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Having a Ball in NYC Summerfield native returns to home stage
I felt and to believe, that I have something to say and contribute,” he said. Ball looked up to the “cool” students in the advanced drama class. It was an elite group that only accepted 10 students – and by his sophomore year, he and his two best friends were part of it.
by GERRI HUNT “We were walking along the street, and I looked up and my heart was racing. Reality set in. All the signs were in Spanish or Korean. I thought to myself, ‘what have I done?’” remembers Patrick Ball. The northwest Guilford County native and his dad had just dropped off a U-Haul truck, after unloading it at Ball’s new pad in Brooklyn. He had lucked out on Craigslist and found a gypsy woman’s couch to call home. It was an alternate universe – at that time, Ball should’ve been back in the familiar setting of UNC-G, or at his parents’ Elmhurst Es-
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tates home in Summerfield, working on term papers. But instead, just weeks before his college graduation, he up and moved to New York. Flash back to 2004, when Ball was a freshman at Northwest High School. “Alicia Mooney, my creative writing teacher, was the first person who made me curious about the way
“But our teacher went out on maternity leave for the entire year, so an assistant football coach was basically babysitting us. Nobody was telling us to do anything,” he said. “We were goofing off,
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Councilman proposes water system expansion by GERRI HUNT
by PATTI STOKES
STOKESDALE – For the first time, Stokesdale Town Council is discussing extending its municipal waterlines at its own expense. Until now, extensions have been laid at
During the Aug. 13 town council meeting, Councilman Joe Thacker suggested lines be run down Tree Court.
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HPC, CrossFit representatives have ‘productive’ meeting Historic Preservation Commission and CrossFit representatives say they are cautiously optimistic that longtime issues will be resolved
the expense of developers running lines to subdivisions.
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OAK RIDGE – The Oak Ridge Historic Preservation Commission recently took an unusual step which it hopes will help bring closure to what has been a long and often contentious game of
tug of war dating back to 2011. The ongoing debate between the town and CrossFit over the last four years stems from unresolved issues with CrossFit’s building, which was constructed on Linville Road in 2011; ironically, its location adjacent to the Oak Ridge Town Hall makes it a next door neighbor. In October 2012, the town’s HPC issued CrossFit a COA (Certificate of Appropriateness) with conditions, while stating the conditions must be met before
the facility received a permanent Certificate of Occupancy (CO). Fast forward to June, when CrossFit appeared before the HPC again, only to have the commission determine the conditions had still not been met, even after numerous formal and informal meetings, a judge’s ruling in favor of the town and the assessment of civil penalties. With matters still unresolved, the town council approved a reso-
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