E-Business guide in great demand in the United States and abroad
Small business owners and business development professionals have given high marks to the "Online Business Guidebook," produced by Pamplin College of Business and other students at Virginia Tech.
Big Build kicks off construction of an affordable green home for Pulaski family
The Big Build will kick off construction of a house on March 1 on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, and six weeks from now a family in nearby Pulaski will have a brand new, environmentally friendly home.
CommunityArtsWork's second annual fall exhibition is themed Whispering Muses: Inspired by Women Artists, aligning with the statewide tribute promoted by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Minds Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts.
E-Business guide in great demand in the United States and abroad
Small business owners and business development professionals have given high marks to the "Online Business Guidebook," produced by Pamplin College of Business and other students at Virginia Tech.
The Virginia Recreational Sports Department recently received recognition as a National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Creative Excellence Award recipient.
The Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committee met last Sunday to announce their budget amendments to the "caboose bill" for the fiscal year ending June 2010 and the Introduced Budget Bill for the 2010-2012 biennium.
Big Build kicks off construction of an affordable green home for Pulaski family
The Big Build will kick off construction of a house on March 1 on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, and six weeks from now a family in nearby Pulaski will have a brand new, environmentally friendly home.
Virginia Tech international music festival to feature opera, chamber music
The mountains of Blacksburg will come alive with music this summer as luminaries from the opera and chamber music worlds gather to coach and mentor a new generation of superstar performers. The two-week festival -- Viva Virginia -- starts June 21 and includes concerts, lectures, and master classes open to the public.
Snow is once again in the forecast, this time for Tuesday.
The precipitation will likely begin in Greensboro as rain between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Raleigh. There is then a chance of snow through midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
GREENSBORO — Police are looking for two men who assaulted and robbed a local man early Sunday.
Greensboro police said 42-year-old Alan Dale Giddings was walking near the intersection of Florida Street and Coliseum Boulevard shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday when he was assaulted by two men. The men took his wallet and an undisclosed amount of cash.
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina officials will examine thousands of old cases that included evidence from a forensics lab to determine whether any evidence may have been withheld from defendants, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Javier Chavarria, 43, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of assault by strangulation and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
Police say officers went to 3804 Overland Heights on Feb. 6 about a domestic dispute. A woman said she and her husband — Chavarria — had gotten into an argument.
The Good Stuff: Neighbors and sister take over mowing
I sustained a back injury several years ago. From time to time, the pain worsens to the point that it becomes difficult to do the most mundane of tasks.
The Inside Scoop: County to move for dismissal of hotel suit
Guilford County Attorney Mark Payne met in closed session with the county commissioners at their Feb. 18 meeting. The topic: the lawsuit brought by hoteliers Dennis Quaintance and Mike Weaver over a proposed downtown luxury hotel, the special federal bond financing it wants and the city’s and county’s roles in moving the project forward.
GREENSBORO — A lawsuit between seven hydroelectric plants and the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority could help clarify North Carolina law for generations to come.
Elon University planning to restore 1840s-era school
The ruins of the school stand in a grove in eastern Alamance County. Woodpeckers have pecked holes in the walls, and time and vandals have caused other damage. Still, the building can be saved — and restoration is the intention of nearby Elon University.
In a month dedicated to black history, sometimes the most riveting stories come from people with names less familiar than Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr. And many of them are connected to the Triad.
REIDSVILLE — The real Annie Penn did not live to see her 80th birthday, but the institution that bears her name will hit the big eight-oh this spring and is still a long, long way from retirement.
It lies at the confluence of two rivers, its name starts with the letter “M” and ends with the letter “N,” and that’s pretty much where the similarities between Manhattan and Madison end. But a downtown apartment in the Rockingham County town is the closest Dwight Gann expects to get to living in the Big Apple.
Dare County backs away from once-coveted Coast Guard land
A former Coast Guard housing complex on the Outer Banks of North Carolina is without a buyer after county officials decided they don't want the maintenance headaches.
Mother charged with murder after house fire kills toddlers
Authorities in North Carolina say two toddlers left without adult supervision have died in a house fire, and their mother has been charged with murder.
It sounded like a great idea three months ago: Hand homeowners a $6,500 tax credit to find a new place to live, giving a thrust of energy to the housing market's recovery.
Chile Has Big Tasks: Rescuers try to find survivors; military turned loose to stop looters
Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile's shattered streets yesterday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting. The death toll climbed to 708 in one of the biggest earthquakes in centuries.
More than 2,000 U.S. Marines and about 1,000 Afghan troops who stormed the Taliban town of Marjah as part of a major NATO offensive against a resurgent Taliban will stay for the next several months to help ensure insurgents don't return, Marine commanders said yesterday.
Vickie Blackburn looked out the bus window at the hordes of street vendors as she and a group of Charlotte relief workers drove out of Haiti. She reflected on her nearly two-week stint treating earthquake victims at Sacre Coeur Hospital in Milot.
At Virginia Tech, where tailgating and raucous apartment-complex parties are time-honored rituals, university officials are turning increasingly to Mom and Dad to curb problem underage drinking.
North Carolina officials will examine thousands of old cases that included evidence from a forensics lab to determine whether any evidence may have been withheld from defendants.
William E. Gordon, an electrical engineer who conceived, designed, built and operated the world's largest radio telescope, which has been described as Earth's ear to outer space, died Feb. 16 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 92.
When Rosemarie Wilson moved her family to a wealthy suburb of Raleigh a couple of years ago, the biggest attraction was the prestige of the local public schools. Then she started talking to neighbors.
In the rolling Piedmont hills of North Carolina, potters were turning out fine work before the American Revolution. But by the 20th century, the tradition had faltered. Two passionate women, a half-century apart, saved it.
House Holds: Move lightens burden - for now, anyway
Although I've been married for 1½ years, it's only just now that we've moved all of His Dogness' stuff and my stuff into the house that we share with Garnet, Sparkle Girl, Doobins and Poos Maloos the cat.
