Derwin Montgomery, a 21-year-old Winston-Salem State University senior, defeated Democratic incumbent Joycelyn Johnson for the East Ward seat on the Winston-Salem City Council during the Democratic primary on Sept. 15. Montgomery garnered 530 votes or 57 percent of the votes cast in the East Ward.

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The High Point International Home Furnishings Market has been going strong since its inception in 1902, when 10 local industrialists kicked in $1,000 each to get the thing off the ground. The market solidified in 1909 and boomed in the years before and after World War II, and now most of downtown High Point is devoted to the biannual event.

We have a moral obligation to all of those in this country, whether they are legal citizens or not, to treat life-threatening injuries.But if an illegal immigrant is in a hospital receiving care that is paid for by a government program like Medicaid, that person should be stabilized and returned to their country of origin .

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Montgomery, a 21-year-old Winston-Salem State University senior, said he will stand up for his East Ward constituents by advocating for jobs and increased economic development in an area long neglected by city leaders.

This is personal. I grew up in Garden City, NY, the kind of suburban Long Island town that sent most of its sons (and more than a few of its daughters) to the man-made canyons of Lower Manhattan, where they became brokers, bankers, traders and general wheeler-dealers.

A touchstone of my childhood, I can remember carrying my metal Thermos brand lunch box with Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids to Grove Park Elementary every single day. The contents: one peanut butter and jelly sandwich; one bag of Fritos or Wise potato chips and Kool Aid in the Fat Albert thermos jug.

As I check job websites daily and look in every newspaper classified I can get my hands on, I realize that a good job today is like finding a needle in a haystack.