Snow Forecast Replaced by Rain Across Area
Weather outlook shifts as Jim Hawkins reports rain likely in the coming days. Warmer air is expected to arrive from the south easing an earlier ice and snow event that left thousands without power across Raleigh Durham Mecklenburg County and nearby communities, with ice and wind damage evident.
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Jim Hawkins
Friendship
High Point
Durham
Mecklenbur County
Asheboro
Henderson
Roxboro
Oxford
Man Shot at East Green Laundromat
Police investigated a shooting early Saturday at the East Green laundromat where an unidentified man shot Benjamin Moore in the leg and fled. He received treatment at Memorial Hospital. The investigation is continuing.
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Toorne
East Green Laundromat
Benjamin Moore
Meee
Memorial Hospital
Travelers Rescued In Burke Snow Drift Mishap
North Carolina highway patrol and Burke County sheriff deputies rescued three carloads of travelers stranded by snow drifts on U S 181 near Morganton after winds piled snow at the hilltop. Responding crews shoveled cars free and cleared Jonas Ridge, as 6 to 12 inches had fallen since Christmas.
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Morganton
North’ ‘Carolina
Burke Sherhff
Tennessee
Charlotte
U. S
Einvile Falls
Caroling
Jonas Ridge
Four County Employment to Dip in Next Four Months
A Piedmont Triad forecast by the Employment Security Commission projects a net loss of 1,880 jobs over the next four months in Guilford Forsyth Randolph and Yadkin counties. The December survey shows 262,025 nonfarm wage and salary workers, up from 258,400 a year ago. The ESC notes a tight labor supply and ongoing mismatches while unemployment rises to 2.3 percent amid sector shifts in hosiery and tobacco industries.
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Piedmont Triad Standard
Santa A Ta Enterprises
Employment Security Commission
Guilford
Forsyth
Randolph
Yadkin
ESC
Sie Mai
Hosery
Tobacco Industries
Boos Esc
Tax Forms Ready To Go Into Mail
Guilford County tax workers prepared about 150000 envelopes with bright orange return forms and instruction sheets to mail tax listings to property owners. Residents must list real estate, improvements, vehicles, dogs, and farm implements as of Jan 1 1970, with personal property values or rent percentages. January deadlines apply with penalties for late returns and August tax payments planned after the Board sets the tax rate.
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Board of Commissioners
FTC probes Guilford MLM plans amid 150000 invested in past
Greensboro reports the FTC notified the Guilford County BBB of plans for a full-scale probe into multilevel marketing schemes. Marvin Sykes said several distributorship operations have been ordered to file reports, with two new schemes noted in the area and 30 to 40 similar groups nationwide. The FTC seeks to determine if earnings claims misrepresent profits and whether these practices are unfair. Past efforts drew about 150000 in investments locally, with warnings from multiple state and federal offices.
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Greensboro
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Better Business Bureaus
Guilford County
BBB
Marvin Sykes
Sykes
FIC
Guilford
National
North Carolina
Robert Morgar
Morgan
Koscot Kosmetics
Study proposed for area west of Guilford College
Guilford County Planning Director Pertti Virtanen outlined a broad study of land west of Guilford College between Friendly Avenue and the Greensboro High Point airport. The plan would map zoning links for industrial, commercial and residential growth, with apartment housing suggested as a transition and roads guiding traffic away from homes. The study area spans west from Friendway Road to the airport and between U S 421 north and Ballinger Road.
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Guilford County
Perttn
Virtenan
Board of County Commissioners
Friendly Avenue
Virtanen
Friendway Road
Guilford College
Greensboro-High Point
U.S. 421
Ballinger Road
County to Acquire Land for Henry Wise Center Site
Guilford County moves to assemble 2 acre site across from the Guilford County Juvenile Detention Home by purchasing 4.7 acres on Red Road near F40 and combining it with a half acre from Jesse Walters and portions of the Gor son and Gordon tracts. Architects are drafting building plans funded mainly by federal and state programs.
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Ralph Walker
Red Road
The
Jesse Walters
James Goron
Guilford County
Walker
Orton Boren
Nanalyn Boren
Gordon
Hasty Water system reaches 1000 subscriber target
THOMASVILLE The rural water project in Hasty, north of town, has signed 1,000 subscribers. Hasty Water Inc plans the system financed by a Farmers Home Administration loan. Residents may sign by Jan 5. Two 250,000 gallon storage tanks are planned with land options for a pumping station and tanks. A district map will be shown to contracting engineers on Jan 5.
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Thomasville
Hasty Community
Here
Hasty Water, Inc
Farmers Home Administration
Guilford Technician Program Set For High Point Area
Educational Associates Inc of Greensboro administers the Guilford Technician Program offering job placement and post training services for accepted trainees. Eligible applicants must have 10 years of sustained work history, unemployment, recent work gaps, limited vocational skills, and immediate subsistence need. Applications may be filed at Southside Opportunity Center or City offices on South Main. Julius L. Fritz, counselor, said training starts Jan 12 and will run 18 months with medical and dental exams provided.
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High’ Point
Greensboro
Winston- Salem
Educational Associates, “Inc
High Point
Southside Opportunity Center
S.main
Julius L. Fritz
Fritz
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Jim Stratford
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Guilford ‘County Tax Department
Brooks
Friendship Airport
Virtenen
Henry Wiseman Kendall
T. L. Hubbard
Water Association
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