Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools’ (WS/FCS) policy committee has agreed to a partnership with the North Carolina judicial branch’s Administrative Office of the Courts, to launch the Forsyth County School-Justice Partnership, an initiative that will provide alternative responses to misbehavior and reduce law enforcement involvement in minor school infractions.
Last month Winston-Salem lost a legend, Jerry Gilmore III. The longtime owner and operator of Gilmore Memorial Service died on Aug. 27.
Lakesha Holiday, owner of JBL Cleaning and Organizing Solutions, recently quit her job to explore the advantages that entrepreneurship has to offer. It initially started off as just a side hustle for Holiday, but as the weeks progressed, she soon realized that the only way that her business could reach its full potential was for her to leave her permanent job.
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Winston-Salem is known as the City of Arts and Innovations for its vibrant visual and performing arts communities. But what happens when art is censored by an entity established to further the creation and enjoyment of art? Nick Schmidt found out first hand when he had his mural removed from a downtown park.
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I recently celebrated my sixth year as a reporter with The Chronicle and that led me to start thinking about some of the great athletes that have come through the county and how Forsyth stacks up against some of the other larger counties in the state; namely, Guilford, Wake, Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Cumberland counties.
Earlier this month, Dr. Dennis W. Bishop was recognized as a Pastor of Excellence during the 2021 Rhythm of Gospel Awards in Memphis, Tennessee, which was hosted by the National & Independent Gospel Music Association (N.I.G.M.A.).
“Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre,” a children’s picture book by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by the late Floyd Cooper, has won a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor, been named a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and been longlisted for the National Book Award. Weatherford calls ”Unspeakable” a lamentation for victims and survivors of the 1921 massacre, the worst incident of racial violence in U.S. history.
The Forsyth County Department of Public Health will be giving COVID vaccinations with cash cards this weekend at the health department and at Kernersville’s Spring Folly, Sin Frontereas Health Fair, and at Hanes Memorial CME’s Back to School Event.
