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• TCB’s last issue: Staff reflections

  20-02-2025 11:31 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Eric Ginsburg, Brian Clarey and Jordan Green. (photo by Carolyn de Berry)While newspapers wouldn’t exist without its readers, the same could be said about its writers. Without the ones to find the stories, pitch them, craft them, ask the questions and then put pen to paper, we wouldn’t have a product to put on the stands each week.Over the past 11 years, Triad City Beat has had the wonderful opportunity to be a home for writers to hone their craft and jumpstart their
  
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• TCB’s reporters to start new jobs at statewide news outlet

  10-03-2025 21:19 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Hi everyone!It’s been a little while. We’re back to send you the promised update about where you will be able to find local reporting. We miss you lots but promise to keep up the rigorous reporting that TCB was known for. It might look a little different but the passion is still there!Thanks for reading, Sayaka.Later this month, TCB‘s Managing Editor Sayaka Matsuoka and City Beat Reporter Gale Melcher will both be starting new jobs as Greensboro reporters for The Asse
  
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• GALLERY: Shots from TCB’s Last Anniversary Party

  01-03-2025 18:36 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Thank you so much to everyone who came out to support Triad City Beat at its last anniversary party on Feb. 28. The back room of Scuppernong Books was filled to the brim for most of the night with former staffers, readers and longtime supporters of the little paper that could.We felt that the event was more of a celebration of life than a funeral and that was thanks to everyone who came by. We can’t thank you enough.Photos and videos by Brandon Demery.
  
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• At Revity Federal Credit Union, financial freedom for all

  27-02-2025 00:36 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  It’s like a scene out of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life.“Your direct deposit helps fund your neighbor’s car loan,” explains Amie Wheeler, Revity Federal Credit Union’s chief operations officer. “When somebody has their direct deposit with the credit union, it’s helping someone get their first car or repair their first house. The money our members deposit is how we lend.”The local credit union has deep ties to the city. Originally k
  
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• TCB’s last issue: Reader reflections

  20-02-2025 10:55 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Audience members listen during the Greensboro reverse town hall on Oct. 7. (photo by Carolyn de Berry)A newspaper is nothing without its readers. Without them, we’re just writing and publishing stories for the void. For our last issue, we put a call out to our supporters to contribute their own thoughts about Triad City Beat and share the ways that this paper impacted them.
  Thanks to everyone who took the time to write in and share what TCB meant to you.It’s been an a
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: The last one, but not the end

  20-02-2025 10:48 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A Triad City Beat newspaper box off of Walker Avenue in Greensboro taken by Carolyn de Berry during the COVID-19 pandemic. (photo by Carolyn de Berry)When I first started working at Triad City Beat back in late 2014, I had no idea what journalism was or what it entailed. I could never have anticipated the heartbreaks, the joys, the never-ending river of stories that come from the job.I was a freshly graduated college kid looking for the next thing to do when I found an ad for edi
  
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• Crystal Towers residents are living in a deteriorating building. On Monday, they begged Winston-Salem city leaders for help.

  19-02-2025 23:12 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Crystal Towers resident Samuel Grier stands in front of the building (photo by Jerry Cooper)Gwendolyn Hay, 80, has lived in Crystal Towers for 18 years. The low-income housing building owned and managed by the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem has deteriorated over the last several years, with residents raising concerns over broken elevators, leaking laundry machines and pests. The 11-story building is home to more than 200 elderly and disabled residents. With both elevators bre
  
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• As ICE policy shifts, NC health care workers face uncertainty

  12-02-2025 22:12 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This story was first published by Anne Blythe, North Carolina Health News
  February 12, 2025As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary.Within hours of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security acting secretary issued a directive overturning Biden administration guidelines that established “protected areas” suc
  
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• After more than four years, civil suit for Fred Cox Jr. ends with settlement

  12-02-2025 19:39 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Tenicka Smith and her son Fred Cox Jr. (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)On Feb. 3, a yearslong battle in the courts came to an end. But for Tenicka Smith, the result was more bitter than sweet.“I feel like I failed my child,” Smith shared with TCB this week.Smith is the mother of Fred Cox Jr. who was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy in 2020. Cox, who was 18 years old, was running to shield others who were caught in a drive-by shooting outside of a church
  
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• Properties in Forsyth County have been reappraised: Find out what that means for your home or business.

  12-02-2025 10:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Every eight years, per state law, properties must be reappraised.As time passes and the market changes, property values can get further and further away from their true value.That’s why Forsyth County reappraises property every four years, Forsyth County’s tax assessor and collector John Burgiss explained at a Winston-Salem city council meeting on Feb. 3. The last assessment was held in 2021. At the beginning of this month, appraisals were mailed or electronically delivered to r
  
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• Rev. Nelson Johnson, Civil Rights leader and Greensboro Massacre survivor, dies at 81

