WS Chronicle

Fears of an explosion forced local firefighters and thousands of residents to evacuate the area on Monday night, after a fire broke out at the Winston Weaver Company fertilizer plant located on Cherry Street. 

A few years ago, the United Way of Forsyth County unveiled their plan to help revitalize several neighborhoods in the eastern portion of the city with several community partners. Their initiative, “Place Matters,” has a goal to positively impact the community by attacking issues plaguing these selected areas, such as under/unemployment, education, housing and healthy living.

After three years waiting in limbo for approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to sell Crystal Towers, an 11-story public housing unit located on West Sixth Street, HAWS has announced that they will keep Crystal Towers and work with the City of Winston-Salem to make renovations. 

Last year, Target launched their HBCU Design Challenge which was a competition where students from Historically Black Colleges & Universities submitted designs for Target’s celebration of Black History Month. One of the challenge winners was Winston-Salem’s own Trajan Baker, who is an architecture student at Hampton University and a graduate of Atkins High School.