🗞️ Tray Tables Up. Prepare for landing. Time to Stretch.

🗞️ Early Voting Boom Keeps Kernersville Sites Busy

🗞️ Produce distributor Foster Caviness to close, cutting 169 Winston-Salem jobs

🗞️ Your Saturday in Kernersville: sunshine, stew and a mystery at Körner's Folly

☀️ Sunny and pleasant | High: 64°F | Low: 42°F

A picture-perfect fall Saturday. Expect sunshine all day with a high near 64 and a light northeast breeze of 7 to 10 mph, ideal weather for craft shows and a bowl of Brunswick stew. Tonight turns clear and cool, dipping to around 42, so bring a jacket if you're touring Körner's Folly after dark. Sunday looks just as lovely, sunny with a high near 66.

After more than 30 years working airline aisles, Angela Lewis has traded the beverage cart for a ballet barre. The former flight attendant has opened Neighborhood Barre at 230 Market View Drive in Kernersville, the Kernersville News reports. The studio held a soft opening on Sept. 14 and celebrated with a ribbon cutting on Oct. 16.

Lewis told the paper her dream of owning a business goes back to her grandfather, Harold C. Eanes, an inventor who founded and ran a textile manufacturing company in Stoneville. She started flying in 1991 for a Delta commuter airline and later moved to Delta itself. She stepped away after her daughter Evelyn was born a week before 9/11, then came back for another 10 years in the air.

A lifelong love of dance, yoga and Pilates eventually pointed her toward barre, a low-impact, full-body workout that blends ballet-inspired moves with Pilates, yoga and strength training. She chose to open under Neighborhood Barre, a brand Katy Richardson founded in Tennessee in 2011. Lewis says the classes build core strength, balance and everyday mobility, with a focus on "progress and not perfection."

It's a family affair. Evelyn is one of the studio's barre instructors, and Lewis credits her husband for his support and for handling the construction.

The studio has four barre instructors and one yoga instructor, with yoga every Tuesday at 6 p.m., and classes can hold 20 or more people. Lewis hopes to give back with community events, special classes for groups like the Wounded Warriors and fitness programs with local schools. To sign up, visit neighborhoodbarre.com, call 336-310-4856 or email [email protected].

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Forsyth County voters are showing up early in a big way. Through Thursday, 45,691 ballots had been cast during early voting, up from 30,830 at the same point in 2022, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. Each of the first six days topped the busiest day of the 2022 midterm, starting with 8,264 ballots on opening day.

Kernersville-area sites are doing their part. Paddison Memorial Branch Library has logged 4,273 ballots, the Kernersville Recreation and Event Center has 3,315 and the Walkertown Branch Library has 2,090. The rec center and Walkertown library are both new early voting sites this year. Elections Director Tim Tsujii credits the added sites and strong interest in races for U.S. Senate, school board, county commissioners, district attorney and sheriff.

Early voting runs through Saturday, Oct. 31, ending at 3 p.m. that day, and every site offers same-day registration. Check the county's early voting page for daily hours. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.

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Foster Caviness, a family-owned produce distributor that traces its roots to a Guilford County street-corner stand in 1902, plans to close, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. The closing affects 181 workers, including 169 at its facility on Lowery Street in Winston-Salem.

According to the company's state WARN notice, Foster learned on Oct. 14 that its biggest customer was ending its contract, effective Nov. 11. The first 36 job cuts begin Sunday, 121 more follow on Nov. 8, and the last employees are expected to leave by March 5.

The news comes just a year and a half after the Lowery Street site opened in March 2025 with help from city and county job-creation incentives. Greater Winston-Salem Inc. says local workforce programs are ready to help affected employees find their next job.

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Here are a few good ways to spend a beautiful fall Saturday.

Sunny and 64. Expect sunshine all day with a high near 64 and a light northeast breeze. Tonight turns clear and cool, around 42, and Sunday looks just as nice with a high near 66.

Shop local. The Kernersville Fall Fest Craft & Vendor Show runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at VFW Post 5352 on Edgewood Street, with Ember the Bubble Dragon on hand for the kids. Across town, the Market for All Seasons at First Presbyterian Church on Oakhurst Street offers homemade crafts, baked goods and a Christmas quilt raffle, with proceeds helping families in need.

The stew is ready. Bunker Hill United Methodist Church's United Methodist Men have been stirring Brunswick stew through the night. Pickup starts at noon at the church picnic shelter, and it's $10 a quart.

A spooky nightcap. Mystery After Dark tours of Körner's Folly start at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. Bring a jacket.

Friday night scores tomorrow. Look for East Forsyth, Glenn and Bishop McGuinness football results in Sunday's issue. See the events calendar above for times, addresses and links.