  11-02-2025 16:42 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Renowned Greensboro civil rights activist Rev. Nelson Johnson speaks at the Revival Reimagined event in 2024. (photo by Brandon Demery)Troy, Alabama had John Lewis. The Triangle has William Barber II. And Greensboro had Nelson Johnson.Nelson Johnson (courtesy of Beloved Community Center)
  On Monday afternoon, news spread of the passing of Greensboro’s Civil Rights icon, who was the co-founder of the Beloved Community Center, Faith Community Church, and a survivor of the 1979
  
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• On Saturday, Cirque de la Symphonie and the Winston-Salem Symphony will fuse movement, music and magic

  06-02-2025 21:13 via triad-city-beat.com
  Aerialists with Cirque de la Symphonie fly high. (Photograph by James Farley)The symphony is performing this weekend, but rather than staying quiet, the performers are encouraging the audience to “get loud.”“When you have certain performers on stage, you just can’t help it,” says Alexander Streltsov, the creator and producer of the upcoming show of Cirque de la Symphonie. The company, which has put on performances in North Carolina in the past, will host a one-night
  
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• ‘Hot Mess Express’ transforms lives — one Swiffer at a time

  06-02-2025 11:13 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: The women of Hot Mess Express take time out of their weekends to clean strangers’ homes, for free. Since the organization started in 2021, Hot Mess Express has grown to more than 100 affiliates across the country. (photo by Carolyn de Berry)This story was co-published with the Assembly. Learn more at theassemblync.com.When Katie Hill first moved her family from Georgia to Winston-Salem in 2019, she didn’t bring much with her—some clothes, kids’ toys, the b
  
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• In ‘Becoming More,’ a trans musician tells their story, inspires others in upcoming one-night only show

  06-02-2025 10:45 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Lyn Koonce and Stephen Emberley collaborated to create ‘Becoming More,’ a musical show based on Emberley’s experience as a transgender person. (photo by Lynn Donovan)As a child, Stephen A. N. Emberley lived a sheltered life. They grew up in New England as part of a fundamentalist non-denominational Christian household. Their grandfather was the elder for the church their family attended while their dad also served as the school’s Sunday teacher. Multi
  
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• Winston-Salem’s new homeownership project allows the city to sell vacant lots sold for $1 to build affordable housing

  05-02-2025 19:26 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photograph: Some of the Equitable Homeownership Project’s “mission-driven housing.” (Photograph by Gale Melcher)The city of Winston-Salem owns a lot of empty lots. And in order to get that vacant land into the hands of developers interested in building affordable housing, they’re selling parcels for $1 apiece.In late January, Winston-Salem plunged into 23 degree weather.Huddling in the biting cold on the morning of Jan. 23, city staff, contractors and clergy
  
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• We need your help! Leave a note in Triad City Beat’s last issue!

  05-02-2025 17:01 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  As publicized, Triad City Beat will be publishing two final issues on Feb. 6 and Feb. 20.After that, the publication will cease to publish new stories in print or online.For our final issue, we are looking back on the last 11 years of the little-paper-that-could and we need your help!We want this last issue to be fun, joyful and a commemoration of the ways in which Triad City Beat touched the lives of our local communities. We’re talking to former staffers and we’d like to include yo
  
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• Hundreds gather in Greensboro, shut down part of boulevard on Sunday to protest President Trump, ICE deportations

  03-02-2025 17:59 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A protest started by two sisters blew up into a celebratory block party on Feb. 2 that took over parts of Gate City Boulevard in Greensboro. (photo by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton)To watch Triad City Beat’s video documenting the protest, go here.It started with a simple flyer.Sisters Jessica and Nancy Villafane were enraged at the rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration regarding immigrants — particularly ones that looked like their parents who first came to the US fro
  
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• Jamilla Pinder chosen to fill GSO at-large city council seat, looks forward to ‘building relationships deeply’

  01-02-2025 00:42 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Jamilla Pinder, Greensboro’s new at-large city councilmember (Photo courtesy of the city of Greensboro)In a 7-1 vote on Friday afternoon, Jamilla Pinder was selected as Greensboro’s new at-large city councilmember. Pinder, who grew up in Greensboro, is the director of community engagement and impact for the Cone Health Foundation and will fill the seat formerly held by Yvonne Johnson who passed away in December.Pinder has served on a number of local boards includ
  
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• Triad City Beat to close at the end of February, will celebrate with goodbye party

  31-01-2025 19:02 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Hi everyone. Thanks so much for your generous support of Triad City Beat these last few weeks. The outpouring of love has been so touching to see and reaffirms why and how this little paper has been able to keep going throughout the last decade.Your contributions made it possible for us to continue into the first two months of 2025, ensuring our staffers got paid and allowing for the newsroom to focus on what comes next for Triad City Beat. We truly appreciate your support.  It is
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Hey NC voters, Jefferson Griffin may be trying to nullify your vote

  31-01-2025 00:34 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  It’s so insane, it might as well be a whole season in a political drama. But it’s actually just state politics.In the aftermath of the Nov. 5 election last year, a Republican NC Supreme CourtJustice candidate has been actively trying to flip the seat, going as far as trying to throw out more than 60,000 votes in the process.We’re talking here about Jefferson Griffin, a current NC Court of Appeals judge, who narrowly lost in the election to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs. Th
  
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• GSO City Council hears from 19 applicants for the open at-large seat. They’re set to make their final decision on Friday. 

