Author: Scott D. Yost

The companies judged to have created and perpetuated the opioid crisis in the country have been forced via lawsuits to provide money to state and local governments to battle the addiction problem – and now there’s a new tranche of money coming to local governments in North Carolina.

Usually, wastewater spills don’t draw much attention, but the city of High Point had three such events this week, with the latest being on Wednesday, March 22, when an estimated 12,600 gallons near 274 Dorothy Street spilled into the city’s waters.

Should human kids have all the fun when it comes to hunting Easter eggs?

The United Way of Greater Greensboro, along with The Volunteer Center of the Triad, is trying to get everyone in the community to do some good deeds at least for one week in April.

There were a lot of sad faces in the Triad in early 2016 when Ziggy’s – the wildly fun and storied music venue in Winston-Salem – closed its doors.

Finance officials with the State of North Carolina are having some sort of mystery problem doing the math on sales tax refunds for local governments and non-profits.

Carolina Core FC, the professional soccer team that’s starting up in High Point, announced on Wednesday, March 22, that it plans to create Carolina Core FC Academy, calling it “a significant expansion for the club as it launches its youth development program and builds a professional pathway for elite youth players.”

Anyone who’s tried to buy a house in Greensboro in the past few years knows how bad the housing shortage is and now the hot off the press Time magazine has an article highlighting the shortage.

The High Point Public Library announced this week that it has begun hosting the “Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter’s World” traveling exhibit. The exhibit will be on display in the library’s first-floor lobby through Friday, April 21.

Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen has been calling out what he says are corrupt practices by MV Realty for months.

Results of a new High Point University Poll released on Monday, March 20, found that nearly half the people in the state think the internet has been a good thing.

District 59 state Rep. Jon Hardister (R-Guilford) recently changed the way school board vacancies are filled in Guilford County.

It’s no April Fool’s joke.

On Saturday, April 1 at 9 a.m., the Volunteer Center of the Triad is putting on The Human Race 2023 beginning at Lebauer Park in Downtown Greensboro.

With the stock market falling and the state of the world as it is today, people can use a good laugh and that’s exactly what they’re promised to get if they attend the nationally-touring comedy show – “The Funny Godmothers.”

High Point Regional Health System has filed a “certificate of need” application with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) to establish a new hospital in Greensboro.

Launch Greensboro – a program to promote entrepreneurism in Greensboro and Guilford County – has chosen the winners of the Capital Connects 2023 Pitch Competition.   

The Delta Dental Foundation – a charity-oriented nonprofit that’s focused on promoting oral health care in communities – is providing Guilford County with some funds that will be used to beef up the county’s dental health service for kids with immediate dental needs.

Santa Claus’s list of people who have been naughty that year comes out right before Christmas.

Guilford County’s supplemental nutritional program for financially challenged pregnant women and new mothers – WIC (Women, Infants and Children) – is currently facing a challenge itself.

For two decades, Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) has been amassing property and turning it into a 1,000-acre aviation megasite meant to bring all sorts of new aviation-based companies to the site – and that appears to be exactly what’s happening right now.

If Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston gets his way – and he almost always does – the county’s homeless population will have 250 long-term beds to sleep in by Oct. 30 of this year. 

Guilford County hired Samet Corp. in 2022 for a project that entailed tearing down the old Guilford County jail in Greensboro, constructing a new Sheriff’s Department headquarters on the site and a new parking lot on the same block. 

Now that the COVID-19 pandemic is in the rearview mirror, county health officials are better able to focus on other pressing health concerns – like the persistent and major problem of sexually transmitted diseases in Guilford County.

On Monday, March 13, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced...

In a move that surprised many – and that is being criticized by some – the University of North Carolina men’s Tar Heel basketball team has chosen not to participate in the NIT – the National Invitational Tournament, which invites good teams that weren’t one of the 68 teams selected for the NCAA Tournament.

Sports historians will mark down that Duke University was the winner of the 2023 ACC Tournament.

Summerfield farmer and developer David Couch has asked that a large swath of property he wants to use for a mixed use residential development be de-annexed from the town due to disagreements over the density that should be allowed on the land. 

The North Carolina Tarheel basketball team’s loss against the Virginia Cavaliers on Thursday, March 9 almost certainly drained away any chance that the Tarheels would make the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament – and have an opportunity to make another surprise run to the Final Four like the one last year.

If you want something to bet on this month, it’s starting to look like a sure thing that the Guilford County Republican Party will be successful in its effort to fill the Guilford County Board of Education’s vacant District 3 seat with teacher Michael Logan.

The High Point Public Library has been highly active in recent weeks and, on Thursday March 9, library officials announced two things that area residents might find enjoyable – a chance at a golden ticket and an opportunity for everyone to learn about quilts and quilting.

Kevin Costner never said, “If you pay them, they will come,” however, that may very well be something said by Guilford County officials who’ve been determined to address the problem of a mass of vacancies across county departments. 

On Thursday, March 2, Republican state legislators announced they had reached an agreement that will mean the expansion of Medicaid services in North Carolina – and Guilford County officials are now gearing up to handle the added responsibilities.

On Tuesday, March 7, sheriffs from across North Carolina attended a news conference and an NC Senate committee hearing in Raleigh regarding Senate Bill 18 – “Fentanyl Drug Offenses and Related Changes,” and they advocated giving strong support to the bill and making it a high priority.

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners took a good deal of time at the board’s Thursday, March 2 meeting to single out and recognize perhaps the county’s best known special Olympian. 

Billy Ragsdale, one of Jamestown’s favorite sons and favorite mayors, has passed away and now those in the town and in the county are remembering him fondly. 

The High Point Public Library is hosting a Black Business Expo on Saturday, March 11. 

On Saturday, March 4, when a lot of area residents were thinking about the impending basketball...

The Town of Jamestown just got a nice half-million-dollar grant to add a special section to an existing town attraction – an all-inclusive/accessible playground at Jamestown Park. 

For weeks, Guilford County and Samet Corp. have been fighting a behind the scenes war over the project in downtown Greensboro that includes the demolition of the old Guilford County jail and the construction of a new Sheriff’s Department’s headquarters. 

On Monday, March 2, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to end a contract with Samet on a $23.9 million project that included demolishing the old Guilford County jail in downtown Greensboro and building a new Sheriff’s Department headquarters and parking lot.

It may be hard to believe that a lot of people don’t want to take a job where the employee works in a tightly enclosed, locked down, virtually sunless environment with accused and convicted criminals, but still, in 2023, that continues to be the case.

You’re the one who pays the taxes and funds your county government, so it makes sense that your...

A local fitness business is putting on an all-day and all-night benefit for a very good cause.

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners took a stunning and unprecedented step after a two-hour closed session at the end of the board’s Thursday, March 2 meeting. 

On Thursday, March 2, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) released a statement on Medicaid expansion in the state, which it called “a momentous agreement that will directly improve the health and well-being of 600,000 North Carolinians.”

Over the last two years, a lot of local governments and others got caught off guard by a lifeguard shortage since counties, cities and towns are having trouble finding good help these days just like everyone else.