Mount Airy, NC News

• Mount Airy, NC News
• First annual WSYD block party a success
• Carriker named president of N.C. Women’s Club
• Vandals cut power to parts of Mount Airy
• MAHS graduates 105 seniors
• Student speakers highlight North Surry Commencement
• Sheriff’s Arrest Reports
• Clerk dead following armed robbery
• SCHS graduates 179
• East Surry holds graduation exercises for Class of 2012
• Parents blame day care for baby’s broken leg
• Holiday to affect garbage schedule
• Police briefs
• Crash claims life
• SCC Golf Tourney raises $65,000 for student scholarships
• Dobson manager proposes no tax increase
• County board votes to raise school lunch prices
• Surry County Retirement Celebration filled with smiles and songs
• Woman allegedly ran unlicensed child-care facility
• Surry ranks poorly in recycling report
• Tourism: The little engine that could
• Surry Central honors graduating students
• BOCC appointments approved
• Police briefs
• Not buckling up can be costly
• Native American Powwow begins here Friday
• Edward M. Armfield Sr Scholarships award $800,00 to local students
• County board okays hospital bond issuance
• ‘Role model, mentor and friend’
• County manager announces resignation
• City gearing up for Memorial Day program
• Rec plan approved for 65-and-older group
• Pilot board approves two rezoning requests
• County manager to step down
• Mansfield’s message to Surry NAACP is to ‘Get up’
• Crigger honored with parade by Pink Heals group
• Hornak to bring John Wayne to life
• Laura Chilton
• Surry Arts Council Presents: 2012 Summer Season at The Blackmon Amphitheatre
• Mayberry Farm Festival more than fun and food
• Shovels in ground this summer?
• Strong budget plans presented in Pilot and Mount Airy
• Most Wanted
• Board to have public hearings
• A hundred years of history
• Pilot town manager proposes water increase
• ‘Ultrarunner’ making way to Surry County
• Surry County stages first middle school debate tournament
• Highest authority not Supreme Court, but NCHSAA
• New city budget proposes less taxation
• Death silences longtime Mayberry Days musician
• New wing at Mount Airy High School is now open
• First bus driver appreciation banquet held at Meadowview
• Public hearing set on housing funds
• Investing in a healthy workforce
• ‘Chair-ity’ auction to be held Saturday
• Sen. Mansfield tapped as banquet speaker
• Shelton families award local scholarships
• Police briefs
• Drug arrests made by city, county officers
• Ribbon cutting, strawberry festival highlights at Tharrington
• City budget to be unveiled Thursday
• Peace Officers honor comrades fallen in the line of duty
• School chiefs optimistic, but cautious
• Board tables potential zoning fee increase
• The spirit of a champion
• Hicks named as Next Step Scholarship winner
• Willie Nelson to play in Pinnacle
• Graduations set for local schools
• Mayfest draws crowds to Pilot Mountain
• Hundreds lace up for March of Dimes walk
• Highland Games coming to area soon
• Mail carriers collect tons of food
• Most Wanted
• Good news for schools?
• Mayfest is now under way
• Services honors fallen law officers
• Fire is ruled arson
• Lady Cards shut out Trojans 3-0 to advance
• History Talks to feature Civil War currency
• The Wynns are back to promote Mount Airy
• With insurance, a bigger pool equals smaller costs
• Memorial service today to honor fallen officers
• Support urged for children of accident victim
• Car, truck, tractor show set Saturday
• Local National Guard unit to be deployed
• Flood water damages bridges, roads
• Tribute to ‘Goober’ set for Saturday
• York family donates to Surry County Educational Foundation
• Manchester speaks out for Lupus awareness
• Ethics battle heating up
• Rain postpones tennis playoffs
• Diamont, Johnson to face off for county board seat in November
• Voters approve marriage amendment
• Hounds name Lyons football coach
• Diamont, Johnson claiming nominations
• ‘Large’ voter turnout expected for primary today
• Surry County Board of Education names Principal and Teacher of Year
• ‘Mayberry’ mourns passing of George Lindsey
• Ethics charges filed against county board
• Shooting victim still at Baptist Health
• Free obituaries
• Over 2,000 attend third Budbreak Festival
• Healthy Kids Day offers unplugged fun for children
• Hundreds turn out for Tour de Mayberry
• Hewett: Not politics as usual
• Johnson stands on record
• One dead, one in hospital following Thursday shooting
• Rotarians bring smiles to Flat Rock Elementary students
• Tour de Mayberry to be held today
• Early voting ends today for primary
• Hunter seeks another term on Board of Education
• Two airlifted following shooting
• Pilot Mountain settles with former manager
• Rezoning approved for flea market
• Local residents mark National Day of Prayer
• City fire chief targets arson
