The City of Greensboro has announced a slate of service changes and facility closures for Friday, April 3, as city offices shut down in observance of Good Friday and Spring Break.
As is often the case with city holidays, the biggest impact for many residents will be changes to their trash and recycling pickup. No garbage, recycling, bulk trash, yard waste or appliance collections will take place on Friday, April 3. Instead, those Friday collections will move up a day to Thursday, April 2, while Thursday’s collections will be picked up even earlier, on Wednesday, April 1.
Solid waste facilities will also see schedule changes. The White Street Landfill and Solid Waste Transfer Station will both be closed on April 3. However, the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center will remain open and operate during its normal hours.
City cultural facilities will largely be closed for part of the holiday weekend. The Greensboro Public Library system and the Greensboro History Museum will be closed on both April 3 and April 5. The Greensboro Cultural Center will be closed on Friday, April 3, but will return to its normal schedule for the rest of the weekend.
Public transportation will continue operating, but on a reduced schedule. The Greensboro Transit Agency and Access GSO will run on a weekend schedule on April 3. GTA buses will provide hourly service from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., while Crossmax Purple will run every 30 minutes.
The Hopper Trolley will operate on its normal schedule from noon to midnight.
A wide range of Parks and Recreation programs and facilities will be closed for multiple days. City recreation centers, the Smith and Trotter Active Adult Centers, the Greensboro Youth Council, Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation programs, Xperience @ Caldcleugh, the Greensboro Sportsplex, the Simkins Indoor Sports Pavilion at Barber Park and Parks and Recreation administrative offices will all be closed from April 3 through April 5. All programs and facilities are scheduled to return to normal operations on Monday, April 6.
Despite those closures, many outdoor amenities will remain open. All city parks, gardens, trails, cemeteries, Lake Higgins, Lake Brandt, Lake Townsend and the Gillespie Golf Course will be open to the public throughout the holiday period.
Administrative offices will also be affected: The Melvin Municipal Office Building and the J. Edward Kitchen Operations Center will be closed to in-person services on April 3.
(Residents who need to pay water bills can still do so online through the city’s website.)
City officials note that emergency services will remain available. For water and sewer emergencies – including main breaks, sewer stoppages or issues with drinking water quality such as changes in taste, odor or color – residents can contact Water Resources’ 24-hour dispatch line at 336-373-2033
1. Do we taxpayers know how much the Hopper busses cost us each week?
2. Has anyone in the government even calculated the average number of weekly passengers on the Hopper busses….after a full weekly test ride? If so, has that study been published and compared to the full cost of service?
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And – in other exciting news – the British Police are still refusing to release the name of the man who used his car as a lethal weapon in the British city of Derby on Saturday night.
Melissa Painter of WGHP just said that “the 36 year old, who is from that town” is in Police custody*. The Left wing propagandists at WGHP think that we need to know his age, but not his ethnicity.
The Times Of Israel has learned that the man is an immigrant originally from India – NOT a local Derbyshire lad.
How they lie. How they lie.
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7.40am Monday March 30th.
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And in another example of selective reporting, their 4 o’clock show just presented a breathless report on gasoline prices. If they’d had pearls, they’d have been clutching them.
The funny thing is, WGHP was completely silent about gas prices when they doubled during the first 18 months of the Biden Administration. Total radio silence.
Gosh, I wonder why…..
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And Scott, The Piedmont Shakespeare Company is teaming up with an outfit called RhinoLeap Productions to lay on some Bard inspired live entertainment in local breweries. Splendid! Is this anything to do with The Rhino Times?
Perhaps you’re a closet “Culture Vulture” after all.
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Ha. No relation.
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Okay. I might go to the (free, live) performance at Oden Brewing. It sounds like fun.
I’ll buy you a pint!
Cheers!
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The guy’s name has finally been released : SANDHU PONNACHAN, an immigrant from India.
According to WGHP, he’s just a local Derbyshire lad. You’d think he enjoyed a pint of Ruddles with his bacon butty…
….. IF you believed the propagandists.
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Miraculously, no-one has died as a result of his attack, but several innocent people have suffered life changing injuries as a result of his calculated and pre-meditated act of evil. He chose Saturday might because that’s when the revellers enjoy themselves in the town centre, among the pubs & clubs. Young people, out on the town having a good time.
Why did he try to kill them?
Does he hate alcohol? Then why did he come to England?
Does he hate white people? Then why did he come to England?
Does he hate British culture? Then why did he come to England?
More to the point, why have we allowed his ilk, and millions like him, to pollute our dear old country?
I remember an England that was safe, sane, and civilised.
I must be getting old.
austin, my dad was named after one of the irish easter sunday (IRA founder) killed (firing squad). i may be 3rd gen blood. a clerk @ lowes with heavy brogue told me ‘ he was so badly injured that they (brit) had to tie him to a chair before they shot him’. Me: ‘sure glad he reproduced first’. discover why there is (was) an IRA murdering brits for help with your current ethnic/customs/religion imbroglio
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And I lived through the IRA terrorist bombing campaign in Britain in the 70s & 80s. They placed bombs in pubs, shopping centres, and railway stations, murdering innocent men, women and children, by the hundreds.
