🗞️ Their 5K became a survival party

🗞️ A new sports medicine doctor will see patients here

🗞️ Nine names you will hear locals use without explaining

🗞️ An arrest in the case of the car in Belews Lake

☀️ Sunny, evening storms possible | High: 97°F | Low: 73°F

Friday is the top of this heat stretch, and then the pattern finally turns. Sunny with a high near 97, a southwest wind of 6 to 9 miles an hour, and a heat index the National Weather Service puts as high as 101. There is a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5 in the afternoon, around 20 percent, and the night goes mostly clear with a low near 73. The break starts Saturday: a high of 95, but showers and thunderstorms become likely after 2 in the afternoon at a 60 percent chance. Sunday is the real relief, a high of only 84 with more storms around. If you are heading to a football game Friday night, the heat will still be sitting on the bleachers at kickoff, so carry more water than you think you need.

The number is $250,000, and it started behind a coffee counter.

Joshua Pratt and his wife, Kim, own Savage Roasters Coffee in Kernersville. Through Coffee for a Cause, the 501(c)(3) tied to the shop, they have raised more than $250,000 over five years, and they keep as much of it as they can in the Kernersville area.

The largest piece of that is All Mounds Matter, their breast cancer walk and run. Last year it drew roughly 650 registered participants and raised about $50,000. It returns Sunday, Oct. 4.

What Pratt describes is less a fundraiser than a reunion. The same people come back year after year, and they do not come back for the race. "They consider this their survival party," he said. "So if I wanted to stop, I couldn't. It's not about me."

That is a useful thing to know about a town this size. A coffee shop can turn into an institution if somebody keeps showing up. We will carry registration details for Oct. 4 as they are posted.

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Fall sports are underway, which makes the timing on this one worth noting.

Dr. Simon Moskowitz has joined Novant Health Orthopedics & Sports Medicine and will see patients in Kernersville, High Point and Greensboro.

He also serves as medical director of athletics for High Point University, which puts him over the care of the school's NCAA athletes. His background includes work with athletes at the high school, collegiate and professional levels.

For families here, the practical part is proximity. Sports medicine is one of those specialties people do not think about until a Friday night goes wrong, and then the question becomes how far you have to drive. Having another one of these appointments available in town rather than in Winston-Salem or Greensboro is a small thing that matters at the moment you need it.

The announcement does not say which Kernersville office will hold his hours, and we could not confirm it independently, so we are not going to print an address we are unsure of. We will update once it is posted.

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If you moved here in the last year or two, some of these come up in conversation with no footnote attached.

So here is the decoder. Nine things people around here say as though everybody already knows.

Körner's Folly. The Victorian house at 413 S. Main St. Jule Gilmer Körner, a designer and decorator, began construction in 1878 and finished in 1880, and he used it as both his home and a working showroom for clients. Twenty-two rooms across three floors and seven levels, no two doorways alike, 15 fireplaces, and ceilings that run from five and a half feet to 25. Preservation magazine once called it "the strangest house in the world," and the name stuck. Visitors park next door at the John & Bobbie Wolfe Visitors Center, 401 S. Main St.

The Cup. The Kernersville Cup, in boys' soccer. It is newer than people assume: the four Kernersville schools started it in 2025, with Glenn, East Forsyth, Bishop McGuinness and The North Carolina Leadership Academy playing each other early in the season and the best record taking it. Glenn won the first one. East Forsyth won this year.

Ivey Redmon. The Ivey M. Redmon Sports Complex at 788 Beeson Rd., 103 acres of ball fields, soccer fields and a cross country course, plus the Joseph L. Pinnix Jr. Memorial Dog Park and, as of this week, four sand volleyball courts. It is named for a World War II veteran and former alderman. It opened in 2001 as Beeson Road Park and was renamed in January 2013, which is why you will still hear people call it Beeson Road.

Paddison. The Paddison Memorial Branch of the Forsyth County Public Library, 248 Harmon Lane. It opened in December 2018, runs about 20,000 square feet, and holds a makerspace with a 3-D printer and sewing machines, a 150-seat auditorium, and a courtyard and lake.

The Garden. Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden at 215 S. Main St. The grounds are open daily from dawn to dusk with no admission charged, though there is a suggested donation of $4 per adult. The Welcome Center keeps shorter hours, Tuesday through Friday, so time your visit if you want the garden shop.

Little Brother. The Kernersville taproom of Greensboro's Little Brother Brewing, at 221 N. Main St. Music bingo on Tuesdays, a run and walk club on Wednesday evenings, trivia on Thursdays, yoga on Sunday mornings.

Main & Mountain. Main & Mountain Bookstore at 103 N. Main St., with an ampersand. Independent, with craft nights, author signings, game nights and several book clubs running at once.

The Honeybee Festival. Held the third Saturday in August at Fourth of July Park, and the reason bees turn up on so much around town. In 1973 a Kernersville resident named Brady Mullinax campaigned to make the honeybee the state insect of North Carolina, traveling to Raleigh with State Honey Queen Pat Dollarhite, who drizzled honey on biscuits for legislators and asked, "Who wouldn't vote in favor of the Honeybee Bill?" It passed. In 1975 three residents started a festival in Mullinax's honor. This year would have been the fiftieth, and it was called off for severe thunderstorms.

The Beltway. The Winston-Salem Northern Beltway, 34.5 miles of freeway looping north of the city, beginning at U.S. 158 southwest of Winston-Salem and ending at I-74 southeast of it. The Eastern Loop, the stretch closest to us, has been under construction for years and is targeted for late 2026. We say "targeted" on purpose: NCDOT's published status tables are still footnoted as current to December 2020.

If we left off one you had to look up when you got here, reply and tell us. We will run the second batch.

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Two weeks ago the car came out of the water. This week there is a name attached to it.

Kernersville police have arrested Logan Michael Milstead, 24, of Emerywood Court, in connection with a hit-and-run wreck on the afternoon of Aug. 17, near Lakecrest Drive and the 700 block of Piney Grove Road.

Investigators determined that the red 2012 Honda Accord recovered from Belews Lake on Aug. 21 belonged to Milstead and was the vehicle involved in the crash. Court records show arrest warrants were issued Aug. 24. He was located and arrested on Monday, Aug. 31.

This is the same car we wrote about last month, when the Kernersville Police Department was asking anyone who saw the wreck to come forward and the vehicle was still sitting at the bottom of the lake. It is not often that one of these loops closes inside of three weeks.

One caution on the record: the specific charges filed against Milstead are not in the portion of the court record we were able to read, so we are not listing them. As with anyone charged, the allegations have not been proven.

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