Scott D. Yost

On a cold and rainy Thursday, Nov. 14 evening, the Guilford County Animal Services Advisory Board met with staff from the animal shelter, and one of the most exasperating problems identified was that county rules and regulations are causing the shelter workers to have to throw away perfectly good donated food, spend hours of valuable staff time categorizing every item that comes in, send daily reports to the county manager’s office and wait to hear back while storing the items in much-needed space in the meantime.

The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources State Historic Preservation Office has issued an eligibility certification for One Center Plaza in High Point – better known in these parts as “Showplace West.” According to a Tuesday, Nov. 19 announcement by Downtown High Point, “This recognition marks a significant step toward leveraging the North Carolina Historic Mill Rehabilitation Tax Credit for the adaptive reuse of this historic building.”...

The Dog’s Day Out program at the Guilford County Animal Shelter, which is being suspended due to a lack of sufficient staffing and funding, was a wonderful program that helped give the dogs at the shelter a day of peace and sanity. It got the animals out of their cages for a day and enabled them to receive a lot of love and attention that it’s impossible for overworked shelter employees to provide in a loud and overcrowded facility.

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has been hearing a whole lot from animal lovers in the county lately regarding major challenges at the Guilford County animal shelter, and, at an afternoon work session on Thursday, Nov. 21, the board heard, for the first time in a long time, from Guilford County Animal Services Director Jorge Ortega, who spoke of some of the challenges – as well as the successes – at the animal shelter. At a meeting of the Guilford County Animal Services Advisory Board one week earlier – on Thursday, Nov. 14 – board members, shelter staff and volunteers spoke of the immense challenges of handling the large number of animals at the shelter without sufficient funds or staff...

The Dog's Day Out program at the Guilford County Animal Shelter, which is being suspended due to a lack of sufficient staffing and funding, was a wonderful program that helped give the dogs at the shelter a day of peace and sanity. It got the animals out of their cages for a day and enabled them to receive a lot of love and attention that it’s impossible for overworked shelter employees to provide in a loud and overcrowded facility. The program allows the dogs to be taken out of that hectic environment, where the animals are overwhelmed by incessant barking, confined in tight spaces and receive very little human attention...

One of Greensboro’s biggest economic development successes in recent years is now a big bust.

Several years ago, Guilford County government purchased the former BB&T building in downtown Greensboro, which now houses, among other government services, the Register of Deeds Office and a health gym used by county employees.

Thanksgiving is just about here, and Piedmont Triad International Airport is ramping up its operations to handle one of its busiest travel weeks of the year. The airport is usually a breeze to fly in and out of; however, during heavy travel times, even those flying in and out of the fairly low-key airport may need to make some changes.

Almost always, the Guilford County commissioners hold their regular meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month, however, once every two years, in election years, they hold a special morning meeting – called an “organizational” meeting – where newly elected Guilford County officials are sworn in and the commissioners, at that same meeting, select the person who will lead the board for the next 12 months.

If you want a nice piece of real estate in a very, very happening part of town, well, the old Guilford County Animal Shelter looks like it’s about to go on the chopping block.