Author: Scott D. Yost

A kiddie train that Guilford County paid nearly $400,000 for, and took five years to get up and running, has jumped the tracks and now sits immobile once again in a shed at Northeast Park, where its fate is uncertain. Now county...

Greensboro Chamber of Commerce President Brent Christensen had an interesting introduction to the grand new strategic plan that consultants unveiled to representatives of the local economic development community on Friday...

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department held a fun and highly informative seminar on gun use, gun laws and self-defense tactics on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the department’s District 2 office at 5440 Millstream Road in eastern...

Usually, when the Guilford County Board of Commissioners spends money, it’s doling out taxpayer funds. However, at a Wednesday, Sept. 21 work session, the board, for a change, got to have some say over how other people’s money...

Move over Pokémon Go. Fly away Flappy Bird and Angry Birds. Kick Candy Crush to the curb. You won’t need those old exercise-killing apps for entertainment anymore, now that Guilford County government is getting into the phone...

An apple a day might be what’s keeping the doctor away, but at the Guilford County Board of Commissioners’ Thursday, Sept. 15 meeting, some county commissioners wanted to know what’s been keeping Guilford County away from having...

So far, when it comes to building a new Guilford County Animal Shelter, the discussions about the size, cost, location and all other aspects of the shelter have been between Guilford County commissioners, staff and county...

They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, and very often they do, but Guilford County is about to lose one court worker who for a quarter of a century has helped those wheels turn faster and smoother. Wheaton Casey, the only...

Guilford County may not be attracting all of the new business prospects it would like to have, but, according to a report put out by a state economic development group, the county does have a wealth of buildings ready to host...

Guilford County has selected a new head of Pretrial Services. Karen Moore, currently a supervisor in that office, has been chosen to lead the county division – also known as Court Services – that works closely with judges,...

At the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Thursday, Sept. 1 meeting, the board’s three black commissioners – Carolyn Coleman, Ray Trapp and Carlvena Foster – peppered county staff with questions about the board’s lack of...

Albert Einstein used his enormous brainpower to unravel the mysteries of the universe and calculate the way that energy and mass interact, but if Einstein were alive today even he probably wouldn’t have dared attempt to unravel...

The Guilford County Board of Elections and two of its precinct voting locations have been kicked to the curb. Guilford County is now having to move two polling places to new sites and that change could be a source of confusion...

Everyone knows there’s something rotten in Denmark, but the new question is this: Is there something rotten in Guilford County government? On Wednesday, August 24, Guilford County held a hastily called meeting of the Internal...

The Guilford County Economic Development Alliance (GCEDA) is creating a web portal and supporting database of available commercial sites and buildings meant to make it easier for prospective developers interested in locating...

Republican Guilford County Commissioner Hank Henning in the District 6 commissioners race this year is being challenged by Democrat Rick Forrester – who knows he has an uphill battle if he’s going to unseat the incumbent in a...

Guilford County staff is telling the Board of Commissioners to show them the money – but the commissioners are responding with a hearty, “Hold your horses.” Specifically, Guilford County has $27 million in projects that the...

Right now, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are sucking up just about all of the public’s election attention. However, locally, another political race with major consequences is heating up: the District 4 battle between...

The members of the Guilford County Board of Elections may have all broken the law last week. On Monday, August 8, the Board of Elections held a meeting to discuss early voting times and locations in Guilford County, and, due to...

The State of North Carolina has dropped a $300,000 fine that it levied against the United Animal Coalition (UAC), the much-maligned organization that ran the Guilford County Animal Shelter until mid-August 2015. Last November,...

The long and twisting saga of giant electrical transmission towers in High Point along Skeet Club Road just took another sharp turn – much to the chagrin of homeowners who live in the area. The NC Department of Transportation...

Things were crazy for Guilford County Board of Elections Director Charlie Collicutt on Friday, August 5, thanks to a recent US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that overturned North Carolina’s voter ID law as well as a NC...

At least one portion of the lengthy, ugly and unnecessary dispute on Rich Fork Preserve is over. The Guilford County Board of Commissioners on Thursday, August 4, by a straight party-line vote decided that mountain biking trails...

Guilford County’s Evans-Blount Community Health Center at 2031 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. in Greensboro – which opened seven years ago largely to provide health care to low-income residents in that area – is expanding its...

For years, social services workers across the state have moaned, groaned and pull their hair out over North Carolina Families Accessing Services through Technology (NC FAST) – the now infamous computing software system used in...

Guilford County get your gun. Details are starting to surface about a new Guilford County program meant to elevate the safety of county citizens by focusing on proper gun use, marksmanship, situational awareness and the best...

At a Friday, July 15 meeting of the Guilford County Tax Committee, Tax Director Ben Chavis told the group that the county is gonna need a bigger boat. Actually, that’s what actor Roy Scheider said in Jaws after his character’s...

Guilford County has hired Greensboro attorney Marc Isaacson, a partner at Isaacson Isaacson Sheridan Fountain & Leftwich, to help the county obtain permission from the City of Greensboro to build a county-run animal shelter...

A state mandated deadline has some 911 call centers in North Carolina – those that haven’t done so already – scrambling to find a backup site that can be used in case their primary call center goes down, is destroyed by a storm...

Guilford County is pulling out all the stops to address what has been an increasing problem in recent years – finding families willing to foster children. The county’s Division of Social Services is running radio advertisements,...

Former Guilford County and Davidson County Animal Shelter Director Marsha Williams, who is charged with felony animal cruelty in Davidson County, will see her day in court – it just won’t be a day this year. William’s attorney,...

After over a decade of disagreement, back and forth, and multiple attempts to work out the county line dispute between Guilford County and Alamance County, officials in both counties may have finally come to an agreement: They...

In 1959, Hollywood released Plan 9 from Outer Space, and, in 2016, Guilford County government may be forced to release “Plan B for the New Animal Shelter.” Plan A for the new shelter was what the majority of the Board of...