Tobaccoville News

Published: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 5:28 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 5:28 p.m. It started with finding something in the bushes.

Some 400 employees of Winston-Salem-based R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Inc. marched in front of the General Assembly Tuesday to protest a proposed $1 per-pack increase in the state's excise tax on cigarettes.

More than 400 employees of Reynolds American Inc. and its operating companies will be in Raleigh, N.C., on June 16 to march and rally in opposition to Governor Bev Perdue's proposed $1 per pack increase in the state's excise tax on cigarettes.

Local tobacco company workers are taking it to the streets to protest a proposed tax increase on cigarettes.

Police say a Tobaccoville woman has been arrested by the King Police Department on drug trafficking charges.

A pickup truck pulling a camper-trailer sidewiped a N.C. Highway Patrol crusier parked on the shoulder of southbound U.S. 52 Sunday near King causing traffic to back up for at least a mile, observers said.

Winston-Salem leaders bought a piece of land for more than $1 million, but a year and a half later, they say they are not sure what they will do with the property.

Barney and Sara Newsome of Tobaccoville didn't mind sipping wines in a crowd at Salute! The North Carolina Wine Celebration yesterday.

When Lloyd McCormick drove up to Tabernacle United Methodist Church on Sunday, April 19, he saw something very different from the scene that had greeted him just a year and a half earlier.

Have A Heart 2009 debuted recently at The Children's Home. This 5K run and dog walk was a benefit for the Forsyth Humane Society and Crisis Control Ministry.

In recent letters in the readers' forum, there has been an exchange of views by two people that stands out to me.