November 22, 2009
I would like to tell you about a small group of people with big hearts: the congregation at Glenwood Presbyterian Church. Recently, one of our members suffered several huge setbacks. Although we haven’t seen her in recent years, her teenage daughter...
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Property transfers EDEN TOWNSHIP Citibank, N.A., trustee, to Michael S. Hensley, lot Decatur Street, $9,500 HUNTSVILLE TOWNSHIP Carolyn G. Tucker to Samuel Richards, 1.00 acre Chanda Court, $19,000 LEAKSVILLE TOWNSHIP
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75 years agoFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 22-28, 1934: As expected, a pre-Thanksgiving deluge of tobacco hit the Reidsville market, so much that it was impossible to clear the warehouse floor before closing time.
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Ever since I was young, people have commented on how stubborn I am. I don’t quite agree with them since I’m not stubborn. Really! I’m just very determined.
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Given recent concerns about home break-ins, the News & Record is running a weekly map on Sundays that will show residential burglaries citywide.Our goal is to show which neighborhoods are being targeted and what patterns have emerged in where the crim...
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GREENSBORO — Flick on a light switch. You just burned coal or split the atom. For decades, North Carolina has generated almost all of its electricity with coal-fired or nuclear power plants. But that’s changing. The state’s electricity s...
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FUNDRAISERSOngoing The ACES office at Brooks Global Studies is collecting aluminum cans as a service project for the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Mail or bring cans to Nathalie or Brooke, 1215 Westover Terrace, Greensboro, NC 27408. 370-8347.
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November 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — Sometimes, you have to spend money to make money. But in the case of a planned aquatics center, which proponents say would dwarf other competitive swim facilities on the East Coast and pump $14 million into the city’s economy in o...
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RALEIGH — The deal Joshua Lang had been offered on a home in Snow Camp looked like an opportunity to start fresh in a new house with his soon-to-be second wife and a second child on the way. Except the home he ended up buying from Southern Showcase...
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GREENSBORO — The $110 tuition increase N.C. A&T’s Board of Trustees approved Friday for undergraduates — and the General Assembly’s legislated increase earlier this year — carry a similar financial impact for students, Ch...
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BURLINGTON -- Police are looking for six suspects who officials say forced their way into a home and robbed the family living there.
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GREENSBORO -- Two of the best-known performers in the nation will be in town Sunday night and that likely will mean heavy traffic around the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Tweenmania will take over High Point Road at 7 p.m. when Miley Cyrus takes the stage...
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GREENSBORO -- Police are searching for two men in connection with a late-night convenience store robbery. A clerk at Emzel Food Mart on Gregory Street told police that two men pulled up to the store about 3 a.m. Saturday. One man came into the store, pull...
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It’s one of the quintessential sounds of Christmas: the jingle of coins as they hit the bottom of the Salvation Army kettle. But the traditional sound will have a modern companion this year: the plastic clicks of a credit card in action.
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November 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Former special intelligence officer Scott Sanders will return to regular duty next month in one of the final acts in the racially charged drama that led to the departure of former police chief David Wray.
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GREENSBORO — A Greensboro man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk in a 2006 robbery. It took a jury around two hours to convict 20-year-old Raytheon Williams on charges of first-degree murder......
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GREENSBORO — The word in Fisher Park was downtown Greensboro got a new produce market, and residents Jane Gallimore and Helen Ullrich had to check it out for themselves. On Thursday, they stopped by the Downtown Farm Market on North Greene Street as...
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GREENSBORO — UNCG undergraduates might not be thrilled about the prospect of paying an additional $254 in tuition and fees — but it could have been much worse, school officials suggested Thursday. Administrators noted that, facing a dire budge...
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GREENSBORO — Three officers were sworn into the ranks of the Greensboro Police Department on Friday as graduates of the agency’s first training course designed for recruits with recent basic law enforcement training certification.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — State Treasurer Janet Cowell unveiled new rules Friday banning employees from taking gifts from companies that do substantial business with the agency and setting a limit on charitable solicitations.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against...
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GREENSBORO – Young visitors and staff had to evacuate the Greensboro Children’s Museum Friday evening because of a gas leak. The museum is expected to open at its normal time Saturday.
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The election of a Sedalia planning board member will take the town in a direction it hasn’t been. Shinita Wrenwick vows to serve on both the planning board and the town council unless it becomes “too much.” “If I get overwhelmed, I...
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