High Point Mayor Jay Wagner To Run For Congress
Over the weekend, High Point Mayor Jay Wagner made a big announcement on his Facebook page.
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Posted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 9, 2023 | News
Over the weekend, High Point Mayor Jay Wagner made a big announcement on his Facebook page.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 9, 2023 | News
Time flies when you’re having fun – and, also, when you’re learning things.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 6, 2023 | News
The elections that just started in Guilford County are the first ones in the history of the county where voters have to show an ID to vote.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 6, 2023 | News
Guilford County currently has a lot of things. It has many great businesses, great weather, a pretty good flow of traffic most of the time, two world famous hamburger restaurants, some pickleball courts, and much, much more. But there’s something it doesn’t have – a brand.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 6, 2023 | News
Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) was extremely important to the community at the height of the pandemic, even though on the very worst passenger traffic day – in early 2020 – there were literally more people working in the airport terminal than there were passengers all day long.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2023 | News
North Carolina Democratic Party Executive Committee Member Brandon Gray will be the next District 6 representative on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2023 | News
These days, it’s hard to convince people to get vaccinated.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2023 | News
On Sunday, Oct. 1, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department began a new phase of a program meant to help jail inmates with drug abuse problems.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 4, 2023 | News
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is hosting a live “fireside chat and tele-town hall” on Thursday, Oct. 5, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. that’s meant to relay how “aging adults” in the state, can support their health and access the care they need.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 4, 2023 | News
Usually, at the High Point Farmer’s Market, it’s the kumquats, onions, apples and lettuce that are in the spotlight.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 4, 2023 | News
The Thursday, Oct. 5 meeting of the Summerfield Town Council isn’t labeled as an “Emergency” meeting, but in a way it is.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 4, 2023 | News
Guilford County Animal Services announced on Tuesday, Oct. 3 that the animal shelter is pausing its intake of cats and kittens for the remainder of the week after identifying likely cases of feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) in three stray cats brought to the shelter.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 4, 2023 | News
For the first time ever, Guilford County is conducting a public relations campaign to warn county residents about the threat of cybercrime.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 3, 2023 | News
Anyone who follows Guilford County politics in the slightest knows what happened when the Board of Education’s District 3 seat was vacated by current Guilford County Commissioner Pat Tillman.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 3, 2023 | News
Guilford County Commissioner James Upchurch’s sudden resignation from the Guilford County Board of Commissioners to take a job in Georgia has created an interesting situation when it comes to filling the vacated District 6 seat.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 3, 2023 | News
When Guilford County Commissioner James Upchurch announced on Monday, Oct. 2 that he was resigning from the Board of Commissioners, you might think that his exit was prepared for behind the scenes and well-coordinated.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 2, 2023 | News
Guilford County Commissioner James Upchurch dropped a bombshell on Guilford County residents and his fellow county commissioners when he announced on Monday, Oct. 2 that he was stepping down from his District 6 commissioners seat.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 2, 2023 | News
Guilford County Commissioner James Upchurch has had an interesting and tumultuous three years on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, so it’s only fitting that his service on the board end in a surprising way.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 2, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 29, 2023 | News
If someone told you they were giving you a million dollars, you would be elated but if they then added that you would get the money over a 20-year period you might be a little less delighted, but still pretty pleased.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 29, 2023 | News
The NC General Assembly has passed, and the governor signed into law, a bill that will mean harsher penalties and certain jail time for drug dealers and others who supply drugs to people when that drug leads to their death.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 29, 2023 | News
Former High Point Mayor Bill Bencini can breathe a sigh of relief – his son Michael, who was given command by the US Navy of a destroyer in early 2022, has returned the keys to the giant vessel with it still in good running condition.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2023 | News
Guilford County government, like most businesses, has had a lot of trouble filling vacancies in recent years – and it’s been particularly difficult to find and keep school nurses, which are hired and overseen by the Guilford County Division of Public Health.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2023 | News
If you want to get a spot on a professional soccer team, there are a few ways to go about it. If you’re Lionel Messi, for instance, you can just make a phone call and strike a deal with a team in Miami and with Apple, and collect well north of $50 million a year.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 27, 2023 | News
For the last three years, Guilford County government has been spending money on just about any idea that a county administrator or county commissioner has come up with.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 27, 2023 | News
The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority that runs Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) meets on a Tuesday toward the end of each month and, every time it does, PTIA Executive Director Kevin Baker provides some of the latest stats regarding passenger traffic at the airport.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 27, 2023 | News
If you ever wanted to get a job in the airline or airport industry – or, for that matter, in related occupations connected with air travel, it’s a great time to apply because Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) and its aviation megasite together are absolutely the dog who caught the car.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 26, 2023 | News
If you were born a quarter of a century ago, then you were still just a gleam in your mother’s eye when Skip Alston was already a fixture on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 26, 2023 | News
Last year, Guilford County government and county voters made it possible for Guilford County Schools to get $1.7 billion in bond funding for school construction and repair.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 26, 2023 | News
Guilford County government constantly faces a lot of difficult challenges and now county leaders...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 25, 2023 | News
It’s become an annual tradition. Each year, Guilford County asks for volunteers to come out to the Guilford County Farm – which used to be the Guilford County Prison Farm – and pick grapes for the benefit of local food banks.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 25, 2023 | News
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…
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 25, 2023 | News
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…
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 25, 2023 | News
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…
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 22, 2023 | News
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can teach a Board of Commissioners chairman who’s seemingly been on the board forever a new trick or two.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 22, 2023 | News
A group of residents who live along and near the 3900 block of Alamance Church Road near the intersection of Alamance Church Road and NC 62 are still complaining
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 22, 2023 | News
If you live, work, play or dine in High Point and you want to have some say in how the city grows and functions moving forward, you only have one more chance to do so.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2023 | News
There were two main themes that ran thick through the Wednesday, Sept. 20 “State of the County” address given by Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 20, 2023 | News
It’s mid-September and that means one thing – you need to start making your plans for Halloween and Christmas.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 20, 2023 | News
The Summerfield Town Council made a dramatic move on Monday, Sept. 18 – doing an about-face and, in a unanimous vote, promised developer David Couch most of what he wanted for his proposed large mixed-use development.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 20, 2023 | News
In June of 2021, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution supporting an application to the North Carolina Department of Commerce for a special “Rural Building Reuse Grant” meant to assist Guerrilla RF, Inc – along with Koury Corporation – in renovating the vacant building at 2000 Pisgah Church Road in Greensboro.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 20, 2023 | News
This year, High Point University (HPU) is sponsoring 16 recent college graduates as AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America – also known as VISTAs.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 19, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 19, 2023 | News
On Wednesday, Sept. 27, a flight full of area veterans will take off from Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) for a very special trip.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 19, 2023 | News
Guilford County is receiving funding from the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) to be used to provide assistance to low-income households in paying their water and sewer bills.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 18, 2023 | News
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.
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 18, 2023 | News
There are few things that the Guilford County commissioners enjoy doing each year more than welcoming and honoring the kids, counselors, and staff who make Camp HOPE a very special event each summer.
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