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Forsyth Sheriff Kimbrough, N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein honor first responders at awards ceremony
Josh Stein, North Carolina’s attorney general and the Democratic candidate for state governor, honored Forsyth County first responders with Forsyth Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough in an awards ceremony Thursday evening. The ceremony, hosted by the Crossing Church in Kernersville, and attended by the leaders of Forsyth County’s EMS services, fire...
Excel Interior Door relocating operations to North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. — Excel Interior Door, a manufacturer of residential doors, is leaving its Alabama roots to relocate in Winston-Salem, N.C. The company plans to invest $10.5 million on a new manufacturing facility and administrative office. Excel Interior Door received a performance-based grant of $75,000 from the One North Carolina Fund to help with its relocation to North Carolina. The One NC Fund provides financial assistance to local governments to help attract economic investment and create jobs.
Child care needs among the top reasons North Carolina teachers resign
There was an error loading the media player. A handful of women gathered inside of Jessica McCrory’s living room in Winston-Salem one afternoon in April. She was hosting a meetup for the advocacy group MomsRising, where members organize around issues impacting women, mothers and families. A couple of the women brought their babies, which made sense, seeing as the topic of discussion for this gathering was the state’s shortage of child care.
Some local schools covered by federal court order on discrimination
A federal court ruling in Kansas that temporarily blocks an extension of discrimination protections in schools affects 43 schools in North Carolina, including some in Forsyth and Guilford counties. The changes to Title IX advanced by the Biden administration would extend the definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation...
HPU, GTCC among schools covered in court ruling
TRIAD – A federal court ruling in Kansas that temporarily blocks an extension of discrimination protections in schools affects 43 schools in North Carolina, including some in Guilford, Forsyth, Randolph and Davidson counties. The changes to Title IX advanced by the Biden administration would extend the definition of sex...
Walkertown man charged with murder after shooting 42-year-old man in the face, Forsyth County deputies say
A Triad man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of another man, according to officials with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. On Tuesday, around midnight, Forsyth County deputies responded to the 8000 block of Cain Wood Court, after reports of a gun being fired. Get the...
Forsyth County Manager Shontell Robinson to hold listening sessions at county libraries July 17 and 18
The new Forsyth County Manager Shontell Robinson will hold her next two listening sessions in Winston-Salem from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Carver School Road library, 4915 Lansing Drive, on July 17, and the Forsyth County Central library, 660 W. 5th St., on July 18. According to Ashleigh...
Gray Wilson sworn in as replacement for longtime Forsyth County Commissioner Dave Plyler
The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners officially swore in Gray Wilson, an Army veteran and Winston-Salem attorney, Thursday afternoon as a replacement for retiring Commissioner Dave Plyler. In late March, the executive committee of the Forsyth County Republican Party chose Wilson as a District B commissioner to replace Plyler, 85,...
Abandoned building fire in Tobaccoville injures 2 firefighters
TOBACCOVILLE, N.C. — An abandoned building caught on fire on Saturday in Tobaccoville, according to the Forsyth County Department of Emergency Services. Just after 1:30 p.m., the Old Richmond Fire Department responded to a residential building fire on River Bluff Farm Road in the Tobaccoville Community of unincorporated Forsyth County.
Blotter — July 18
Below is a list of crime investigations and activities reported by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office in Clemmons and Lewisville last week. • July 7 — Suspicious person — 400 block of Craver Pointe Drive, Clemmons. Suspicious kids jiggled the door handle. • July 7 — Simple assault, non-aggravated assault — 1400 block of River […] The post Blotter — July 18 appeared first on clemmonscourier.
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