Early in the morning of Saturday, Oct. 18 – in a game that had started at 10:30 p.m. Friday against California – the UNC Tar Heel Football team fumbled on the first play from scrimmage allowing California to score a touchdown immediately.
Then, at the very end of the game, when a Tarheel…
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The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is now providing information regarding an incident that occurred at the county’s Greensboro Detention Center on Thursday, August 14, involving 27-year-old Kurtis Darko Asante.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Asante had been arrested by the Greensboro Police Department around 3:50 p.m. that day on a second-degree trespassing charge and he was transported to the Guilford County Detention Center in Greensboro….
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The Rhino Times has been covering Guilford County government since the early 1990s and, for the first time since then, and perhaps even long before then, the county’s savings account – the “unassigned fund balance,” often described as the financial safety net for local governments – has fallen below the mark of 8 percent of the budget.
That 8 percent mark has long been considered by state finance oversight officials to be the very bare minimum any local government in the state should maintain…
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“Surprise!”
At a top-secret ceremony in downtown Greensboro just after 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 28, the assembled group, a Who’s Who of area leaders, didn’t actually shout out that word. However, a very confused Kay Cashion – who’s been a Guilford County commissioner for over two decades – was clearly both surprised and confused.
Everyone had kept this secret from the birthday girl: that the Guilford County Board of Commissioners had decided to dedicate the county-owned building at 201 South Greene St. in Greensboro to Cashion and name it after her thanks to her long-time public service…
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City Councilmember Zack Matheny had some choice words about the press release titled “City of Greensboro Statement,” shortly after it was released at 4:57 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, and later he called for a full investigation.
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