July 30 - Aug. 5, 2020
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IN THIS ISSUE News in brief ...........................................2 Your Questions .......................................4
Reader asks: Is there more airport noise? Summerfield Town Council meeting ...6 Staying away from “Queen Corona” 10 Business Notes ......................................12 Bits & Pieces ..........................................12 NWO Business & Real Estate ...............13 Photo by Patti Stokes/NWO
New life for downtown Stokesdale ....14 At the entrance to MCM Resourcing’s office is a wooden door salvaged from a Polo Ralph Lauren store that the company demolished in Lenox Square, a shopping mall in the affluent Buckhead section of Atlanta.
Business/RE briefs ................................16 Housing inventory tightens ................. 17 NWO Kids’ Korner .................................25 Calendar Events...................................28 Crime/Incident Report ........................28 Grins and Gripes ..................................30 Letters/Opinions...................................34 Classifieds .............................................36 Index of Advertisers .............................39
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Pandemic takeaways The following are some of the perspectives we gained from talking with students and coaches about the impact of the pandemic on delaying the in-person return to school and the fall sports season
“Then they told us, ‘unfortunately, we can’t have summer camp.’ At that point, my whole summer was obviously completely changed. I was going from spending seven weeks staffing a camp to having nothing to do.
Caden Miller, 16, junior, of Stokesdale:
“Although the possibility was in the back of my mind, it was unexpected and a big shock. So, I had to find a way to spend my time. I helped organize a food drive with other Scouts. We’ve collected a lot of food.
“I’m really big into Boy Scouts (Troop 600 in Oak Ridge) and over the summer I planned to serve on the staff of Camp Cherokee in Yanceyville. I had made plans way before the COVID-19 pandemic and was really excited.
“I’ve tried to keep myself busy
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WELCOME, WATSON ... Photo by Chris Burritt/NWO
Born less than a week ago, Watson bucks and frolicks around his mother, Buggs, recently on High Silver Texas Paint Farm. “He is all legs,’’ said Jody Esque, owner of the farm at Pleasant Ridge and Stanley Huff roads in Summerfield. Watson will eventually replace his 22-year-old father, Texas, as the farm’s stallion to sire more foals, she said.