The High Point Market Authority, which puts on the world-famous furniture market, has had to make some big adjustments thanks to COVID-19.

Tenants who haven’t paid rent or made mortgage payments just got yet another reprieve from being thrown out of their homes, due to an 11th hour, Saturday, May 30 statewide extension of a moratorium on evictions that will allow occupants to stay in place for at least a few more weeks.

Given the fact that the world’s economy has been virtually shut down for two months, it’s been difficult for local economic development officials to – well, develop the economy.

At a time when businesses and services in the area are opening back up after the coronavirus pandemic’s initial hit, the City of High Point has announced that, due to COVID-19, the city is completely shutting something down.

Recently, Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston has been raging against fellow Guilford County commissioners because six of them – five Republicans and one Democrat – voted to limit a school bond referendum to $300 million on the November ballot while the Guilford County Board of Education had requested a $1.6 billion bond referendum.