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Lame duck Gboro council gonna get to spend some big money….
On two downtown parking decks: City Council will consider Tuesday whether to spend $56 million on two parking decks, one of which would be part of a Westin hotel complex…
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Grasshoppers stadium taxes: Dog and the fleas
Rhino reports Greensboro Baseball LLC–which owns the Grasshoppers and New Bridge Bank Park—-got a little relief from the Guilford County Board of Equalization and Review over $35,000 in penalties for…
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Latest attempt to rehab War Memorial Stadium
N.C. A&T and the City of Greensboro are in negotiations over a potential partnership to rehab 89-year-old War Memorial Stadium: “This discussion has been going on for years. It isn’t…
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Primary perspective
When I read the N&R headline: Sports vs. politics: Attendance trumps turnout in Walker-Berger race I thought they were going to report more people went to last night’s Grasshoppers game…
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Berger Jr. makes his pitch
The former Guilford College third baseman also shows pretty good form as he throws out the first pitch at last night’s Grasshoppers game: “It’s going to the right,” Berger said.…
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N&R endorses Mark Walker in 6th district runoff
Not exactly a ringing endorsement from the local paper of record, but an endorsement nonetheless: When it comes to the issues, not much separates Mark Walker and Phil Berger Jr.…
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Gboro downtown stadium–10 years later
Big Sunday N&R front-pager on NewBridge Bank Park 10 years after breaking ground: When the Greensboro Grasshoppers played their first baseball game in the city’s downtown ballpark in 2005, the…
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Oh the joys of urban living
Once again cut through the Greenway at Fisher Park on my way to the Hoppers game last night. Lots of cars in the parking lot and more than a few…
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No hatin Jim Melvin here
Ed Cone posts on the proposed sale of New Bridge Bank Park to the Grasshoppers: Too bad everything the Bryan Foundation does is evil, because otherwise the idea of selling…
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Grasshoppers buying New Bridge Bank Park?
The Biz Journal reports* owners of the Class-A Greensboro Grasshoppers are looking to buy New Bridge Bank Park from its current owners, the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation. The appraised cost…
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Economic impact of Edwards trial
Locker Room passes along this N&O article speculating on the John Edwards trial is having on Greensboro’s economy: It’s a big week for spectacle in this Piedmont town: the Greensboro…
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Dog lost, dog found
Someone steals statue of Hoppers mascot Miss Babe Ruth in a “malicious act of vandalism”; Debate over at Ed Cone’s whether or not using Facebook to find a missing dog…