Denton News

Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 11:24 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 11:24 a.m. Open houses will be held next week for two communities within Davidson County Schools.

For those who wonder what a Yankee Hot is, that question has finally been answered.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 3:13 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 3:13 p.m. A Denton man suffered a concussion and needed 16 stitches to close lacerations to his head that Davidson County sheriff's deputies allege he received from an assault by four people, three of whom were family members.

The Denton FarmPark is known as being the hub of steam engines, antique farm equipment and its annual Threshers Reunion.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 4:12 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 4:12 p.m. Life is hopefully beginning to return to normal - even if it is a new normal - for the Creasey family.

Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:46 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:46 a.m. Denton FarmPark has been known as the home for steam engines and antique farm equipment during the Southeastern Old Threshers Reunion, bluegrass music festivals and Mule Days for many years.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 6:29 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 6:28 p.m. Robin Hunt used her experience as a merchant who participated in Uptown Lexington's Annual Christmas Open House to bring the idea of an annual downtown holiday event to Denton merchants.

MARRIAGE LICENSES The following marriage licenses were issued for the week ending October 31: * George Joseph Burns of Lexington to Chrystal Gale Asbury of Lexington.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 9:50 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 9:50 a.m. GREENSBORO The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 18 taxpayers in Davidson County who are due to receive $12,953 in the form of refund checks that were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:41 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:41 p.m. HIGH POINT Cozy Mattress, a bedding company specializing in mattresses for sleeper sofas, is trying to change the stigma - one back at a time - that all sleeper-sofa mattresses are uncomfortable.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Denton residents deserve credit for leading the five municipalities in Davidson County in turnout for the 2009 elections.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 1:07 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 1:07 p.m. While many people view elections as coming around once every four years, voters in Lexington, Thomasville, Denton, Midway and Wallburg took to the polls Tuesday to cast their vote in municipality elections.

Lewie Phillips recently wrote an excellent guest column urging a revolution of sorts in Lexington, not the violent type of revolution but a revolution of change.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:02 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:02 p.m. Bright and early Tuesday morning, 20 polling places will open for voting around Davidson County for general elections.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:42 p.m. The Silver Valley and Denton Ladies Civitan Clubs recently co-hosted the Fall Area Civitan meeting at South Davidson High School.

Steven Money of Denton shows his first-place ribbon for winning the Sixth Annual Plumber Apprentice Contest at the N.C. State Fair.

Furniture makers were "cautiously optimistic" entering the 2009 High Point Market that began Saturday and with good reason.

A celebration of survival: Breast-cancer survivors and friends are invited to a survivor celebration from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the N.C. Triad Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 1106 Burke St.

Published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 3:37 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 3:37 p.m. A traffic accident on N.C. Highway 47 near Klopman Mill Road on Tuesday killed a 19-year-old teen from Denton.

Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 11:54 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 11:54 a.m. A traffic stop on Interstate 85 South on Monday yielded multiple drug charges against a Denton woman.