Tobaccoville News

Job cuts, potentially at a major level, appear on the horizon again for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Cigarette maker RJ Reynolds is cutting jobs to counter low sales. The company's offering severance packages to 1,800 employees at its Tobaccoville and Whitaker Park plants.

Clockwise, from upper-left: John Konopinski's Butter Tastin' Jammies came in first.

Voters elected one incumbent and one newcomer to the town's board of commissioners, according to complete but unofficial returns.

Folks in Tobaccoville like things the way they are. That was the message that Dave Plyler, the chairman of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, heard as commissioners met yesterday morning with members of the Tobaccoville council.

I have been following the Journal 's coverage of Freddie Hammer with interest . Hammer is certainly fortunate to be a white man.

I would like to propose a Congressional Cash for Clunkers program established by private citizens who would pay certain members of Congress and others in the executive and judicial branches an early retirement cash payout to get rid of them forever.

I would like to propose a Congressional Cash for Clunkers program established by private citizens who would pay certain members of Congress and others in the executive and judicial branches an early retirement cash payout to get rid of them forever.

Earlier this month the Social Security Administration spent $700,000 at an Arizona resort to "help relieve stress" to its staff members who are receiving threats to them from the American taxpayers.

The Southern Paranormal and Anomaly Research Society has declared that the 19th-century home known as Korner's Folly is haunted.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- North Carolina's longest-running paperboy retired on Sunday.

David Burleson, former superintendent of Burke County Public Schools, was hired Thursday as the new principal of North Forsyth High School.

Published: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 5:28 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 5:28 p.m. It started with finding something in the bushes.

Some 400 employees of Winston-Salem-based R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Inc. marched in front of the General Assembly Tuesday to protest a proposed $1 per-pack increase in the state's excise tax on cigarettes.

More than 400 employees of Reynolds American Inc. and its operating companies will be in Raleigh, N.C., on June 16 to march and rally in opposition to Governor Bev Perdue's proposed $1 per pack increase in the state's excise tax on cigarettes.

Local tobacco company workers are taking it to the streets to protest a proposed tax increase on cigarettes.

Police say a Tobaccoville woman has been arrested by the King Police Department on drug trafficking charges.

A pickup truck pulling a camper-trailer sidewiped a N.C. Highway Patrol crusier parked on the shoulder of southbound U.S. 52 Sunday near King causing traffic to back up for at least a mile, observers said.

Winston-Salem leaders bought a piece of land for more than $1 million, but a year and a half later, they say they are not sure what they will do with the property.