Downtown efforts to get cigarette litter off the streets haven’t gone up in smoke. The program, financed by grants from Keep America Beautiful, has reduced smoking-related trash by nearly 70 percent. Natio...
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September 27, 2008
GREENSBORO — A FedEx Ground official said Friday that the company hopes to make an announcement shortly on where it will locate a $100 million package hub and an accompanying 259 jobs. A 120-plus-acre site in Kernersville remains in the running, but the...
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September 24, 2008
Area residents battered by a bearish economy said Tuesday that they'd rather the Bush administration spend $700 billion on them than a bailout for Wall Street. And some of the politicians responsible for voting on the controversial proposal felt their con...
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September 19, 2008
GREENSBORO — Think you’ve got a long to-do list? Consider the one unveiled Thursday by Downtown Greensboro Inc. It includes more than 40 items. Projects include finding ways to attract more visitors and recruit more businesses, evaluating a redesign o...
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September 18, 2008
GREENSBORO - Downtown Greensboro Inc. handed out some awards and tributes Thursday at its annual meeting at the Empire Room.Ray Gibbs, former DGI president, received the Ed Kitchen Leadership Award, which is named for Greensboro's former city manager. Gib...
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GREENSBORO - A group of investors plans to convert a historic building and adjoining property on Barnhardt Street downtown into a restaurant and outdoor entertainment venue called SideTrax Alley and Events Ground. The $3 million project comes by its name...
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September 14, 2008
GREENSBORO — Gas stations and convenience stores that looked like boom towns Friday had turned into ghost towns by Saturday. The reason? Their customers had all purchased gas on Friday — when panicked buying ahead of Hurricane Ike’s landfall resulte...
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September 12, 2008
GREENSBORO, 3 p.m. — There's even less to like about Ike today. As the Gulf Coast of Texas braced for the impact of Hurricane Ike, local residents felt its impact throughout Greensboro in the form of higher prices and lines at local gas stations.
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September 11, 2008
GREENSBORO — Officials at the Greensboro Children’s Museum plan an overhaul of the downtown attraction that will result in major improvements inside and out. Although no final price has been determined, museum officials estimate the enhancements — t...
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