Scott D. Yost

The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has approved another major school bond spending adjustment –m this time bringing the total project budget for the new Erwin Montessori School to just over $51 million. At its first August meeting, the board approved a $39.5 million increase in the Erwin Montessori project ordinance to provide the money […]

For the last several months, the Greensboro City Council has been up to its neck in the increasingly contentious debate over massive data centers. Now the Guilford County Board of Commissioners is getting pulled into the water as well. County commissioners are planning an upcoming work session on data centers, and the subject was one […]

Guilford County is looking for volunteers willing to spend a couple of hours picking up litter at one of the county’s nature preserves as part of National CleanUp Day. Guilford County Planning and Development and Guilford County Parks and Recreation will hold a cleanup at Benbow Nature Preserve, 2279 Britton St. in Greensboro, on Saturday, […]

Guilford County officials and state lawmakers have spent more than a year working on 52 words of ballot language. It’s impossible to imagine that, in the history of Guilford County – or perhaps even the history of literature – so much effort has gone into shaping one small paragraph. The Guilford County Board of Commissioners […]

When Piedmont Triad International Airport is finished with all its coming renovations and upgrades, the airport may be so nice and impressive that the president may pass an executive order renaming it Donald J. Trump International Airport. The airport is preparing to borrow as much as $275 million for a major renovation and modernization of […]

A divided Guilford County Planning Board couldn’t decide whether to allow a truck repair business on Randleman Road to expand its heavy industrial zoning, so the final decision will now fall to the Guilford County Board of Commissioners. The commissioners are scheduled to hold a legislative hearing on the rezoning request at their Thursday, Sept. […]

A lot of taxpayers in Guilford County feel like county leaders could use some help running things and the county is going to give AI a try. Guilford County government is preparing to give 50 county employees Microsoft Copilot licenses as part of an amendment to the county’s existing massive Microsoft software agreement. County staff […]

The Greensboro City Council has already spent months arguing about whether the city needs to put the brakes on massive new data centers. Now councilmembers are about to get deep into the weeds on exactly what those facilities could mean for Greensboro. The city has announced a series of public Greensboro City Council work sessions […]

The legal war between the Town of Summerfield and two of its former top employees shows no signs of cooling off – and former Summerfield Finance Officer Dee Hall says the fight has now required her and former Town Manager Scott Whitaker to turn over more than 22,000 pages of emails, text messages, photos and […]

A host of Guilford County nonprofit organizations that thought they were well on their way to receiving county money this year are instead going to have to go back and do much of the work all over again. On Thursday, Sept. 3, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners will hold a work session to review […]