• Breaking News: Two shot in incident in Dobson
• Cool head, proper training…
• Board to hear report on animal trapping
• Vote on flea market could come today
• Commissioners to consider fee hike
• Surry Central plant sale not the only project for FFA
• Lady Eagles win 2-0 in soccer on Senor Night
• Bears advance in 1A tennis playoffs with 6-3 win
• Cards punish Villains 12-0 in 5
• Pine Ridge hosting two charity tourneys Saturday
• Tennis, baseball playoffs affected by rain
• People’s Choice: Mount Airy is North Carolina’s Greatest Main Street
• Early voting off to good start here
• Residents tell tales of poverty for bus tour
• Choral performance to benefit local food bank
• Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act rules given to managers
• Surry Central annual FFA plant sale begins today
• Breaking News: Plane crashes in Ararat, two walk away
• Omie Johnson
• Levia Eads
• Charles Thomas
• Bryant Mr. Lester Wade Bryant, 80 formerly
• Lady Cards win season finale 8-1 over Hounds
• Storm win two hoops tourneys
• Beulah Hawks
• Roger Slate
• Eagles’ Smith signs with SCC baseball
• Viticulture and Enology Program grows at SCC
• SCC holds Volunteer Connection event
• Breaking News: First Citizen’s Bank robbed
• Busick named Volunteer of the Year
• Construction continues a Mount Airy High School
• Brame named Administrative Professional of the Year
• Event to combine shredding, electronics recycling
• Farmer’s market taking root in Mount Airy
• Fish sampling done locally to protect resources
• One Soldier's Story by Jim Akers
• One Soldier's Story by Jim Akers
• One Soldier's Story by Jim Akers
• County voters making their voices heard
• Letter - Patterson
• HEATHCOTE
• Common Core roll-out on track in city
• Free obituaries
• Hopefully, NCHSAA vote will remove private schools
• Autism event draws more than 500 walkers
• CARTER
• Prom-goers dance the night away
• JACKSON
• Truck traffic poses concern in neighborhood
• City schools sets next year’s calendar
• Pilot Mountain to host community beautification day
• Grand opening to be held for Shoals Recreation Center
• Breaking News: Fire trucks to greet wounded Marine today
• Letter - Shelton
• BLACKMON
• Plans for flea market debated at meeting
• TURNER
• Letter - Stoneman
• Mold puts brakes on police hybrid vehicle
• Time for some honest, though hard, funding choices
• My great escape
• Stevens responds to local school leaders
• Walk set to raise awareness of autism
• PART decision a refreshing move
• Three SCC students arrested
• City weighing new rules for sidewalk sales
• Mother, son lose home to fire on Postmaster Lane
• Early voting begins Thursday in Dobson
• Board votes to support traditional marriage
• Expenditures down, revenues up for all but water fund in Dobson
• Yacano, Smith honored as museum volunteers
• City meeting to include rezoning hearing
• Chick-fil-A to open here sooner than thought
• • A mother and daughter were cited for larceny last week in connection with an incident earlier this month at the Goodwill store on Rockford Street
• Art Walk called a ‘huge success’
• Commissioners ready for home health public hearing
• State auditor visits county on campaign swing
• Hartley offers glimpse into Stoneman’s Raid
• Fun run honors Hampton
• Most Wanted
• Community calendar
• Dobson Town Hall gets a face-lift
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Health calendar
• Land Transfers
• Building permits
• Marriages
• Divorces
• Commissioners favor same-sex marriage amendment
• ‘Because you matter…’
• Proposed elections budget increased
• Lighting Up The Night
• Farmers Market set to open April 24
• SCC to host job fair
• PART proposes cuts to county transportation
• NoneSuch Playmakers board ‘Titanic’
• Dry conditions draw concern from fire marshal
• ‘Leave it on the court’
• Community dinners provide food, fellowship
• Griggs Hampton Fun Run set for Saturday
• Police briefs
• Spreading the Word through service
• Church calendar
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• True Blue to raise money for Autism Awareness
• SCS to charge for driver’s education
• City police note increase in ‘huffing’
• EMS workers honored with Save Awards
• SCC requests slight budget increase
• Mount Airy Public Library to host book sale
• Police briefs
• Local officials applaud strip-search ruling
• County, city schools request increase in local funding
• Art Stroll to be held this Friday
• Health and Nutrition director presents budget to county board
• Highway Patrol streamlining local operations
• SCC receives $15,000 grant
• Highway patrol targeting teen drivers
• Mount Airy named finalists in N.C. Great Places contest
• Arts Council presents “Stand By Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story”
• Museum to host Girl Scout centennial exhibit
