Residents questioned city staff on ways to increase local input in a public hearing on the city's Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan for 2024 to 2025.
Toney, who has worked for the City of Winston-Salem since 2016, accepted a position as town manager for Carrboro, a community about 15 miles southwest of Durham.
Local leaders and community members gathered outside of the highly anticipated new Kaleideum building in downtown Winston-Salem for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
This week the city of Asheville pulled the plug on a long-awaited project to convert a motel into housing for people experiencing homelessness. The move came after the partner organizations managing the project were named in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Winston-Salem has been attached to a similar project with the same partners since 2022. And city leaders say that partnership stands, despite repeated delays.