RALEIGH – North Carolinians playing Mega Millions on Friday night will have their chance at winning a billion-dollar jackpot.
GREENSBORO, NC – Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI), has drawn the first week of winning names for its #DGSOtogo contest. Participants in the contest have the opportunity to win $500 per week for themselves and the business they visited. In its opening week, 82 people entered the contest and gen…
RALEIGH – Willie Pitts of Winston Salem tried his luck on a $1 Cash 5 ticket and took home the $348,684 jackpot.
Pace, a national marketing agency headquartered in Greensboro, has launched the Pace Impact Project to help local businesses harness the power of social media.
GREENSBORO, NC (January 21, 2021) – Interested in sharing your ideas, concerns, and priorities, about how the City of Greensboro government can help reduce its carbon footprint? City staff wants your input in developing a 20-year Strategic Energy Plan (SEP), complete with goals, strategies a…
On Jan. 20, 2021 at 2:40 p.m., Officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department responded to the Walmart located at 3475 Parkway Village Circle on a reported armed robbery of a business. Upon arrival, Officers spoke with store personnel who advised they attempted to detain several suspects …
(*Correction: In the print edition of this series’ Part 1, it was misconstrued that Housing Justice Now members were the only ones collecting eviction data through the court watching program. Forsyth Court Support was the organization that organized court watching and recorded the eviction d…
On January 15, attorneys representing Marcus Deon Smith’s family filed a motion to compel the City of Greensboro to release Body-Worn Camera (BWC) videos of prior instances of Greensboro police officers using the type of restraint device that killed Smith. The brief accompanying that motion …
On Jan. 12, the Guilford County Board of Education voted 5 to 4 to delay middle and high school students’ return to in-person classes for at least three weeks. The decision was a reversal of the board’s previously announced intention of returning those students to classrooms this month.
The Winston Salem Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in locating Tahj Jahkey Darity. Mr. Darity is 22 years old and was last seen on January 15th, 2021 at 2602 Village Trail Drive, Winston-Salem.
“I am not a fact-checker,” responded Guilford County Board of Education representative Anita Sharpe when YES! Weekly asked if she still believed a widely-debunked claim she shared on Facebook.
New Efforts Build On Successful Swarm The Polls Voting Campaign From Fall 2020
The City of High Point's policy document on proposed use along the city's portion of the Jamestown Bypass is just that, a policy document. Not a fixed plan.
RALEIGH, N.C. – Governor Roy Cooper approved the mobilization of an additional 100 North Carolina National Guardsmen to deploy to Washington, D.C. to support civilian authorities prior to and during the 59th Presidential Inauguration. They will arrive in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The International Civil Rights Center & Museum has chosen a Saudi Arabian Women’s Rights activist and advocate for Human and Civil Rights as its 2021 Trail Blazer. Loujain Al-Hathloul is presently incarcerated by her country's government as punishment for her work of a…
GREENSBORO — The Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum mourn the loss of its former Executive Director Amelia Parker, who passed this week. She had harnessed the talents of a diverse array of subject specialists, architects, designers…
RALEIGH – Aweis Mohamed of Greensboro thought he had won $1,000 on a scratch-off ticket but, much to his surprise, it was worth a whole lot more.
−Second time in history both games have simultaneous jackpots over $600 million−
Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz, and their team are excited to return to North Carolina! They plan to film episodes of the hit series American Pickers throughout the Triad area in March 2021.
As America continues to grapple with COVID-19 and its health, economic and education fallout, United Way’s focus on the disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable has not wavered. One place we can make a difference is protecting students, teachers and school staff as schools pursue in pe…
High Point, NC – The Junior League of High Point (JLHP) is pleased to welcome seven women into their League this year - Audrey McManus, Jacqueline Gravely, Sydney Spring, Katie Cottam, Allison Jarrell, Monica Stabb, and Meg Williams. This New Member class brings a variety of backgrounds, tal…
Groups allege North Carolina retains an extensive network of illegal cockfighting operations
Generous Community Gives $140,163.53 Toward Restoring Lives
Raleigh, NC - Today Rep. Jon Hardister (R-Whitsett) was sworn-in to serve a 5th term in the NC House of Representatives. He was also appointed to serve as the chairman of the House Education Universities Committee, which oversees policy related to the state university system. Hardister was a…
WINSTON-SALEM, NC (JANUARY 14, 2021) – The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership is urging citizens to support small businesses in downtown Winston-Salem by taking the “TakeOutPledgews”, where each participant pledges to shop at a local business twice a week, with emphasis on businesses in down…
“What would have happened if those were Black people? I can safely tell you right now that we would all be dead,” said Hate Out of Winston’s Miranda Jones in Triad Abolition Project’s “The People’s Report” via Facebook Live on Jan. 10.
