Folk Festival offers something for everyone
August 21, 2015For its 75th anniversary, the National Folk Festival will feature 300 artists on seven stages in downtown Greensboro from September 11 – 13. The three-day festival is free to the public. “The festival is such an embarrassment of riches,” said Julia Olin, executive director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA), which is […]
Candidates begin filing after injunction halts redistricting
July 30, 2015Candidate filing opened for the 2015 City of Greensboro Municipal Elections this week after a judge granted a permanent injunction on Greensboro’s controversial redistricting bill. Judge Catherine Eagles granted an injunction halting a redistricting plan sponsored by state Sen. Trudy Wade (R-Guilford) that would redraw district lines and alter city elections. At a hearing Thursday, […]
Privacy and the elderly
July 30, 2015It’s a Matter of Your Health Privacy is a big topic of concern for all people. Are our phones destroying our privacy by tracking our every step? Do the computers with their cookies record what sites we visit? Who gets this information and what exactly do they do with it? Is there, such a thing […]
West girls rally past East, 2-1
July 30, 2015BROWNS SUMMIT —Tuesday night at Greensboro’s Macpherson Stadium the West edged the East 2-1 in the 24th annual East-West All-Star women’s soccer match up. The game marked the final high school soccer match for all involved, and the West roster featured a large number of area players. “It’s a good way to end, since that’s […]
Tragedy Strikes Charleston
June 26, 2015The world is still reeling from the violence that took place on June 17 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Authorities say that 21 year-old Dylann Roof entered the church while a group of parishioners were having Bible Study around 9 p.m. He stayed and worshiped with the group before […]
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