Terrorism is terrorism. The identity of the terrorist is irrelevant. His victims are equally dead.
He states that immigrants “Pollute our dear old country” and claims to not be a racist. And that isn’t even the most racist thing he has ever said here…..pathetic person really to have such hate for people just because they are different then himself.
Sure this individual committed an ugly crime but Aiustom acts as if Brits don’t? Riiiiiiiight. And this about a ‘Dear Old Country’ that perfected colonialism and that evil that was required for its profits.
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I hate no people or group of people, but I do resent the unprecedented hate crimes committed by “New Britons” against innocent British people. The perpetrators are almost always ethnic foreigners who are first or second generation immigrants. They’re not British and clearly don’t belong in Britain.
And the British Empire brought civilization, Christianity, infrastructure, political stability, domestic tranquility and novel prosperity to millions of people all over the World.
Fact.
Austin refers to an entire class of people as pollution and then claims he doesn’t hate. Riiiiiight. Whatever helps him sleep at night.
Also note that as usual, Austin holds immigrants to a different standard than natural born folk from Britian as he ignores that FACT that immigrants are no more likely to commit crimes than natural born citizens. The data points that foreign nationals made up 12-13% of both convictions and prison population, a figure largely proportional to their share of the adult population.
Research has found no evidence that increased immigration has caused a rise in crime, conversely, some studies suggest higher immigrant concentrations are associated with falling crime rates.
But you be you.
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You don’t know what you’re talking about with your “studies” and your “research’, and whatever other [deleted] you roll out.
I LIVED IT.
There were never any atrocities like this in Britain before we suffered mass immigration from Third World Countries. The Irish were the only ones we worried about.
Now you can’t even walk on London’s streets with a Rolex on your wrist or a cell phone in your hand. The barbarians will mug you and it won’t take long. Yeah, I’m calling the foreigners barbarians – because they are barbarians and they are foreigners.
Being born in Great Britain doesn’t magically make them British. Their DNA is irrefutably foreign, and so are their predilections – base, crass, revolting, and inhumane, from the cruel Halal slaughter of animals to the Female Genital Mutilation of their girls, and the gratuitous violence against gays.
Their cultures are polluting Britain – obviously.
I liked Britain better when it was British. It was a safe, sane, decent, Christian society.
Wait, now you are claiming the history of violence with IRA didn’t happen? Or is Ireland just a bunch of immigrants to you? Weird.
And no, there is no spike in violent crime in Britan in terms of violent crimes per capita. Classic Austin, when faced with data or studies, he just says “Na Uh!” and repeats his lies and misinformation with no supporting data, facts, studies, etc….. Just his biased hate filled views. He is really a bit like a like a petulant little child caught with his hand in the cookie jar claiming he didn’t do it.
Classic Conservative. But you be you.
Just for fun:
Quote from House of Commons Library on the subject:
“Based on data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and academic research, there is no evidence of a direct, causal link between increased immigration and a rise in the overall crime rate in Great Britain over the last 15 years. While immigration has increased significantly, particularly between 2021 and 2024, crime rates in most categories have generally been falling or remained stable over the past decade”
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Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW)—which is generally considered the best indicator of true crime levels—property crimes and violent crimes have actually fallen significantly since 2002, despite the rising foreign-born population.
Don’t let the facts smack you in the rear on your way back to reality.
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I can tell you that’s all [Deleted], created by chronically Leftist bureaucrats to disguise the damage their policies have caused over the last 40 years.
Britain has become unrecognizable.
And the Irish aren’t British.
Sounds like you are more upset about how Britain ‘looks’ versus any actual measure of crime given that all measures point to declining crime since immigration spiked.
Not shocked.
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No, it sounds like you are trying to smear me with your prejudices.
Maybe you’re the bigot, after all.
Just hitting you with facts that expose your bigotry. Not complicated and Not difficult.
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“Bigot!”
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Glad Al agrees that Austin’s comments reflect his bigotry against immigrants of color as Austin thinks his immigrating to the US just dandy but God forbid people of different religion and culture immigrate to Britan.
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AL does NOT agree. Don’t misrepresent my position and put words in my mouth. But then, that’s your M.O. isn’t it? You do it all the time as you try to make out that the guy you’re arguing with is a bigot, or a racist, or a hater, or whatever.
You are a sly, intellectually dishonest debater.
You are more interested in eagerly smearing people than discussing the issue.
You’re a jerk.
if you don’t add context to your comment, I will just fill in the blanks for my own amusement. lol
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You twist it anyway you like, buddy. It’s what you always do.
. . . & every ‘man’ has @ least one of these weapons ! a dead garbage truck driver used his as a weapon & killed several people recently in rockingham co. how many US deaths today occurred because of weapon use versus MV use ? disregard deaths from adverse health effects from air,water & soil pollution
What is spring break for Greensboro? I thought that was for educational institutions.
it is when the students go back to their farms to help with the spring planting; the ‘break’ refers to standing bend the plow n mule breaking ground. Jv
How about “closes for good”.