Gorrell Street News Today

As of January 2024, nearly 1200 were considered in poor condition. That's 8.4 percent of the state's bridges.

A Charlotte woman faces charges following a vehicle crash last month that killed one member of a flag crew working on a Greensboro street and critically injured a second worker.

Police said both men were wearing high-visibility clothing at the time of the crash and that a large arrow board was directing traffic to merge left.

A Pilot Mountain flagger died in a car crash in Greensboro Monday morning while setting up a lane closure for utility work.

The men were closing lanes for utility work, police say.

Ray Flowers, who served from 1993-99, was the citys first Black fire chief. He joined the fire department in 1961 when he was 21, the Greensboro Fire Department said in

Ray Flowers, who was the first Black chief of the Greensboro fire department, has died. Flowers joined the department as a 21-year-old graduate of North Carolina A&T State University. He was assigned to station four on Gorrell Street as part of the first group of Black firefighters hired by the department in 1961.

Greensboro's first African-American fire chief died due to an illness, fire officials announced.

During the Jim Crow era, the historic Magnolia House in downtown Greensboro was one of the few prominent sites blacks could stay traveling from Atlanta to Richmond.