🗞️ The car we asked you about came out of Belews Lake

🗞️ Forbush held off Bishop McGuinness 10-7 in the opener

🗞️ Piney Grove is throwing its first bluegrass gospel festival

🗞️ The vine that ate the South arrived by invitation

☀️ Sunny | High: 85°F | Low: 65°F

Tuesday is the last clean day on the board, and it is the nicest one of the stretch. Full sun, a high near 85 and a north wind at 2 to 6 miles an hour, with no rain in the forecast at all. Tuesday night settles to around 65 and stays mostly clear. Wednesday is where the pattern breaks: mostly sunny and up to 87, then a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 PM, rising to 50 percent overnight. Thursday carries a 60 percent chance with a high near 85, and Friday a 40 percent chance near 86. If there is outdoor work you have been putting off, Tuesday is the day for it.

A fisherman found what a week of doorbell footage could not.

A red passenger car spotted in Belews Lake on Friday morning, near Belews Creek Road, has been connected to a hit-and-run here in Kernersville. The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office pulled the car from the water, and on Monday the office said it had been identified as the one being sought. The car was turned over to the Kernersville Police Department.

This is the wreck we wrote about last week. Police have said a red Honda passenger car was involved in a collision about 1:40 p.m. on Aug. 17 in the 700 block of Piney Grove Road and left the scene. Investigators asked neighbors and businesses in that stretch to check doorbell and security cameras for anything recorded between 1:20 and 1:40 p.m., and said the car likely had "significant front-end damage."

It is worth being careful about what this does and does not tell us. No driver has been named and no one has been charged. The sheriff's office found a car; the police department now has it. Everything else about that afternoon remains, in the department's phrasing, information that has not been released.

If you have footage from that window, or you saw the wreck, the Kernersville Police Department is still asking for calls at 336-992-5462.

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The Villains held a team under 165 total yards and still came up three points short.

Visiting Forbush escaped with a 10-7 win over Bishop McGuinness on Thursday night, the season opener for both teams. The game had been set for Friday and was moved up a day because of expected heavy rain, the same forecast that shifted the East Forsyth and Glenn game.

Bishop's defense did nearly everything a defense is asked to do. The Villains limited Forbush to 115 yards passing and 49 yards rushing. Falcons quarterback Carter Smith completed nine of 20 passes for 115 yards with an interception, and one of the few big plays of the night was his 37-yard touchdown pass to Kazir Wright in the first half.

The margin came from a 22-yard field goal by Forbush's Luca Casertano in the second half, and the Falcons made a defensive stand on the Villains' final possession to keep it. The Kernersville News notes that Bishop's own offensive statistics were not immediately available, so how the Villains moved the ball is a question for the box score whenever it surfaces.

Bishop McGuinness is back at it Friday, hosting West Davidson at 7:30 PM. East Forsyth hosts Northern Guilford the same night at 7 for its home opener.

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Somebody decided a field, three bands and a table of food were worth the trouble.

The Piney Grove community is hosting its First Annual Bluegrass Gospel Festival on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 5 to 8 PM at Dewberry Farm, 2585 Dewberry Farm Lane. The bill features The Chosen Road, 4 Walls and Damascus Ridge, and personal testimonies will be shared during the evening.

Admission is free, but you do need a ticket to get in, and the organizers are handling those through a sign-up page. Donations will be accepted as a love offering during the festival.

Food is provided by the Methodist men, and a limited amount of merchandise will be for sale. Both are cash only, so sort that out before you leave the house — there is no card reader waiting for you at a farm on Dewberry Farm Lane.

We have a soft spot for a first annual. It is the version of an event where nobody knows yet how many chairs to put out.

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The green wall out along the fence line has a paper trail, and a receipt.

Gwyn Riddick's garden column in The Kernersville News this week takes up North Carolina's invasive plant list, and it starts with the one everybody can name on sight. Kudzu came here from Japan in 1876, part of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, sold as a fragrant, grape-scented, purple-flowered vine that could reportedly grow a foot a day. It was later promoted as forage for livestock and, after the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, as erosion control. Farmers were paid $8 per acre to plant it.

The list itself is compiled with input from seven organizations, among them the N.C. Botanical Garden, the N.C. Department of Agriculture and the N.C. Native Plant Society, and it sorts plants into five groups: Rank 1 Severe Threat, Significant Threat, Lesser Threat, Watch List A and Watch List B.

Rank 1 is where the surprises are. Alongside kudzu, the column names multiflora rose, Bradford pear, mimosa trees and various privets and honeysuckles. Riddick is careful to add that not all roses, privets or honeysuckle species belong in that group — some are perfectly well behaved.

Further down the list, Lesser Threat gathers up common yard plants considered a low threat to native plant communities in the state, including hellebore, the Lenten rose, and althea, the Rose of Sharon. Watch List B is the one that reads like a forecast: species that have caused problems in adjacent states but have not yet been reported causing problems here. White yam and California privet are on it.

It is a strange list to read in August, when every green thing in town is at its most enthusiastic. The vine that ate the South did not sneak in. We asked for it, and we paid by the acre.

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