Wednesday, December 10,2008

Stadium completion date undetermined

By Keith Barber

The official unveiling of the new name for the Winston-Salem minor league baseball franchise Dec. 4 was as well orchestrated as the four-piece Dixieland band that played Take Me Out to the Ballgame and When the Saints Go Marching In for the hundreds crammed into the Millennium Center.

Hoppers Groundskeep keeps diamond spotless

Jake Holloway needs a title

By Ogi Overman

Jake Holloway needs a title. He's not politicking for one - it's probably never even entered his mind - but he deserves one nonetheless. His predecessor, Mel Lanford, the man who taught him the tricks of the trade, had one. Mel, as many patrons of War Memorial Stadium will remember fondly, was the "Doctor of Dirt," so it's only fitting that Jake have one too.

Tuesday, April 17,2007

New inside perspectives on 1979 shootings point to police complicity

By Jordan Green

Recent statements by a Greensboro city councilwoman and former police officer, coupled with those of a former Ku Klux Klan exalted cyclops who worked as a paid informant for the FBI, add support to a widely held belief that police intentionally allowed Klansmen and Nazis to attack a march convened by communist labor activists in the African-American public housing community of Morningside Homes in 1979.

Tuesday, April 17,2007

New inside perspectives on 1979 shootings point to police complicity

By Jordan Green

Recent statements by a Greensboro city councilwoman and former police officer, coupled with those of a former Ku Klux Klan exalted cyclops who worked as a paid informant for the FBI, add support to a widely held belief that police intentionally allowed Klansmen and Nazis to attack a march convened by communist labor activists in the African-American public housing community of Morningside Homes in 1979.

Tuesday, March 27,2007

Mother Murphy's captures the flavor of Greensboro

By Brian Clarey

On a bulletin board in the copy room hangs a grid of Polaroids depicting every person who works for the company, including Kermit Murphy's son David, who holds the position of president, and his daughter Janet, a vice president of customer service, along with 67 other smiling faces whose responsibilities range from driving trucks to creating flavors. Kermit, now 90 years old and semi-retired, still checks in on the plant on a regular basis.

Tuesday, March 27,2007

Mother Murphy's captures the flavor of Greensboro

By Brian Clarey

On a bulletin board in the copy room hangs a grid of Polaroids depicting every person who works for the company, including Kermit Murphy's son David, who holds the position of president, and his daughter Janet, a vice president of customer service, along with 67 other smiling faces whose responsibilities range from driving trucks to creating flavors. Kermit, now 90 years old and semi-retired, still checks in on the plant on a regular basis.

Tuesday, January 16,2007

Greensboro resident not keeping up with the Joneses

By Sue Edelberg

There aren't many fuel meters in Greensboro that were reclaimed by Piedmont Natural Gas for lack of use. There aren't many roosters named Ben or cats named Kitty or hens that were eaten by hawks in the last couple weeks...

Tuesday, January 2,2007

Back in studio, Crash Craddock burns to perform

By Ogi Overman

The writer bursts in unannounced, notepad and tape recorder in hand, moments after the Nashville star has finished a live radio interview. The radio personality, Dusty Dunn, introduces the writer and, rather than telling him to wait his turn, the star offers his hand and says, "I've got a guitarist in my band by that name. You any kin to Timmy Overman...

Tuesday, December 5,2006

Sessions keep traditional music alive

By Sharon Armstrong

It's chilly outside the Red Oak Brew Pub despite the sun doing its feeble best to warm the cool air. People sit on the veranda with their faces turned upwards as if determined to wring the very last drop of warmth from the pale shimmering disc, and so a cool Sunday afternoon drifts into a cold Sunday night...

Tuesday, November 28,2006

Deadly Mexican labor strike highlighted in Greensboro

By Sharon Armstrong

A bitterly cold wind chilled the protesters at the corner of West Market and Eugene streets in downtown Greensboro on Nov. 20 as they gathered on the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution in response to a call for international displays of solidarity by the Mexican Zapatist Army of National Liberation...