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Regional Briefs: School-system officials decide against plan for Cook students
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Published: November 4, 2009
Parents of children who attend Cook Elementary School were happier last night after learning that Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is backing off a plan that would require some Cook students to change schools next year.
On Monday, many of those same parents were upset when Superintendent Don Martin said that the school system was considering a plan to create a joint Brunson-Cook magnet school, which called for splitting students between the two schools according to grade level. Students in kindergarten through second grade would go to Cook, and third-, fourth- and fifth-graders would attend Brunson.
The plan also would have changed Cook's attendance zone and reassigned many students to different schools and school zones. Martin said that school officials now believe a better plan would be to create a magnet school at Brunson only, and leave the Cook attendance zone the same.
South Stokes High School students injured when SUV hits school bus
WALNUT COVE -- Several students who attend South Stokes High School suffered minor injuries yesterday when an SUV vehicle collided with a school bus on N.C. 65 near Walnut Cove as the bus was slowing down to let off a student.
Up to four students were taken to Forsyth Medical Center and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem with injuries that were not considered life threatening, Trooper Jonathan Phillips of the N.C. Highway Patrol said.
The wreck occurred shortly before 4 p.m. near Pulpwood Drive, when the SUV, traveling at 35 mph, hit the bus, traveling at 5 mph, Phillips said.
Johannah Stern, 53, of Greensboro was cited for misdemeanor failure to reduce speed, Phillips said.
Two Southern Community Bank executives injured in plane crash
FAIRVIEW -- Two executives of Southern Community Bank from Winston-Salem were injured yesterday in a plane crash in southeastern Buncombe County, authorities said.
James Monroe, the bank's treasurer, and James Hastings, the executive vice president and chief financial officer, were on the plane when it crashed about 5:20 p.m. because of engine failure, according to a report by WGHP/FOX8, the Winston-Salem Journal's news partner.
Monroe and Hastings were taken by medical helicopter to an Asheville hospital. Their conditions were not available.
The crash occurred as the plane's pilot tried to land in a cornfield, clipped a tree and flipped the plane as it hit the ground.
The plane, a four-seat Mooney M20, took off yesterday afternoon from Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem. Monroe is the registered owner of the plane.
George Griswold, profiled in Journal, dies of Alzheimer's at hospice home
George Griswold, whose struggle with Alzheimer's disease was chronicled in the Winston-Salem Journal, died Monday at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home.
Griswold, 90, was found to have the disease in 2007.
His wife, Nan Griswold, spent 26 years as the executive director of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. They married in 1993. She said that her husband kept her grounded and helped in her work. "I will always remember him as the man he was," she said. "I always saw the disease as the disease. I wasn't mad at George. I knew that was not my George."
Paceline Bicycles shuts its doors after filing for bankruptcy Oct. 29
Paceline Bicycles has shut its doors at 5005 Country Club Road in Club Haven Shopping Center, according to a letter posted on the storefront.
Van Brown and Amy Anderson, the owners of CVM Enterprises Inc., the company under which Paceline does business, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Repeated calls to a second Paceline store at 2919 Battleground Avenue in Greensboro were not answered.
According to documents filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, CVM Enterprises filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Oct. 29. When a company files for Chapter 7, it usually leads to liquidation.
Paceline has been in business for more than 13 years.
Armed men rob man in parking lot of Goodwill on Jonestown Road
A man was robbed in the parking lot of the Goodwill store on Jonestown Road on Monday, Winston-Salem police said.
The 27-year-old victim told police that three men armed with guns approached him and demanded his money and personal property. After robbing the victim, the three men ran away, heading west.
No one was injured.
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