🗞️ Kernersville's Planning Board just cleared the way for 670 new apartments

🗞️ Forsyth commissioners take a step toward a possible data center moratorium

🗞️ Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools fills two leadership posts

🗞️ Trading summer's flexibility for fall's structure

☀️ Plenty of sun | High: 83°F | Low: 59°F

Wednesday brings plenty of sunshine with a high near 83 and a low around 59, about as pleasant as September gets. Good weather for an evening errand or a walk before Thursday night's Triad Revelation Conference. Thursday holds in the mid-80s under mostly sunny skies with a high of 84, and Friday warms back up to 90 and sunny, so enjoy the cooler stretch while it lasts.

Kernersville's Planning Board recommended a rezoning request this week that could bring up to 670 new apartments to town, one of the largest residential proposals in recent memory. Property owner Linville Family LLC is seeking to build two multifamily communities, Carroll at Linville Woods and Carroll at Crossroads, on a 54.7-acre tract split on either side of N.C. 66, bordered by Heartland Drive, Kernersville Medical Parkway and I-40.

The east side would hold nine four-story buildings with 360 units, and the west side eight four-story buildings with 310 units. Plans call for more than 1,100 combined parking spaces, along with clubhouses, pools, recreation areas and outdoor kitchens on each side.

"There will be nine residential buildings on the east side of N.C. 66 with 360 units and eight residential buildings on the west side of N.C. 66 with 310 units," Town Manager Curtis Swisher said.

The rezoning now heads to the Kernersville Board of Aldermen, who could vote on it as soon as October.

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Forsyth County commissioners moved a step closer this week to a possible six-month pause on new data center construction. After a lengthy staff presentation on data centers, commissioners voted 4-3 Monday to let staff draft moratorium language that would meet the state's narrow legal requirements, with a possible vote as soon as Sept. 28.

County officials noted Forsyth already has four data centers, all smaller than the roughly $3 billion facility residents fought off in Rural Hall last year, and that state law limits how far local governments can go in restricting them.

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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools has filled two key leadership posts. Kristina Mason, a 20-plus-year district veteran, steps in as interim Chief of Schools, replacing Timisha Barnes-Jones, who left for a job in South Carolina in August. Chad Williams, the district's director of security since 2024 and a 28-year veteran of the Greensboro Police Department, moves up to Executive Director of Safety, Security and Emergency Management.

Both begin their new roles later this month. The district is still searching for a permanent chief financial officer, a marketing and communications director, and an interim superintendent to succeed Don Phipps, who retires Sept. 30.

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As summer's looser schedule gives way to fall's routines, researchers Janelle Wells and Doreen MacAulay say the shift takes real mental and emotional effort, for students, parents, teachers and anyone juggling a fuller calendar. Their advice: pick one or two small daily anchors, like a short walk or a cup of tea, stage tomorrow's essentials the night before, build a little buffer time into transitions, and give yourself a short "runway" to decompress after school or work before diving into the next thing.

Routines, they write, lower stress mainly by cutting down on the number of small decisions your brain has to make every day, so a little structure now can mean a calmer fall.

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