Timing Of Tanger Grand Opening Notice Oddly Appropriate
Monday, Feb. 24, it was announced that the grand opening of the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts would feature Josh Groban on Friday, March 20.
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Posted by John Hammer | Feb 25, 2020 | News
Monday, Feb. 24, it was announced that the grand opening of the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts would feature Josh Groban on Friday, March 20.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 25, 2020 | News
One of the unexpected long term goals the Greensboro City Council agreed to pursue at its retreat on Monday, Feb. 24 at the ACC Hall of Champions was raising the unallocated fund balance from 9 percent to 15 percent.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 25, 2020 | News
Greensboro doesn’t have traffic like Charlotte or the Research Triangle area, but it does have some intersections that it makes sense to avoid if possible.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 24, 2020 | News
The Greensboro City Council spent from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb 24 at the ACC Hall of Champions at the Greensboro Coliseum talking about vision statements, mission, statements values and finally goals.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 24, 2020 | News
The work product of the all day City Council retreat is a set of long term goals.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 23, 2020 | News
It’s campaign season, which means political signs are sprouting in yards and other places all over the city.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 23, 2020 | News
The Greensboro City Council yearly retreat on Monday, Feb. 24 is entirely different this year from the past few years.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 20, 2020 | News
Assistant City Manager Larry Davis gave the City Council a mid-year update on the financial status of the city government at the Tuesday, Feb. 18 work session, and although Davis never mentioned the words “tax increase,” his report seemed to be laying the groundwork for one.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 20, 2020 | News
All early voting sites in Guilford County will close today, Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4 p.m. due to the expected inclement weather.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 19, 2020 | News
The Greensboro City Council is looking for a new vision statement, mission statement, goals, values and all that stuff.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 19, 2020 | News
The Greensboro City Council increased the funding for the Greensboro Transit Agency (GTA) by close to $1 million on Tuesday, Feb. 18, and the trend is for costs to increase and revenue to decrease.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 19, 2020 | News
Tickets for the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament being played at the Greensboro Coliseum March 10 through March 14 are notoriously hard to come by. But for Tuesday, March 10, the first day of the ACC Tournament, you don’t have to be a big donor to an ACC school in order to qualify for the privilege of purchasing tickets.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 19, 2020 | News
The City Council spent a considerable amount of time discussing what a police officer should say and do before he searches a car, at its work session on Tuesday, Feb. 18.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 19, 2020 | News
The rezoning request for the 2.3 acre tract on the corner of Lawndale Drive and Lake Jeanette Road on the Greensboro City Council agenda for Tuesday, Feb. 18 was continued to Tuesday, March 17 not without some additional rancor between the developer and the neighborhood.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 17, 2020 | News
The rezoning request for the long time home of Sedgefield Showgrounds at 3701 Groometown Road filled the Council Chamber on Monday, Feb. 17 with opponents.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 17, 2020 | News
One of the more unusual zoning requests in years is coming before the City Council on Tuesday, Feb. 18.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 17, 2020 | News
If you have a question about what’s going on with the City of Greensboro government, you will most likely be directed to Greensboro’s website, https://www.Greensboro-nc.gov
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 16, 2020 | News
Early voting started last week for the 2020 primary, but whether you vote early or on Tuesday, March 3, you’re going to need something the vast majority of voters in Guilford County have never needed to vote – and it isn’t an I.D., which you don’t need – it’s a writing utensil.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 16, 2020 | News
Tournament Town may be vying for a new moniker this year – Music City.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 15, 2020 | News
Perhaps because it was Valentines Day, City Councilmember Justin Outling’s monthly “Java with Justin” at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14 was more subdued that the last couple have been.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 15, 2020 | News
Since 2007, developers have made three attempts to rezone a 2.3 acre triangular shaped tract at the intersection of Lake Jeanette Road and Lawndale Drive that is currently zoned Residential Single Family R-3. Another attempt to rezone the tract is on the agenda for the Tuesday, Feb. 18 meeting of the City Council.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 14, 2020 | News
Greensboro Police Chief Brian James said he wanted to hear from the people of Greensboro and he is.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 13, 2020 | News
Greensboro has released a draft of GSO2040, which is a new comprehensive plan to replace Connections 2025, and as the name indicates, it’s a very different kind of document.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 13, 2020 | News
The latest entry in the Democratic presidential primary race, Mike Bloomberg filled the Cadillac Service Garage on East Market Street with supporters on a rainy Thursday morning, Feb. 13.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 12, 2020 | News
Aldona Wos has been nominated by President Donald Trump to be the US ambassador to Canada. It was reported in June 2019 that Wos was being considered for the job, but the official White House announcement was made Tuesday, Feb. 11.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 12, 2020 | News
