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Volunteers come together to build playset for young girl with leukemia
By Dwight Sparks The Clemmons Courier While she celebrated her birthday at Chick-fil-A and Build-A-Bear, workers invaded little Abby Keatings’ back yard in Clemmons West ...
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Molly Powell wins state music honor
North Carolina hosts 13 state-wide Junior Festival Music festivals each year as part of the National Federation of Music Clubs national program. This year just ...
by Dwight Sparks, Monday, May 14, 2018 3:04 pm
Lifestyle
Hobson-Southard
Bryn Allen Hobson and Ryan James Southard were married on April 21st at College Park Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. The bride’s uncle Rev. Shay Reyner ...
by Dwight Sparks, Monday, May 14, 2018 3:00 pm
Opinion
Last words: ‘Tell my father I died right’
COLUMBIA, S.C. — In the rotunda of the South Carolina state capitol is a painting of the “Angel of Marye’s Heights.” The angel was Sgt. ...
by Dwight Sparks, Monday, May 14, 2018 9:58 am
Obituaries
Dorothy Rae Wilson Boyles
Dorothy Rae Wilson Boyles Mrs. Dorothy Rae Wilson Boyles, 88, passed away Monday, April 30, 2018 at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. She was ...
by Dwight Sparks, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 12:24 pm
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By Jill Osborn Dear Reader, over the last several years, the goal of this column has been to help us know our neighbors better. To ...
by Dwight Sparks, Monday, May 7, 2018 2:42 pm
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Foundation hires Sandi Scannelli as president
The Clemmons Community Foundation has hired its first President & CEO. Sandi Scannelli was confirmed by the organization’s Board of Directors in February, and officially ...
by Dwight Sparks, Monday, May 7, 2018 9:31 am
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Clemmons fire dept.’s new rating will lower insurance premiums
By Jim Buice The Clemmons Courier When’s the last time you heard insurance premiums for property owners going down instead of up? Well, brace yourself ...
by Dwight Sparks, Thursday, April 26, 2018 10:06 am
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Editor Dwight Sparks to retire after 33 years
Dwight Sparks, editor and publisher of the Davie County Enterprise Record and The Clemmons Courier for 33 years, will retire June 1. He announced his ...
by Dwight Sparks, Thursday, April 26, 2018 10:03 am
Opinion
33 years have altered more than my hair
See that young whippersnapper in the photo? He thought he was God’s gift to journalism, wise beyond his years, able to move mountains, deflect the ...
by Dwight Sparks, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 4:31 pm
Obituaries
Peggy Louise Earnhardt Bost
Peggy Louise Earnhardt Bost, born in Statesville, N.C. on April 1, 1927 passed on to glory on Sunday, April 15, joining the ranks of the ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, April 20, 2018 4:46 pm
Obituaries
William Evan Hall
William Evan Hall William Evan Hall, 93, died peacefully April 11, 2018, at Trinity Elms Health and Rehab Center in Clemmons after a period of ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, April 13, 2018 8:37 am
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Country music concert opens summer series April 15 at Tanglewood
The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has announced the lineup for its 2018 Summer Park Series that will include three events at Tanglewood ...
by Dwight Sparks, Wednesday, April 4, 2018 10:20 am
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Paving bids save $100,000 over estimate
By Jim Buice The Clemmons Courier By the time the final numbers were in, Clemmons ended up saving nearly $100,000 for the first phase of ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, March 30, 2018 11:06 am
Opinion
Pelting school shooters with a hail of rocks
Say what you want about us Americans, but admit that we are inventive people. The horrors of school shootings have riveted our attention in recent ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, March 30, 2018 10:59 am
Obituaries
Obituaries for March 29, 2018
Etta Dunn Sheets Mrs. Etta Dunn Sheets, 77, of Winston-Salem passed away on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. She was ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, March 30, 2018 10:49 am
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Betty Phelps
By Jill Osborn Growing up on a farm in Clemmons, Betty Phelps decided to go to college after high school. She attended UNC-G in Greensboro, ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, March 30, 2018 10:45 am
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New pastor at Clemmons Moravian
The Rev. Christopher Thore is the new pastor of Clemmons Moravian Church. For the past 18 years he has been the founding pastor of New ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, March 30, 2018 10:40 am
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73 pounds of old pills collected
The Annual Medicine Drop held on March 19th brought out over 100 citizens, disposing of 73 pounds of pills. The event, sponsored by the Forsyth ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, March 23, 2018 9:11 am
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Bermuda Run annexes sports complex property
By Jim Buice The Clemmons Courier The proposed Carolina Athletic Performance facility can officially call Bermuda Run home after a 22-acre tract purchased from Twin ...
by Dwight Sparks, Friday, March 23, 2018 9:07 am
Legal Notices
Forsyth County, NC, Legals for March 22, 2018
NORTH CAROLINA FORSYTH COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of MATTIE H. TAYLOR (a/k/a Mattie Hemric Taylor; Mattie Lee Hemric ...
by Dwight Sparks, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 4:09 pm
Obituaries
Etta Dunn Sheets
Mrs. Etta Dunn Sheets, 77, of Winston-Salem passed away on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. She was born on March ...
by Dwight Sparks, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 3:58 pm
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West Students to perform popular musical ‘Hairspray’
The curtains go up next week on West Forsyth High’s student performance of the popular musical “Hairspray.” Shows are March 22 and 23 at 7:00 ...
by Dwight Sparks, Monday, March 19, 2018 2:51 pm
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Historian to speak to Lewisville society March 19
Due to snow, Randell Jones’s address to the Lewisville Historic Society has been rescheduled to March 19. He will present “From Time to Time in ...
by Dwight Sparks, Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:52 pm
Obituaries
Obituaries for March 15, 2018
Sidney Allen Beauchamp Our loving husband and father, Allen, passed away peacefully on March 6, 2018 at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home with his ...
by Dwight Sparks, Thursday, March 15, 2018 9:58 am
Opinion
George Washington’s white post still marks village
WHITE POST, Va. — Slap-dab in the middle of the road in this tiny unincorporated village is a big white post. It has been there ...
by Dwight Sparks, Thursday, March 8, 2018 3:25 pm
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Meg Brown
By Jill Osborn “Since my mom was from Detroit, Michigan, and North Carolina was the furniture hub — all her friends would come down and ...