Guilford County cuts 35 positions, among them the director of community and economic development:
The savings connected to the layoff amounts to about $2 million in the county budget, according to Commissioner Billy Yow, which is about $10 on the tax bill for the owner of a $200,000 home.
“This is just cleaning up a lot of what needs to be cleaned up and it’s getting rid of a lot of what doesn’t need to be there,” said Yow, adding that he knew the job cuts were coming and that more could come.
Meanwhile, a couple of teachers get into it at Mendenhall Middle School:
Catherine Hazelton, 40, of Greensboro, is accused of slapping another teacher in the face and telling the other teacher that she was going to stab her, according to arrest warrants on file at the Guilford County Courthouse.
According to police, the fight happened in a classroom before the school day began and other school employees stepped in to stop the fight. No students were in the classroom when the women were fighting, said Sgt. J. Heard, supervisor of the Greensboro Police Department’s school resource officers.
The women were friends and the fight started over a conflict over a family member of one of the women, Heard said.
