May 12, 2012
GREENSBORO — As we emerge on the crest of a hill, my companion pulls up quickly. “Fox!” he says softly.In the clearing, bordered by a creek and carpeted with ferns and grass, a red fox dashes for the trees, the white tip of its tail bobb...
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April 22, 2012
In his greenhouse just off Clapp Farms Road , Andy Clapp pulls a batch of tobacco seedlings from their watery bed. In a few more weeks, the stems will be thicker and stronger, ready for the freshly plowed field just down the road.
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April 20, 2012
Kimberly Crews Mann, 33, the Summerfield motorist who struck and killed a well-known local cyclist, has been charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle.Trooper Greg Ingram of the N.C. Highway Patrol said the charges came after the Guilford County Dis...
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April 6, 2012
HIGH POINT — Nina, a miniature horse, lifts her back leg to shoo a fly from her flank. Seven months ago, she couldn’t do that. She couldn’t do a lot of things other horses do because of a severely crippled leg.Now she can run, buck, rear...
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April 5, 2012
GREENSBORO — Myles Pearl, 25, had a plan. And he overcame the resistance of the Center City Park supervisor to get it done.
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March 31, 2012
GREENSBORO — Just behind the hustle and bustle of Battleground Avenue, there is a ribbon of green, where rabbits and squirrels dart out of your path, and a hawk swoops low in the tree line, hunting for prey. Seven miles north, this ribbon of green w...
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March 4, 2012
For Megan Buckland, it’s a dream come true. The 19-year-old High Point native, once one of those screaming kids in the stands, arrived at the ACC women’s basketball tournament on Wednesday as a player for the UNC women’s basketball team.
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February 16, 2012
GREENSBORO — Soon, you could be docking your eyeglasses in the evening along with your smartphone.Electronic focusing eyewear has arrived in Greensboro and you can be among the first to buy what might be called smartglasses.But like all new technolo...
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February 12, 2012
HIGH POINT — Ellen “Lennie” Gerber, 76, and Pearl Berlin, 87, have a routine. At 8 a.m., Pearl brings Lennie her breakfast — a bowl of cereal — to the chair in the study overlooking the backyard forest and lake.
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February 5, 2012
REIDSVILLE — Kim Forrester is talking with an ALE representative, Shannon Forrester is checking on the kitchen cleaning crew, and Gary Forrester is collecting a fine mist of sawdust on his cap and sweater as he cuts a larger opening for the soft-dri...
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January 15, 2012
HIGH POINT — The white frame farmhouse has lost its context, like so many farms across the rural landscape. The land around it, once dotted with barns and surrounded by green fields cut into neat furrows, is now parsed into commercial lots. The only...
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January 9, 2012
GREENSBORO — When the Arab Spring began to unfold, Todd Drake figured his government-sanctioned trip to do an art project in Bahrain would be canceled.On the contrary.
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January 8, 2012
GREENSBORO — Sometimes, it becomes clear the universe is trying to tell you something. Andrea Dyer was a top project manager at American Express when the events of her life led her to something her heart already yearned to do — open her own y...
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December 21, 2011
GREENSBORO — Bone-Crusher. It’s the kind of name they give to WWE wrestlers and monster trucks. There is talk about torque, but in this case, it’s not the output of an engine, but a set of jaws. This guy can really crush bones.
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December 18, 2011
“It’s time to close the book on infectious diseases.” — U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart, 1967.
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November 20, 2011
When he was born June 21, Silas McCloskey’s arms were thinner than his mother’s index finger. He fit inside her hand, with his legs resting just below her wrist. He got his first taste of milk on the end of a Q-tip. And yet, says Robin McClosk...
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November 14, 2011
He’s stalling, I think.He knows I have him on the ropes, and he’s just postponing the inevitable.Or maybe he’s toying with me. Just waiting to deliver the killing blow.My husband and I are waging a war of words.I don’t mean that we...
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September 25, 2011
Dear Jim Boeheim, I’m not mispronouncing your name, am I, honey? Good. We hate to be rude down here. That’s one of the things you’ll learn about Greensboro when you come. And you will come, because this is the home of the ACC Tournament.
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