• Siblings prepare Key West dinner party for Laura East’s birthday
• Schools facing critical funding challenges
• First ever Arts Walk set this week
• LC Transportation is officially closed
• Voter-registration deadline is Friday for primary
• Six taken to area hospitals following crash
• Premier photographers to address Mount Airy Photography Club
• DOT awards contract to preserve Surry bridges
• March was fifth-warmest ever here
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Duluth Lane murder suspect arrested
• Breaking News: One dead in Bailey’s Trailer Park shooting
• Local Marine Corps office welcomes new recruiter
• USO to host Tribute to the Troops this month
• Pound Downtown 5K to feature adoption program this year
• Maron to speak at SCC
• Business marketing seminar set for SCC
• A meal and a show set for PMMS
• Fun Night planned to support Special Olympics
• Teen’s dream of becoming a ‘real’ fireman comes true
• Town appeals employment commission decision for former finance manager
• Missing teen being sought
• Mount Airy man accidentally shoots self
• Home invasion sends two to Wake Forest Baptist Health
• Commissioners begin budget work
• Egg Splash fun
• Scrambling to preserve jobs
• Event mixes bowling, drug education
• City police warn of lawsuit scam
• County schools ‘down to bare bones’
• Holiday sanitation schedule announced
• Police briefs
• Easter egg hunt set for Saturday
• Shoals UMC to host open house
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Foxx introduces Coble as her predecessor
• Possible Surry link to human remains probed
• Clients, staff learn in-home aide program to close April 13
• Sen. Hagan receives local ‘misery list’
• City school budget picture bleak
• GOP HQ to open Thursday
• Police briefs
• Offering a hand up
• Central United Methodist Women entertain at district prayer breakfast
• Home health employees to receive severance packages
• Sgt. Holbrook retires from sheriff’s office
• City board to discuss rezoning requests
• Surry Central students using free time to help others
• Police briefs
• Spring Folly planned in Dobson for April 21
• New details emerge regarding dead body
• Human remains found in Cana, Va.
• Operation April Fool’s nets 21 drug suspects
• Kids enjoy Easter events at musuem
• Final Monday edition of The News is today
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Breaking News: 21 arrested in Operation April Fool’s round-up
• ‘If one hurts, everyone hurts’
• Budding scientists shine in competition
• Snow named Master Artist at fiddlers convention
• Good Friday service planned
• Marriages
• Dog owners celebrate Easter with pets
• Most Wanted
• Community calendar
• Temple Baptist Church to pay for gas on Easter
• Reeves gets new Nautilus equipment
• Casstevens graduates from training course
• Smith graduates from basic
• Health calendar
• It’s about relationships, not trophies for Jim Wilmoth
• Land Transfers
• Building permits
• Divorces
• Fiddlers convention off to a strong start
• Chick-fil-A acquires site in city
• Pinnacle man dies after assault
• Committee rules dogs as ‘dangerous,’ to be put down
• County students shine in competition
• Pet gala, fashion show to help pet rescue group
• Fundraiser at Otis’s to help firefighters
• Benefit concert delayed by accident
• Police briefs
• Renfro donates 6,000 pairs of socks to homeless
• ‘We were blown away’
• Fiddlers convention begins tonight in Dobson
• Dobson’s mayor, town manager make amends
• Area shows support for wounded Marine
• Vietnam veterans traveling to statewide homecoming Saturday
• County granted school calendar waiver
• Police briefs
• Church calendar
• Harvest Times Bread Co. closing Mount Airy facility
• Alleged gunman causes government center lockdown
• ‘New’ congressman coming to Surry
• Soldier surprises fiancée at mall
• City rec study to be released soon
• Class warns of dangers of gambling
• Fundraiser to aid Family Resource Center
• Mount Airy to bloom with artists during Art Walk
• Police briefs
• Hollands join Realty World
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• UPDATED: Surry government center placed under lockdown
• Dobson board to discuss a possible community garden
• Dobson teachers present to state educators
• Rotary Donates To Schools
• McKinney/Bryant families get together for annual celebration
• A gift from the heart
• Marching to their own beat
• Candidates questioned at political forum
• Hayco announced as winning bidder for Pilot Center project
• Two video cameras on the chamber show off downtown
• Granite Bears rack up 3-1 win over Sauras on road
• United Fund of Surry campaign reaches 96 percent of goal
• Candidates forum to be hosted by Surry County TEA Party Patriots
• Salem Baptist to put on Easter play
• Potentially Dangerous Dog hearing set
• Run to the Ridge in the planning stages
