Clemmons Asphalt Plant: Maymead's Gun Club Road Proposal and Who Actually Decides
Maymead Inc., a Tennessee paving company, wants to build an asphalt plant at 6010 Gun Club Road — a 5.49-acre industrial parcel inside Clemmons village limits, about 500 feet from the nearest homes. Residents packed the August 27 Forsyth County commissioners meeting, but no rezoning vote is coming: the parcel is already zoned industrial, and the only approval left is a county air-quality permit that staff must issue if it meets state requirements. Here's what's proposed, what an asphalt plant emits, how close the schools actually are, what happened the last time Maymead fought for a plant in North Carolina — and how to comment when the window opens.
Read →Downtown Winston-Salem's Courtyard by Marriott sells for $16.75 million as Hotel Indigo hits the market
Two hotels on West Fourth Street changed status in August 2026. The 126-room Courtyard by Marriott at 640 W. Fourth St. sold for $16.75 million to affiliates of Chicago-based Witness Properties, according to a Forsyth County Register of Deeds filing reported by the Winston-Salem Journal. Days later, the 75-room Hotel Indigo at 104 W. Fourth St. was listed for sale by Berkadia with no asking price. Here is what the records and reports show.
Read →Winston-Salem's Water Main Break: What Happened, and Why You Were Told Not to Drink the Water
A 24-inch water main broke beneath a manmade pond in eastern Forsyth County on July 29, 2026, putting roughly 200,000 people under a precautionary boil water advisory for three days. No contamination was ever reported as found, every lab result the utility announced confirmed the water was safe, and the advisory was fully lifted on July 31. Here's what happened, why the advisory was issued, and what the E. coli testing actually detects — with sources.
Read →Flock Cameras in Winston-Salem: What the License Plate Readers See
Winston-Salem approved 25 Flock Safety license plate readers in a January 2023 pilot. They photograph every passing plate and feed a searchable, cross-jurisdiction network — which is why a single deputy in Texas was able to reach more than 80,000 cameras nationwide. Here's what the cameras see, what the city promises, who can search the data, and the questions Winston-Salem hasn't publicly answered — with sources.
Read →Rural Hall Data Center: Why Forsyth County Rejected Project Iron Spur
On July 30, 2026, Forsyth County commissioners voted 5-2 to deny Project Iron Spur — a proposed hyperscale data center of three roughly 80-foot buildings totaling 1.12 million square feet on 128.54 acres of Rural Hall farmland, directly across from Town Hall. The 130-page case file never listed a megawatt or a water figure. Here's what was proposed, why staff recommended denial, what the developer offered, and why this is almost certainly round one — with sources.
Read →What are the dandelions on Salem Parkway? A factual guide to Winston-Salem's 'Invasive Hope'
Three steel-and-aluminum dandelion sculptures appeared along Salem Parkway overnight on May 28, 2026. The installation is titled 'Invasive Hope' and was funded by a 2018 voter-approved bond restricted to public art along the corridor — about $1,050,000 of it. Here's what they are, where they are, what they cost, and who made them.
Read →The UNCSA Abuse Lawsuit and $12.5 Million Settlement, Explained
UNCSA — the nation's first public arts conservatory, here in Winston-Salem — agreed in 2024 to pay $12.5 million to settle claims that for decades it allowed children in its care to be sexually abused. The case, filed in 2021, grew to 65 plaintiffs before it settled with no finding of liability. Here is the lawsuit, the one criminal conviction, the law that made the claims possible, and the settlement — laid out end to end, with sources.
Read →Old Town Street: How Trade Street Got Its Name — and Five Different Lives
Trade Street wasn't named for trade — it was Old Town Street, the wagon road out to Bethabara. Across five blocks of downtown Winston-Salem, the same brick has been a tobacco market, a feed-store strip, a failed 1970s pedestrian mall, and today's Downtown Arts District. Here's how Trade Street got its name and lived five different lives — with sources.
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