June 22, 2011
Jamestown Town Council will continue to discuss the 2011-12 budget at 6:30 p.m. Monday after many residents spoke out against the budget Tuesday night. Many residents asked the council to fund the Ragsdale YMCA at its prior $100,000. The council’s b...
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June 7, 2011
High Point University is putting up more fences after gaining approval from the High Point City Council Monday night to allow fenced-in vacant lots. The university wants to create an aesthetically pleasing corridor down North College Drive from Montlieu A...
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May 3, 2011
A High Point deputy fire chief has filed a grievance against the city manager, saying she was denied the fire chief’s job because of her gender. Deputy Chief Martha Younts and her attorney, Ashley Duncan of Charlotte, spoke at the High Point City Co...
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February 8, 2011
To get to his bottom-floor classes, one Ragsdale student has to go outside and around the building in his wheelchair. If it’s raining, football players carry him down the stairs. The 51-year-old school lacks handicapped facilities and doesn’t...
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November 7, 2010
Westchester Country Day’s Storytelling Festival has become a tradition that students of all ages look forward to. Each year, groups of high schoolers pick out stories to tell younger students. As one student reads the book, other students act out th...
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November 2, 2010
In complete but unofficial results Tuesday, Becky Smothers, 71, fought back two challengers to keep the High Point mayor’s seat, a spot she’s held since 2003. Attorney Jay Wagner , 42, and electrician and disabled veteran Dwayne Hemingway-El......
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October 31, 2010
Buildings around High Point are getting a facelift from volunteers and business owners. Before the fall furniture market, Nancy Rothrock, Pam Stern and volunteers painted the front of 122 N. Main Street and the building beside it.
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Friends of John Coltrane, a nonprofit group, are seeking volunteers to help with planning the inaugural John Coltrane Jazz and Blues Festival, which will be Sept. 3, 2011. Barbara Taylor, a member of the group, said a festival honoring John Coltrane is th...
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October 24, 2010
High Point City Council got a look at one of the city’s two new portable lead-poisoning-prevention storyboards Monday night. This launch coincides with the National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, which starts today. The storyboards, sever...
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The Jamestown Town Council on Tuesday announced which areas it might consider for annexation. The council is eying the Cedarwood subdivision, which already has access to town water service. Grove and Wellington subdivisions also have water service. The co...
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October 10, 2010
In just two years, Northwood Elementary has received International Baccalaureate school status. This is normally a three- to four-year process, principal Scott Winslow said. Ferndale Middle School also received the designation in two years.
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October 4, 2010
GREENSBORO — Roger Horton and Barry McMillian of Surry County EMS walk quickly onto a NASCAR pit road. They assess the scene and begin a verbal rundown of patient count and injuries.Two men down. One with a head injury. One with a chest injury. Both...
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September 22, 2010
During High Point City Council's Sept. 20 meeting, the council approved:
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September 20, 2010
High Point City Council approved a rezoning request for the Islamic Center of High Point to create a mosque at 2801 Allen Jay Road, across the street from the old Allen Jay school.
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September 12, 2010
Cobb Atkinson is Westchester Country Day’s new head of school. A 20-year educator, Atkinson is a product of independent schools and feels strongly about the benefits those schools can offer students. “I think teaching children the ability to l...
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September 10, 2010
Mayor Becky Smothers is facing two challengers this year for her seat on the High Point City Council. Smothers, 71, has served as mayor since 2003 and from 1992-99, with a total of 13 years on the council. Jay Wagner, 42, and Dwayne Hemingway-El, 38, are...
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September 9, 2010
HIGH POINT — High Point City Council approved $94,500 in incentives for Baltek on Thursday morning.The composite product manufacturing company is considering a site at 5240 National Drive for its U.S. headquarters. The company is also seeking funds...
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September 5, 2010
For Haynes-Inman Education Center students and parents, the new school offers a closer-to-home version of Gateway Education Center. Like the students, most of the Haynes-Inman staff came from Gateway, Principal Kevin Carr said. “It really has been a...
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Westchester Country Day is a service-oriented school. A grade level or class has something going on all the time. But the student government’s Student Life Committee wanted to do something as a school, to celebrate being a school that serves kinderg...
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August 29, 2010
When a parent loses a child, it splits the parent’s world in two. For Chuck and Becky Kennedy of Jamestown , they now define time as “this happened when Emily was still here and when she wasn’t here.” Their daughter, Emily May , di...
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August 18, 2010
One thing to remember Aug. 25 when you set out for school, Jamestown Middle School parents — car riders should be dropped off at the Haynes Road entrance of the new school. Haynes Road is off Harvey Road, not too far down the road from the old scho...
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August 17, 2010
Jamestown Town Council elected to seek bids for replacing the irrigation system at the Jamestown Park Golf Course Tuesday night. Town staff has said that, if nothing else, the irrigation system needs to be replaced at the park. Other options were needed......
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August 15, 2010
Usually teens in the Promoting the Advancement of Teens in Health Care program at High Point Regional Health System volunteer 50 hours each summer in various departments at the hospital. But this year, some of the teens got volunteer experience outside th...
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We have tomatoes! When I got home from work the other day, my hubby, Chris, surprised me with two tomatoes sitting on the window sill of our kitchen. I was so happy! I’m hoping more tomatoes aren’t too far behind. I’m ready to make some...
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August 8, 2010
Tangela Baldwin Stanley of Jamestown believes Americans should travel abroad. “I wish more Americans left the U.S. on a more regular basis,” Stanley said. “It will help you get out of the mindset, ‘I need this, I need that.&rsquo......
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