• • The larceny of a U-Haul trailer was discovered Thursday at 89 Service Center on West Pine Street
• Trio named Small Business of the Year
• Sheriff’s office busts second meth lab in less than week
• Absentee ballot process under way for May primary
• City housing authority gets high marks from the Feds
• Mount Airy Hospitality Academy planned
• • The theft of a costly air-conditioning unit was reported Wednesday to the Mount Airy Police Department
• Farm Bureau honors local agent
• Church calendar
• County school chiefs meet with state leader
• 33,262 pills ‘dropped’ during event
• L.C. Transportation scaling back operations
• For the love of reading
• Black history program reset for Sunday
• Three teens accused in city beating
• Recognitions top school board agenda
• Police briefs
• Patrick official concerned about county budget
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Event teaching important life lessons
• City recycling rate hits 50 percent
• Commissioners hear John S. Clark, Pittsburgh Glass updates
• County tourism board wants litter gone
• Another voting precinct moved to new site
• • A local bank has been victimized to the tune of nearly $10
• Home health employees voice frustration in county board meeting
• City Hall of Fame inductees announced
• Kids build self-esteem during Mission Beautiful
• Pair charged in Peterbilt theft
• Police academy graduates largest class
• Some March Madness tickets are still left
• Police briefs
• Easter Bonnet Workshop, Parade and Easter Egg Hunt
• Memorial fun run to honor Griggs Hampton
• Remembering Sandy Beam
• Bridal Fair set for Saturday
• Fly-In, Cruise-In planned
• Morris Family entertains huge crowd
• Wine symposium set for SCC
• Pottery workshops set at SCC
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Yadkin Valley Senior Games registration deadline nears
• A modern-day Johnny Appleseed
• Sheriff’s office busts alleged Ararat meth dealer
• Mount Airy gets its Irish on
• Batik egg class to teach unusual technique
• Most Wanted
• Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p
• Health calendar
• ‘Too close to call’
• City will try to rush sewer project at park
• USDA reps visit local solar farm
• Police searching for armed robber
• Honoring those who serve
• Farmers market meeting to be held
• Growers meeting to be held
• Prescription drug abuse efforts under way in county schools
• John S. Clark future uncertain
• Speakers support funds to aid apartments
• Rabies sweep hits Pipers Gap Road community
• New book tells story of Mount Airy granite company
• Morris Family to meet Earle this Saturday
• Police briefs
• Church calendar
• Shelton brothers receive state tourism award
• Fiddlers convention upcoming at SCC
• ‘Operation Medicine Drop’ set for Tuesday
• Surry County meeting to further discuss Home Health Agency
• County seeking funding for school projects
• Mount Airy schools set kindergarten registration
• YVEDDI van involved in three-car collision
• Police briefs
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• School chief lauds area’s support of schools
• Anna Wood goes to Hollywood
• Common Core testing model unveiled
• Photo bug strikes county
• Timing of sewer project may affect events
• Local music legend Beam to be remembered this Saturday
• Rotary awards scholarship
• Police briefs
• Timmons Dr. resident saves dog from house fire
• It’s official — Mount Airy broke Twist record
• MCA wins science contest
• New apartments wouldn’t be ‘public housing’
• SCC budget on track
• Police briefs
• County commissioners honor Eagle Scouts’ Riggs
• County commissioners honor SCC Lady Knights
• Lewis family gets a home of their own
• St. Patrick’s Day celebrated at Miss Gertrude’s
• Hospitality Academy to feature history
• Bald is beautiful
• Most Wanted
• Courthouse shooting memorial service planned
• Tourism board discusses citizen awareness, website
• St. Patty’s Day party to raise money for museum
• Former local resident ‘making noise’ in Hollywood
• Mount Airy TDA looks at ways to increase tourism
• • A Winston-Salem man has been jailed in connection with an incident that involved him calling 911 and trying to catch a ride on an ambulance
• Public-notice problem may delay solar farm
• Pilot man charged with statuatory rape
• County offering free ride for Charlotte military celebration
• Commissioners speak out about county job losses
• • A Mount Airy man was arrested late Wednesday after allegedly breaking into an SUV
• Boy pilots plane at local airport
• Concerns raised about RCC parking
• PMMS takes another Battle of the Books title
• Dobson seeing new business growth
• Tax credit session set for Thursday
• Police briefs
• Professor Brower to lecture Saturday about ‘The Andy Griffith Show’
• Young Surry County tobacco growers attend N.C. State Tobacco short course
