🗞️ Your Monday in Kernersville: sunshine, free fair mornings and a road closure

🗞️ Aldermen take final votes Tuesday on 670 apartments and a Ciener Gardens rezoning

🗞️ PTI now lets TSA PreCheck members visit the gates without a plane ticket

🗞️ Oak Ridge Heritage Day doubles as an America 250 celebration

🌤️ Partly sunny and warmer | High: 77°F | Low: 49°F

The gray weekend is behind us. Monday brings partly sunny skies, a light north breeze and a high near 77, with no rain in the forecast. It turns cool and clear Monday night, dropping to around 49, so grab a jacket if you'll be out late. Tuesday looks even nicer: sunny with a high near 70, which makes it a good day for $3 admission at the fair.

After a gray, drizzly weekend, Kernersville gets a bright start to the week. Monday looks partly sunny with a high near 77 and no rain in the forecast, and Tuesday follows with sunshine and a high near 70. Here's what to know before you head out.

On the road. Pecan Lane closes to through traffic starting Monday for water and sewer work, and the closure runs through Sunday, Oct. 11. If it's part of your commute, plan another route this week.

Last call for Best of the Best. Monday is the final day to vote in Best of the Best Kernersville, the Kernersville News readers' choice awards. If your favorite restaurant, shop or service provider deserves a shout-out, now's the time.

Free fair mornings. Admission to the Carolina Classic Fair at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds is free before 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gates open at 11 a.m., so a late-morning visit won't cost a thing to get in. On Tuesday, Oct. 6, every admission ticket is just $3 all day. The fair runs through Sunday, Oct. 11.

At the library. Paddison Memorial Branch Library, 248 Harmon Ln., hosts Triad Sip & Stitch from 9:30 a.m. to noon and LEGO Club for Teens at 4 p.m.

Coming Tuesday. The Board of Aldermen meets at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall with a full slate of public hearings, including final votes on 670 apartments near N.C. 66 and Interstate 40. More on that below.

Kernersville's Board of Aldermen has a busy agenda Tuesday night, with five public hearings on growth and land use. The two biggest items both come from the Planning Board, which reached very different conclusions on them.

The largest is a request from Linville Family LLC to rezone about 54.7 acres east and west of N.C. 66 South, just north of Interstate 40, near Kernersville Medical Parkway and Beeson Road. The site plan calls for 670 apartments, with 360 units on one parcel and 310 on another. A second phase would also allow uses such as offices, restaurants, shops, health services and child care. The Planning Board recommended approval 10-0 in September, and aldermen will also vote on annexing the land into town limits.

The other hearing to watch involves 5.9 acres at 321 Bost St. owned by the Paul J. Ciener Gardens Foundation. The foundation is asking to rezone the land from single-family residential to a district that allows up to five homes per acre, such as townhomes, duplexes and small apartment buildings. Town staff recommended approval, saying the request fits the town's plan for a gradual transition between single-family neighborhoods and denser housing nearby. The Planning Board disagreed and voted 9-1 to recommend denial. Because it is a general rezoning, no development plans have been filed.

The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 134 E. Mountain St., and streams on the town's YouTube channel. During each public hearing, supporters and opponents each get 20 minutes to speak.

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Want to walk Grandma to her gate, or be standing there when a friend steps off the plane? Piedmont Triad International Airport has joined Gateside by TSA PreCheck, a new program that lets PreCheck members go through security without a boarding pass, even when they aren't flying.

The program is free, but visitors must apply online one to three days before their planned visit. Once approved, they can accompany a traveler to the gate, meet an arriving passenger, spend extra time with someone before a flight or visit the shops and restaurants past the checkpoint. PTI began accepting applications on Oct. 2.

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Kernersville's neighbors in Oak Ridge gathered to celebrate their town's roots at Oak Ridge Heritage Day, and this year's festival carried extra meaning as the town also marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Children in period dress climbed aboard old tractors, the Old Dominion Cloggers pulled people from the crowd to dance along, and the Oak Ridge Fire Department rolled out a vintage fire engine. A farm animal petting zoo was a big hit with the youngest visitors.

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