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No one at the Greensboro Zoning Commission meeting on Monday, Sept. 21, talked about how much they enjoyed walking their dogs through the 30-acre tract between Pisgah Church Road and Lawndale Drive that was up for rezoning, or how much their kids enjoyed playing in the woods.
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Baseball Stadium Swings at Tax Penalties – Gets Reduction
Greensboro Baseball LLC, which owns Grasshoppers stadium and the Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball team, came before the Guilford County Board of Equalization and Review (E&R) recently to ask that board for forgiveness on about $35,000 in penalties associated with six years of unpaid back taxes on the stadium at 408 Bellemeade St. in downtown Greensboro. The stadium owners didn’t get everything they wanted but the county did agree to knock off $10,000 on the penalties.
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Legislature Makes Budget Deadline With Hours To Spare
Announcing that he had gotten over 90 percent of what he asked for, Gov. Pat McCrory signed the state budget into law Friday, Sept. 18 – hours before the third continuing budget resolution was to expire.
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Legislators Allow Middle School Sex Ed To Reflect Local Values
Sex education is once again a hot topic in the NC General Assembly. Some say they are worried that a return to abstinence only as a curriculum is on the horizon, while others say they feel that current curriculum encourages an anything goes approach.
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Dam on Animal Shelter Scandal Info Starting To Collapse
Former Guilford County Animal Shelter Director Marsha Williams and two other former shelter workers were indicted last week by the Davidson County district attorney’s office. However, that was just the start of the bad news for Williams and other shelter workers who are still under investigation by law enforcement in both counties – and still being scrutinized by state and federal authorities as well.
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County Promises To Keep Future Shelter On Tight Leash
In order to assure oversight of a much maligned Guilford County Animal Shelter, where oversight has apparently been non-existent for years, Guilford County is preparing to change the way it handles animal services and those changes are likely to include the creation of a new county department to run the shelter, the establishment of an oversight board and the merger of Guilford County Animal Control into the new department.
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Little More Talk But Still No Action In City Council Races
Finally there was some action in the slowest, most moribund City Council election in decades.
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Council Plans to Spend $2.2M to Tear Down Heritage House
The Greensboro City Council Tuesday, Sept. 15, decided to throw good money after bad and start the process of buying all 177 units of Heritage House off Randleman Road, which the city closed down and declared a blighted area last year.
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Baseball Stadium Swings at Tax Penalties – Gets Reduction
Greensboro Baseball LLC, which owns Grasshoppers stadium and the Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball team, came before the Guilford County Board of Equalization and Review (E&R) recently to ask that board for forgiveness on about $35,000 in penalties associated with six years of unpaid back taxes on the stadium at 408 Bellemeade St. in downtown Greensboro. The stadium owners didn’t get everything they wanted but the county did agree to knock off $10,000 on the penalties.
Legislature Makes Budget Deadline With Hours To Spare
Announcing that he had gotten over 90 percent of what he asked for, Gov. Pat McCrory signed the state budget into law Friday, Sept. 18 – hours before the third continuing budget resolution was to expire.
Legislators Allow Middle School Sex Ed To Reflect Local Values
Sex education is once again a hot topic in the NC General Assembly. Some say they are worried that a return to abstinence only as a curriculum is on the horizon, while others say they feel that current curriculum encourages an anything goes approach.
Dam on Animal Shelter Scandal Info Starting To Collapse
Former Guilford County Animal Shelter Director Marsha Williams and two other former shelter workers were indicted last week by the Davidson County district attorney’s office. However, that was just the start of the bad news for Williams and other shelter workers who are still under investigation by law enforcement in both counties – and still being scrutinized by state and federal authorities as well.
County Promises To Keep Future Shelter On Tight Leash
In order to assure oversight of a much maligned Guilford County Animal Shelter, where oversight has apparently been non-existent for years, Guilford County is preparing to change the way it handles animal services and those changes are likely to include the creation of a new county department to run the shelter, the establishment of an oversight board and the merger of Guilford County Animal Control into the new department.
Little More Talk But Still No Action In City Council Races
Finally there was some action in the slowest, most moribund City Council election in decades.
Council Plans to Spend $2.2M to Tear Down Heritage House
The Greensboro City Council Tuesday, Sept. 15, decided to throw good money after bad and start the process of buying all 177 units of Heritage House off Randleman Road, which the city closed down and declared a blighted area last year.