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• County commissioners cut 96 employees
• County real estate values drop by $120 million
• City plans to tackle infrastructure needs
• Wounded local Marine to start NASCAR race
• City school board votes to ask state do away with discretionary reversion
• Police briefs
• Hot dog sales to benefit Pilot police, rescue
• Northern among top ER hospitals
• Raising money for American Cancer Society
• Tilley family gathers for Sunday supper, Rook
• County commissioners approve grant applications
• Fire destroys Pilot Mountain home
• Falling tree shuts down MCA
• Budget shortfall may force driver’s ed fee in county schools
• Incumbents Johnson, Comer respond to competition
• Police briefs
• Cleanup under way in Patrick County
• Dedication pays off
• Civil War reenactment sheds light on dark days
• New curriculum plans on track in city
• Health fair driven to success at car dealership
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Brown clarifies county commissioner run
• Authorities apprehend suspects in armed robbery
• Teachers making teens’ prom dreams come true
• ArtsBall 2012 shatters previous records
• Routine business facing county Board of Education
• Library celebrates Read Across America
• Most Wanted
• Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p
• Health calendar
• Summers strives to help others to get fit
• Annual derby event makes physics fun
• Grant would aid prescription drug efforts
• Girl Scouts celebrates 100 years with birthday bash
• Fungus, fungus every where
• Superintendent shares reading
• City board approves sign change
• City man charge in theft of guns
• RES makes reading fun
• Sex offender arrested for unregistered move
• Destination FFA Cattle Sale set for March 10
• Community Health Fair to offer lots of freebies
• Police briefs
• Church calendar
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Three new candidates mark end of filing season
• March of Dimes to honor Griggs Hampton this year
• Sheriff’s office arrests suspect in meth lab case
• 56-unit apartment complex eyed again
• County high school students lauded
• Fund-raisers under way to aid police
• Shiitake mushroom workshop set for Friday
• Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) training offered for produce growers
• Police briefs
• Moser files for Board of Education, faces incumbent Hunter
• White Plains Christian School celebrates 40th anniversary
• First Baptist pastor on the road to recovery
• Sheriff’s office searches for meth lab owner
• Mount Airy Professionals of Surry to meet Thursday night
• Atkins grows monster turnip
• Officials search for suspect in Belton Road stabbing
• High school construction on time, schedule
• Daoud officially enters race for N.C. Secretary of State
• Tickets on sale now for courthouse tragedy play
• Mom charged with abduction
• Edmonds honored for solving cases in Pilot Mountian
• Man charged in Pipers Gap Road theft
• Work site theft leads to arrest
• SCC workers complete energy efficiency training
• BREAKING NEWS: Victim stabbed on Belton Road
• Flippen honored at Tommy Jarrell concert
• Men honored in a spirited way at church
• Klondike Derby a matter of survival
• County drug coalition to meet Tuesday night
• Tree falls onto Burgundy Road residence
• • A thief with apparent unusual tastes recently tried to victimize a Mount Airy business
• Two-day seminar to tout region’s wines
• Tractor-trailer runs off I-74, onto U.S. 601
• RBC Bank branches preparing for changeover
• Breaking News: Trailer runs off I-74, onto U.S. 601
• Dobson mayor calls for town manager’s resignation
• New program promoting health and wellness in county schools
• United Fund of Surry at 94 percent of goal
• Memorial service set today for slain city detective
• • A theft was discovered Monday at a local law office
• Community supports family who lost child in accident
• Surplus food to be given out Friday
• Annual Lent services have begun
• New shoe repair business filling a void
• Hewett to run for County Commissioner East District
• Free tax service has plenty of takers
• Truck collides with embankment off Cook School Road
• Family escapes fire on Holyfield Drive
• Porch Dog Revival benefit to assist Beamer recovery
• Police briefs
• Group to serve up ‘Rabbit Stew’ production
• NC trying to opt out of NCLB
• City police investigating obscene emails
• Farmland Protection Plan to preserve county agriculture, heritage
• Saturday youth rally aimed at helping military
• Dobson meeting expected to be heated
• Teachers begin work on new lesson plans
• MACS STAR students named
• Surrey fourth quarter earnings
• Shelton as statewide Tea Party coordinator for Forest
• Ganyard opens real estate office
• Wreck on I-74 kills 3-year-old
• County commissioners focus on rezoning, re-appointments
