April 19, 2009
At the Guilford Correctional Center, a hound-mix named Yankee lies in the grass at inmate Delemon Williams’ feet. “Over, over,” Williams tells Yankee, gently rolling the dog onto his back and rubbing his belly as incentive. Yankee, cont...
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April 15, 2009
After an hourlong hearing, a neighbor-generated petition and a two-day wait, four Sedalia property owners had their rezoning request granted. In its April 6 meeting, the Sedalia Town Council voted 3-2 in favor of rezoning a portion of a 5.79-acre-tract of...
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The day had all the appearances of spring. The dogwoods were in bloom and grass was growing thick and green after a long winter lying dormant. There was a chill in the air, as an April day in North Carolina can be known to have. My husband and I, still pr...
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The Town of Elon’s Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday night to push back a quasi-judicial hearing for a debated new apartment complex on University Drive. The quasi-judicial hearing over a special use permit for Blue Ridge Development Company, whi...
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Visitors to Reno’s Pizza on Monday will see many new faces among the wait staff and kitchen workers. Community members will help run the downtown restaurant that day for the “Food Fight” fundraiser. The restaurant’s profits will g...
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April 14, 2009
GIBSONVILLE — Gibsonville soon will have a community garden on Dick Street. The Board of Aldermen approved use of town land for the garden at a board meeting April 6. The garden will be divided into 15 to 20 plots. People would apply to be plot hold...
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It’s been four years since I learned that one of my best friends has a potentially deadly disease. It feels like yesterday. She told me on a Saturday. I was working in Tennessee, driving to an assignment, when she told me, “I found out yesterd...
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April 10, 2009
Pay tribute to a special mom this Mother’s Day! Send us your tribute -- 250 words or less -- or a drawing to news@guilfordrecord.com or Cindy Loman, News & Record. PO Box 20848, Greensboro 27401. We’ll post tributes online Mother’s D...
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April 9, 2009
Experience Greensboro, which introduces residents to the ins and outs of Greensboro, will be offered by the Chamber of Commerce April 29 through June 10. The six-week program meets on consecutive Wednesdays. Each week, participants will learn about the hi...
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April 8, 2009
Jennifer Gattis of McLeansville has spent a lot of time taking online surveys over the past four years or so. Sometimes, her husband would give her a hard time about it. But he’s not teasing her much now. Jennifer Gattis’ time online won the...
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Western Alamance Middle School students recently spent time in the media center learning how to use the school’s new SMART Board. They practiced putting together bibliography entries by touching the screen and dragging elements, such as the title an...
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One of the first things my husband and I did many years ago when we moved to our house here in Gibsonville was to attempt to tame the natural areas that surround our house. We spent many hours raking leaves, collecting sticks and cutting down thorny vine...
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Motorcyclists will rumble down Burlington’s Maple Avenue and N.C. 49 on April 18 to help homeless dogs and cats. The Compassionate Bikers of Alamance County have organized a “Miles for Mutts” all-day event with activities for bikers and...
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April 7, 2009
Citizens warned of the dangerous traffic side effects of a proposed apartment development Monday at the Town of Elon’s Board of Aldermen monthly meeting. The property would include 240 apartment units and 620 parking spaces and would have entr...
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April 5, 2009
In her tenure as an administrator, Benita Lawrence has led the schools she’s served to improve test scores. Last year, Monticello-Brown Summit Elementary, where she’s been principal the past six years, met Adequate Yearly Progress and had high...
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April 1, 2009
ELON — The Board of Aldermen will have a hearing for a special-use permit at 6 p.m. Monday on an apartment complex that would straddle the Gibsonville-Elon border. Blue Ridge Cos. plans to build a 294-unit apartment complex called The Legacy at Elon...
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A request to rezone some property on U.S. 70 now faces the Sedalia Town Council. After a public hearing March 26, the planning board voted unanimously to recommend rezoning 2.75 acres of a 5.79-acre lot to accommodate a thrift shop. Property owners Rober...
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The fall that I turned 6, I pored over the toys in the Sears Wish Book in anticipation of Christmas. I longed for Santa Claus to bring me some Fisher Price Little People sets. I added several sets to my Christmas wish list. Secretly I wanted all of them.
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Larry Jones spent decades working as a chef at country clubs and fancy hotels in New York, Washington and other parts of the country. But for the past five years, the residents at The Village at Brookwood, a Burlington retirement community, have been enj...
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March 25, 2009
A group of Gibsonville residents wants to build a community garden on a half-acre of town-owned land. Christine Stewart proposed the idea at the Board of Aldermen meeting March 16. The property is on Dick Street, and the group has asked to use the water...
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Myra Kay Hughey and her son were close. Kevin, 16, her only child, talked to Hughey about everything — even girls. But in the summer of 2007, Kevin never said anything that made the McLeansville woman suspect he would commit suicide. Now Hughey coun...
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In my adulthood, I have always been a coupon clipper with varying degrees of intensity. It’s always been fun to shop discount, thrift stores and yard sales or to find something my family needed at a deeply discounted price. About a year ago, I start...
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The mayor and chairwoman of the planning board are concerned about the layout of a high-density apartment complex to be built on the Gibsonville-Elon border. Blue Ridge Cos. is building 240 apartment units on the Elon parcel. The Gibsonville side will hav...
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Alamance Community College will showcase dozens of interactive demonstrations and exhibits April 5 to celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary. The free event, from 2 to 5 p.m. on the Carrington-Scott Campus, is open to the public. It will include ga...
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U.S. Rep. Howard Coble recently visited with students from Northeast Guilford High School’s Navy Junior ROTC and its commander Dirk Butler. Coble spoke to the cadets about the importance of leadership, citizenship and developing team-building...
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