In a 7-1 vote on Friday afternoon, Jamilla Pinder was selected as Greensboro’s new at-large city councilmember. Pinder, who grew up in Greensboro, is the director of community engagement and impact for the Cone Health Foundation and will fill the seat formerly held by Yvonne Johnson who passed away in December.

Dec 24, 2024 · Cecil Brockman; High Point’s Democratic representative to the NC House, Rep. Cecil Brockman, was conspicuously absent during several controversial House votes on in March, right around the time Mecklenberg’s Rep. Tricia Cotham defected from the Democratic Party to the Republicans, giving them a veto-proof supermajority in the House.After coming under more fire from his party when he missed ...

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Sep 30, 2024 · He’s all over the Triad City Beat archives, in stories about his gigs and references to his career, which was intensely and purposefully local in scope: his 40 th birthday at a Ben Singer show at NY Pizza; the night he, Singer and Sam Frazier played one of Singer’s original movie scores for a Chaplin film at the Green Bean; a rare Winston-Salem performance at the Garage with a slew of folk ...

Jan 30, 2025 · The city of Greensboro is activating White Flag tonight, which offers locations for homeless individuals to stay overnight as temperatures are expected to hit 31 degrees at 6 p.m. tonight, (Dec. 5) dropping into the low 20s as the night progresses — 24 degrees at midnight — and will reach a low of 21 degrees at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning.

6 days ago · Greensboro’s most unique Christmas tradition was a grassroots effort by the Sunset Hills neighborhood that began with a few lighted Christmas balls lofted high in the trees, and in just a couple decades has bloomed into a signature experience.. TCB contributor David Bartenfield shot this footage with a low-flying drone — a tricky business considering the balls are hoisted into the trees by ...

Nov 6, 2024 · D – Ronda Mays. Republican Dana Caudill Jones won District 31 by more than 25 percentage points on Tuesday night with 95 percent of precincts reporting in. Jones, who served as Mayor Pro Tem on Kernersville’s Board of Alderman from 2011-13 and on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education from 2015-18, beat Democrat Ronda Mays.

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Wells cited the city’s plan, GSO 2040, wherein one of the goals is to be “committed to equity, diversity and inclusivity.” “It is my feeling that we should show that we are a community that recognizes diversity,” she added. And Greensboro is a majority-minority city, Wells noted.

Jan 2, 2025 · Winston-Salem’s Sustainability Department is identifying areas where the city can work to create a clean and equitable environment for its residents. During a community development, housing and general government committee meeting on Dec. 9, Director Shaleen Miller presented the department’s 2024 environmental justice report.