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By Richard M. Barron, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C. Jun. 25--Mainline Contracting lost a $6.1 million contract last year after state officials gave bad advice to the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority. After suing the authority and settling out of court, however, Mainline walked away a winner Tuesday with a $4.3 million contract on a different airport project. The Durham company will grade and pave a taxiway extension at Piedmont Triad International Airport. Mainline is already making...
By JONNELLE DAVIS Dr. Xaje Hasanaj, a physician with Rockingham Internal Medicine in Eden, received certification in emergency medicine from the American Board of Physician Specialities. Licensed physicians must meet strict requirements that include advanced training and successful completion of a specialty exam. Recipients must be recertified every eight years. l l l Morehead Memorial Hospital's cardiopulmonary services department has again received Quality Respiratory Care Recognition....
By Jeff Mills, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C. Jun. 24--GREENSBORO -- Charles Kirkman doesn't object to the tall towers or the humming high-voltage power lines strung between them that will likely cut across his farm in a few years. He just wishes the route wouldn't take up so much of the land his ancestors first settled when North Carolina was still a British colony. Kirkman, who owns 125 acres off Hockett Road in Pleasant Garden, raised the lone objection to a proposed electric power...
By Morgan Josey Glover, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C. Jun. 24--GREENSBORO -- Folks scowled, sighed and shook their heads. The numbers were not pretty. School board members -- seated in front of a crowd of about 100 -- learned Monday that Guilford County Schools has not made any true progress in narrowing the achievement gap between black and white male students. "Politically, we've closed the gap," said Gongshu Zhang, the district's chief accountability and research officer....
By Jeff Mills, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C. Jun. 21--GREENSBORO -- You know those free boxes of medicine samples you sometimes get at the doctor's office? Turns out, they're not so free for the doctor. The Guilford County Tax Department billed Greensboro-based Eagle Physicians and Associates for unpaid taxes Thursday after an audit last spring revealed the group's doctors didn't list free drug samples on their tax returns from 2003 to 2007. The bill isn't huge, but it has to be...
By Jason Hardin, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C. Jun. 20--Just one month ago, half of the state -- including a slice of eastern Guilford County -- had finally climbed out of the drought category as measured by the U.S. Drought Monitor. That was then. Several weeks of dry weather and a few weeks of incredibly hot weather have sent the state skidding back down the drought scale. Now, all but a tiny corner of the state is back in a moderate drought or worse, and Guilford is back into the...
Awards The National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont Triad was awarded the Greensboro Police Department's Chief's Award for its nationally acclaimed summer leadership program Anytown, at the 2008 Police and Citizens Appreciation Dinner. Donations Furnitureland South recently furnished two complete bedrooms at Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina's Mills Home campus in Thomasville. The family-owned business also donated two chairs and ottomans for the home's use....
By JIM SCHLOSSER William Oden Jr., a man with controversial views, wants to celebrate the bicentennial. Grab your chairs and hold tight. He's not talking of Greensboro's 200th birthday. He wants to hail a person who wandered Greensboro a defeated man in April 1865 -- Confederacy President Jefferson Davis. Davis was born in Kentucky in 1808 the same year Guilford commissioners peeled off $98 to buy land to start Greensboro. Oden, with gray eyebrows and hair, believes that those who vent...
RALEIGH, N.C., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas (LFS Carolinas) will be hosting celebrations of World Refugee Day in Greensboro and Raleigh to honor refugees in Guilford County and in the Triangle. The Greensboro celebration will be held on Friday, June 20, and the Raleigh celebration will be held on Saturday, June 21. This year's theme for World Refugee Day is "A Place to Call Home" focusing on the United States' proud tradition of welcoming refugees. The...
By Emily Stephenson, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C. Jun. 17--HIGH POINT -- Alice holds two collages that she's just pulled down from a wall in the hallway. The collages are covered with magazine cutouts, drawings and handwritten poems representing two sides of her life. One shows her childhood experiences with sexual abuse and her drug-ridden adulthood. The other depicts the future she's working toward during her stay at the new Guilford County Substance Abuse Treatment Center....
