The aroma of freshly baked pound cakes filled a small quaint cafe in Downtown Greensboro. The door chimed as customers entered into The Sweet Shop’s 1950’s themed room and the voice of Etta James buzzed through the air. The Sweet Shop, Homemade Pound Cakes by Margaret Elaine is a fairly new establishment in the area. [...]

“Gotta have that Big Screen TV” is out of the gate first, with “I wanna X-Box” on the rail and closing fast. But “I like the Wii” is having none of it as he moves up in position to strike. Running in fourth place is “I need a Blu-Ray” with “My New Nikes” in a [...]

Mayor Robbie Perkins and Greensboro City Council members held the inaugural East Greensboro Summit on Monday, October 29, at Dudley High School to update the public on economic development efforts for the eastern half of the city. A large crowd came out, in less than desirable weather, filling a sizable portion of Dudley’s auditorium. Greensboro’s [...]

  When Robert Savino, president of Mattress Go Round, had the plan to create a company that would recycle mattresses, he had no idea the impact it would make. Two years later the business has flourished into more than just a mattress recycling company. It employs second-chance people or individuals who have fallen on hard [...]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When she graduated from the University of Iowa two years ago with a major in elementary education, Amber Newman envisioned standing in front of a class of bright, energetic youngsters and providing them with the solid educational base that would help them become successful in the upper grades as well as later [...]