Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Author: Scott D. Yost

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County’s Passport Office Dodges Government Shutdown Bullet

There were a lot of people who were happy legislators in Washington, DC, were able to avoid a government shutdown at the last minute this weekend, and one of those was Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen – because his office handles passports and the deeds office was holding a large passport fair on the same weekend that the shutdown looked inevitable.

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Be Especially Nice To The Elderly On Oct. 7

Everyone who’s ever been to a Greensboro City Council or a Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting knows that there is a day of the year, a week of the year, or a month of the year that is dedicated to everything from various diseases, to ballroom dancing, to parks and recreation, to fighting homelessness.

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Commissioners From All Over NC Flock To Guilford County

The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) is an association of county commissioners and other county leaders from counties across the state – and this year the group’s most important meeting will be relatively easy to get to from every corner of the North Carolina because the very central county of Guilford County has won the honor of hosting the big event…

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ProKidney’s $458 Million Facility Faces Stock Market Challenges

When a company plans a $458 million facility in Greensboro that will create 330 new jobs – as biomedical company ProKidney Corp. is doing – that would seem to be a very promising sign of good things to come.  However, ever since the company purchased a building and property in Greensboro in July, the company’s stock has been in sharp decline…

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Guilford County’s Remarkable $39.2 Million Opioid Settlement

The opioid abuse epidemic in Guilford County – and across the country – rages on, but there’s some good news when it comes to that battle. Guilford County government, which originally expected to get about $20 million from a lawsuit settlement with opioid makers and distributors, has been informed that it will instead get nearly twice that amount…

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Guilford County By The Numbers In 2023

When Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston – with help from other elected leaders from around the county – gave a speech on the current state of the county on Wednesday, Sept. 20, he did something that isn’t easy to do – he loaded the speech with stats, numbers and other hard data while keeping it interesting.

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State Launches ‘Inclusion Works’ Program For Disabled

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is launching a program that’s been in development for a long time – “Inclusion Works” –  which is meant to make those employees with disabilities more competitive for job openings and is also meant to help integrate them more tightly into the workplace once they do get those jobs. 

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Guilford County Enters Half-Million Dollar Network Deal With Spectrum

A lot of Spectrum cablevision customers were displeased to say the least earlier this month when their ESPN and Disney channels went blank, but that’s not stopping Guilford County government from entering into a three-year, $541,000 deal with the company that will provide much of the county’s network communication infrastructure and high-speed internet access.

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Developer David Couch Wins Battle With Summerfield

There has been a long and involved war going on in Summerfield over plans by farmer and developer David Couch to create a 973-acre residential and mixed-use development – The Villages of Summerfield Farms – in the town of about 11,000 people in northern Guilford County. 

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