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Cheap Rents Are Needed For Artists And Workers To Thrive

Arts Scene, Housing, Winston-Salem / By C.P. Tew

Saturday night at the Garage, the Vagabond Saints’ Society played two hours worth of the Velvet Underground’s greatest hits. As usual, the Vagabond Saints’ Society put on a great show, which will surely be memorialized in the Garage’s hallway of posters.

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Bookmarks Opens A First-Rate Bookstore In Downtown Winston

Arts Scene, Downtown Developments / By C.P. Tew

Bookmarks opened its new bookstore earlier today. It was exciting to see folks on Fourth Street lined up to get books instead of methadone. No offense to anyone taking methadone, we all need something. One thing Winston has needed for years is a first-rate bookstore.

Galleries are great, but every decent downtown has a quality bookst… More

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A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad resistance group took effect before midnight Sunday, ending a deadly Israeli assault on Gaza

Children bear brunt of Israel's savagery in Gaza

Israel’s three-day killing spree comes to a halt Sunday night.

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Sad. I hate to see law enforcement take a life, even if it was a criminal on the run. Justice should be served in a court of law, not on the streets.

Sheriff: Suspect dead, officer injured in shooting at gas station in Clemmons. Fiancee says man was shot as he was running away from officers.

The man shot dead on the parking lot of the Speedway convenience store on Lewisville-Clemmons Road was identified ...

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@WinstonWatchman @TriadAbolition @HJNWinstonSalem Hate Out is asking the country for improvements with mental health services but on yesterday got told that the "High Lord Sheriff is doing a great job." Sigh.

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Pelosi's trip to Taiwan was a huge miscalculation. The speculation about where her plane would land, if she would actually go through with her visit to Taiwan reminded me of OJ's infamous white Bronco running away from the cops.

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Let's see what strategies they come up with. More cops, more patrols is not a strategy.

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.@CityofWS' Update Meeting on Strategies To Address Gun Violence
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.@CityofWS' Update Meeting on Strategies To Address Gun Violence
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The Journal reports that Norman Stockton is reopening, this time at Reynolda Village. The family's first store was on Cherry Street, near the bus station. Years later they relocated to Thruway, then Stratford Road. 1/2

Clothier Comeback: After five-year ‘vacation,’ men’s store revives 113-year heritage

WINSTON-SALEM – Since the early 20th Century, Norman Stockton has been dressing local men from the bank floor to the golf course.

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