In 2017, Forsyth County embarked on a new program to help save abandoned and stray animals. The goal is to reach a save rate — the percentage of animals not euthanized — of 90% by the year 2023. Forsyth County Commissioner Dave Plyler recently praised program for its successes. So we wanted …
It’s the Thanksgiving season — time for turkey, pumpkin pie, and reliving the greatest fictional radio promotion of all time.
Take a stroll in Reynolda Gardens or in the forests of Tanglewood, and you’ll know what it’s like to be serenaded by songbirds that fill our Piedmont skies.
Quarry Park is one of the city’s newest gems, an open-space oasis on the Southeast side offering a crystal view of the downtown skyline and a marooned body of water perched in the middle that we may ponder its depths.
This month our focus is on the question of whether or not marijuana should be legalized. We’ll explore that question at our Twin City Talks Live! community conversation tonight. It’s sold out but we’ll be live-tweeting the highlights and you can find a wrap-up of the event on twincitytalks.com.
In early August Julius Sampson – known to friends and family as “Juice” – was gunned down in the parking lot of a restaurant at Hanes Mall in a shooting that took place in the broad daylight of a Tuesday afternoon. Sampson was a father, a husband, a barber who contributed to his community.
Josh Lawson spent five years working with the N.C. Board of Elections, leaving his position as general counsel in May following the board’s replacement of executive director Kim Westbrook Strach.
Our next Twin City Talks community conversation is titled “Pushing the Limits: Sports are supposed to be fun, not dangerous.” That’s coming June 5 at 5:30 p.m. in downtown Winston-Salem in Footnotes Event Space at Foothills Brewing. We hope you can join us.
Barbara Babcock Millhouse’s name is inextricably linked to the history of Reynolda House. She spent part of her youth living in the home, played a central role in its transition to an art museum, started its renowned art collection, and more recently has written extensively about the home’s …
The opioid crisis is a “beast” best fought by limiting access to the drugs — on the streets, in homes and at the doctor’s office.
More than 1,800 people in North Carolina died from opioid overdoses in 2017. Early results indicate that there might be a small downward trend in 2018. That’s likely cold comfort to the hundreds of families for whom it’s too late.
Academy Awards season is not just for rewarding great filmmaking but also for taking measure of where we are as a nation and how that’s reflected in the films that fire our imaginations.
For years, the approach that major universities take in considering minority applicants has been scrutinized and criticized by those who say black applicants get favored treatment over white and applicants of other racial and ethnic groups.
We’ve talked about the plan to completely shut down Business 40 for more than a dozen years now, and at this point we’re more than a month into the grim reality. So far, it seems, so good. The plan is to make the highway safer and better equipped to handle the traffic that has come with more…
This month in the twin city, we’re talking about Winston-Salem history, how it has shaped us and how we can approach it.
We're talking about what it’s like to be LGBT in Winston-Salem public schools, then and now.
With July upon us, we’re at the peak of the summer reading season. If you’re still looking for that special page-turner for yourself or your kids, we’ve got some folks here to help you figure that all out.
Crowds packed the Wake Forest Tennis Center stadium as the Deacons rolled to a home win in the NCAA men’s tennis tournament last month. The excitement continued the following week as Petros Chrysochos defeated teammate Borna Gojo in an all-Deacon finals to determine the NCAA’s individual nat…
The Chicago White Sox are off to a rough start this year, but many in ChiTown believe the future is bright. That’s because they’ve got one of the highest rated farm systems among all major league teams. And those future stars are now, for the most part, developing those skills on teams based…
With the primaries over, we can now look ahead to the November general election, and this year we’ll have more choices than ever.
John Ehle led an extraordinary life of accomplishment, leaving marks on Winston-Salem that include leading the effort to get the school here that we now call the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. The Governor’s School was also his brainchild, along with several other efforts c…
On a sunny January mid-day in 2011, then-Gov. Bev Perdue came to the Piedmont for a ribbon cutting.
The Winston-Salem area has seen a growth in craft breweries and distilleries in recent years. Add to that the Yadkin Valley wine region and you have a pretty good home-brewed economy in the making.
At the peak of his tenure as sheriff, Gerald Hege ruled Davidson County politics.
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