Dec. 13 - 19, 2018
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Oak Ridge Town Council OKs strategic plan for next 5-10 years Plan focuses on four areas as guide for funding future town projects
by CHRIS BURRITT
OAK RIDGE – The Oak Ridge Town Council recently adopted a strategic plan to steer spending on new parks and sidewalks, creating a “village feel”
for the town’s commercial district and preserving open spaces. The council voted 5-0 at its regular monthly meeting last Thursday, Dec. 6,
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IN THIS ISSUE School, community face ‘long work’ ...2 News in brief..............................................3 Your Questions..........................................4 Oak Ridge Town Council ........................6 Lighting up those holiday nights ...........8 Community Calendar........................... 12 Bits & Pieces/Business Notes ................ 13 Revisiting ‘The Homecoming’ .............. 14
Photo courtesy of Summerfield Fire District
An overhead photo of Summerfield Fire District’s Station 9 on Summerfield Road offers a glimpse of how much “white stuff” covered our area last Sunday and Monday, with some readers in northwest Guilford County reported receiving up to 10 inches of snow. Overnight temperatures dipping into the 20s this week has resulted in patches of ice on roadways in the early morning hours. Guilford County Schools announced on Wednesday that school parking lots and sidewalks had still not been cleared, resulting in schools being closed again on Thursday.
Testing of residents’ well water gets underway Residential wells downstream from Piedmont Triad International Airport to be checked after chemicals detected in Horse Pen Creek and Brush Creek by CHRIS BURRITT NW GREENSBORO – Testing of well water at homes in the vicinity of Brush Creek at Fleming Road and Horse Pen Creek
Stokesdale Christmas Parade photos 16 Crime/Incident Report .......................... 18 Youth Sync............................................... 19
in northwest Guilford County will start this week, health officials told more than 25 residents at a meeting on Dec. 4.
Youth/School News ...............................20
Local and state health officials plan to examine samples of well water for possible contamination by potentially harmful levels of chemicals known as Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). They’re an ingredient found in fire-fighting foams used by fire crews at and around Piedmont Triad International Airport.
Student profiles .......................................22
Earlier testing of creek water flowing downstream from the
Index of Advertisers ............................... 31
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Grins & Gripes .........................................24 Letters/Opinions .....................................26 Classifieds ...............................................27