  30-01-2025 22:27 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  On Tuesday, Jan. 28, a packed city hall celebrated 19 candidates for the open at-large city council seat. (Photo by Gale Melcher)Tuesday night in Greensboro’s city hall was a passionate one, as city leaders met each of the 19 residents vying to fill the seat of the late at-large councilmember Mayor Pro Tempore Yvonne Johnson.That number is what remains of the original 45 applicants, many of whom either withdrew from the process or were ineligible for the office because they lived outside c
  
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• ‘Still ascending’: New mural tells history of Black mill workers in GSO, memorializes the East White Oak Community Center

  30-01-2025 18:54 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Artist Chuck Johnson recently painted this East White Oak Community Mural at Revolution Ballfield (photo by Chuck Johnson)When Cathy Gant Hill was a child, just nine or ten years old, she remembers riding in the car with her father down Tucker Street in Greensboro and seeing the rushing highway through the leaves of the trees.“We would call him Big Daddy, and so I would say, ‘Big Daddy, what’s over there?’” Hill recalls asking. “And he would sa
  
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• GALLERY: Dozens march in Greensboro to protest Trump presidency

  28-01-2025 16:52 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  On Jan. 25, dozens gathered in downtown Greensboro to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump.
  On Saturday afternoon, activists with Veterans for Peace, Movement of Humanity, NC Triad Communists and more marched down Elm Street to protest the incoming administration’s “policies of hate and greed,” according to one protester.
  While calling out attention to Trump’s policies, the protesters also continued to call for a ceasefire and end to the genocide in Gaza, which has be
  
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• A Republican-led group is running ads in NC opposing the GOP attempt to throw out ballots

  27-01-2025 20:31 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This story was first published by Lynn Bonner, NC Newsline
  January 24, 2025The Republican-led group RightCount Action is running an ad in major television markets opposing GOP Judge Jefferson Griffin’s attempts to discard votes in his race. The ad features Moore County voter James Danz, a registered Republican who says that he voted for President Donald Trump and Griffin. “I voted Republican my whole life,” he says in the ad. “Now politicians are trying to cance
  
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• Forty-five people applied to fill the at-large seat on Greensboro City Council. Here’s the final list of those vying for the seat.

  24-01-2025 21:54 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.In December, Greensboro’s Mayor Pro Tempore and at-large city councilmember Yvonne Johnson died at the age of 82 after many years at the dais. Now, the council must select who will fill her seat as the at-large councilmember. The city started receiving applications on Jan. 2, and the application portal closed on Jan. 17. According to a public records request made by Triad City Beat, 45 people have applied for the job. One perso
  
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• Reaching new heights: Ruckus looks to fill the gap in Greensboro’s rock-climbing community

  23-01-2025 10:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: “It’s just a great sport, great physical activity, great community,” says Ruckus Climbing Gym owner John Kilburn about rock climbing. He likens the sport’s rise in popularity to how CrossFit was a decade ago. (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)A “euphoric high.” That’s how John Kilburn describes the feeling of getting to the top of a rock-climbing course.The 49-year-old sits on a comfortable couch wearing a rainbow-colored hat on a recent afternoo
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Just start small

  22-01-2025 17:55 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  I know we’re all exhausted. I know we’re all tired. I know we’re all overwhelmed. There’s a lot going on in the world, and it can be debilitating.But as I sat in Scuppernong Books on Monday, Jan. 20, I was filled with hope and wonder at the number of people who attended the store’s resistance event. About 10 organizations — including Triad City Beat — had set up their tables to show the community what they are doing to create centers of care. So if
  
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• The city of Winston-Salem experienced a network security breach last month. Here’s what we know so far. 

  22-01-2025 00:06 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: City Manager Pat Pate responds to questions from the media in city hall on Friday, Jan. 17. (Photo by Gale Melcher)This is a developing story.As residents of Winston-Salem celebrated the holidays with family and friends, the city experienced some technical difficulties that prevented many from paying bills or requesting services.On Dec. 30, the city released a statement that a “cyber event” occurred on Dec. 26, which means that some online services have been unavailab
  
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• Trump promises to end birthright citizenship and shut down the border – a legal scholar explains the challenges these actions could face

  21-01-2025 18:19 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Donald Trump at a rally in Greensboro in March 2024. (photo by Carolyn de Berry)This article was first published by Jean Lantz Reisz, University of Southern California for the Conversation.During his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on immigration that would make it harder for refugees, asylum seekers and others to try to enter the U.S. – and for some immigrants to stay in the country.On Monday night, Trump signe
  
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• Amid financial strain, the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem looks to rebrand

  16-01-2025 22:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Winston-Salem’s housing authority is going through changes.In the last couple of months, HAWS — the city’s housing authority — has welcomed two new board members, moved their headquarters to the King building on Cleveland Avenue, is working on building new public housing with a Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant and has plans to rebrand the organization, which was discussed by HAWS’s board of commissioners during Tuesday’s monthly board meeting.HAWS is one
  
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