Winston-Salem

There's a new park coming to downtown Winston-Salem.

Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina cut the ribbon Friday on a new location for its Prosperity Center located on Waughtown Street.

After years of delay, Forsyth County Commissioners this year took up the task of finding the site for a new library. They've taken one informal and one formal vote that would designate the library's current site at Fifth and Spring streets as the location for the new library. But it's not a done deal yet and some are still hoping to sway commissioners to move the library to the old sheriff's office on Third Street.

North Carolina voters are at the polls today in all or portions of 94 of the state's 100 counties to cast their ballots in the municipal general election.

James Mabe has lived in the same small, one-story home on Ricks Drive since he was a grade-school boy in the 1940s. Back then the village he grew up in off Stratford Road had unpaved streets, outside bathrooms and a company store run by the Hanes Company. Hanes built the homes in the early 20^th Century for employees of its spinning mill next door. Now the community called Hanestown is a neighborhood in flux.

  This week's business report is a roundup of several topics.