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Homeowner catches suspects in the act Three men, at least one armed, flee scene of break-in by GERRI HUNT/PATTI STOKES STOKESDALE – A resident of a home in the 8000 block of N.C. 68 in Stokesdale left about 12:40 p.m. on Nov. 11 to get a sandwich. When she returned only about six minutes later, she saw an unfamiliar car parked at her house and two men coming out of the house.
As the woman tried to back out of the driveway, one of the suspects fired a shot at her car, shattering the car window and grazing her chest; she was later treated at the scene. One suspect, who fled in a vehicle, left the scene traveling in one direction while two other suspects ran away on foot in a different direction. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department underwent a massive manhunt for the suspects, using dogs, deputies on foot and in
cars, and a law enforcement airplane. The suspect driving the vehicle later abandoned it and ran; he was arrested in Kernersville after the pilot of the law enforcement plane spotted him running through the woods and communicated his whereabouts to deputies on foot. As we were going to press with this issue, two suspects were still at large. For updates to this story, visit www.facebook.com/NorthwestObserver.
Town to purchase historic Martin house by PATTI STOKES
The house and one acre it rests on will become the fourth corner property the Town of Summerfield owns at the Summerfield Road/Oak Ridge Road intersection
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SUMMERFIELD – The Town of Summerfield will soon finalize a purchase agreement on a house that was once inhabited by the illegitimate son of a governor and one of the first female doctors in North Carolina. At its Nov. 10 meeting, the Summerfield Town Council voted unanimously to purchase the Alexander Strong Martin house, located across from Summerfield Town Hall at the corner of Oak Ridge and Summerfield roads. Summerfield resident Linda Southard, who owns the house, says her grandparents were among those who lived in it after it was built in the early 1840s. She has many fond memories of spending Sunday afternoons there and playing with siblings and cousins in the yard
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IN THIS ISSUE News in brief.............................3 Your Questions .........................4 Business Notes .........................5 Bits & Pieces .............................5 Oak Ridge Town Council ........6 Community Calendar .............9 Crime/Incident Report .......... 11 High School Sports ................ 14 Fall Sports Wrap-Up ...............15 SAY “I” for an Eye ...................16 Letters/Opinions ....................18 Grins & Gripes ........................18 Classifieds ..............................19 Index of Advertisers ..............23
Committee receives useful feedback on higherdensity development Allowing two units per acre proposed for town core by GERRI HUNT OAK RIDGE – Phyllis Clodfelter stands in the middle of a room packed with people, the murmur of a dozen or so conversations rising and falling all around. Holding a map in her hands, she examines it and smiles. Clodfelter looks forward to the possibility of patio homes and townhomes being built in the Oak Ridge town core,
contained within a three-fourths mile radius from the N.C. 68/N.C. 150 intersection. She stopped by Town Hall late Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 10, to find out more, during an open house for a proposed update to the town’s Land Use Plan. In the future, she just might be interested in moving from her Brookbank Road home to a higher-density development. “I like it, to downsize,” she says. Members of the town’s Land
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