April 29 - May 5, 2021
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Community Survey:
What’s the first thing you’re planning to do when the pandemic is over? Adobe Stock photo
responses compiled by ANNETTE JOYCE and CHRIS BURRITT
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Summerfield, Oak Ridge, Stokesdale view water as priority on ‘wish lists’ The three towns tell Guilford County how they might spend federal funds aimed at COVID-19 relief by CHRIS BURRITT NW GUILFORD – Water tops the wish lists of Summerfield, Oak Ridge and Stokesdale as they decide how they’d like to spend their share of $104 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds appropriated to Guilford County.
Although the pandemic is not over, many are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and anticipating the transition to a new normalcy in this second quarter of 2021. We recently surveyed local residents to find out what they envision doing when COVID is no longer a looming threat.
“The pandemic seems to have gone on for a lifetime, doesn’t it? A friend and I have gone to the Azalea Festival
in Wilmington for at least 10 years, so I am now hoping in the fall to see the
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Earlier this month, mayors from across the county participated in meetings with Skip Alston, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. He asked them to identity projects for which they’d use funding from the American Rescue
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Plan, which earmarks $350 billion nationwide to help states, counties, cities and tribal governments cover higher expenses, replenish lost revenue and mitigate economic damage from the pandemic. Northwestern Guilford County mayors listed funding for water projects among their top priorities, which aligned with Alston’s interest in spending to improve water and sewer services countywide to enhance public safety and economic development. Alston “said he wants everybody to
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