Gloria Felder, 58, was commuting back and forth from Greensboro to Salisbury four-and-a-half years ago to take her grandson, Jevon Lewis, to school. She had been helping her son because he and his wife and gone through a divorce. But newly widowed in late 2007, Felder was worn out from the trips.

Among significant contributions, Earline Parmon and Evelyn Terry, who respectively won the Democratic nomination in Senate District 32 and House District 71, received $4,000 from Lillian’s List, a Raleigh pro-choice group.

The hoopla of the 10th anniversary is through, and it’s back to business as usual for the East’s biggest summer music festival. In a way, that’s a good thing.

On a “good will” tour of New York City, where he is greeted with disdain and outright hostility — none of which fazes him in the least — Aladeen is kidnapped, shorn of his trademark beard and stripped of his identity. Now, he must fend for himself on the streets of New York while his dimwit double, Efawadh (also Cohen), stands in for him.

The United Arts Council’s approach to fundraising just got turned on its head. Normally donors give money to the umbrella group and it is distributed to projects throughout Guilford County.

Inlaying stones on a castle wall, local artist Tania McClelland, carefully crafts her creation. Whether building a medieval world or painting the soft waves of the sea, McClelland takes painstaking effort to make her creations look as real — and taste as delicious — as possible.