Friday, March 29th, 2024

Author: Scott D. Yost

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You Can Help The Animal Shelter In More Ways Than One

When people talk about helping the animals at the Guilford County animal shelter, they’re often talking about adopting the dogs and cats, but there are a lot of other important ways people can help out – ways that don’t require quite the full-time commitment being a loving pet owner does.

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Guilford County Government Gets Into Farming

It wasn’t that many years ago that Guilford County economic development officials were gung ho on seeking a “higher use” for the county’s large open spaces – particularly on the 806 acres in eastern Guilford County and western Alamance County that once constituted the Guilford County Prison Farm. 

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Chamber Seeks Applicants for Minority Business Accelerator

One of the goals of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce is to help support the establishment and expansion of local minority businesses, and, to that end, the chamber has opened applications for participants who want to be in the fourth group of Scale to Excel – a minority business accelerator program that “provides executive education, management know-how and business support systems for small businesses.”

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Who Will Be Memorialized With Government Plaza Statue?

When the Rhino Times wrote recently about a $8 million-plus renovation that was coming to the governmental plaza between the Melvin Municipal Office Building and the Old Guilford County Court House, one sentence in particular drew a lot of interest: “The project includes repairing damage to the plaza and the parking deck below, along with the construction of a new equipment ramp, a rectangular pergola on the plaza, a new monument and pedestal, and the installation of monument lighting.”

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Oak Ridge Town Councilmember Ann Schneider Joins Crowded District 62 GOP Primary

Oak Ridge Republican Town Councilmember Mayor Ann Schneider has filed to run for the North Carolina House District 62 seat, arguing that her six years on the Oak Ridge Town Council – including four years as mayor – makes her “uniquely prepared” to be the state representative for the small towns in District 62 as well as for the cities of High Point and Greensboro.

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Number Of Guilford Metro 911 Calls Fell Last Year

In fiscal year 2022-2023, which ran from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 the number of 911 calls received by the Guilford Metro 911 Emergency Communications Center fell from the previous fiscal year despite the county’s growing population and an increasing number of people walking around with cell phones.

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High Point To Hold Open House For New Greenway Project

The City of High Point is holding an open house for anyone who wants to drop by to discuss the proposed “High Point on the Rise Project.”   The project, which will run along Elm Street, is meant to provide “comfortable, separated, safe access for those walking and biking along the corridor, with the addition of sections of sidewalk replacement and expansion with concrete and brick, on-street parking, street trees, stamped asphalt crosswalks and traffic signal upgrades.”

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Commissioners Approve $8.2 Million For Government Plaza Makeover

There’s already been some preliminary work taking place on and around the downtown Greensboro government plaza and nearby parking areas, but the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has just entered into a $8.2 million contract with Stone Restoration of America to overhaul the look of the plaza and do repair work to the plaza and a parking lot under it that’s used by many government employees.

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Guilford County Is Not Cooking The Books, Audit Finds

Whatever you think about Guilford County government assuming billions of dollars of debt to pay for school construction and many other huge projects, the just released results of the audit of the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget found that the county is reporting its finances accurately and following the rules and laws regarding the way it handles and reports on that money.

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