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Posted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 9, 2024 | News
If you plan on having children and working while you raise them, you might want to consider moving to Connecticut.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 9, 2024 | News
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) will host a live “Cafecito and tele-town hall” in Spanish on Thursday, Jan. 11, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. to explain Medicaid expansion – including which qualified immigration statuses are eligible for health care coverage and how to apply.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 9, 2024 | News
This weekend there will be a whole lot of celebrations of the life and lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. going on, and High Point is one city that’s certainly packing in quite a bit of those from Friday, Jan. 12 through Monday, Jan. 15.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 8, 2024 | News
Newly compiled data by the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners shows that the money coming in from occupancy taxes is on the rise in recent years.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 8, 2024 | News
If one of your resolutions for 2024 was to be a more caring and more helpful member of society in the New Year, there’s one way you can do so right off the bat.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 8, 2024 | News
On Monday, Jan. 8, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced that the department is now enrolling pharmacists as Medicaid providers and paying for contraceptive counseling services provided in pharmacies.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 5, 2024 | News
It’s too bad that sometimes when the government builds new roads or widens existing ones that some landowners loose some or all of their land to that effort whether they wanted to sell the property to the government or not.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 5, 2024 | News
Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) announced this week that it will be hosting a TSA PreCheck enrollment event together with IDEMIA – an authorized TSA PreCheck enrollment provider.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 4, 2024 | News
Everyone who follows the Guilford County Tax Department to any extent knows the department does their main job very well.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 4, 2024 | News
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is hosting a live fireside chat and tele-town hall on Wednesday, Jan. 10, from 6 to 7 p.m., to discuss Medicaid expansion across North Carolina.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 4, 2024 | News
There certainly are a lot of threats in the world to keep track of these days, but at least some of them can be tested for.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 3, 2024 | News
High Point University (HPU) is known for bringing in some big names that students can learn from in a very direct way, and, this week, the school announced the latest name on that list: Google Global Transformation and Operations Executive Teena Piccione.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 3, 2024 | News
This week, Guilford County government is scheduled to enter into an interlocal agreement that’s intended to make parks in Oak Ridge safer and bring more peace of mind to residents.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 3, 2024 | News
Anyone who’s gone into Harris Teeter in the last two years knows that the price of just about everything has been going up – and that may soon also be true of the amount cities and towns in Guilford County pay the Guilford County Tax Department for the service of collecting their property taxes.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 2, 2024 | News
Guilford County property owners who are late payers but not delinquent payers, have just paid their property taxes to the county– so, it would be nice if they could put property taxes out of their minds for a little while.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 2, 2024 | News
Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston certainly has his critics, but there is undeniably a benefit to having a commissioner on the board who’s served across four decades.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jan 2, 2024 | News
In 2024, the Guilford County commissioners are all about addressing the problem of homelessness as well as those issues that constitute the root causes of homelessness – such as drug abuse.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 29, 2023 | News
Everyone knows that Guilford County and other counties in the state and across the country are having trouble finding people willing to take jail guard jobs, but these days it’s also hard to fill other positions that meet needs in a jail.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 29, 2023 | News
No one knows what the future will bring. However, even though 2024 hasn’t arrived, the Guilford County commissioners and other top county officials have drawn a pretty good picture of what will be in store for county residents in the New Year.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 29, 2023 | News
For most people, Christmas is a time of happiness and joy, however, this year, due to the sudden and unexpected death of his mother, Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston spent the holidays grieving.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 28, 2023 | News
Guilford County government, under the leadership of Guilford County Manager Mike Halford and Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Skip Alston, accomplished a great deal in Guilford County in 2023.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 28, 2023 | News
The annual drive through the High Point University (HPU) campus to see the spectacular Christmas sights and hear the holiday sounds was as popular as ever.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 28, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 28, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 28, 2023 | News
Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen is known for pushing – in a very good way – the boundaries of what a county deeds office should do.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 27, 2023 | News
Santa Claus makes his naughty list long before Dec. 25, but Guilford County Tax Director Ben...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 27, 2023 | News
Guilford County Commissioner Carlvena Foster had a lot of praise for the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department at the Board of Commissioners meeting held just a few days before Christmas.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 22, 2023 | News
For years, the administration of the financial aspects of behavioral health services in Guilford County was managed by Sandhills Center – an administrative entity in West End, NC that handled those duties for 11 counties in central North Carolina.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 22, 2023 | News
This week the Rhino Times reported that Guilford County social services staff is projecting the total cost for Foster Care Room and Board in fiscal year 2023-2024 will be $13 million, which is $5 million more than the $8 million allocated for that purpose in the fiscal 2023-2024 budget.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 22, 2023 | News
Guilford County government is in the midst of a major new Comprehensive 2040 Plan and that was the first topic of discussion at a Thursday, Dec. 21 work session of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 21, 2023 | News
Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) doesn’t have a complete set of passenger stats yet for 2023, which is quickly coming to an end.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 21, 2023 | News
Jamestown native and North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby dropped in on the 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19 Jamestown Council meeting to install new council members – as well as some members that didn’t even need to be installed.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 21, 2023 | News
On Tuesday, Dec. 19, a new Jamestown Town Council was sworn in and the incumbents and new members began conducting business as usual.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 21, 2023 | News
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.”
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 20, 2023 | News
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) has launched a dashboard meant to track monthly enrollment in Medicaid for those eligible through expansion.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 20, 2023 | News
Though a lot of people who end up getting tased by Guilford County Sheriff’s Department officers next year might end up pleading, “Don’t tase me, Bro!” the department will have plenty of new and efficient tasers to go around should officers wish to not heed that plea.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 20, 2023 | News
Providing foster care services to children is notoriously expensive for Guilford County government, and, this year, that care is turning out to be even more expensive than anticipated.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 20, 2023 | News
At the height of the pandemic, Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) had more people working at the terminal than flying in and out of it.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 19, 2023 | News
A surprising number of people call the North Carolina law enforcement road safety campaign “Booze It or Lose It,” but it’s actually “Booze It AND Lose It.”
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 19, 2023 | News
A lot of people have already begun phoning it in until after the holiday season; however, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners is still working hard this week before kicking back and enjoying the festivities.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 19, 2023 | News
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.”
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 18, 2023 | News
The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department reported on Sunday, Dec. 17 that early in the morning on Thursday, Dec. 14, deputies arrived at a house in Summerfield and found a male victim suffering from a single gunshot wound.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 18, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 18, 2023 | News
Do you like beer? Fried pickles? Do you like unique and interesting moviegoing experiences?
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 15, 2023 | News
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is joining other southeastern states, medical insurers and others in the health care sector in a joint effort to combat what state health officials call “the congenital syphilis crisis.”
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 15, 2023 | News
Usually, football coaches go through the video of the previous game with the team and point out what players did right and what they did wrong.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 15, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 14, 2023 | News
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.”
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 14, 2023 | News
When it comes to land, houses, buildings and other items in Guilford County that are subject to property taxes – well, there’s now more than $55 billion worth of it.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 14, 2023 | News
A newly released audit of Guilford County government provides a breakdown of the biggest taxpayers currently compared to the biggest taxpayers a decade ago.
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