November 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — By 4:45 a.m. Thursday, the lights came on in one kitchen after another at LeMans Apartments on Lawndale Drive, where Twa Har prepared for his 90-minute carpool to a Perdue Farms chicken plant.
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The retired longtime president of Greensboro’s United Way and the attorney whose name is attached to numerous firsts for a black man in North Carolina will lead the inaugural “1960 Society” in support of the downtown civil rights museum.
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GREENSBORO — A crush of candidates, campaigners and media representatives filled the Old Guilford County Courthouse chambers with a roar of election-night activity Tuesday. Bill Knight stood at the center of the room greeting passers-by with a smile...
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GREENSBORO — Two men robbed a pizza deliverer Saturday night, police said.About 9:17 p.m., Khaled Mohamed Mohamed, 21, was returning to his car after delivering a pie for Tito's Pizza at 1356 Norwalk St. when two men approached him, according to Gre...
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Al Armstrong, a technician at Kimberly-Clark of Lexington, holds up a Ziploc bag full of water. “What will happen if I stick a pencil through here?” he asks a room full of attentive Millis Road Elementary School students. The responses are typ...
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Several students and teachers hit the blacktop on Oct. 29 at Johnson Street Global Studies. Some walked. Some jogged. Some of them made the laps solo. Others chatted with friends. Each week, 50 students and eight to 10 staff volunteers meet for an hour of...
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MONROETON — In the middle of mile after mile of farmland stands a building that could one day mean the difference between life and death for southern Rockingham County residents. The gleaming new fire station on Benaja Road means shorter response ti...
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GREENSBORO — This is for all you raccoons in Greensboro: Smile. You’re on candid camera. Last week, Animal Control officers set special traps armed with cameras throughout the city for the first phase of what health officials hope will become...
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WENTWORTH — Talitta Harris, a senior at Rockingham County Senior High School, wants to be a cosmetologist. Michael Latham, a senior at McMichael High School, loves animals and wants to study wildlife conservation.
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REIDSVILLE — Twenty-seven flags are flying today over the graves of Armed Forces veterans buried in the historic Mount Bethel Evangelical Covenant Church cemetery in Bethany. Those flags represent men who have died in war since the church was founde...
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One in a series of profiles of United Way of Greater Greensboro member agencies. Legal Aid of North Carolina Legal Aid of North Carolina provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to r...
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The Governor’s Task Force for Healthy Carolinians has recertified the Rockingham County Healthy Carolinians Partnership. The organization was recertified during the 17th annual Healthy Carolinians Conference on Oct. 8 in Greensboro.
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75 YEARS AGO From Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 8-14, 1934 Rockingham County’s tobacco markets continue to do well, with poundage remaining strong and prices holding steady. In Reidsville, nearly 100,000 pounds were sold but the qual...
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Q. How long should you keep your bank statements and checks? I have 25 years of accumulated stuff. — Betty Krieg, Greensboro A. There are two basic approaches to this problem. Let’s first explore the one that doesn’t involve a buil...
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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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Fun stuffTODAY ■ 14th annual Carolina Home Show & Sale, 12:30-4 p.m. Nov. 8, Hawk Spirit Studio, 613 Live Oak Road (off N.C. 14), Reidsville. Live music 1 p.m. Sunday. 349-8363 or www.hawkspiritstudio.wordpress.com.
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November 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — For the employees at Flow Lexus selling vehicles took a backseat to capturing an exotic bird on Saturday. Salesman Ted Van Hoy spotted Goldy, a male Reeves pheasant missing from his home in Guilford Hills for about two weeks. The bird w...
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EDEN — A call about a suspicious vehicle early Saturday morning turned into an investigation of a triple shooting that left one man dead. Police said Timothy Ronnel Seay, 37, of 1205 Maxin Road in Martinsville, Va., died of multiple gunshot wounds o...
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JAMESTOWN — Ten-year-old Colt Childress pouted after receiving his H1N1 vaccination Saturday at GTCC’s Medlin Center. But for mom Tammy Childress, the peace of mind that came from getting her son vaccinated was worth it.Colt suffered from...
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GREENSBORO — Four people charged in connection with a July hit-and-run accident that left a woman dead inside a car along U.S. 29 were among those indicted this week by a grand jury.
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GREENSBORO — Five hours. That was a long time for a pregnant woman to be on her feet waiting in line to get a filling at the dentist. Not that Stephanie Atkins, one of 549 people processed for treatment by 1 p.m. at the Missions of Mercy dental clin...
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RALEIGH — Students in Guilford and Forsyth counties would begin studying for careers in the aviation industry as early as middle school under a program developed by GTCC and funded by a Golden LEAF grant of $1.45 million.
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When 81-year-old Laszlo Berkowits recently stood at the entrance of the gas chamber at the infamous Auschwitz death camp complex, it occurred to him this would have been where his mother saw her last bit of sunlight.
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WENTWORTH — Sheriff Sam Page on Friday named a 21-year veteran of the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office as his chief deputy. Abner Bullins, previously the sheriff’s administrative captain, was promoted to major. Page recognized him and...
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