Briana Scurry, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, National Soccer Hall of Famer, author, and podcaster, was the keynote speaker at this year’s Wake/WSSU MLK Day Celebration. Unbelievably, Scurry only once mentioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s name during her rather lengthy address at Wait Chapel. Instead of focusing … More
Wake Forest Baptist Church, the modest congregation, located on the campus of Wake Forest University had its last service on November 5, 2022, without much media attention.
Sure, the dwindling congregation with historic ties to Wake Forest was a small remnant of what it had once been decades ago. It was on the long path to dissolving… More
The W-S Journal’s Wesley Young estimated a hundred people crammed into HAWS’ tent at the former Brown Elementary School on a chilly Tuesday afternoon. HAWS’ modest-sized tent was packed with local politicians, non-profits, and developers. Outside the tent, a group of protesters demanded that public housing … More
–A recently filed election lawsuit means outgoing Commissioners Kaplan and El-Amin will stick around a while longer.
–Incentives: the Chamber of Commerce encouraged the Commissioners to give incentives to Krispy Kreme and Nelipack Healthcare Packaging.
–Forsyth Humane Society funding wasn’t on th… More
Thanksgiving is a time to spend with family. But with soaring rents and ridiculously high home prices causing housing precarity, life is not easy for working-class families this holiday season.
Like every other region of the country, the Triad has an affordable housing crisis. Winston has a deficit of at least 16,000 affordable hou… More
The W-S Journal’s Scott Sexton criticized the City’s utilization of Union Station recently (Union Station provides context at a cost-11/20/2022). But as usual, Sexton was far too easy on the City of Winston-Salem. Sexton asked, “for $11.1 million – and counting-was the renovation of a building that hou… More
Former Winston-Salem Councilmember and state representative Derwin Montgomery accepted a plea deal earlier this week. Montgomery pleaded guilty to “one count of program fraud in connection to allegations that he embezzled more than $26,000 from the Bethesda Center for the Homeless.” According to the W-S Journal&… More
In 2016, the City of Winston-Salem partnered with North Carolina A&T’s Landscape Architecture program. Seniors in the program (with the input of local residents) created various adaptive reuse plans for the Nissen Wagon Works complex. Undoubtedly, these plans would have been expensive to implement. But that is the co… More
The Arts Based School has been successfully operating in Downtown Winston for two decades, just behind Lloyd Presbyrtian, in what used to be the old Depot Street neighborhood. This year, they began operating a second school at the former Diggs Elementary in the historic Happy Hill neighborhood. Recently they requested that the Cit… More
The bridge on Oak Grove Church Road, just a few hundred yards from Glenn Hi Road, is closing. Winston’s Northern Beltway is slowly becoming a reality.
For a few years now, Kernersville Road and Oak Grove Church Road in the City’s southeast have been hollowed out by the NCDOT. Several homes and many small businesses have be… More
