State Gives Go Ahead on High Point Stadium Funding, Despite Lack of County Support
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Posted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 14, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
In this age when people are very much supposed to understand that no means no, the City of High...
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Well, Christmas is coming fast upon us and the kids are all snug in their beds like a...
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Guilford County government now has two brand new leaders running the show – Chairman of the Board...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 7, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Well, as you know, usually, when it comes to the US mail, the letters and other things they bring...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 7, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
It only took about a century or so, but thanks to a recent unanimous vote by the Alamance County...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Dec 7, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
In the TV game show Let’s Make a Deal, contestants were asked to choose between three doors; at a...
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The North Carolina Department of Public Safety has just granted Guilford County $150,000 to help...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 30, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
After months of looking, Guilford County has hired a new Animal Services director to oversee the...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 30, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Say Yes Guilford hasn’t said much publicly in recent months, however, behind the scenes, Say Yes...
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Now, no one in the history of human kind has ever put the cheese on the bottom of the burger –...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 30, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Most of the talk about potential economic development in Guilford County these days revolves...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 22, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Always the inquisitive one, I had to know why they were better than all the cheese straws that I...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 22, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA) has seen a tremendous amount of activity lately – new...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 22, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County is about to move the method of public notification out of the 19th century and...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 22, 2017 | Archives, Greensboro, Guilford, News
In every election, citizens from all over Guilford County go into voting booths and participate in...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 16, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
I was extremely alarmed the other day when I saw the news about the new Google cheeseburger emoji...
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These days, people walking behind the Old Guilford County Court House at 301 W. Market St. in...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 16, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
There are 125 publicly run animal shelters in the State of North Carolina and only one of those –...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 16, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
High Point doesn’t get everything it wants from Guilford County but the Guilford County...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 9, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners won’t elect a new chairman and vice chairman until...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 9, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has canceled its planned Thursday, Nov. 16 meeting and,...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 9, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
The calculator app on the new iPhone OS is a wee bit flawed…When you quickly type 1+2+3 on the iOS...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 9, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Opponents of a proposed rock quarry mining and blasting operation near Pleasant Garden breathed a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 2, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Three days ago, I was shooting basketball at Kirkwood Park by myself and something utterly amazing...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 2, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Southern Coalition for Social Justice is attempting to collect more than $600,000 in legal...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 2, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Say Yes to Education in Guilford County had a very rocky 2017, but the program’s problems in...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Nov 2, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Two hundred and thirty-two metro areas across North America applied to be the home of the second...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 27, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
In recent weeks, the Guilford County Board of Elections has turned into the Guilford County Board of Ejections. County voters may think they’re being conscientious by getting an absentee ballot and voting, but an ongoing series...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 26, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
One thing is crystal clear: High Point is absolutely, positively, 100 percent, categorically...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 26, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County Manager Marty Lawing got a new title on Friday, Oct. 20 – “interim Guilford County...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 26, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
In this brand new Chevy with a lift kit It’d look a whole lot better with you up in it – Florida...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 26, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
After years of debate over creating the position, and months of looking for the right person to...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 19, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
High Point leaders are tired of watching the Guilford County commissioners “prance and preen...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 19, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
There are 3,429 public establishments – restaurants, hospitals, childcare centers, pools, nursing...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 19, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
The other day, I left a Guilford County commissioners meeting at about 8:40 p.m. and, on the way...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 19, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department’s large greenhouses at the Guilford County Prison Farm...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 12, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
High Point officials and business leaders who back a proposed baseball stadium and economic...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 12, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Most people know about “the man without a country,” but few people know about the board without a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 12, 2017 | Archives, Greensboro, Guilford, News
October is here and that can only mean one thing: Guilford County and the City of Greensboro...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 12, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
So, the other day, I’m lying in bed on Wednesday morning just minding my own business in my own...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Animal Shelter has failed inspection and been hit with civil penalties. On...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
If anyone wants to know how seriously the City of High Point takes its proposed baseball project...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County Health Director Merle Green has won the prestigious Carl Durham Award for...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Oct 5, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Well, I’ve had movies on the brain this week because any day now my new fantastic MoviePass is...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2017 | Archives, Yost Column
Sliced bread was invented in 1928 when Otto Rohwedder, of Davenport, Iowa, introduced the first...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners did an impersonation of the Magic 8 Ball when, to the...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 28, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Guilford County just took a big step forward on two major and long-awaited projects – building a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 27, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
Jenks Crayton, who served as Guilford County tax director for nearly a decade, and who passed away...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
You might think that, if one of the largest and oldest churches in High Point had collected a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Sep 21, 2017 | Archives, Guilford, News
The hundreds of opponents of a proposed move to allow blasting at a rock quarry near Pleasant...
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