Early voting for the March 3 primary begins on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 8 a.m. at 15 locations in Guilford County.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 11, 2020 | News
It’s nothing new for the Latham Park area to have problems after a torrential rainfall like the one on Thursday, Feb. 6. But usually those problems have to do with too much water, not no water at all.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 11, 2020 | News
Soon you may be able to travel from one area of the downtown to another in a driverless vehicle. Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI) has awarded a $50,000 grant to North Carolina A&T State University to create a prototype and deploy two self-driving shuttles for the downtown area.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 11, 2020 | News
Point South Association has dropped its lawsuit against the city of Greensboro for overcharging it to the tune of $68,000 for dumpster service.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 11, 2020 | News
The Guilford County Republican Party invited Republican candidates to its executive committee meeting on Monday, Feb. 10, and among those who attended were four statewide candidates.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 11, 2020 | News
Signal boxes – those rectangular metal boxes on the corner of an intersection with a traffic light – are evidently necessary, but most of them would never be called pretty, except for 15, soon to be 20, in downtown Greensboro that have recently become works of art.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 11, 2020 | News
On Saturday, Feb. 15, the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market will be home at 501 Yanceyville St. for the first time this year.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 9, 2020 | News
North Carolina A&T State University leaving the Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference (MEAC) and joining the Big South Conference became official after a vote by the NCA&T Board of Trustees on Friday, Feb. 7.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 9, 2020 | News
Andy Zimmerman, who has done so much to bring back the area of downtown Greensboro near Lewis Street and South Elm Street down to Gate City Boulevard, announced his latest venture on East Washington Street – Rhythm Works.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 9, 2020 | News
On Saturday Feb. 8, the City of Greensboro sent out nine notifications of “Untreated Sewage Discharge” all occurring on Thursday, Feb. 6.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 7, 2020 | News
The Greensboro City Council is peculiarly susceptible to following through on ideas expressed by speakers at its monthly town hall-type meeting.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 7, 2020 | News
After a five-year break, the Greensboro Coliseum is once again hosting the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament from March 10 through March 14. This year the ACC Tournament will be celebrated by Downtown Greensboro Inc. with two events, including “Tournament Town Downtown Festival” on Saturday, March 14.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 6, 2020 | News
Buying stolen goods from pawn shops doesn’t sound like a good thing for law enforcement to be doing, and Greensboro city councilmembers expressed concern when they heard that was the policy of the Greensboro Police Department at the Feb. 4 City Council meeting.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 6, 2020 | News
One of the speakers at the Feb. 4 City Council meeting suggested that Greensboro Police Chief Brian James was hired because he is an African American.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 6, 2020 | News
For the first time, a team of City of Greensboro employees won a government improvement award, and it seems fitting the team is from Parks and Recreation.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 6, 2020 | News
Assistant City Manager Chris Wilson should consider giving up his day job and becoming a professional soothsayer.
On Tuesday, Feb. 4 at the Greensboro City Council work session, Wilson said that “the new normal” was more frequent and extreme weather events that would result in more flooding.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 6, 2020 | News
The agenda for the Feb. 4 City Council Work Session said one thing and what the City Council got was something very different.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 6, 2020 | News
Gov. Roy Cooper announced this week that Secretary of the Department of Information Technology Eric Boyette would replace North Carolina Department of Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdon, who he said is retiring at the end of the month.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 5, 2020 | News
It should be no surprise when the Water Resources Department gives a report on water, but the message was Greensboro has been getting more water than it can handle.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 5, 2020 | News
The topic that dominated the public speakers portion of Greensboro City Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 4 was the I-Ride service that, without much notice, was discontinued on Dec. 31.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 3, 2020 | News
The annual report of the Greensboro Neighborhood Development Department for fiscal year 2018-2019 shows a lot of success in providing more safe affordable housing in Greensboro.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 3, 2020 | News
The Greensboro City Council work session has two items on the agenda – storm water and the Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Commission (GCJAC) annual report – at its Tuesday, Feb. 4 work session.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 2, 2020 | News
Driving around Winston-Salem got a whole lot easier this weekend with the opening of Salem Parkway, what used to be called Business 40, through the city.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 1, 2020 | News
Tournament tickets are not cheap and are generally hard to come by, but there is an event at the Greensboro Coliseum in conjunction with the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament where tickets are free: KC And The Sunshine Band will be performing a free concert at White Oak Amphitheatre on Friday, March 13 at 4 p.m.
Read MorePosted by John Hammer | Feb 1, 2020 | News
The brand new city office of arts and culture, which has decided to call itself “Creative Greensboro,” has gotten off on the wrong foot with some in the artistic community that the office is supposed to support.
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