Scott Sexton

1 day ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education, as is its wont, opened the public portion of its regular meeting Monday night with a word of prayer, an inspirational quote and a song performed by the R.J. Reynolds High School theater troupe. It was a fitting start to a meeting where embattled administrators were slated to unveil the 2025-26 budget request, and while doing so, ostensibly attempt to offer some clarity about a shifting budget deficit that’s drawn the attention of the state.

2 days ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

The youngest, a kid only to us as she’s 27, unconsciously rubbed the scar on her knee. Like her mother and her sister, she played Division I college basketball - Dartmouth College, class of ‘20, wicked smaht - and competed at a high level with AAU. And for whatever reason, she decided to tick off the names of former teammates who, like her, had torn an anterior cruciate ligament on the court.

3 days ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

The question, standard, trite and almost a punchline, has to be asked anytime someone hits the century mark when reaching a milestone birthday. What’s the secret? And so, when John Googe, one of the most influential community builders whose name you’ve almost certainly never heard, was asked just before a throng of well-wishers filed into the Barn at Reynolda Village, he took a few seconds to think before answering.

3 days ago | charlotteobserver.com | Scott Sexton

An aerial view of the Cleveland Avenue Homes on April 23, 2025, with some of the building razed and site work complete for future construction. In the foreground is Liberty Street with the Liberty Street Urban Farmers Market. Cleveland Avenue, the namesake of one of the oldest and most prominent of the city's public-housing complexes, was quiet on Thursday morning. Scott Sexton mug - webJournal columnist Scott SextonUtility workers had closed several blocks of the road.

6 days ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

Cleveland Avenue, the namesake of one of the oldest and most prominent of the city’s public-housing complexes, was quiet on Thursday morning. Utility workers had closed several blocks of the road. A flagger, largely unnecessary considering the paucity of traffic, stood in the shade checking his phone. Across the street, behind blocks of temporary fencing, lay tiers of cleared and graded land where some 125 units -- half of the Cleveland Avenue Homes stock -- are long gone.