By: Terry Rader On any given Friday night, you can find a group of fiber folks gathering around an open table at Gate City Yarns, located at 231 S. Elm St. from 6 to 9 p.m. This growing ...
*Editor’s note: After this article’s publication, there was another bodycam video added to the City of Greensboro’s website, making a total of 20 individual bodycam videos. This online version has been updated. A 23-year-old Justice Department bulletin warns ...
By: Terry Rader In 1987, when Bill Mangum befriended Mike Saavedra, who was homeless at the time, he bought him breakfast, listened to his story and took him to the Greensboro Urban Ministry (GUM) shelter. Mangum gave Saavedra his card ...
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By: Terry Rader Talking with Mary Lacklen, co-founder of the Community Tables Thanksgiving Day Feast, she shared with me that she had done this event for half of her life. I remember the first one in 1986 held at The ...
*Editor’s note: The following statement was published on WHOA’s Facebook page around 4 p.m. “We strongly support the Homeless Union of Greensboro but we would like to make clear we are not directly affiliated with them. HUG was not ...
“Greensboro’s upper class and the politicians they own want to brush homeless people underneath the rug,” said Earl Clodfelter as he prepped the gas grill he and his wife Kriste fire up in Center City Park every weekend. Kriste ...
When Marine Corps veteran Grady Riddle returned from the war-torn Middle East in 2006, he never dreamed the fight of his life would take place years later on American soil. Well, that may or may not be entirely ...
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By: Omar Obregon-Cuebas On April 24, the Greensboro City Council repealed the ordinance requiring a license for panhandlers. The City Council responded to the decisions of federal courts expanding the free speech doctrine and therefore affecting panhandling laws. The ...
By: Jessica Clifford Eight of nine city council members agreed to make poverty the top-ranking priority for Greensboro in 2018 during a recent retreat. On Feb. 7, the day before the retreat, an opinion editorial from the Greensboro News & Record and ...
By: Jessica Clifford Sometimes we do not realize our passion until we are later on in life. For public and commission artist, Gina Franco, that is exactly what happened. Franco, the artist who just painted a mural last weekend on one of ...
