October 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — More than 120 people turned out Tuesday night at the Carolina Theatre to help develop the latest in a long line of plans on the future of downtown. They did it by playing cards.
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October 25, 2009
The dying began on a Monday. By Saturday, Edward S. Bryant’s home in High Point felt like a morgue. His daughter, Martha, died first. Then his wife, Chrissie. Then Bryant, a 55-year-old mechanic. In six days, three members of the Park Street family...
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October 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — The restructuring firm that owns Carlyle & Co. Jewelers will close all 34 of the high-end stores in 10 states, including three in the Triad . The move will end an enterprise that had its beginning with a single store in Greensboro i...
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October 14, 2009
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has begun to warn about 30,000 health care providers their personal information may have been compromised because of a computer theft.
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October 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — Thank goodness for the new county jail. The $85 million project helped boost the financial investment in the center city in the last fiscal year to nearly $117 million, according to a recent report from Downtown Greensboro Inc. Even in...
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October 9, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — Conversation at the Old 311 Curb Market Thursday morning quickly turned to the day’s top story: Dell’s plan to close its nearby computer plant.
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October 6, 2009
North Carolina’s natural gas users can expect to see significantly lower bills this winter, a welcome change fueled by increased supplies and decreased demand. Piedmont Natural Gas, the state’s largest supplier, announced Monday that winter he...
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September 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — City Council members will hear today that downtown can support a new parking deck that could hold about 400 cars, cost from $6 million to $8 million and contain 15,000 to 20,000 square feet of retail space. City transportation officials...
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September 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — The financially troubled YWCA Greensboro has put its downtown property on the market for $2.98 million, a step that could soon force the agency to leave the center city. “We are looking at a site that will serve us well, but it is...
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September 16, 2009
Economic conditions in Guilford County aren’t getting bad as fast as they once did. That’s the word from the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan Washington think-tank that has been monitoring economic activity in the nation’s 100 large...
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September 15, 2009
Issuing a fall foliage forecast can be about as hard as predicting the weather. That’s because sunshine, rainfall and temperatures affect leaf colors. “You really aren’t sure until the fall season arrives,” said Dick Thomas, execut...
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September 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — Work is expected to begin today on a $5 million, five-story building on South Elm Street, an area better known for the renovation of existing structures than the creation of new ones. The construction comes at a good time for downtown......
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September 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — City, county and community leaders have begun working on a plan for the future of downtown that they hope will provide a framework for economic development in the center city. The effort, which could take as long as a year, will examine...
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September 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — The old Cascade Saloon on South Elm Street may have heard its last call. After years of trying to get the historic building fixed up or torn down, city officials and downtown leaders appear to have lost patience with the property&rsquo......
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August 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — Officials at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum no longer talk about their dream, onethat reaches back some 15 years. Instead, they talk about reality. That’s what they did Friday. “There is no question about u...
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North Carolina’s unemployment picture for July offered a little of everything — some good news, some bad and some more of the same. The good news? The jobless rate fell in more than half the state’s 100 counties last month. The bad? More...
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August 26, 2009
Metaldyne Corp., an auto parts maker, said Wednesday it plans to close its chassis operations in Whitsett, putting 144 people out of work. The Plymouth, Mich.-based company, which supplies parts for cars and trucks, filed for bankruptcy in May. Earlier th...
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GREENSBORO — UMOJA will be steppin’ out tonight. In New York City. On national television. Before millions of viewers. With $5,000 on the line. And a chance to make the Triad proud. UMOJA, the award-winning male step team at Dudley High School...
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August 25, 2009
The Cash for Clunkers program has crossed the finish line. The government’s $3 billion rebate program ended at 8 p.m. Monday, two weeks earlier than expected. Since July, the program resulted nationally in the sale of more than 700,000 new, fuel-eff...
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August 24, 2009
ARCHDALE — An Archdale police officer shot and killed a suicidal motorist early Sunday on Interstate 85 after the man called authorities asking for assistance.The victim has been tentatively identified as Courtland Smith, a 20-year-old UNC-Chapel Hi...
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August 22, 2009
LEVEL CROSS — Don’t ask Keith Hockett if he’s “got milk?” Not today. Not after he just hauled another trailer load of his family’s prized dairy herd to a slaughterhouse in South Carolina. By Wednesday, all 473&nbs...
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August 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Officials at the financially troubled YWCA Greensboro deny they wrongfully discharged former Executive Director Adrienne Y. Witherspoon or that they misused state grant money as she charged in a lawsuit filed in June. “Nothing pre...
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August 15, 2009
The watchdog group Democracy North Carolina offers a piece of advice about the health care reform issue: follow the money. The nonpartisan group says that between 2003 and 2008, the nation’s drug makers, health care professionals and insurance indu...
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August 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — A year ago, officials at the Greensboro Children’s Museum planned to raise about $5 million for a major overhaul of the downtown attraction. Then, the economy tanked. “Frankly, that killed it,” John Cross, chairman of...
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Representatives from North Carolina’s traditional industries — tobacco, furniture and textiles — say they won’t be left out of the green movement unfolding in the Triad.“The textile industry is making strides,” said Pe...
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