Pfafftown News

Oh what a heartbreaking e-mail to receive: Paceline Bicycles has closed in both Winston-Salem and Greensboro .

All a gardener needs is a spade, a fork, a trowel and a good pair of pruners. But what a gardener needs and what a gardener wants are two different subjects.

So what went on at the meetings held in August to discuss health-care reform , and is still going on on talk shows and ads on TV? We suggest that what is going on is "perception management." Perception management is a technique originally developed for the U.S. military to be used to influence what the enemy perceives about anything.

It was my fortune on Oct. 7 to attend a Stratford Manor Neighborhood Association meeting in which our Winston-Salem City Council member, Dan Besse, came to answer questions for us in the neighborhood.

I could only shake my head and laugh when I read the Oct. 8 letter "Empowered citizen," in which the writer states, "In my neck of the woods, I have only seen things get better during [Winston-Salem City Council member Dan Besse's] tenure." It begs the question; in what exact neck of the woods does the writer live? In the last weeks and months we ...

The Kids Cookie Contest on Oct. 5 at the Dixie Classic Fair was open to kids of all ages, but it drew mostly adult contestants.

During the first week of October, Animal Control Officers will be canvassing neighborhoods in the Pfafftown, Old Town and Bethabara communities to conduct a survey of licensed and vaccinated pets.

Library book sale: Friends of the Rural Hall/Stanleyville branch library will hold a used-book sale from 6 to 7 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the library, 7125 Broad St., Rural Hall.

The 53-ft-long mobile hospital unit designed by the Special Vehicles Co. , Pfafftown, N.C. needed more space than the tractor trailer on which it was mounted would allow.

Kristi Dixon has a sound comparable to that of Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus. Dixon attends Eastern Guilford High School.

In the past, the Senior Friends of Olivet Moravian Church in Pfafftown put out the word about its annual Community Day for Seniors only through other local churches.

Crowds gathered again for the Winston-Salem Journal 's juiciest event, the 2009 Tomato Tasting.

Crowds gathered again for the Winston-Salem Journal 's juiciest event, the 2009 Tomato Tasting.

He said it was the biggest he had ever seen. I have to agree, it's at least up there with the largest -- and his is grown in a container.

Our local baseball stadium fiasco has surely created a wealth of newspaper fodder as well as a fine opportunity for the "I-told-you-so" crowd to voice its collective discontent with Mayor Allen Joines.

Attorneys involved in a lawsuit that alleges that John Gallaher Sr. was responsible for last year's shooting deaths of two young people revealed new details yesterday about the case.

Elections in Winston-Salem's recent past for mayor and city council have inspired little interest in the public, as evidenced by low voter turnout.

The Winston-Salem City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall council chambers, Room 230.

Violet Stafford of Pfafftown responded to Janice Beck's request for a cake using graham-cracker crumbs and pineapple, and no flour.

The Winston-Salem City Council will not vote tonight on a deal to provide an additional $15.7 million to finish the baseball stadium downtown, Mayor Allen Joines announced at the start of tonight's public hearing at City Hall.