October 13, 2009
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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October 11, 2009
Cyclists will pedal through rural northeastern Guilford County on Saturday to raise awareness about the obesity epidemic. The event includes a 15-mile “fun ride” for families or new cyclists as well as 31- and 62-mile rides.
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October 4, 2009
Dixon’s Produce, in its time-worn wooden building at 3300 N. Main St., High Point, sits in sharp contrast to the new square generic grocery store in the background.
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September 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Under a cool rain Friday, volunteers began to transform Melvin Warren’s 50-year-old home off East Lee Street.
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September 11, 2009
RAEFORD (AP) — North Carolina authorities say two men burned after a lit firecracker dropped inside the truck they were riding in initially made up a story about being attacked with the explosive.The Fayetteville Observer reported today that while t...
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August 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — Even when he’s delivering bills, people like to see Robert McCance , who has carried mail on Elm Street downtown for a decade. “We just love him to death, and the post office says they’re going to move him to a route o...
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July 12, 2009
A UNCG professor is hoping to teach local volunteers how to handle their companion animals to help comfort sick people. Linda Buettner, a professor of recreation therapy and geriantology, hopes to sign up 10 people for a Pet Partners training session Satu...
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Although Summerfield was just a small community in 1917 during World War I, the people worked together for the American Red Cross. The Greensboro chapter of the Red Cross was organized April 11, 1917, with 14 charter members. Five months later, the Summer...
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The Greater Piedmont Teen Challenge will hold its first Rock the Block street rally from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Greensboro. Rock the Block is a free Christian outreach event featuring local and regional urban Christian artists, comedians and o...
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Some people see Betty Gale Sikes, dressed in her colonial costume, as Dolley Madison when she gives historical presentations to school children and in the community. Others see her as a volunteer at Wesley Long Community Hospital. Still others see her as...
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Dudley High School graduate Euna L. Wortham Smith of Washington will return to her alma mater 78 years after she graduated. Smith, 96, was a member of Dudley’s first graduating class in 1931. She walked 10 miles a day just to get to and from school.
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Visitors to the new Southwest Park won’t find basketball courts or paved walking tracks. The grass grows long there, and little of the land is developed. The area, Guilford County’s first “natural park,” provides habitat for wildli...
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Part one of three. On May 10, I wrote “Hoops History Made in High Point” about a championship game between the two best women’s basketball teams in the nation. They just happened to be black. The game featured the 11-time national profes...
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A local day-care center, opened 28 years ago by a group of parents dissatisfied with child care options, will have an open house Saturday. “We are opening doors to the community again so that they can see what we have to offer,” said Susan You...
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July 18 is the day that the “Oakdale Cotton Mills: Close-knit Neighbors” DVD will be available to the public. The documentary will be a featured part of the seventh annual Village Fair at Mendenhall Plantation in Jamestown. More than 200 peopl...
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June 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Erika Villarreal walked South Elm for three days, carrying a big red sack as a blister began to build on her right foot.She toted 100 hand-made fabric bundles smaller than a bag lunch. She made them herself and handed them out randomly...
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June 14, 2009
The Hispanic Center in High Point, is offering at-risk elementary and middle school students GREAT alternatives to gang activities. The center will offer Gang Resistance Education and Training, a 12-week gang prevention program for parents and children.
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June 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — Pam Allen, a fixture in education and arts circles known as someone with passion for making sure all children had an opportunity, died Tuesday. She was 68.Allen served on the school board from 1992 to 2002, a period that included the 19...
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June 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — ChaQuanda Graham felt her heart drop. She saw all those people inside Greensboro’s Special Events Center last weekend, and she felt nervousness rise in her throat. “Don’t cry; don’t cry,’’ she told he...
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June 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — With each stride, Thad McLaurin empties his thoughts onto the trail. His mind drifts — to the kids, the training, and sometimes, to a clear and thoughtless nowhere. Every so often, the sound of his footsteps brings McLaurin his be...
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June 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — They’re both the youngest sons of North Carolina farmers, the journalist and the crafty oil tycoon. The oilman is Walter Davis. Don’t confuse him with the hoops star once known as “Sweet D.’’ No, this Walte...
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June 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — There was a time when Marty Goldstein had blond curly hair, felt as hefty as a linebacker and wanted so badly to play first base for the New York Yankees. He’s from the Bronx. He lived above a Chinese restaurant, used cars and sew...
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May 29, 2009
My husband and I were preparing to move my 90-year-old mother and sister-in-law to Greensboro from Reidsville after my father-in-law’s passing so that they could live closer to us. We found a condo, but it needed quite a bit of work before we could...
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May 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Isaiah Enoch has to get around his small apartment in a wheelchair. But he doesn’t let that stop his busy mind. He collects boxes that once held cereal, detergent and diapers. He cuts them, glues them and decorates them for what h...
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May 24, 2009
GREENSBORO -- It's hard to keep people out of the kitchen when it smells like pecan pie bars and mixed berry squares. Breakfast and lunch are served during the week at the Sanctuary House. But today, there's a bakery order. That means the mixer churns but...
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