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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May 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — Luther Clegg spent most of his life selling everything from brushes and light bulbs to polishes and cleaners out of the Fuller Brush bag he lugged from house to house across the city. He’d stop by for a sale and most nights, stay...
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May 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — Maybe it’s the grape soda. John Hart used to suck down the artificial purple juice he bought from the canteen below his Greensboro office because he wanted that sugar rush to find the tough-boy voice of Johnny Merrimon. He needed...
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April 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Kim Yarborough received a little bundle of baby clothes after giving birth at Women’s Hospital, she didn’t forget it. Now, she’s gathering contributions to fill bundles for other mothers who need a little help. &l...
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April 21, 2009
PattiHanna. Say it quick. They did for years on the third floor of the Guilford County Courthouse. The folks with Guilford County’s Guardian ad Litem program would superglue the first and last name together and yell it from one end of the hall to th...
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April 18, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Life is like a garden. That's the way Sally Pagliai sees it, anyway. And she should know. Pagliai, (pronounced pal-e-eye), an architectectural designer, designs commercial and residential gardens. She sees her projects grow from saplings t...
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April 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — Bhola Timsina's family left their native Bhutan 17 years ago with few possessions and an uncertain future. They had no idea where, or how they might live. They only knew they were headed to India. The sun shone brightly on that May day......
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April 10, 2009
It was a couple of days after Christmas when my husband and I went to Four Seasons Town Centre to return a gift. Mission completed, we started upstairs on the escalator for lunch. As I stepped on the escalator, I fell hard, raising a big knot on my forehe...
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April 9, 2009
Artist Steven Bennett’s towering bronze and marble statues catch the eye of drivers who pass his Metropolitan Galleries along Business 85.Now, one has caught the eye of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.While on a fundraising trip, the governor...
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April 5, 2009
Sixteen young women are headed to Romania this summer. Each realizes the significance of such a trip, and they expect to return changed in some way. For Ashlie Green Bucy, the woman leading the 12-day adventure, it has already been a life-changing experie...
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April 3, 2009
Life can change in an instant. Just ask Johnny Walker. When he reports to his new job for the first time today, he’ll drop off the list of 42,000 unemployed workers in the Greensboro-High Point area. RF Micro Devices laid him off in January. In an i...
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GREENSBORO — A degenerative disease may have stolen Harold Johnson’s voice, but not his joy of life. Johnson learned he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in November 2007. Since then, he’s gone skydiving and driven a race car at 18...
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April 1, 2009
Judo is all about feel, Tony Johnson will tell you.The sport, whose name means “gentle way” in Japanese, is not the martial art you’ve seen in the movies, where the greased-up hero mows down a circle of henchmen with a flurry of rock &rs...
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March 31, 2009
To Mark Hoffmann, the highly visible if little understood “man on the bench” at Friendly Center, maybe Greensboro is home after all. He reappeared early Sunday morning, to the astonishment of a volunteer setting up at Centenary United Methodis...
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March 29, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Frank Bailey never let his heart attack keep him down. In fact, the incident inspired him to begin a comprehensive workout plan -- a plan from which he hasn't strayed for 17 years. But during his recovery at Moses Cone Hospital, something ha...
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March 26, 2009
GREENSBORO - For 69 years, Wednesdays were bridge club days at the YWCA. No doctors appointments. No husbands. No exceptions. The Y Matrons Bridge Club started with 79 charter members in 1940. Over the years, those numbers dwindled because of death, illne...
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March 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Touger Vang spent little time in his native Laos before his family fled to Thailand.Vang, whose first name is pronounced two-zher, spent the first half of his childhood in a refugee camp. Like many Hmong, Vang’s family was ousted...
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March 24, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — Nearly four years later, after writing what some called North Carolina’s most important North Carolina art film, Angus MacLachlan still gets the itch. And boy, he had it Monday. He wanted to calm down. He wanted to take no...
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March 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — Eugene McMurray Jr. was in the 11th grade when his mother fell ill, so he didn’t have much choice. With several younger brothers and sisters at home, the family needed him to start working. So he dropped out of Dudley High School...
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March 10, 2009
GREENSBORO - A cleanup day is planned March 21 to assist in efforts to rededicate a park for the city's youngest victim of an unsolved homicide. From 10 a.m. to noon, the Warnersville Historical & Beautification Society is inviting the public to help...
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GREENSBORO - Orchestral musicians and fans long will remember Russell Peck for his compositions and charismatic stage presence when narrating his works. But family and friends say that they also will remember the Greensboro composer for his kindness, comp...
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February 24, 2009
GREENSBORO - Jay Pierce hovers over his tilt skillet, making a big batch of beans and greens at Lucky 32 amid the sizzle and metallic clink of his busy kitchen. His 26-person crew races around him on this particular Friday night. They're all putting toget...
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February 17, 2009
Summerfield's first mayor, William Peterson, died Sunday at age 56. Peterson was one of the town's founding members, and his diligent work and dedication led to the town's incorporation in 1996, according to a press release issued by the town. He served a...
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February 15, 2009
Remember Mamie Kosia, the pretty but subdued Liberian refugee whom photographer H. Scott Hoffmann showed a couple of Sundays back, trying to warm her feet in front of a space heater at the Apache Street apartment where she and her child were facing evict...
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"We knew something was wrong," said Bobbie Johnson. "They brought all of the kids into the school auditorium," she said. That day, April 4, 1968, in that Shreveport, La., school is burned in the former Bobbie Horton's mind. "I was bawling." It was the day...
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