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Water conservation encouraged in Danbury
DANBURY — Water conservation is being encouraged in Danbury due to ongoing concerns with the well stations having to pump long hours. “The Danbury Water Fund and Stokes County Public Works is asking all customers to begin voluntarily reducing water use starting Oct. 30,” a release shared with The Stokes News Wednesday explained. “This request is being made to encourage water conservation and help protect our community’s water supply. This voluntary reduction request is due in part to the prolonged drought and on-going usage of water associated with the water main replacement project.” “They’re just not producing at the rate that we need them to produce right now because of the prolonged drought and because of the maintenance and repair that we’ve had to do to the system over the last year since we’ve been working on it,” said Bryan Miller, Assistant Manager for Stokes County. From time to time the contractors, they’ll bust a pipe, break a pipe, we’ll have blowouts because of the extra pressure put on the pipes. We just lost a lot of water throughout that process and you couple that with the drought and our wells are just having a hard time keeping up.” Their
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Greensboro cemetery under investigation after commission finds no license
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WXII) - A criminal investigation is underway into Piedmont Memorial Park Cemetery on McConnell Road in Greensboro. The cemetery is not in compliance with the North Carolina Cemetery Act, according to the Guilford County Sheriff's Office. The cemetery owners, National Vault Services, failed to respond by the October...
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Greensboro woman preparing for New York City Marathon
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A Greensboro woman is preparing for a big challenge this Sunday, running the New York City marathon, but for her, this 26.2-mile race has a deeper meaning. The 26.2 miles is what stands between Kari Danforth, 48, and the finish line of the New York City marathon. But for this Greensboro […]
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Greensboro Historic Preservation Commission releases conditions of Dunleath housing plan approval
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The City of Greensboro Historic Preservation Commission released the conditions that must be met for the approval of the Dunleath housing plan application to continue to move forward. The proposed housing development in Greensboro’s historic Dunleath neighborhood was presented to the city’s Historic Preservation Commission at the Wednesday public hearing […]
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Burlington early learning center distributes more than 155 winter coats
The Lifespan Early Learning Center in Burlington received a grant from Operation Warm to provide more than 155 new winter coats to children ages infant through 5 years old enrolled at its centers. The center held an event Thursday, Oct. 29, to celebrate the donation, with North Carolina Rep. Carla...
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Mebane council rejects rezoning proposal to substitute 120 apts. for 51 townhouses
Mebane’s city council was not impressed with a developer’s plans to change the city’s zoning for a 14-acre lot to allow 120 apartments along South Eleventh Street on the Orange County side of the city in lieu of 51 townhouses that had been approved five years ago.