Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Author: Scott D. Yost

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NC’s New ‘SUN Bucks’ Program Will Feed Kids Over The Summer

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is asking everyone who receives food benefits through various programs to keep their information current because it will let the state know who’s eligible for a new program that’s expected to provide food to almost one million school children across the state during the summer months when school is out.

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Sheriff’s Dept. Works With Feds To Catch Alleged Child Rapist

On Monday, March 4, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department reported that, on the last day of February, the US Marshals Service and Albuquerque Police Department – working with the Sheriff’s Department – arrested a 37-year-old man in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was being sought for “Rape of a Child by an Adult Offender.”

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State Board of Elections Battles Misinformation

“Listen to Reality, Not Rumors.” That’s the slogan of North Carolina’s State Board of Elections, which has been using social media and the board’s webpage in an attempt to debunk popular myths regarding North Carolina elections as well as elections in general.

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Commissioners’ ‘Thursday Night Fights’ TV Show Is A Distant Memory

It’s hard for anyone who’s only seen the current Guilford County Board of Commissioners to believe, but the very genteel, never-raise-your-voice board that votes unanimously on almost every issue is a complete 180-degree bizzarro opposite version of the board two decades ago – which held meetings many county residents watched on TV for the drama, and which many called “The Thursday Night Fights.”

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Guilford County Gets Honor For Its Immense Employee Benefits

Guilford County government has been expanding pay and benefits for county employees like crazy for the last three years and now it has become the first county in North Carolina to be designated as a “Family Forward NC Certified Employer” – a certification established by the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation’s Family Forward NC initiative.

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How Does Your Commute Compare?

Information from a NC Department of Transportation study presented recently at a work session of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners presents quite a detailed look at traffic and commuting patterns in Guilford County.

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14-Year-Old Local Boy Steals The Show From David Foster

People who came out to the Steven Tanger Center in downtown Greensboro on Friday, Feb. 23 had paid a good amount of money to see “An Intimate Evening with David Foster and Katharine McPhee.” But they got a big bonus when Foster let Brody Bett – a 14-year-old singer and musician who live in Greensboro – come out of the audience, sit down at his piano and blow everyone away with a rendition of “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

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NC 150 And Spencer-Dixon Road Intersection To Get Gas

Those people in northern Guilford County who don’t want to see development encroach into an historically rural area lost a small battle in a big way when the Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to overturn a no-vote by the Guilford County Planning Board and therefore gave developers approval for a new land use option for four acres at the intersection of NC 150 and Spencer-Dixon Road.

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Sheriff’s Office Projected For Completion March 2026

After being delayed almost a year because of a contract between Samet Corp. and Guilford County derailed, the county has a new construction company joint venture working on the new headquarters for the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department and a new timeline for the project – which is now predicted to be complete on March 7, 2026, just in time for the workers to kick back, open a beer and watch the ACC Tournament.

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