Winston-Salem Area News

UNCSA students heading to Haiti to aid orphanage
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Ten high school students from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts are taking their talents to an orphanage in Haiti this summer. The school says students will collaborate on art projects with children in a Port au ...
Robert Lindgren, founding dance dean at UNCSA, diesWinston-Salem Journal

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Winston-Salem Chronicle
Worship service to end centennial celebration
Winston-Salem Chronicle
Winston-Salem's four-day centennial celebration will conclude May 12 with an open-air multi-congregational worship service and Moravian love feast at 4 p.m. Sunday in the May Dell on the campus of Salem Academy and College. Attendees should enter the ...
Winston-Salem, NC Celebrates 100 Years of Art, InnovationWatch List News (press release)

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Hallmark movie shot in Winston-Salem to debut on Mother's Day weekend
Winston-Salem Journal
Adrian Paul, in the role of Dylan, gets a makeup freshening during filming of the Hallmark made for TV movie "The Confession" at the Hutch and Harris restaurant in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wednesday. Posted: Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:00 am. Hallmark movie ...

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City's Centenarians: 100 years old and still going strong
Winston-Salem Journal
Many of Winston-Salem's residents who are or will be at least 100-years-old in the city's centennial year, or their family representatives, pose for a group photo at a luncheon in their honor, Friday, May 10, 2013 at the Benton Convention Center.

Piedmont 300 National Truck and Tractor Pull in Winston-Salem
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.–Hundreds turned out for the Piedmont 300 National Truck and Tractor Pull in Winston-Salem Friday night. Participants hooked their trucks and trailors up to giant weight sleds and pulled them down the track. When more than one ...

Winston-Salem Chronicle
Winston-Salem Centennial Celebration continues
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City leaders also continued the celebration by turning two downtown art galleries into museums full of memorabilia from the Winston-Salem Police and Fire Departments. There are pictures, old equipment, new equipment, cars, motorcycles, videos and more.
Weekend concert part of centennial partyWinston-Salem Chronicle
Ask SAM: Will Centennial Parade go on rain or shine?Winston-Salem Journal

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City, Wake Forest agree to keep Lawrence Joel name on coliseum
Winston-Salem Journal
The city of Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University officials agreed Fri-day to keep the Lawrence Joel name and the veterans' memorial designation on the coliseum façade and on its marquee as part of any sale of Joel Coliseum to Wake Forest, the city ...
City, Wake Forest to keep Lawrence Joel name on coliseummyfox8.com
Joel Coliseum name to remain, city officials sayWXII The Triad

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Barrier Awareness Day in Winston-Salem
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With training and challenge events held this morning, the Winston-Salem Mayor's Council for Persons with Disabilities, hopes it will not only bring awareness about the challenge people with disabilities face, but encourage interdependence between ...

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Recall issued for ice cream produced in Winston-Salem
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A dairy company has voluntarily issued a recall for ice cream that's produced in Winston-Salem and distributed across ten states. The Winston-Salem Journal reports Dairy Fresh is recalling some IGA Brand Vanilla and Chocolate ...
Company orders recall of ice cream produced in Winston-SalemWinston-Salem Journal
Dairy Fresh Produced In Winston-Salem Recalls Packs Of Ice CreamWFMY News 2
IGA brand ice cream flavor recalled for containing wrong productThe Mercury
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Winston-Salem substitute teacher accused of gun at school
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A substitute teacher at a high school in Winston-Salem has been accused of having a gun in his car at the school. Twenty-seven-year-old George Frederick Hall II was arrested Thursday at Philo-Hill Middle School. Police say Hall ...
Winston-Salem kicks off centennial celebrationsmyfox8.com
Winston-Salem State's Collins humbled by latest honorWinston-Salem Journal
Fire Breaks Out At Reynolda Manor Apartments in Winston-SalemWFMY News 2
Greensboro News & Record -WUNC
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Winston-Salem Chronicle
Johnson: Social capital could change fortunes of the poor
Winston-Salem Chronicle
For more than a decade, the Winston-Salem Foundation has invested substantial resources in bringing Forsyth County residents closer together. It started the ECHO (Everyone Can Help Out) Network to spearhead social capital initiatives year-round ...

Column: David Lusk, guest columnist, on Old Salem tree mischief
Winston-Salem Journal
The city of Winston-Salem has an obligation to maintain and protect the street infrastructure within the mutual confines of Old Salem. Currently, there is a contentious debate. Do we sacrifice the trees for the sidewalk or do we sacrifice the sidewalks ...

Firefighters save man from apartment fire
Winston-Salem Journal
The fire started around 5 p.m. in the kitchen area in the apartment at 2825 Teakwood Court in the city's northwestern section, the Winston-Salem Fire Department said. The man suffered smoke inhalation and was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center ...
fire rips through apartment complex in Winston-Salemmyfox8.com

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Planning board gives OK for proposed Allegacy branch
Winston-Salem Journal
The proposal will now move on to the Winston-Salem City Council. The board also approved the Southeast Forsyth County Area Plan update. This area of about 13,350 acres includes portions of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Several residents said they ...

Woman celebrates turning 105
Winston-Salem Journal
Her family moved to Winston-Salem when she was 4. They lived in a house at the corner of Cleveland Avenue and First Street, Livengood said. Williams said she can't remember many details about her childhood, but one episode remains vivid. “I crawled up ...

Forsyth Tech graduates largest class in school's history
Winston-Salem Journal
wsj_0510_fotech. Corbin Heist, a 2013 graduate of Forsyth Technical Community College in the Race Car Technology program, puts on his graduation cap as he waits for the ceremony to begin on Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Winston-Salem. wsj_0510_fotech ...

Winston-Salem substitute teacher charged with having weapon on campus
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WINSTON-SALEM–A substitute teacher at Philo-Hill Magnet School said he accidentally left a handgun in the front seat of his car after it was discovered by police investigating a car alarm sounding in the school parking lot, The Winston-Salem Journal ...
Substitute Teacher Charged For Gun At Middle SchoolWFMY News 2

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Wexford to spend $150 on second phase of downtown project
Winston-Salem Journal
“This is extremely positive news for our community,” said Gayle Anderson, president and chief executive of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce. “It validates our focus on knowledge-based industries and the decision decades ago to develop an urban ...
Wexford Science & Technology Makes $150 Million Investment in Wake Forest ...PR Newswire (press release)
Wexford adds $150M to Wake Forest Innovation QuarterWRAL Tech Wire
Wexford increases ownership within Wake Forest Innovation QuarterThe Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area

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Winston-Salem kicks off centennial celebrations
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.- Celebrations began in Winston-Salem Thursday because May 9th, 1913 is the day state officials officially began recognizing the consolidated towns of Winston and Salem as Winston-Salem. A reception at city hall and historical ...
Winston-Salem State's Collins humbled by latest honorWinston-Salem Journal
Fire Breaks Out At Reynolda Manor Apartments in Winston-SalemWFMY News 2
The Centennial Anniversary Of Winston And Salem Becoming "Winston-Salem"WUNC
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Company orders recall of ice cream produced in Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem Journal
WINSTON-SALEM — A dairy company is voluntarily recalling ice cream produced in Winston-Salem and distributed to 10 states that don't identify possible allergens because the product is packed in the wrong containers. Dairy Fresh said Thursday it's ...
Dairy Fresh Produced In Winston-Salem Recalls Packs Of Ice CreamWFMY News 2
Allergy Concerns Prompt Ice Cream RecallAbccolumbia.com

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