Author: Scott D. Yost

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department is doing what it can to bring some holiday cheer to county residents now that Christmas is just around the corner.  On Saturday, Dec. 10, for instance, department staff was in downtown High Point giving away a lot of food to those who need it.

The year 2022 has been one when the Guilford County Register of Deeds office went through a lot of changes – for the most part very good ones.

Guilford County has been trying to unify its Health Department and Department of Social Services for nearly a decade. Now it’s hiring a consultant to help accomplish that task as well as advise the county on strategic planning for behavioral health services and opioid crisis response.

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department employees always get excited this time of year because it’s time for the Fill the Bus” Kick Off. This year, the effort will begin on Monday, Dec. 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and run those same hours through Wednesday, Dec. 14.

This winter and spring,130 public schools across North Carolina will receive mental and behavioral health training and consultation through the North Carolina Psychiatry Access Line.

There’s no question that residents of Guilford County and those across the North Carolina are eating out more now that pandemic fears have subsided.  In fact, a new study just released found that, in the last three months, North Carolinians have been eating out 7 percent more than in the previous quarter.

Guilford County Sheriff’s Department Communications Specialist Bria Evans was arrested by Greensboro police officers in the very early morning hours of Friday, Dec. 2 and charged with driving while impaired.

Are you part of a low-income family living with an older adult or someone with physical challenges? Then the state’s Low Income Energy Assistance Program is an option to explore.  Households with adults and people with disabilities can now apply for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) “Low Income Energy Assistance Program.”

At a Monday, Dec. 5 meeting when newly elected and reelected commissioners were sworn in, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Skip Alston – who’ll hold that title for another 12 months – summed up the extremely eventful year of 2022 when it came to the board’s actions.

For a fiscally conservative Republican Guilford County commissioner on a board full of spend-happy Democrats, Commissioner Justin Conrad sure did get a whole lot of love this week.  From the comments the Democrats made about Conrad at the Monday, Dec. 5 meeting when Conrad stepped down as a commissioner, you would have thought they had been in agreement with Conrad on all matters for years.

Usually, when the Guilford County Board of Commissioners swears in new commissioners after an...

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On Monday, Dec. 5, at 10 a.m., the Guilford County Board of Commissioners held its 2022 “organizational” meeting and, in less than an hour, did a lot of things. 

A county-owned property that first went on sale earlier this year is going to sell for a lot more than county officials first planned. The old Monticello Community Center property at 5009-A NC 150 East now has an offer that’s more than two and half times higher tha

In the movie Wayne’s World, Wayne and Garth encouraged each other to “Party on!” with virtually no restriction on what type of partying that should be.

It’s pretty aggravating when you’re unable to receive calls on your phone – but, when the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline can’t take calls, the phone outage can be a life or death matter.

The Guilford County commissioners only hold a regular meeting in the morning once every two years, and it’s always a very nice meeting for a number of reasons.

Former Guilford County Commissioner Alan Branson, current Commissioner Kay Cashion and some Pleasant Garden residents known as the “Pleasant Guardians” are waiting to find out what – if anything – comes next after state election officials conclude an investigation of a complaint Branson filed after he lost in the November election.

An email from the City of Greensboro’s Human Resources Department doesn’t say “Bah-humbug!” but it does lay out so many rules and regulations about how to celebrate Christmas – sorry, the “Holiday Season” – that some city employees may forgo celebrating at the office at all.

Servant’s Heart Worship Center and CityServe of the Triad are teaming up this year to help get free groceries into the hands and stomachs of those facing financial challenges this Christmas.

Earlier this month, the Rhino Times reported some news that came as no surprise to many: Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston would be reelected to that chairman’s seat for the eighth time.

A longtime former Guilford County administrator – who also once served as the head of the Guilford County Animal Shelter – has landed a job as the top dog in Cumberland County government.

If the 2022 swearing-in ceremony for Democratic Sheriff Danny Rogers is anything like the swearing-in held four years ago, then there will be a whole lot of pageantry, speeches, photo-ops and activity on Monday, Dec. 5 when that ceremony takes place at the Guilford County Courthouse in downtown High Point.

The High Point Economic Development Corp. announced on Tuesday, Nov. 29, that iHeartMedia Triad will be High Point’s newest downtown office tenant.

