It’s been more than 40 years in the making, but the future of Greensboro’s Florida Street extension project is tenuous at best. The half-mile road would run through the edge of NC A&T University’s farm from Lee Street to McConnell road — if, that is, the school’s board of trustees decides the project should move forward.

Fervent proclamations about gun rights and violence haven’t waned since the Newtown, Conn. massacre, and last week advocates held dueling events in Greensboro to advance their agendas.

Garrity said in an interview that he wants the city council vote to publicly release the document, which is ordinarily a protected, private personnel record, under a state law that allows for the release of personnel information to restore and maintain public confidence in government.

• High Point City Council meets April1 at 4:45 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the third floor of the Municipal Building, located at 211 S. Hamilton St. The full council meets at 3:30 p.m. for a committee of the whole finance meeting..

“We do take these issues very seriously, and that’s why we have asked for this investigation,” Mayor Allen Joines said after council adjourned in public following the closed session.

Forsyth County, with most of its population in Winston-Salem, leads the eight most populated counties in the state in infant deaths per 1,000 live births, according to data compiled by the NC Center for Health Statistics. That includes the cities of Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, Wilmington and Asheville.

If things go as Mayor Robbie Perkins plans, Greensboro could drop its noise ordinance threshold from 75 decibels to 60 and ban amplified outdoor music after 11 p.m. Some council members said that last year’s revisions were implemented on a trial basis and said that continuing complaints and violations indicated a need to revisit the ordinance.

“Mr. Cash has contacted our office to state that neither he nor his attorney have been able to reach you regarding the resolution of the outstanding invoices,” Amy Strange, a compliance specialist with the board of elections, wrote to Holyfield on March 18.

Yates is originally from the Chicago area, where the Latin Kings organization was founded in the 1940s. Cornell came to North Carolina from Brooklyn, NY, where he had been a member of the Latin Kings under the leadership of Antonio Fernandez, or King Tone, a social justice-minded leader who attempted to put the organization on a path to reform.

The city’s assistant general counsel, Tom Carruthers, said staff and department heads began compiling legislative issues in November, with council narrowing the list to 13 it could reach consensus on.

The e-mails keep coming, every day, and it’s not from a few overzealous residents. It’s been months since community outrage at Duke Energy’s tree trimming line maintenance work boiled over, but Greensboro Councilwoman Nancy Vaughan said the e-mails haven’t stopped.

Lawyers for Kalvin Michael Smith, the Winston-Salem man convicted in the brutal beating of Silk Plant Forest employee Jill Marker, have filed a motion asking the courts to determine whether a 2009 decision by a Forsyth County superior court judge denying him a new trial should be vacated.

In a press release, the city said it would form a working group to discuss and improve the relationship between the agency and the city over the next three months. The group, which met behind closed doors on Monday, will recommend “changes and improvements” and define the partnership between the city and Downtown Greensboro Inc.

Dozens of organizations and hundreds of people from throughout the area came together in Greensboro last week to talk about an issue central in everyone’s lives: food.

The high water concerned the department since they plan to make the quarry a public park. Park Superintendent William Royston submitted the first draft of the Vulcan Quarry Master Property Master Plan on Feb. 12 to the Winston- Salem City Council’s General Government Committee.

Young immigrants like Erick Renteria Marin who were approved for differed action are celebrating the announcement that North Carolina would begin issuing driver’s licenses next month.

Police Chief Ken Miller explained police surveillance of activists, addressed some public concerns, maintained that the department didn’t have an undercover officer in Occupy Greensboro and welcomed an investigation into whether documents were falsified if the council requested one last week.

The Creative Corridors Design Review Committee, comprised of architects and community leaders appointed by city council, is charged with grading the city’s plans for a section of the street from Business 40 to US Highway 52 based on how well it incorporates elements of sustainability, artfulness, iconic appearance and connectivity.

Budget Director Rhonda Tatum laid out an unsavory choice for the conservative Republican majority during the county commission’s winter work session last week in the wake of projected figures from the county’s tax revaluation this year. They can raise the tax rate by 9.

Abuzuaiter said she was not ready to call for an investigation into whether the messages were altered, falsified or whether someone had accessed her e- mail account, saying she was focused on physical threats she had received since the article was published from “leftwing” people criticizing her relationship with the police.