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The governing body for the City of Winston-Salem is an eight-member City Council (called the Board of Aldermen until December 2002 [110]). Voters go to the polls every four years in November to elect the mayor and council. The mayor is elected at large; council members are elected by citizens in each of the eight wards within the city. The City ...
Home to multiple baseball and softball tournaments each year, Salem bills itself as “Virginia’s Championship City.” About 25,000 people live here, with nearly 20% of them age 65 or older ...
Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Start your day with everything you need to know about today's weather. You can also get a quick briefing of ...
At least two people have died as severe storms and tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Mississippi on Saturday, officials said, while a parade of atmospheric river-fueled storms batters the ...
The violence quickly spread to southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina. Bethabara hosted a large number of refugees until 1761. The establishment of a central town was delayed for thirteen years because of the growing Moravian population and hundreds of refugees. Once it was felt safe to do so in 1766, the central town Salem was begun ...
Via US 421, downtown Winston-Salem is 11 miles (18 km) to the east, and Wilkesboro is 44 miles (71 km) to the west. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 14.2 square miles (36.8 km 2), of which 14.0 square miles (36.2 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.6 km 2), or 1.59%, is water. [7]
Winston-Salem is the birthplace of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR), founded by R. J. Reynolds in 1874 as one of sixteen tobacco companies in the town. By 1914 it was selling 425 million packs of Camels a year. Today it is the second-largest tobacco company in the U.S. (behind Altria Group).
At around 2:08 p.m. on April 14, officers came to an apartment on 1300 block of North Main Street in Winston-Salem after getting a report […] Man charged in murder of 59-year-old Winston-Salem ...