The High Point Public Library is a very active public-facing institution that hosts a lot of events for the city’s residents, and that’s especially true at this time of year when people are getting into the holiday spirit.

Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston said this week that the county is moving forward with plans to create two new facilities meant to help troubled people – a new 70- to 100-bed substance abuse center providing long- term care and a new 70- to 100-bed mental health facility that will also offer long-term care.

In most grocery stores you go into these days, shoppers are highly frustrated by dramatically increasing prices; so it’s good to know that, at one new Greensboro grocery store, everything is always free.

Over the last two years, Guilford County government has received a lot of extra funding from various federal and state relief programs, and now the county is also getting extra funds from the private sector.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro wants to make sure that kids in foster care have some presents to open just like most other kids do at this time of year.

The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce has earned the highest-level of distinction in the Chamber world: a 5-Star Accreditation from the US Chamber of Commerce.

November means a lot of things to a lot of people, but, for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), the month is known as Family Engagement Month – and this week the NCDHHS announced a host of new early learning resources for families with young children.

ck group The Who sang, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” – and those lyrics are about 89 percent true of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, which, on Monday, Dec. 5 will usher in the new version of the board that will only have one new county commissioner out of nine seats: Board of Education Member Pat Tillman will trade in that title to take over the seat of District 5 County Commissioner Justin Conrad.

City of High Point officials have been excited about a lot of new things coming there over the years – mostly large new businesses that bring a lot of new jobs – however, High Point leaders have rarely been as excited as they are right now about the new soccer team, Carolina Core FC, that’s coming to town.

In 2022, a truly amazing confluence of events came together to make it the year when Guilford County government spending – and future commitments to spending – reached levels never seen before in the county.

Recently, county government leaders in North Carolina got together to set the “Legislative Agenda” for counties across the state for the fiscal year 2023-2024.

The High Point Human Relations Commission is now accepting nominations for its annual Humanitarian of the Year Award.

Last week, the Guilford County Sheriff’s department put out a media alert about a missing teenager with cognitive issues, and, this week, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, the department asked for the public’s help locating another person with similar issues.

Each year, before Thanksgiving, the High Point Economic Development Corp. (HPEDC) likes to look back and take count of the successes it’s had in the previous 12 months.

A lot of people in the Greensboro area know Kersey Valley best for its Halloween Spooky Woods events; however, Halloween is now in the rear-view mirror and it’s time for holiday events like Kersey Valley Christmas.

At the Thursday, Nov. 17 meeting of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, District 3 Guilford County Commissioner Justin Conrad – who’s stepping down from the board after serving eight years – received a whole lot of praise from his fellow commissioners.

It’s a good thing the Guilford County Board of Commissioners told county staff a few months ago to widely advertise the sale of the old Monticello Community Center property at 5009A NC-150.

Last week, Republican NC State Rep. Jon Hardister was re-elected by his peers in state government to the seat of NC House Majority Whip.

The salaries of government employees are a public record, and anyone who wants to know how much a local or state government worker is making can simply ask, and, by law, the questioners must get a very quick answer.

From March 1999 to March 2020 – over more than two decades, that is – former Guilford County Security Director Jeff Fowler served in the role as the head of security for the county.

On Sunday, Nov. 20 at 1 a.m., deputies from the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department went to Colfax to investigate an attempted breaking and entering at Colfax Gun and Ammo at 9420 W. Market St.

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has a very nice and warm practice of honoring county citizens who live to be 100 years old; however, on Thursday, Nov. 18, the board did something novel: It honored a county woman who was 102 – and who was as spry as the other attendees in the meeting room who were on average less than half her age.

If you were worried that Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers wouldn’t be able to continue to afford his habit of buying flashy cowboy hats and silk vests, worry no more. Rogers will have plenty of money to buy those hats, purple vests and anything else he wants.

Those who work in the Greensboro Fire Department were all smiles just after 1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17 when the department received a very nice gift from the Kiwanis Club of Greensboro: a giant check for $50,000 that will be used to support the purchase of a Fire Education Safety Trailer.

At a 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 work session of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the Town of Summerfield’s plan for a new town hall ran into a surprising and solid brick wall when town officials came to the county to ask to use $2.2 million of American Rescue Plan Act money to buy a historic school and convert it into a town hall.