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Mayor claims public records requests are incomplete
Town attorney, manager confirm public records requests for copies of mayor’s emails are valid and complete by PATTI STOKES
Illustration by Jorge Maturino/NWO
SUMMERFIELD – Another week has rolled by and Mayor Gail Dunham, who ironically ran for office on a platform of transparency, has still not fulfilled
even the first of what is a mounting pile of public records requests (10 to date) for copies of either all or specific town business-related emails she has
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Decorum absent from Town leaders plan more town’s council meeting forums on opioid crisis Tempers flare as accusations, finger-pointing take center stage by STEVE MANN STOKESDALE – During council comments near the end of the Stokesdale Town Council meeting June 14, council member Frank Bruno said, “Isn’t it nice we don’t yell at each other?” Mayor John Flynt agreed, saying, “We don’t always agree, but at least we agree to disagree.” There was a decidedly different
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tone during the July 12 meeting.
It seemed to be a continual verbal joust, with Flynt and Mayor Pro Tem Thearon Hooks pitted against council members Bill Jones and Tim Jones. On split votes, Bruno sided with Flynt and Hooks. There were accusations of unauthorized spending by Flynt, fingerpointing from both sides about actions of current and former council members that could put the town’s Workers’ Compensation policy and liability insurance at risk, and arguments over whether the town needed
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Helping families cope with drug addiction and reducing stigma for users are focus of public meetings in area churches
community aware of this problem, we can make a difference,” said Rev. Jerry Walker, Oak Level’s pastor and one of the organizers of the forum. “We can help hurting parents and grandparents, wives and husbands, children and grandchildren who may have loved ones on drugs.”
by CHRIS BURRITT
Over-prescription of addictive painkillers known as opioids has contributed to what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls a “fast-growing epidemic” that has been building over the past decade. In 2017, Guilford County Emergency
STOKESDALE – Leaders in Stokesdale plan to organize additional community forums focused on the opioid crisis after an initial meeting at Oak Level Baptist Church earlier this month attracted about 100 people. “If we can continue to make our
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