• Snow causes some accidents, closes schools
• Curbside recycling picking up in city
• Supplier sought for meals on wheels
• Police briefs
• Winter weather causing concern
• Ohio’s own ‘Barney Fife’ meets Betty Lynn
• Aware public key to combat prescription drug abuse
• Crowd turns out to celebrate Mardi Gras
• Old-time music festival to celebrate Jarrell, honor Flippen
• Weekend fires called suspicious
• ArtsBall tickets still available
• Ministries clinic serves those without health insurance
• Community celebrates Black History with music
• Chief recognized for drug task force efforts
• Tech program offers savings for SCC students
• Teaching new CPR techniques
• Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p
• Most Wanted
• Ministerial association hosting 91st annual Lenten services
• Beginners’ Day schedule set
• Northern Hospital introduces digital mammography, unveils renovated mammography center
• Health calendar
• Former resident explores mysteries of science, religion
• Marriages
• Divorces
• Building Permits
• Land Transfers
• Bringing the world to Surry County
• ‘Otis’ found guilty, but will appeal
• MACS honored for AP passing rates
• Thunderbird to be featured at Shepherd’s House fundraiser
• Firefighters to shave the day
• Gala to help erase the debt
• Speakers support sign change at hearing
• Surry Arts Council kicks of 2012-12 fund drive
• Need for more industrial sites voiced
• Habitat for Humanity store in need of donations
• Hunter files for re-election
• Northern Hospital to host ‘CPR Day’ Saturday
• Grant to fund organ donor awareness at MAHS
• Spencer’s Mill Complex taking shape
• Dispute ignites over Dobson Fire Department
• City school honored for behavior program
• Attorney to speak at black history program
• Surry County Honors Chorus sets annual concert
• Police briefs
• Grant to expand SCC recycling efforts
• Snappy Lunch to be featured on NC Weekend tonight
• Vehicle accident stalls traffic
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Actor coming to aid of wounded local soldier
• City to keep even-year elections, do away with primary
• ‘The Presidents I Knew’
• County incumbents officially file for re-election
• Public hearings on tap for city meeting
• Pancake breakfast planned by fire department
• Easter Seals dance set for Friday
• First Baptist members gather for chili supper and great desserts
• City taking aim at dilapidated housing
• Couple celebrates 76 years of marriage
• Building better citizens for America
• Pearson to head Stone Mountain State Park
• Fire burns forest on Groundhog Mountain
• Police briefs
• NCBOE taps local school leader for advisory post
• Vintage songs came to life for Valentine’s Day
• County BOE to help fund air conditioning projects
• Surry Central sweeps the 2012 Quiz Bowl
• Illegal tattooing on the rise in Surry County
• Children’s Center Heart Ball was biggest ever, officials say
• February is Spay-Neuter Month
• City sports-development plan making comeback
• Elected officials discuss benefits of The Pilot Center
• Tourism numbers released
• Special meeting to be held in Pilot
• Tommy Jarrell Festival 2012
• Larger solar farm planned in area
• African-American Read-in deemed a success
• New principal tapped for J.J. Jones Intermediate School
• There’s lots to do this Valentine’s Day weekend
• Commissioners come to a Crossroads in fiscal, merger reports
• Police briefs
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Grant awarded for STEM initiative
• Board to focus on taxes at retreat
• Saving a community one child at a time
• Local ranger now heading Mayo River State Park
• Theft suspect wrecks in Virginia
• Mount Airy Schools’ special needs program serving over 300
• Award presented to schools
• January weather a mixed bag
• Housing, personal updates discussed
• Education key in slowing prescription pill abuse
• Even-year elections could cloud local issues, officials fear
• Dates set to write new school curriculum
• Rape suspect makes large bond
• Police briefs
• L.S. Starrett cited for blood collection
• Local officials prepare to file for re-election
• Super Bowl XLVI enjoyed by Legends
• East, Stevens to run again for General Assembly seats
• Local officals keeping an eye out for whooping cough
• County works with NTSC to revitalize soccer program
• New school lunch regs taking bite out of budget
• Downtown Mount Airy debuts new website
• Bunting joins firm
• New bill could relocate Veterans Claims judges to Washington
• Most Wanted
• Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p
• Pilot Mountain center recognized with award
• SCC nursing students surpass the state average
• Health calendar
• Golden-voiced McIntyre relives life on the airwaves
• Wiley’s program at museum was well received
• School dropout rate encouraging, but more work to be done
