October 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — For college students, coffee is more than a buzz. It's sustenance for the weary, light at the end of the tunnel, the catalyst for late-night conversations. It is, in short, a way of life.But Greensboro College has never had a coffee sho...
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October 20, 2009
MAYODAN — A Rockingham County deputy used a Taser to subdue a McMichael High School student who became disruptive during football practice Monday.The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said a 17-year-old student started cursing and making loud comme...
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — The drama teacher at Mineral Springs Middle School who was arrested this weekend on charges of sexual misconduct with a student may have lied on his employment application, Superintendent Don Martin said Monday.Ralph David Surr...
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WENTWORTH — A flagging campaign to raise money for the McMichael Civic Center has Rockingham Community College leaders seeking alternative methods to fund the project, including a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. College officials raise...
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October 19, 2009
The High Point City Council said Monday night that it’s not ready to vote on a proposed High Point University Area Plan and sent it to a committee for further discussion. Councilwoman Bernita Sims said she was not ready to ac...
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October 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association hosted a meeting Thursday night between neighbors and a developer looking to build student housing in the area. About 50 people from the neighborhood and surrounding area turned out for a c...
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October 15, 2009
HIGH POINT — High Point University and the federal government came to the rescue of senior citizens Thursday, telling them they wouldn’t be rushed from their home. Last week the owners of Wesleyan Homes , a government-subsidized apartment com...
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GREENSBORO — Bennett College will have a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for $21 million in capital projects.The event will start at 11 a.m. at the Gorrell Street construction site next to Holgate Library. Local, state, federal and Bennett officials...
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GREENSBORO — UNCG's National Center for Homeless Education has received a $4 million contract from the U.S. Department of Education to continue work for the next five years, according to a news release.The group, part of UNCG’s SERVE Center, h...
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GREENSBORO — Go to the front lines of swine flu. Talk to a classroom teacher or someone who runs a preschool. Spend some time in a pediatric emergency room with a sick 6-year-old clutching a stuffed dog named Fluffy. You hear about this fear of the...
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GREENSBORO — The Elon University School of Law opened its Clinical Law Center on Wednesday, giving students a base from which to do volunteer legal work in the community. “We can teach them in the classroom, do mock situations and watch videos...
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HIGH POINT — When Nina Cashman learned Wesleyan Homes was closing, she felt like her world was crumbling. At 92, she’s lived at the government-subsidized apartment building for 24 years. It had become her home, and she had no plans to leave......
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October 14, 2009
A new policy requires UNCG, N.C. A&T and its sister universities across the state to meet ambitious sustainability goals that address everything from operations and transportation to classroom instruction and recycling. One goal — achieving &ldq...
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GREENSBORO — Some Oak Ridge parents, anxious about getting their children back into their local elementary school, are circulating a petition calling for the school district to expedite work addressing possible air quality issues at the school. The...
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Communities In Schools helps kids succeed in school and in life. Its mission is to connect needed community resources with schools to help students learn, stay in school and prepare for life. Services: “Success in Schools” uses social and ac...
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October 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — Oak Ridge Military Academy has failed to meet its scheduled payment this month to the 18 employees it still owes salaries to from last year . Reginald Ponder, the school’s interim president , said the school has made 11 of the...
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Ragsdale High School turned 50 this year, and the school on High Point Road will host anniversary events throughout the school year. At Friday’s homecoming game, Ragsdale’s first homecoming queen, Jewel Medley Clayton, will be honored......
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RALEIGH (AP) — The interim chancellor of N.C. State has fired the head of the school's alumni association.The News & Observer of Raleigh reported today that James Woodward said he acted because the group is struggling financially and its member...
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GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fight at Northeast High believed to involve as many as 10 students. The fight came just weeks after an assault at the school left a deputy so badly injured that he needed sur...
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GREENSBORO — Just weeks after a student received anti-gay letters, Guilford College performed “The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, An Epilogue” on Monday to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. The 21-year-o...
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GREENSBORO — Representatives for one of the country’s largest student housing developers will meet with the Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association on Thursday as neighbors weigh a student housing project in the area. “We’re not...
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GREENSBORO — The city’s zoning commission voted 4-3 Monday to allow condos on North Elm Street and Cornwallis Drive — a plan that involves demolishing the historic Commencement House built by UNCG students. The house was designed in 1957...
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October 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — Thirty-one Guilford County Schools students have been named semifinalists in scholarship competitions held annually by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.These students will continue in the competition for one of about 8,200 Na...
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GREENSBORO — High school students volunteer for just about everything. They clean up neighborhoods, collect food for the poor and visit with the elderly as part of various service groups such as National Honor Society and Beta Club. At Grimsley High...
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October 11, 2009
GREENSBORO — Peer inside Kevin Brenner’s third-grade class at Wiley Elementary and you’ll see what you might expect: students squirming around as they work on a science or social studies project. You’ll also see something you don&r...
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