November 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — It takes a lot of volunteers — too many to count — to help out at the winter emergency shelters for the homeless at area churches. Volunteers help cook meals, check participants in and monitor the shelter overnight. “T...
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Several stories on news-record.com received attention last week among commenters, and among them was a piece on prayer before public meetings. The Forsyth County commissioners have had sectarian prayer before meetings, according to a District Court magist...
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A portion of northbound U.S. 52 in King will close nightly starting Tuesday and ending Friday so state crews can repair shoulders. The right line will be closed near Main Street from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly. Weather conditions may impact the timing of th...
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother, who has been charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving pro...
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November 15, 2009
RAMSEUR -- A reasonable person could be forgiven for doubting the Ramseur Hydroelectric Plant will ever be back in working order. The canal that once sped water to its turbines sits high and dry, sprouting trees from a patch of fill dirt dumped there year...
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GREENSBORO — The information revolution has officially run amok. After 89 people were caught viewing pornography on public computers at the Central Library in the first six months of 2009, the Greensboro Public Library has taken action to make it mo...
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RALEIGH — There’s no need to wonder where the collard greens or tomatoes came from that are on sale at Whitaker Farms’ stall at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.
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EDEN — Kindergartner Abbey Corbin’s poster featured pictures of her grandfather, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973. Don’t think that anyone had to remind her why people consider Barry Cochran a hero.
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GREENSBORO — We don’t know his last name. Just his first. Enrique. He was no more than 16, a kid from Honduras, when he started clinging to the tops and sides of trains so he could cross the border of Mexico and find his mother in North Caroli...
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REIDSVILLE — Since she was an infant, Misty Smith Felde has watched her mother, Pat, arrange flowers for weddings, funerals and other occasions. She recalls that on one occasion she broke her finger while her mother was waiting on a customer.
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GREENSBORO — If you needed additional evidence of North Carolina’s changing economy, it’s on display at the Greensboro Children’s Museum. There, in a new temporary exhibit, children can learn about some of the essentials of manufac...
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GREENSBORO — Demographics, not environmental factors, might explain an “elevated” number of pancreatic cancer cases near the White Street Landfill, according to the Guilford County Health Department.
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Have you ever lost a dog or cat and gone to the animal shelter to look for it? The hopeful “pick me” looks of the animals will break your heart. Two years ago when our daughter’s beloved beagle disappeared, we checked the Reidsville ani...
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Question: I drive from Greensboro to Winston-Salem several times a week to check on my elderly mother. During the past year, I have noticed that the lights in the concrete median along Interstate 40 between Gallimore Dairy Road and Sandy Ridge Road are ne...
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Kathy Joyce received the Rockingham County Schools 2009 Exceptional Children’s Teacher of Excellence Award. Joyce, who teaches at Lawsonville Avenue Elementary School in Reidsville, received the honor from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction&r...
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For several years, my wife and I, along with some friends, traveled to Boone the day after Thanksgiving to choose and cut a live Christmas tree. This particular year, we were unable to go because I was confined to a wheelchair after having two surgeries o...
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75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 15-21, 1934: The Public Works Administration is prepared to fund a major project in Rockingham County involving the draining of high water from the Haw River and its tributaries.
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Fun stuffTODAYChristmas Open House, 1-5 p.m. Nov. 15, Downtown Crafters & Amish Country Market, 136 S. Scales St., Reidsville. Items made by local craftsmen. Create your own old-fashioned gift baskets. Door prizes. 342-7780.
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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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Divorces filed in District Court, Wentworth division of Rockingham County, Oct. 1-7: Angel Marie W. Powell vs. Richard V. PowellCynthia H. Dixon vs. James Dale DixonRandy Neal Wilson Jr. vs. Ashley Nicole Wrenn-WilsonMarvin J. Clark vs. Barbara Hairston-C...
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A Dillard Elementary School student recently got a letter from President Barack Obama about a mutual friend, “Flat Stanley.” Stanley, it seems, spent some time with the president at the White House.
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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 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — Time Warner Cable customers are receiving their monthly bills and something extra — 30-day notices about rate increases. Beginning with their December bills, some cable and high-speed Internet customers will see rate increases of...
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The Guilford County Health Department’s Greensboro office said Friday it will not make new appointments for flu vaccinations for the rest of the year. Health officials said that after commitments already on the books and a public clinic scheduled fo...
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GREENSBORO — Christon Eugene Tucker will spend the rest of his life in prison for what a judge called the brutal execution of a woman in front of her 4-year-old daughter. A nine-woman, three-man jury on Friday convicted Tucker, 29, of first-degre...
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