Scott Sexton

1 week ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

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1 week ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

Old-fashioned letters, not phone calls nor text messages, continue bearing bad news for students, parents, teachers and administrators at Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. Taxpayers, too -- at least those not numbed to the seemingly bottomless pit of bad news leaching out of Central Office these days -- since it's entirely possible that they’ll be the ones ultimately stroking checks for bailouts.

1 week ago | greensboro.com | Scott Sexton

Jason "Jake" Swaim knew what he was signing up for and, deep down, what his decision to enlist in the Marines could mean. He did it anyway. 9/11 had happened a few weeks before, so Swaim, even as a 17-year-old, realized the nation would soon be at war. His family had a long military tradition. His father had been a Marine and his grandfather served in the Navy.

1 week ago | greensboro.com | Scott Sexton

KERNERSVILLE - A car crash may have led to a large fire Saturday night that destroyed a 125-year-old historic building originally known as the Harmon and Reid Mill, said state Sen. Dana Caudill Jones, whose family electric business occupied the structure. "The information we have is that the (driver) hit a transformer and caused more of an explosion to our building," Caudill Jones said Sunday morning. "We're certainly devastated but are extremely grateful that no one was in the building.

2 weeks ago | journalnow.com | Scott Sexton

It’s a strange sight smack in the middle of a strollway headed toward the Natural Bridge spanning Salem Parkway, near the East-West Expressway, through downtown. From a short distance, black letters surrounded temporary fencing made it appear as if vandals had struck again by tagging public property. Closer inspection, however, revealed the lettering for what it really is: a work of art, a poem in this case, commissioned (and paid for) by the city’s Public Art Commission.