The North Carolina Railroad Co. announced it is buying the Southern Railway Passenger Depot, built in 1899, to preserve and redevelop the site in downtown Greensboro. Read the story here.
Fritz Klenner and his first-cousin and lover Susie Lynch took their lives in an explosion. Lynch's young sons were poisoned and shot; five other family members were killed.
For Memorial Day, we honor those who gave their lives while serving their country. Here's a look at the number of North Carolina residents who died during major conflicts from World War I to present day.
On April 15, 2018, a tornado tore through east Greensboro. The storm was responsible for the death of a father and damage to more than 1,000 homes and buildings — including three elementary schools — as it traveled across East Market Street and East Wendover Avenue to the Reedy Fork area and…
Joel is the only Medal of Honor winner in the history of Winston-Salem.
They served as spies and pilots, educators and politicians. Many were the first in that role in North Carolina, and sometimes beyond.
In honor of Presidents Day, we take a look at some of the visits that presidents — and future presidents — have made to Guilford County over the years.
"While it is hard to say for certain, I do believe it is Benjamin Harrison's signature," said Jennifer Capps, vice president of curatorship and exhibition at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site in Indianapolis, Indiana, the city where Harrison died in 1901.
The fire in the early morning hours of Feb. 15 left so many unanswered questions of what might have been for young people on the cusp of their lives who had been inside apartment 904-K and didn't survive.
From the Underground Railroad to John Coltrane's house to Union Cemetery, check out these sites of historical significance to explore in Guilford County.
A few of the seminal moments and notable people who helped weave the area’s social fabric.
While new memories are being made at the Women’s and Children’s Center at Moses Cone Hospital, which opened in February 2020 and replaced Women’s Hospital, there’s a certain nostalgia with the loss of the old hospital, which welcomed more than 150,000 children into the world.
The former Women's Hospital, which closed in 2020 but was reopened during the early part of the pandemic to treat COVID-19 patients for awhile, is being torn down. Here's a look at the hospital through the years.
We'll publish your memories and photos of the iconic venue online and in a future print edition. Limit your responses to 250 words or less and submit them by Tuesday, Dec. 14. Please include your name and city or town of residence. Send responses to submissions@greensboro.com (include Green's Supper Club in the subject line). You can upload your photos https://greensboro.com/photosubmissions.
Green's Supper Club remained open long after other area supper clubs such as the Plantation and Tropicana vanished. It recently was demolished to make way for improvements to the U.S. 29/Reedy Fork Parkway interchange.
The date that lives in infamy: December 7, 1941. It was the brilliant, surprise attack by naval air forces of the Empire of Japan on the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet and military installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The tragic event brought the United States into World War II. Ultimately, the…
President Barack Obama put the Triad in a national spotlight eleven years ago when he visited Forsyth Tech to tour two biotech labs and later delivered a speech from the west campus.
A look back at the News & Record's coverage of one of Guilford County’s deadliest shooting sprees, one that rocked the close-knit Pleasant Garden community in 2011.
Fire destroyed the school on Nov. 1, 2006.
More than 1,000 students had to be relocated because of the blaze that broke out on Nov. 1, 2006.
This story was first published online on Nov. 1, 2006, after a fire destroyed Eastern Guilford High School in McLeansville.
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WINSTON-SALEM — Supporters of the Happy Hill Cemetery say they are pushing ahead with their efforts to maintain the nearly century-old site.
The Greensboro Senior High class of 1951 held its 70th and final class reunion on Friday. Seventeen of the more than 100 that remain of the class gathered at the Royce Reynolds building one last time. As the years have gone on many of them have continued to stay in touch, but as they have go…
Kernersville dedicated a 9/11 memorial on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, during a service to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Greensboro-based D.H. Griffin donated a section of a steel beam from the South Tower of the World Trade Center to the town of Kernersville for disp…
In early September 2005, the News & Record reported on the efforts of volunteers organized by N.C. Baptist Men to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. As the the organization again responds victims of Hurricane Ida in the same region, we're republishing this series to give readers a look at…
This article was first published on Sept. 2, 2005. It is being republished now, as it originally appeared, while volunteers again head to the Gulf Coast to help out victims of Hurricane Ida. Go to www.redcross.org to see how you can help.
Was it the biggest upset in college football history? That's still being debated. But App State's win in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Sept. 1, 2007 remains a favorite fan memory.
Thirty-four years ago today, Ronald Reagan became the first sitting president to visit western Nebraska since Harry Truman rode through on a train in 1950.
With progress made, Greensboro gets grant to take next step in African American architecture project
The $40,000 grant will allow the city to hire an architectural historian who will document sites of significance to the civil rights movement in the Benbow Park neighborhood. The city will also continue to conduct oral history interviews to illustrate the neighborhood's history.