High Point News

The youngest competitor this year is 6-year old Lori Anne Madison. The winner of the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee gets $30,000 in cash.

Here's hoping your summer plans include lots of fun in the sun and plenty of beneficial time well spent.

High Point Republican Rep. John Faircloth and Greensboro Democrat Rep. Maggie Jeffus have joined forces in the N.C. House of Representatives to sponsor a $2 million funding request to help promote and support the High Point Market.

Dedication led the United Way of Davidson County Board of Directors to name Kelly Craver as chairman for the 2012-2013 campaign.

Workers with the post office in Thomasville did their part to 'Stamp Out Hunger.' The pounds of food collected increased by 61 percent.

The project is among the 10 highest-ranking highway projects in Division 7, which encompasses Guilford, Rockingham, Caswell, Alamance and Orange counties.

Guilford County budget decisions are usually all about the money. But the decision offering some highly paid, longtime county employees retirement bonuses under new policy guidelines resembles more than just a bad fiscal move.

Both Mayor Smothers and your editorial urging that Davidson County Commissioners not pursue House Bill 943 say that the proposed new law will deprive owners of their property rights.

High Point could join many of its counterparts around the state that have tapped a new revenue source by taxing Internet sweepstakes parlors and other businesses that feature video gaming machines.

HPE Built in 1931, the Adamsleigh manor house in Greensboro was the home of former High Point textile magnate J.H. "Hamp" Adams BY JIMMY TOMLIN ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER GREENSBORO - Most people familiar with High Point history know at least the bare bones of the story behind the city's historic J.H. Adams Inn, which was the former home of High Point ... (more)

Since the initial Party on the Plank series in 2010, Elijah Lovejoy has admitted to operating on a learning curve.

Passengers line up at the US Airways counter at Piedmont Triad International Airport.

HPE Nejat Alkadir, a seventh-grader at Ledford Middle School, has been studying the dictionary to prepare for this week's National Spelling Bee BY JIMMY TOMLIN ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER HIGH POINT - How unlikely is it that 13-year-old Nejat Alkadir finds herself headed to the National Spelling Bee this week? Well, consider that while her parents - ... (more)

With a sunny weather forecast, relatively low gas prices, and varied attractions statewide, many Scotland County residents will be tempted to travel out of town over this Memorial Day weekend.

The city of High Point's unemployment rate dipped below 9 percent last month, a level last recorded during the Christmas holiday season of 2008.

BY ALBERT A. CAMPBELL After spending seven-plus decades or three scores and 10 years here in High Point, inadvertently comparing this community with visited others became inevitable.

Theo Pinson , who is ranked as the No. 14 prospect in ESPN's Class of 2014 rankings, was offered by Indiana on Thursday.

The High Point City Council on Thursday discussed several options short of a tax hike to fill an estimated $2 million budget hole.

I would take a moment to publicly say thanks to the Kinley family of High Point for the decades of many wonderful memories they gave the Triad through their golf course, Lakewood Par 3 on Old Thomasville Road.

If God wanted the marriage between man to man or woman to woman, he would have done so in the... * 1,007,100 North Carolinians are expected to travel more than 50 miles from home.