Author: Scott D. Yost

Local government leaders like to let their residents know about their accomplishments, and the members of the High Point City Council are no exception…

Each month, when the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority meets, airport staff provides the seven-member board with the most recent stats for the number of passengers flying in and out of the

The City of High Point, in partnership with Community Housing Solutions and the Housing Consultants Group, is hosting an “Operation Inasmuch Day of Service” in the Burns Hill Neighborhood on Saturday, April 27…

You may not have noticed, but traffic is getting very, very bad across Guilford County, and many people who remember driving around Greensboro 30 or 40 years ago are often astonished at the vast number of cars on city roads at all times of the day…

Being a firefighter usually means putting out fires, but sometimes it means starting them as well – and that’s exactly what will be going on in Northwest Greensboro on Friday, April 26.  That day, firefighters will first play arsonists in order for the…

When the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department reported this weekend that a suspect fleeing at high speeds from a sheriff’s deputy had crashed in front of Vandalia Christian School, that was sad enough…

GuilfordWorks – together with Guilford Technical Community College, High Point Economic Development, and Business High Point Chamber of Commerce – is hosting a Furniture Industry Roundtable in High Point on Thursday, April 25…

The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association has just held its 2024 Spring Meeting in New Hanover County.  That’s an annual learning and networking event for North Carolina sheriffs and sheriffs’ department personnel hosted by the NC Sheriffs’ Association..

Leaders of the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) and the Department of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education plan to hold a roundtable with Guilford County Schools on Wednesday…

PART, which stands for “Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation,” is hoping Guilford County voters – as well as voters in the other central North Carolina counties served by the Authority…

On Saturday, April 27, the City of High Point and Keep High Point Beautiful will put on what will be the 20th anniversary of the city’s Great American Cleanup…

The new hours of use for the one and a half-year-old pedestrian bridge over Koonce City Lake in High Point has had some city residents doing a double-take lately….

According to a press release from the Greensboro Police Department, detectives are continuing to look into the motive of a 26-year-old man who broke into Irving Park Elementary School in the ear…

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department reported this weekend that, on Tuesday, April 16, at just after 11:15 p.m., a deputy with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department attempted to conduct a traffic stop on Pleasant Garden Road near Industrial Avenue….

When the Guilford County Board of Commissioners got together on Thursday, April 18 to discuss the upcoming fiscal budget that will take effect on July 1, it became clear that there won’t be a property tax increase; however,

“Men Can Cook” is a very popular fundraiser for the Women’s Resource Center that, this year, will be held from  5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Greensboro Coliseum’s Piedmont Hall…

Last fall, Guilford County Technical Community College leaders asked the Guilford County Board of Commissioners to promise $11.1 million to begin to build a $147 million Aviation Training Center on GTCC’s Cameron Campus near Colfax – and the commissioners agreed…

When Guilford County Manager Mike Halford gave the Guilford County Board of Commissioners his initial thoughts on the fiscal 2024-2025 county budget at a Thursday, April 18 work session, he began with a pretty astounding statement…

Rhino Times readers often point out in article comments whenever a free city event is announced that no city event is really free because taxpayers paid for it.  So, perhaps a better way to describe those events is in this way…

The Guilford County Health and Human Services Department conducts serious outreach efforts to make sure that all county residents eligible for various government benefits know about them and apply for them….

If you think the price of eggs has been increasing, you should see what inflation is doing to the Guilford County Schools construction projects – many of which were conceived when inflation and interest rates were next to nothing…

High Point University is known worldwide for some of the very unusual perks that come with going there, and now you can add another to the list – a chance to attend the most exclusive golf tournament in the world…

Soon-to-be NC House District 59 Rep. Alan Branson is in an interesting position: He’s the Republican candidate for that seat, which he’s trying to win in November; however, in about a week he’ll be sworn into – and then be the occupant of – that seat…

The Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services is one of the largest and most important departments in the county’s government and now that department has a new deputy…

Well, it’s that time of year again – the time when the Guilford County Board of Commissioners...

The Architect of Black Space firm, along with the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department, announced this week that the Gate City’s Street Night Market will start up on Sunday evening, April 28. The market is…

The City of Greensboro is once again scattering smartphone-app-available e-bikes across the city to put some extra green in Greensboro; but, if you plan to take advantage of this interesting mode of transportation, you should keep in mind that there are plenty of rules that go along with it…

For decades, when Greensboro and the surrounding area weren’t doing all that well as far as economic development, places like the Highway 421 corridor south of Greensboro seemed like they might remain largely rural forever…

Last Fall, High Point University earned three No. 1 rankings in US News & World Report’s 2024 “Best Colleges” edition – including the top spot for undergraduate teaching…

There are all sorts of things you can check out from the Greensboro Public Library besides books – audiobooks, music CDs and many other items – but you might be surprised that now one library has ukuleles you can check out with your library card…

The “new” jail in downtown Greensboro opened in 2012 and it turns out that, more than a decade later, parts of it aren’t so new anymore. The floors and walls

Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston is unquestionably the most powerful political figure in Guilford County: If you want county government to do something, he’s the first and last person you need to convince…

It turns out that it’s a very bad idea to build parks where kids play on top of toxic waste dumps, and the City of Greensboro has been learning that lesson the hard way after a park built in the 1970s was unknowingly…

Over the last decade, Guilford County has worked very hard to attempt to find parents and families who are seeking to house foster children. It’s often very difficult to find quality matching family environments for the children in the county’s Foster Care Program overseen by the Guilford County Division of Social Services…

Everyone who’s grown up in Greensboro has at least one horror story about how long they or a relative in distress had to wait before getting treated in the emergency room – sometimes even on, say…

North Carolinians are probably thrilled that their state ranks in the Top 10 in terms of college basketball success over the years (third to be exact), however, they’ll no doubt be…

Last year, Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston stated a very ambitious goal: End homelessness in Guilford County completely by the time the winter of 2023 hits.

On Wednesday, April 10, the US Environmental Protection Agency implemented  new regulatory compliance rules for drinking water in municipal water systems, such as Greensboro’s, and those rules will…

If you see some alarming things going on at Piedmont Triad International Airport on Saturday, April 20 – fire, smoke, chaos, people getting emergency medical treatment – well, don’t get too alarmed…

You can keep eating beef.

You can keep drinking milk.

At least, for now.

Sometimes a few cases of

The Guilford County Animal Shelter is extremely thankful for the generous area residents who donate items to help the animals, and the shelter currently has a specific list of special needs that will help the most…

If you want to get wet and wild this summer your best bet is probably to head out to Emerald Pointe; however, if you just want to get wet

The City of Greensboro loves building sidewalks, digging up roads and replacing water lines – and now there’s a new project on the way…

$104,339,752.

That’s the amount of the last traunch of money Guilford County had to obligate by the federal deadline – December 31, 2024 – or commit the mortal sin of giving the unspent money back to the federal government…

The Guilford County Republican Party has made a decision as to who it wants to fill the remaining term of NC  Representative Jon Hardister, who announced recently that he was stepping down from his NC House District 59 seat….

The Greensboro Fire Department has just begun a two-month testing program to make sure that all of the city’s fire hydrants are in good working order and will be able to pump out an adequate amount of water if they have to be used in a fire fight…

The City of High Point announced this week that it will be switching back to chloramines for water disinfection on April 18, 2024, though it will take about 14 days to complete the full conversion for the water distribution system…

The Town of Summerfield has been going through something of a leadership upheaval lately: Last year Summerfield residents elected a largely new Town Council, and, earlier this…

One doesn’t have to read many local headlines or watch much local television news to feel very unsafe in what was once the relatively not scary city of Greensboro.