Also, SAM addresses questions about a proration to the annual yard card fee, and how to properly pronounce Ebert Road.
SAM has received several requests for the list of upcoming shredding events. Here are all that we’ve been notified about. If your group or organization is going to have a shredding event and want to be included in the list, email the information to asksam@wsjournal.com and it will be included.
According to the Social Security Administration, it has ways to help recipients who are unable to handle their finances and personal business.
Also in SAM: What does flying a flag at half-staff mean?
Q: When will Kimberly Van Scoy be back on WXII? She’s been gone a long time.
Q: What is the story behind the Easter lily?
Today's column is about the impact of the new gym at Wiley Middle School on the proposal to build a new football stadium nearby for Reynolds High School. The other question explains why people getting backyard trash pick-up have to supply their own trashcans.
Ask SAM is about when Long Drive will reopen due to culvert failure and cleaning up storm damage at Tanglewood Park.
The Ask SAM column is a history of April Fools Day, along with some notable April Fools stunts.
SAM got an email Monday night from Ron Linville, a longtime friend, who wanted to pass along that Monday was National and North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Day.
Q: Is the K&W on Peters Creek Parkway closed?
Another type of March Madness is taking place this year. It's fun and involves a mural of an adorable river otter.
Q: My parent is an 80-year-old, widowed, retired mail carrier. We now have the task of filing his taxes for him. We are being told that some retired mail carriers are exempt from having to file state income taxes. We also have none of his proof of expenses for the previous four years, even i…
UPDATE (June 29, 2022): Police say that, shortly after reports of gunfire inside a Winston-Salem Target, Dontaye Kentrell Wade, 25, arrived at a local hospital with injuries to his head and face.
Read through the obituaries published today in Winston-Salem Journal.
Protests against overturning Roe vs. Wade channel mixture of disgust, anger and shock. But the Supreme Court's action should not have come as a surprise.
SAM has seen a flood of questions about Medicare scams. Here’s a column from earlier this year that explains how to avoid such scams.
The state House cleared Tuesday its attempt at a limited version of Medicaid expansion focused on rural parts of the state.
A N.C. House committee advanced Tuesday the controversial “ICE” sheriffs cooperation legislation that resurfaced last week after being dormant since March 2021.
Through his nonprofit, A Son Never Forgets, Reader has started buying single and multi-family properties in the south end of Greensboro and intends to rent or sell them to low-income people.
Two Davidson County-focused bills have cleared the N.C. Senate, while a third bill is just a formality vote away from taking the same step.
A Lexington woman accused of killing an 8-year-old girl and seriously injuring her 3-year-old daughter made her first appearance Monday in Davidson District Court.
Five people face multiple drug charges in Surry County after investigators found illegal drugs in two vehicles and two homes since April, authorities said Tuesday.
A Greensboro man accused of running a scam in which he collected more than $54,000 in rent from places he didn't own or didn't have permission to sell was sued last year for doing the same thing to a Forsyth County man.
A former detention officer at the Forsyth County Jail was arrested Tuesday after she was accused of providing marijuana to an inmate, authorities said.
The state House cleared Tuesday its attempt at a limited version of Medicaid expansion focused on rural parts of the state.
A N.C. House committee advanced Tuesday the controversial “ICE” sheriffs cooperation legislation that resurfaced last week after being dormant since March 2021.
Two Davidson County-focused bills have cleared the N.C. Senate, while a third bill is just a formality vote away from taking the same step.
North Carolina’s GOP says the state’s Republican Party offices in Raleigh were vandalized Friday night following the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.