Let’s see that SUMMER SMILE

TOWN’S WINDFALL

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Fifty eager kids ages 6-12, plus parents, siblings, members of Sportman’s Wildlife Club, and town staff, came out to Summerfield Community Park lake, fished and supported the Town of Summerfield’s annual Fishing Derby Saturday morning, June 17. The event was sponsored by NC Wildlife Commission.

Boom Supersonic

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Since the start of construction six months ago, crews have poured the concrete floor and erected steel trusses and beams for the assembly plant. Visible from I-73, the project is surrounded by earth moving and road construction to accommodate not only Boom but also Marshall Aerospace’s recently announced aircraft maintenance facility and other future economic development at the airport.

Boom said it is building its PTI campus in sections, starting with the roughly 150,000-square-foot final assembly line and office space of 24,000 square feet.

The first assembly line is designed to produce as many as 33 aircraft a year, with a second that will allow for the doubling of production, Boom CEO Blake Scholl said during a press conference at the Paris Air Show.

The company projects the PTI facility will create more than 2,400 jobs by 2032. Earlier this week, the careers page on Boom’s website showed no job postings for Greensboro, but several engineering positions in Centennial, a Denver suburb.

For More Information

To track job opportunities at Boom Supersonic at Piedmont Triad International Airport, visit https://boomsupersonic.com/careers.

accessible to disabled children and security cameras in town parking lots.

The allocation is part of the county’s budget for the fiscal year that starts this coming Saturday, July 1. The county’s Board of Commissioners approved the spending plan two weeks ago. That’s six months after a conversation between newly elected District 3 commissioner Pat Tillman and Oak Ridge Mayor Ann Schneider and Councilman George McClellan raised the prospect of county funding to the town.

The money “is just a godsend to our town,” Schneider said in an interview earlier this week. While she and other town leaders were hopeful the county’s appropriation would materialize, they were pleasantly surprised to learn it actually did, she said.

“I don’t think any of us had high expectations that it would be funded,” the mayor said. “But I did put a lot of effort into making sure the funding request showed the benefit both to Oak Ridge and the county as a whole.”

During their meeting in January, Schneider and McClellan provided an update on Oak Ridge’s projects and priorities to acquaint Tillman with activities in the town. Three months later, the commissioner told Schneider he was going to explore whether any of the town’s initiatives would be suitable for county funding, according to the mayor.

Last month, Commissioner Chairman Skip Alston asked the town to provide a written request for funds. Schneider said she believes the commission, as a whole, embraced the town’s two proposed projects – parking lot security cameras and a new playground meeting federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility guidelines – because of their countywide impact.

Setting up security cameras in Town Park parking lots will help the sheriff’s office combat smash-and-grab car break-ins, a countywide problem, according to Schneider. The ADAaccessible playground will have countywide appeal, she added.

During its meeting this Thursday, June 29, the council plans to consider amending its budget for next fiscal year to allocate $70,000 in additional funding for the playground and $70,000 for security cameras.

CRIME / INCIDENT report

District 1 Sheriff ’s Offi ce

has recently responded to the following incidents in northwest/northern Guilford County ...

Assault

June 15 | A 55-year-old female was arrested in the 2500 block of Quaker Village Road in northern Greensboro (off Lake Brandt Road) for simple assault.

June 15 | A 38-year-old male was arrested in the 4000 block of Sourgum Court in northwest Greensboro (near Old Oak Ridge Road) for assault on a female.

June 18 | Law enforcement officers responded to a reported assault in the 700 block of Lakedale Road in Colfax (off Adkins Road).

June 23 | A citizen in the 1600 block of Trosper Road in northwest Greensboro (off Lake Brandt Road) reported a known suspect threatened him with a weapon.

June 24 | Officers responded to a reported assault at Piedmont Triad Farmers Market in Colfax.

June 25 | A 46-year-old female in the 5500 block of Tanyard Court in Oak Ridge (near Oak Ridge Road) was arrested for simple assault.

Drugs

June 11 | Officers conducted a death investigation after a person died of a drug overdose in the 7100 block of Pleasant Oaks Road in northwest Greensboro (off Pleasant Ridge Road).

June 13 | Officers responded to a report of a heroin/fentanyl overdose at Oak Ridge Commons.

June 17 | After responding to a report of suspicious activity at Food Lion in Summerfield, officers seized 0.4 grams of cocaine from a citizen.

June 20 | Officers seized a marijuana pipe during a traffic stop in the 4300 block of U.S. 220 N and Strawberry Road in Summerfield.

June 21 | Officers seized 4 grams of THC oil and a piece of drug paraphernalia from a citizen at Richardson Taylor Preserve in northern Greensboro.

FOUND/LOST PROPERTY

June 13 | A citizen reported she lost a red/black wallet containing her driver’s license, EBT card and banking cards at Food Lion in Stokesdale.

June 18 | Officers responded to a report of a credit card found at Oak Ridge Town Park.

Fraud

June 13 | A resident of the 6200 block of Bradford Place Court in Summerfield (near N.C. 150 W) reported an unknown suspect defrauded her of $7,752.

June 15 | A resident of the 2000 block of Beeson Road in Oak Ridge reported an unknown suspect defrauded him of $1,500.

June 21 | A resident of the 7700 block of Alcorn Road in Oak Ridge reported that between June 5 and June 21 an unknown suspect defrauded him of $381.18.

June 23 | A resident of the 8300 block of Brittains Field Road in Oak Ridge (off Stafford Mill Road) reported that between June 18 and June 23 an unknown suspect forged a check in the amount of $4,500.

June 23 | A resident of the