High Point Council Switches to Night Meetings
High Point city councilors vote to hold committee and plenary sessions at night for three months starting September. Critics cite higher costs from heating, staffing, and overtime for department heads, lawyers, and clerks. Several members admit party convenience influenced the decision, with no clear public benefit outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest Cates
Enterprise
High Point
Roy Culler
Joe Aude
Bill Jewer
Culler
Council
Cy Brooks
Council Chamber
Archdale sets Sept 20 sewer bond election
Archdale officials officially set a Sept 20 special election for a sewer bond to fund a 7.9 million project with up to 4 million in grants. Voters in Ward 1 at Archdale Elementary, Ward 2 at City Hall, Ward 3 at Guil Rand Fire Station will choose. polls open 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Registration ends Aug 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Wrenn
Archdale
Archdale City
Archdale Elementary
City Hall
Guil Rand Fire Station
Performance Boat Sales Co
Dalton Fulcher
Fulcher
Dickey waives appeals in Hilton murder case
Albert Kenny Dickey 22 of Port Wentworth Ga waives all appeals on July 21 murder armed robbery and auto theft convictions in the Hilton case. He clears the way for extradition to North Carolina to face two more murder charges from the Feb 10 stabbing deaths of Myrtis Miller 66 and her granddaughter Crystal in Lexington NC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Albert Kenny Dickey
Port Wentworth
Michael Wayne Hilton
North Carolina
Dickey
Hilton
Garden City
George E. Oliver
Chatham County
Myrtis Miller
Crystal
Lexington
Randolph County seeks indictment in Spectrum robbery and White murder
Randolph County Sheriff says warrants drawn for Jack Harvey Davis and Mrs Gallimore in the Spectrum Furniture robbery case. Davis questioned in the Feb 25 Earl White murder at his Archdale area home. grand jury to consider indictment on Aug 22 if warrants not served. The state anti porn law challenge is filed in Charlotte federal court by John Newitt Jr representing Jolar Cinema and Winston-Salem Enterprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Wrenn
Ashebord
Thomasville
Central Prison
Randolph County
Spectrum Furniture
Cedar Square
Earl Reese
Pig) White
Archdale
Carl Moore
Jack Harvey Davis
Howard Stewart
Davis
White
Moore
Hattie Lyles
Dean Gallimore
State Bureau of Investigation
SBI
Mrs. Gallimore
Kenwood
Flint Hill
Teddy Carriker
Carriker
Stanly County
Sheriff Department
Stewarts
John Newitt Jr
Jolar Cinema of
Charlotte
Winston-Salem Enterprises
Greensboro
High Point
Pinehurst hosts High Point council members for ElectriCities meeting
Most High Point City Council members travel to Pinehurst for the ElectriCities annual meeting. Officials stay at the Pinehurst Hotel and Country Club to attend workshops and a business session with golf and banquets planned. The trip is funded from a $9,000 travel budget raised from the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Sunny Pinehurst
Pinehurst Hotel and Country Club
North Carolina
Arnold Koonce
Paul Fine
Work Progresses on Mini Main Elm Streets
Public Works Director Carl Wills says the project remains on schedule and should finish by mid September. Two more weeks needed for brick paving and installation of a prefab fence. Landscaping will start in a couple of weeks after Broad Street closure created the mall along Main to Elm beside the Southern Railway line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wills
Broad Street
Main
Elm
Southern Railway
Sonny Hedgecock
High Point
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Lloyd Taylor
Doris Dickerson
Don Petree
Sam Frazier
T.E. Ragan
Willie C. Peele
Fred Garrett
English Road
Ward Avenue
High Point Memorial Hospital
Lee Marshall Strange
Fourth Street
Seaburn Lee Jones
Meredith Drive
Jones
Ronald Lynn Payne
Willow Place
Thomas Sherwood Morrison
Hedgecock Road
William Lee Adams Jr
E. Fairfield Road
N. Main Street
Old Winston Road
Morrison
Lunch Evans
Dann Smith
Harvell Park
Chatham
Andrew J. Ryan
Earl White
Porn Law Challenged
Charlotte (Ap
Peter Gilchrist
Rufus Edmiston
Raymond Alexander Jr
State Senate
Edmisten
Newist
Arthur Schwartz
Denver
Assn
U.S
Pinehurst
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