Property owner Johnny Pitts is requesting a zoning change from Guilford Countyto allow residential, commercial and corporate development at the intersection of NC Highway 68 and Edgefield Road, a site that lies within the pathway of a future four-lane connector.

All concert proceeds benefit Eastern Music Festival's student scholarship program. Tickets can be purchased from the Center for the Arts Box Office. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Also, Elon students, faculty and staff may receive free tickets.

Property owner Johnny Pitts is requesting a zoning change from Guilford Countyto allow residential, commercial and corporate development at the intersection of NC Highway 68 and Edgefield Road, a site that lies within the pathway of a future four-lane connector.

Boy, was this was an album for sore ears. Andrew Eversole was Kentucky born, and began his mountain-music journey when his parents relocated to North Carolina. It's been a decade now since his relocation to the Triad, and he has now released his debut album in May on Rivers of Mars Records.

Winston-Salem police found 15 sticks of dynamite on July 3 in the basement of a duplex on Reynolda Road. A family cleaning out the basement discovered the explosives around 1:30 p.m. and called 911.

At the risk of sounding too meta, the biggest spat on the local blogosphere last week involved....me. I went at it for a bit with Winston-Salem's best Greensboro blogger Ben Holder, AKA the Troublemaker, when in a diatribe against Jordan Green he took a shot at me, contending that I had misrepresented my work history on another blog.

July is National Hot Dog Month, but here in North Carolina we eat them all year long, usually graced with a slide of chili and a mound of finely chopped cole slaw. That's how we do.