“What do you think my face is made of anyway?” he asked. I was 1-year-old and couldn’t talk yet, so he did for me.

The Greensboro City Council’s decision to sell the Renaissance Shopping Center on Phillips Avenue last week angered members and supporters of a cooperative grocery initiative that hope to move into the strip in northeast Greensboro.

Though noise complaints come in from all over the city, the discussion about Greensboro’s noise ordinance — which is back on the agenda for the city council’s June 18 meeting — always seems to return to two downtown titans: Greene Street night club and developer Roy Carroll.

The strength of the demonstrators’ roar in the packed hall could make any college football team proud: “Forward together! Not one step back!” thundered off the General Assembly’s walls in Raleigh on Monday.

Buried in the fine print of Greensboro’s proposed 2013-14 fiscal year budget are 13.9 full-time equivalent jobs that would be eliminated to help balance the city’s budget, 12 of which are currently filled, spokes person Donnie Turlington said.

Plans for a community-owned grocery store in northeast Greensboro’s Renaissance Shopping Center continue to unfold, as residents and proponents publicly outlined how they’d like to see the center take shape. Council was scheduled to vote on the issue on Tuesday night but as of press time, no decision had been made yet.

Greensboro City Council held its first of three budget work sessions last week, and with the help of boxed lunches from Jimmy John’s, council made it through numerous spreadsheets, proposals, cuts and increases. The proposed budget, which will be voted on at council’s June 18 meeting, includes $4.

Three organizations active around Greensboro’s proposed tree ordinance convinced the city council to postpone its scheduled May 21 vote to approve the new ordinance, arguing that while it is a major improvement, the ordinance should do more to protect trees from electric utility line maintenance.

It’s not summer until you go swimming. It doesn’t have to be at the beach, but this year it will be as I return to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, almost a year after the fear of sharks ebbed. Now I’m crossing my fingers that the forecast will hold, the waves will be gentle and the phosphorescence and dolphins abundant.

Lehmert said she is partially hoping that the council doesn’t pass a new minimumhousing law in her absence because she’s been covering RUCO and housing-code enforcement for so long. She added that she is confident Newsom will do a fine job and that the N&R.