The High Point Autumn Rowing Festival returned Saturday at Oak Hollow Festival Park, with rowers + thousands of spectators cheering as races finished on the lake.
Sealy Mattress Manufacturing will close its Trinity plant by the end of 2026 and will lay off (114) employees.
Foster will permanently close its three North Carolina facilities after filing a WARN notice the state received Oct.
21, and the shutdown will affect 181 jobs (169 in the Triad). The company said losing its largest customer — about 70% of its business — prompted closures at sites in Winston-Salem (2900 Lowery St.), Greenville (1060 Taylors Creek Dr.), and Colfax, and operations are expected to end by March 2027.
R&B and soul singer Leela James — known as the Goddaughter of Soul by James Brown — will perform Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at High Point Theatre.
Local advocacy groups are hosting a student-led march today to boost voter turnout ahead of the midterm elections in the Triad.
Celebrities Marsai Martin, Trinity Tatum and actor Jordan Aaron Hall will join the event (aiming to ease access issues like transportation and registration challenges).
Taylor Sapp, a 33-year-old Triad resident with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, is finding hope as her treatment shows positive results.
She will join the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K in Greensboro on Oct. 24 + raise funds and awareness for cancer research.
In 2026, hundreds of students marched to vote in High Point, carrying on a legacy set when four Aggies challenged lunch counter segregation in 1960 (an effort that earned national praise).
A Triad couple has conserved 75 acres of forest from development to protect local wildlife.
Their action gives nearby residents peace of mind and a lasting natural retreat + helps preserve vital habitat.
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