Author: John Hammer

The Greensboro Police Foundation is holding the inaugural fundraising event, The Blue Salute, Saturday, Oct. 12 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Proximity Hotel.

It was hard to believe that it was really October when the high was 90 degrees. But even though the temperature has dropped to more fall like weather it doesn’t look anything like past Octobers in Greensboro.

Two Greensboro city councilmembers have announced up coming meetings with constituents this month.

The North Carolina State Legislature is still in session, and judging from the rhetoric this week between Gov. Roy Cooper and President Pro Tem of the state Senate Phil Berger, there isn’t much love between the two.

The Greensboro Planning Department is bringing Henry Cisneros to Greensboro to speak Tuesday, Oct. 29 and Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Franklin Graham will be bringing his “Decision America Tar Heel State Tour” to the White Oak Amphitheatre at the Greensboro Coliseum on Wednesday, Oct. 9 beginning at 7 p.m.

The final forum held on hiring a new Greensboro Police Chief was also the longest, loudest and largest.

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan read new rules for speakers before the public comment period at the City Council town hall meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at the Greensboro Regional Realtors Association building at 23 Oak Branch Dr.

The City of Greensboro wants to know what you think about the electric scooters that are primarily seen in the downtown area and around college campuses.

Monday, Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 1210 S. Eugene St., the city will hold the final community meeting on hiring a new police chief.

It’s a rare City Council meeting where City Councilmember Sharon Hightower doesn’t get in an argument, often heated, and the town hall meeting Wednesday, Oct. 2 at the Greensboro Regional Realtors Association building was not one of those rare meetings.

Some neighborhoods have parades, some have block parties, some have unique Christmas decorations and winter runs. Westerwood, aka Lake Daniel, has a walking art tour.

As expected the City Council District 2 town hall meeting on Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Greensboro History Museum, covered a lot of territory, moved at a good pace and included good discussions of issues important to the constituents of the district.

The Greensboro City Council tried out some new rules at its monthly town hall meeting, aka “yellfest,” on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at the Greensboro Regional Realtors Association office at 23 Oak Branch Dr.

The Tuesday, Oct. 2, town hall meeting of the Greensboro City Council at the Greensboro Regional Realtors Association building at 23 Oak Branch Dr. began with a presentation on Carolina Core.

The 2019 session of the North Carolina General Assembly hasn’t lacked surprises, and President Pro Tem of the state Senate Phil Berger made it clear in his press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 2, that he wasn’t looking for any more.

Guilford County District Court Judge Angela Foster has been censured by the North Carolina Supreme Court after having a woman in her court handcuffed and put in a holding cell without a hearing on Jan. 2, 2018.

The community meeting on hiring a new police chief held at the Benjamin Branch Library at 222 Benjamin Pkwy on Tuesday, Oct. 1 at noon was very different from the one held about 18 hours earlier at the Barber Park Event Center.

District 2 City Councilmember Goldie Wells is holding a town hall meeting on Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, next door to LeBauer Park.

It appears the battle over redistricting in North Carolina won’t end until after the 2020 census, when new districts are drawn, and then it is likely to start all over again.

The Greensboro City Council rarely misses an opportunity to recognize special months, weeks and days, but it did miss National Coffee Day, which most jurisdictions in the US celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 29. Traditionally it is celebrated on Oct. 1 and is being celebrated by the Greensboro Police Department on Wed. Oct. 2.

“The most important thing is for him to know the Lord.”It was the last comment made at a community meeting on hiring a new Greensboro police chief and received unqualified approval from the 14 people at the meeting.

The city has added more opportunities for people to weigh in on what they think the city should be looking for in a new police chief.

The new city parking deck on North Eugene Street across from the First National Bank Stadium, the home of the Greensboro Grasshoppers, is under construction.

When people think of beer and music, it’s not usually classical music that comes to mind, which is what makes the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (GSO) HOPS series stand out.

On Sept. 3, Greensboro City Council Mayor Nancy Vaughan said that the City Council would discuss watching the police body worn camera videos of an incident downtown on Sept. 10, 2016 at the Sept. 17 City Council meeting.

Downtown Greensboro Inc. president Zack Matheny pleased a lot of attendees at the annual Downtown Greensboro Inc. Annual Celebration at the Cadillac Service Garage at 304 E. Market St Thursday night, with his speech.

For one weekend a year the corner of Friendly Avenue and Westridge Road is transformed into a Greek village for the Greensboro Greek Festival.  That weekend is Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29 and you are invited.

As the photo above shows, there is no mount left to Mount Latham at 1107 and 1109 Latham Road.

Greensboro moved a step closer to getting another interstate highway at the Greensboro Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (GUAMPO) meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 25.

There’s nothing like being there to learn how the process actually works.

The two members of Congress who represent Greensboro in Washington, DC, released statements today following the announcement by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that the House was going to start an official impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump over what is being referred to as the Ukrainian scandal.

The contract between Elm Street Hotel LLC and the City of Greensboro to build the February One Place Parking Deck-Westin Hotel complex was signed Monday, Sept. 23.

With the ribbon cutting for the fourth pool on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, the Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC) became the largest indoor aquatic center in the country.

Some meetings have themes, and the theme of the Greensboro Board of Adjustment meeting on Monday, Sept. 23, was “granny flats.”

Greensboro announced Tuesday that Ryan Deal has been hired as the first chief creative economy officer in the city’s history.

Smith Street Diner on the corner of Battleground Avenue and Smith Street is looking for a new sticker design and a new T-shirt slogan and they want your help. Whether you are a designer or slogan writer or not, you can participate.

The Greensboro City Council turned down a second rezoning request at its Sept. 17 meeting.

This is the September report on the February One Place Parking Deck-Westin Hotel Complex and there is not much to report.

After 17 years, Kersey Valley Attractions has found a way to make its Maize Adventure, which opens on Saturday, Sept. 21, not only better but more environmentally friendly as well.

The City Council at the Tuesday, Sept. 17 work session once again discussed the funding for nonprofit organizations.

Two items pulled from the Consent Agenda at the Greensboro City Council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17 indicate a huge problem with the city awarding routine contracts not too far down the road.

Beer, music and foodtrucks – doesn’t sound like an event at the Greensboro History Museum, but it is.

Shortly after unanimously passing the New Garden Road Strategic Plan at its meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17, the Greensboro City Council voted to deny a controversial rezoning request at 1302 New Garden Road.

It looks like Greensboro is going to get a Cure Violence program after all.

The lawsuit filed by Black Network Television against the City of Greensboro and six city councilmembers in 2014 has been thrown out of court.

Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott has announced he will retire Jan. 31, 2020, which means the city will be hiring  a new police chief and is asking for your input.

For the second year in a row, a Guilford Metro 911 employee has been NC Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Telecommunicator of the Year.

The intent of the New Garden Road Strategic Plan was to control development in the New Garden Road Corridor, but following action of the Greensboro City Council at its Tuesday, Sept. 17 meeting the result will be to create another hoop for developers to jump through all over Greensboro.

The sides in a rezoning request are usually pretty clearly drawn between those in favor and those opposed, but a speaker at the Zoning Commission meeting on Monday, Sept. 16 took speaking for and against to a new level.