parks and recreation

Politics & Government

State awards additional funding for parks and recreation development

10:19am November 15, 2023

The state has awarded almost $2 million in additional grants for parks and recreation projects. The funding is part of money being distributed through the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund.

Forsyth county officials unearth red clay with golden shovels

Officials break ground on new Belews Lake Park

4:54pm May 08, 2023

by April Laissle

Amid the faint sounds of construction and birdsongs, county and state officials donned hard hats and dug golden shovels into a pile of red clay to officially break ground on Belews Lake Park in For

Sports

New mountain biking program in Greensboro aims to grow the sport in the Piedmont

8:49am May 06, 2022

by David Ford

A new program to grow the sport of mountain biking is coming to Greensboro: Greensboro Mountain Biking Experience.

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Human Interest

New Development At Greensboro Park Will Add Inclusive Playground

6:08pm December 20, 2019

by Bethany Chafin

The project at Keeley Park in northeast Greensboro means $2.2 million of improveme

What's Galentine's Day, you ask? It's only the greatest gift we've ever gotten from Leslie Knope, the unfailingly earnest bureaucrat at the helm of the NBC series Parks and Recreation

Arts

Galentine's Day: Celebrating Women, Waffles, And, OK, More Waffles

9:00am February 12, 2017

by Kristen Hartke

Monday's the day to celebrate the best unofficial holiday made just for women: Galentine's Day. And for that, we thank our lady of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope.

Aziz Ansari plays Dev, an Indian-American actor in search of fulfilling roles, in Netflix's Master of None.

Arts

Ansari And Yang Explore The First-Generation Experience In 'Master Of None'

4:50pm November 05, 2015

Parks and Recreation colleagues Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang bonded over their experiences as Asian-Americans living very different lives from their parents. Their new series is streaming on Netflix.

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A shortage of lifeguards across U.S. cities could be a fallout of the recovering economy.

During Pool Season, Even Lifeguard Numbers Are Taking A Dive

6:31pm July 28, 2015

by Leoneda Inge

This summer, even the most crowded pools are struggling to hire enough lifeguards, and are cutting hours as a result. In a rebounding economy, teens are opting for higher-paying jobs or no job at all.

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