Parents of rising seventh-graders and twelfth-graders in Guilford County will have multiple chances in September to get the state-required immunizations at walk-in clinics hosted at high schools in Greensboro and High Point.

North Carolina requires students entering seventh grade to have a Tdap shot (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) and a meningococcal conjugate vaccine. Students entering twelfth grade must have a booster dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine before the start of the senior year….

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners is expected to approve a new contract on Thursday, Sept. 4, with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services – that will spiff up the county’s forest land and keep it from catching fire.

The agreement covers everything from wildfire suppression to prescribed burns, hazard tree assessments, and landowner management plans….

The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce drew a packed house to the Koury Convention Center on Wednesday, Aug. 27, for its 2025 State of Our Community Luncheon – one of the Chamber’s biggest annual gatherings.

 More than a thousand business leaders, elected officials, and community partners filled the ballroom for the program that both celebrated Greensboro’s current very impressive momentum and urged the community to keep pressing forward at a strong clip…

Guilford County property tax bills were already plenty high five years ago; however, over the last five years, the 7-to-2 democratic-majority Guilford County Board of Commissioners led by Chairman of the Board Skip Alston has been spending taxpayer money at record rates – and property tax bills are now a whole lot higher than they were before, and all signs point to much higher property tax bills on the way in 2026…

It’s been more than two decades since the City of Greensboro updated its historic district design standards; however, the city is preparing to adopt new guidelines this fall. To that end, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Nussbaum Room at the Central Library downtown, the Planning Department will hold a drop-in session on the revised Historic District Program Manual and Design Standards.

Those standards will apply to Greensb…