Some citizens of the quaint town of Summerfield are wary of any development in that community. So a good number of them didn’t like the news one bit this week that Summerfield businessman, farmer and developer David Couch is planning to build a large residential development called Summerfield Farms Village.

A new report by Construction Coverage, a construction industry research and analytics firm, details the 10-year change in median home prices by cities across the United States. It found that the median price of a Greensboro home increased by 21 percent over the last decade.

Throughout the pandemic, the City of High Point has shown that it takes even a single case of COVID-19 at one of its government workplaces very seriously. On Friday, Sept. 25, the city demonstrated that caution again. After a city employee tested positive for COVID-19 at the Northpoint Customer Service branch office at 136 Northpoint Ave. in the building that also holds the High Point Parks and Recreation administrative operations, the city shut down the payment office.

In 2017, the North Carolina provided Guilford County with $3.6 million in state funds to study – and, potentially, plan and create – a water system that could have brought a new regional water infrastructure to Stokesdale, Oak Ridge and Summerfield.

North Carolina State House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) announced that a federal lawsuit had been filed to challenge the settlement agreement made by the North Carolina State Board of Elections.