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Posted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 4, 2016 | Archives, Yost Column
County Editor Scott Yost is taking a break from column writing and will be back next week. In the meantime, here is a classic Yost Column from 2004. One time, when I was a kid, I played little league football. I was a...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Aug 4, 2016 | Archives, Weekly Hammer
Rich Fork Creek seems like a simple problem to solve. On one side you have a group of people who worked together to create a nature preserve, and when Guilford County stepped forward to buy the land, in the minds of these people...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 28, 2016 | Archives, Yost Column
County Editor Scott Yost is taking a well-deserved break this week from column writing. So we decided to bring you a classic Yost Column from 2004. I went to my college reunion this weekend, and a lot of my friends...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 28, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 28, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 21, 2016 | Archives, Yost Column
Apple (AAPL) stock slid for the eighth straight trading session on Monday, as Wall Street analysts debated whether the consumer electronics giant has lost its mojo … Apple stock has fallen in 11 of the past 12 trading sessions –...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 21, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 21, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 14, 2016 | Archives, Yost Column
Eating pasta is not fattening and actually decreases the chances of becoming obese, a new Italian study has found. – London Telegraph article, “Eating pasta helps you lose weight, says Italian study.” July 4, 2016 ...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 14, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 14, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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,...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 14, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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,...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 7, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 7, 2016 | Archives, Guilford, News
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott D. Yost | Jul 7, 2016 | Archives, Yost Column
Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down. – Anonymous In July 1974, after Evel Knievel announced his plans to jump Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle, a reporter asked him if he had a death wish. “Yeah,”...
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