On Thursday morning, Allison Baynes Key, owner of Happy Moms Consignment Sale, a Greensboro-based online thrift store, made the following public post on her Facebook page:
From President Trump’s speech that led to Wednesday’s Capitol building takeover to wild rumors circulating about Jeffree Starr and Kanye West— in keeping with the consistency of 2020, 2021 has certainly gotten off to a chaotic start in the United States. The events of last year took almost e…
Plans Underway for Scaling up Vaccination Capacity in Partnership with Cone Health
Leaders in several other NC communities set to take up their own LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances later this monthHILLSBOROUGH, NC – Tonight the Board of Commissioners in Hillsborough, North Carolina voted to pass an ordinance (see page 70) broadly protecting members of the LGBTQ community…
GREENSBORO, HIGH POINT, WINSTON-SALEM, NC – In 2020, the City of Greensboro was ranked 46 out of 100 of the Healthiest workplaces in America Award sponsored by Springbuk. The City also ranked in the top three of the Healthiest Employers in the Triad.
GREENSBORO (January 12, 2020) – In celebration of National Engineer’s Week, residents from Greensboro and five other Triad cities will host Bridging the Triad, a competition to see who can create the most efficient popsicle stick bridge. The Greensboro Parks and Recreation department will pr…
GREENSBORO, NC – Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI), has launched the #DGSOtogo contest to promote small businesses in the center city during the winter months. Participants in the contest have the opportunity to win $500 per week for themselves and the business they visited.
It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that the YWCA of Greensboro's Board of Directors announce that Lindy Garnette has resigned as CEO of the 117 year old nonprofit. Garnette’s more than 10 years of service have been marked by critical growth in service of the YWCA’s mission of elimina…
−Second time in history both games have simultaneous jackpots over $500 million−
Guilford County, NC - Today the Guilford County Legislative Delegation met (via Zoom) to elect leadership for the upcoming 2021-22 session of the NC General Assembly.
13-Year Veteran Chris Jasso selected to attend FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA
FROM DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TO RACIAL EQUITY
HIGH POINT, N.C., Jan. 11, 2021 – High Point University will host special guest Rev. Dr. Jonathan Walton as the keynote speaker for the university’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Worship Service. The service will be held virtually Mon., Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. and can be watched here.
GREENSBORO, NC – Greensboro Transit Agency is excited to announce the new operating brand for its longtime paratransit bus service. Access GSO succeeds Specialized Community Area Transportation, or SCAT, serving persons with disabilities since 1992. The Access GSO name was chosen from among …
GREENSBORO, NC (January 8, 2021) – The Downtown Greenway seeks community input for Greensboro’s newest public artwork, the Freedom Cornerstone, to be located in the southeast corner of the Downtown Greenway’s four-mile loop - at the northeast corner of the intersection of Murrow Blvd and Eas…
On Dec. 2, 2020, Gwynne MacDonald Furches, 24, of Greensboro, pleaded guilty to Second Degree Murder in the May 30, 2019 death of Elijah Edward Coppedge, 72, also of Greensboro.
Guilford County Government kicked off the 2021 year by welcoming their new County Manager, Michael Halford. Halford hit the ground running Monday January 4th with an immediate assessment of the water damage at the High Point Court house and planning of the State’s 1b stage of the COVID-19 va…
With a handful of short films and a smallish role in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) to her credit, actress Claire Dunne establishes herself as a leading lady in Herself, for which she penned the story and teamed with Malcolm Campbell on the screenplay. Herself is Dunne’s first script and i…
A new year brings new hope for Triad venues with congress passing the “Save Our Stages Act,” bringing $15 billion in relief to the live performance industry.
HIGH POINT, NC – On Nov. 2, 2020, a juvenile victim reported being sexually assaulted over multiple years by their swim club coach. Through investigation, probable cause was developed to charge Aaron Philip Key (W/M, 27, of Raleigh).
Multiple former patients of a local teen drug and alcohol rehab program allege that it not only isolates its members, demands obedience, and teaches that homosexuality is a delusion, but that its staff and founders regularly insult African-Americans and Latinx people in crude terms.
SATURDAY, JAN 30, 2021
Mortgage-free homeowner Julie Nixon “fell on my knees to praise God” that her hard work, discipline, and determination “has given me what I call my mansion, yes, my mansion!”
On Tuesday, January 5, 2021 the Interactive Resource Center (IRC) announced that the white flag emergency winter shelter program will be moved to a hotel shelter program through the beginning of March. In accordance with CDC guidelines and recommendations from the National Alliance to End Ho…
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