Cedar Grove News

With documented history dating more than 200 years, the African-American neighborhood of Dryborough has a rich and courageous past and a seemingly bright future for beautification and revitalization by way of an active neighborhood association.

Good food becomes the fortune of lucky travelers who pull into the right shop, where they are told something about a town's foodways through slices of plastic-wrapped cakes at the edge of a checkout counter, or tortillas, patted by hand and seared into golden rounds at the grill in the back.

By Beth Velliquette bvelliquette@heraldsun.com; 419-6632 CEDAR GROVE - A prayer vigil for Skip Wade and Phillip Johnson, who were killed in an apparent robbery at Johnson's store in Cedar Grove on Wednesday, will be held at the Anathoth Community Garden at 7 p.m. this evening.

Alexander "Skip" Wade, 68, and store owner Phillip Earl Johnson, 52, were fatally wounded in a possible robbery Wednesday at the Week in Treasures thrift store on the rural Cedar Grove property Wade owned.

A Guilford County man is among two facing charges in Wednesday's shooting in Cedar Grove that killed a store owner and a retired sheriff's investigator.

Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a double homicide and robbery Wednesday in Cedar Grove.

Deputies were called to the store in Cedar Grove shortly before 4 p.m. Friday when someone entered the store and found two people on the floor who had been shot.

WRAL.com is reporting that two people were killed Wednesday night during a robbery at a store in the Cedar Grove community in northern Orange County .