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…
Q: Is there no way that telephone harassment by telemarketers or robo callers can be stopped? Also, solicitors are continually harassing the elderly. What can we do? Is there no help?
Read through the obituaries published today in Winston-Salem Journal.
Q: I’m worried because my husband takes some type of medication for pain almost every day. What should I keep an eye on as he manages his pain? Is that safe?
It is so important, I made a note and stuck it on the fridge with my favorite Porter Wagoner magnet: “Eye exam 2024 — take shades, go home.”
Forsyth County commissioners will give the town of Walkertown extra time to do a traffic study before taking action on a rezoning that could bring 100 townhomes to a site near the Walkertown Commons shopping center.
In a state government increasingly known for its partisanship, Medicaid director Dave Richard has been an authority figure both Democrats and Republicans have trusted to have North Carolinians’ best interest at heart.
A N.C. Senate bill that would significantly expand the state’s newborn safe surrender law cleared its first committee step last week.
While elected officials weigh proposed legislation aimed at protecting North Carolina’s energy facilities and punishing anyone caught damaging them, the FBI said Friday it is offering up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of suspects involved in recent attacks on…
North Carolina has multiple paths to reaching “net-zero” in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but not without new policies and programs to move the state toward the goal, according to a report released Thursday by Gov. Roy Cooper’s office.
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It has been nine months since a Forsyth County grand jury declined to indict five former detention officers for involuntary manslaughter in the December 2019 death of John Elliott Neville, and it’s not clear whether Forsyth County prosecutors will seek an indictment against them a second time.
WINSTON-SALEM — A man was shot and wounded Friday night in a northern part of the city, authorities said.
A student brought a gun Wednesday to Glenn High School, authorities said.
Winston-Salem experienced nine homicides in January, a number that apparently ties the monthly record of nine killings the city reported in both May and October of 2021.
In a state government increasingly known for its partisanship, Medicaid director Dave Richard has been an authority figure both Democrats and Republicans have trusted to have North Carolinians’ best interest at heart.
A former Triad resident was one of several people along the North and South Carolina coasts on Saturday to witness a fighter jet shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the U.S. for days.
A N.C. Senate bill that would significantly expand the state’s newborn safe surrender law cleared its first committee step last week.
A Chinese surveillance balloon was likely to fly over parts of North Carolina on Saturday evening, according to a trajectory map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.