• Kilby delivers keynote address at EDP meeting
• City school board faces light agenda
• Curriculum, policy changes top Board of Education agenda
• Police briefs
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• City board favors signage change
• Mystery of the rock
• Citizens spur change in precinct locations
• City schools preparing for sweeping curriculum changes
• NSHS student wins FFA Event
• New testing model being developed for city students
• Perkins to lead Mount Airy TDA
• Veterans Affairs program to provide health care info
• Police briefs
• School FFA seeking livestock for this year’s fund-raiser
• Church calendar
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• School award boon for economic development
• City sign change could mean more business
• Flu vaccine still advised, despite warm weather
• White Plains woman victim of driveway scam
• NSHS student heading to state FFA competition
• York campaign spent $15,650 in losing effort
• Police briefs
• Program would allow county high school students to bring personal computers to school
• Budget crunch hitting county schools
• Mtairynews.com gets new look
• Local woodworker turns trees into art
• Central Middle teacher pens tall tale of a Tail
• Health and wellness night set for Shoals Elementary
• Genesis church to deliver children to Canaanland
• Behavior program reaping rewards in county schools
• Sheetz coming to Mount Airy
• Labor department urges businesses to apply for safety awards
• Free class offered on tourism, hospitality marketing
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Dobson budget audit shows profits
• County school students active in arts
• Black History Month events offer variety
• Miss Angel grows business, puts people to work
• Program to teach business skills
• School chief says REAL can have real impact.
• Diabetic students to find allies at alleys this Saturday
• Health fair offers number of screenings
• Two hearings highlight Dobson town agenda
• Police briefs
• WorkForce Carolina moving to new office
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Humans, donkeys win in basketball ‘funraiser’
• State approves resurfacing of local roads
• Making a difference one child at a time
• A gift from the heart
• Local actress in cast of ‘Chronicle’
• Police briefs
• Local author’s book is taking off
• Winter soup luncheon served at Modern Gardeners’ meeting
• Headway being made in prescription drug problem
• New authors in city
• City firefighters answer 1,084 medical calls in 2011
• Library portraits show face of a time forgotten
• Hearing on local public transportation services planned Thursday
• Pilot board trying to get a handle on stray cats
• Donkeys gone wild at Millennium Charter Academy
• DBA to host first-ever Annual Meeting
• Town board to discuss animal laws, painting fire hydrants
• Questions linger about recycling program
• PMMS celebrates multiple honors
• Museum exhibit to feature 2012 NASCAR inductee
• Community calendar
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Health calendar
• Keeping a memory alive: Students remember White Dirt school
• Building Permits
• Land Transfers
• Marriages
• Locally made socks accompany Obama address
• Three Dobson residents arrested on drug charges
• Memorial walk set to honor fallen police officers
• Limited tickets left for Robert Burns dinner
• Police briefs
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Hemric promoted to team leader
• City board OKs road plan, without median
• Chamber ambassadors reach out to community
• Prescription drug coalition to meet
• Pet adoption fair to feature black dogs
• Police briefs
• Church calendar
• Police seek suspect in abduction, robberies
• Kids get first look at new recycling truck
• Commissioners hear rezoning, veterans cemetery plans
• Latest unclaimed property list contains large sums
• On your mark, get set, giddy up
• Dobson families have recovered following fires
• Commissioners vote in favor of new transportation plan
• Patrick sheriff believes Rockford murder suspect has fled
• Some city commissioners oppose U.S. 601 change
• Mount Airy High School to display signs after winning national award
• Police briefs
• Houston to pay tribute to Billie Holiday
• Fairview Baptist Church to celebrate 100 years Thursday
• Racial unity for change is theme of MLK event
• Visitation up at Pilot Mountain State Park
• Museum prepares for Black History Month
• Police briefs
• School board to discuss performance
• BREAKING NEWS: Warrants issued for identified Rockford murder suspects
• Shepherd’s House to give away 1955 Thunderbird
• Millennium Charter Academy to host donkey basketball
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Mount Airy High constructs Salvation Army, Children’s Center donations
