John Hammer

The International Civil Rights Center and Museum Gala in downtown Greensboro is the museum’s biggest fundraiser each year, and, this year, it will take place on Saturday, July 20 – and the Museum leaders have a lot planned for the evening. For one thing, educator, theologian, civil rights leader and syndicated columnist Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. – who is, by the way, credited with coining the term “environmental racism” – will be the 2024 recipient of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum’s highest award: The Alston/Jones Award, named for the Museum’s two founders, Skip Alston and Earl Jones...

If you’d like to have a say in how Guilford County looks in the year 2045 – well, you’re in luck because Guilford County officials want to hear from you.

The Town of Summerfield has been through a whole lot lately, including a fierce political battle that ended with about 990 acres of the town being sliced off by the NC state legislature, a move that developer David Couch requested in order to develop the property into a new residential and mixed-use community with a density higher than many Summerfield residents want to see.

The City of Greensboro, the Audubon Society and some of the area’s partnering businesses are coming together for an interesting cause: To make it easier for birds to fly south for the winter. The joint effort, called the “Lights Out” program, is in effect twice each year. It takes place every spring – from March 15 to May 31 – and again each fall, when it runs from September 10 to November 30...

he Guilford County Parks Department plans on holding a grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting for the Conner Nature Trail at Rich Fork Preserve in High Point. That’s a roughly half-mile expansion of the existing walking and biking trails on the property...

One of Greensboro’s and Guilford County’s toughest problems – homelessness – just got reshaped in a big way, and the Guilford County Board of Commissioners is rushing to find solutions in the wake of a decision by the downtown Greensboro Interactive Resource Center (IRC) that it could no longer operate in a 24/7 manner.

Ever since 2021, City of Greensboro leaders have been debating about turning the former Regency Inn in Greensboro into a place that provides affordable housing units, and, now, after four years and many twists and turns for the project, the city is demolishing the facility.

The day after Halloween, people began hearing Christmas songs all over the place and they will last until New Year’s Eve as it does each year.

A while back, the Rhino Times suggested in print that it was inadvisable for Donald Trump to continue using highly abusive language to refer to Kamala Harris, Chris Christie and many others – and, instead, advised that, during the campaign, Trump would have a better chance of winning by sticking to talking about the economy and other policy issues, rather than going on wild tangents and using abrasive language against everyone who disagrees with him.