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Next Recycling Collection
Recycling and bulk trash are collected every other Friday. The next pickups will be:
- Friday March 8
- Friday March 22
- Friday April 5
Garbage and yard waste are collected every Friday. Click here for details.
Next CHNA & HPC Meetings
- College Hill
Neighborhood Association
Monday March 25, 2024
Monday April 22, 2024
Monday May 27
Meetings are held as Zoom teleconferences: Click here to login. - Historic Preservation
Commission
Wednesday March 27, 2024
Wednesday April 24, 2024
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Meetings are held in the Plaza Level Conference Room, Melvin Municipal Building, 300 W. Washington Street.
- College Hill
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Isn’t There Anything to Do Around Here?
The Weatherspoon is open. There’s music on Tate Street, and we’re close to downtown, the Coliseum and most of Greensboro’s other arts and entertainment venues.
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Author Archives: David Arneke
The brand-new College Hill flag is now available
College Hill’s new flags are flying from front porches around the neighborhood. They’re available for purchase at $19. The flags are very substantial and two-sided. The smaller yard flags are $15 (the price includes the stand). To buy one (or … Continue reading
A Go Fund Me campaign for Merritt White’s cancer treatment
Many of you know Merritt White, proprietor of Re:Cycles on Spring Garden Street. He’s been a great neighbor for 20 years or more. I didn’t know until today that Merritt has been recovering from cancer surgery for several months. Last … Continue reading
Groundbreaking set for the Downtown Greenway’s final mile along College Hill and Westerwood — Saturday January 29
A note about getting there Parking is available near the cairns, but why not walk or ride your bike from College Hill along the final section. Enter the greenway at the corner of West McGee and Cedar streets, head toward … Continue reading
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Holiday wreaths again brighten College Hill
Neighborhood volunteers have decorated College Hill lampposts and the pergola with lighted holiday wreaths again this year. The group came together at the Church of the Covenant earlier this month to make the wreaths and then put them up. Volunteers … Continue reading
Memorializing the 1887 lynching in College Hill: Soil collection ceremony at Church of the Covenant, September 30
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ~ Maya Angelou, On the Pulse of Morning An invitation to the College Hill neighborhood: On Saturday, September 30, 2023, the Guilford … Continue reading
Rosemarie DiGiorgio named CHNA interim president
Samantha Stewart has stepped down as president of the College Hill Neighborhood Association, and Rosemarie DiGiorgio has been elected to succeed her as interim president. Samantha cited her commitments with her new child and a new job. “It has been … Continue reading
City cites College Hill’s new street signs in quarterly report
From the City of Greensboro’s quarterly progress report on the GSO2040 Comprehensive Plan:
For sale: An unusual house at an address with a forlorn history
919 Carr Street is a real eye-catcher, a squat little brick bunker built decades after its neighbors. First-time visitors to Carr Street always ask, “How did that get there?” It’s not that the house is ugly; some people don’t care … Continue reading
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This month at the HPC: A COA application for new fencing, a retaining wall and more at 301 N. Mendenhall Street
Update: The application was continued until the July meeting to get more detailed information. The Historic Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing this month on one request for a certificate of appropriateness in College Hill. The meeting will be … Continue reading
Long-awaited College Hill street signage project to begin
News release from the City of Greensboro: Post Date:05/31/2023 11:32 AM “Refurbished decorative street name signs and sign posts will soon grace the historic College Hill neighborhood. A City contractor will be removing signs at about 30 intersections throughout College … Continue reading