• BREAKING NEWS: Rockford murder suspects’ descriptions revealed
• Victim shot near Yadkin River banks
• City looking to sell water to Carroll County
• Riverside Building Supply donates to food pantry
• Citizen of the Year nominations due Friday
• MLK luncheon to be held Monday
• Celadon trailer accident blocks U.S. 52
• Grandfather arrested after incident at high school basketball game
• Backgammon classes offered
• Police briefs
• Library hosting photography contest
• Hospital Academy offering new seminar
• BREAKING NEWS: Man found shot, killed at low-water bridge
• Political Director shows Afghanistan to Millennium students
• ‘Our State’ reps meet with Tourism Partnership
• Dobson employees give back
• Cross Creek finds new management in Affiniti
• Kids are in the kitchen
• Shockley sworn-in as new SCC president
• Teen drivers now required to log driving experience
• School board to further integrate cloud, social networking
• Artsball 2012 to feature Band of Oz
• Surry Arts Council taking scholarship applications
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• All State agent recognized for volunteerism
• Wanted: Nominations for sports hall of fame
• Official wants to keep sports-development idea alive
• Assistance being accepted for Lowgap fire victims
• Senior health fair set for later this month
• Veterans Affairs Program offers health information
• 2011 proved to be wet year here
• Police briefs
• Program helping kids - and adults - be more responsible
• Mount Airy police stress rights of service dogs in businesses
• Museum gearing up for White Liquor and Dirt Tracks event
• Genealogy workshop scheduled
• Police briefs
• Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p
• Health calendar
• New counselor dealing with many issues
• Marriages
• Beamer Report
• Land Transfers
• City leaders hope action will create jobs
• Surry County Relay for Life Meet and Greet to be held Monday
• Robert Burns supper tickets on sale now
• Golden Eagles pin Vikings 54-27
• Fire on Hendricks Circle destroys camper
• Nova owner wins award
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Daoud announces run for Secretary of State
• DOT roads plan gets rough treatment
• Local eatery to be featured on UNC-TV
• Dobson Rescue raising funds with weekly Bingo
• DWI cases drop sharply during holiday period
• Educators complete day four of ‘Race to the Top’
• Annual 4-H plant sale begins
• Police briefs
• Surry Arts Council offering variety of programs in January
• Church calendar
• BREAKING NEWS
• County sees increase in structure fires
• Snappy Lunch to be featured on NC Weekend
• North Surry teen now the BBQ kid
• Sheriff Atkinson talks drug interdiction at ministerial meeting
• Starting over … the aftermath of a fire
• Fire victim’s name released
• Commissioners discuss annual budget in year’s first meeting
• Two families lose homes to fire
• Transportation plan hearing scheduled for Thursday
• First baby of new year arrives
• City board to meet Thursday
• Police briefs
• ‘A Taste of Tradition’ cookbook provides great recipes for Heritage Club Evening
• Early morning fire destroys Lowgap residence
• Curbside-recycling carts coming soon
• Surry Republicans in majority for first time ever
• • A Mount Airy man has reported the theft of his wallet from the bumper of a vehicle
• Museum’s New Year’s Eve Party was a sell-out
• New law shifts some inmates from state to local jails
• Area homeless shelters get a boost from New Year’s fundraiser
• Home destroyed by fire on New Year’s Eve
• Surry veterans have an ally in Linda Jessup
• Kwanzaa celebrated in Mount Airy on Saturday
• N.C. gas tax increases 3.9 today
• Twins earn top goals in scouting
• Last Holiday Marketplace opening today
• Nominations for Citizen of the Year needed
• Pilot board changing town attorney
• Mount Airy Kmart spared in first round of closings
• Mount Airy had year of highs and lows
• ‘Life Change Challenge’ to be a different kind of boot camp
• Three New Year’s Eve parties planned
• Mother, three children lose everything in fire
• • Two Cana
• Officers targeting impaired drivers
• DWI conviction can be costly
• Hodges home designated as latest Century Farm
• Push to alter city elections under way
• Police briefs
• County commissioners review challenges, successes of 2011
• New coordinator named for resource center
• Pharmacy accepting unwanted medications
• Local park to host ‘First Day’ walk
• Kwanzaa celebration set for Saturday
• Police briefs
• Shoppers fill return lines on Monday
• Dobson manager happy with positive changes
• Two fires displace one couple, one family
• Tickets still available for New Year’s party at the winery
• Woman remains in burn center
• Prescription drug collections under way at police station
• Pilot Mountain, a look back at 2011, and a look forward to 2012
• Dobson residents getting ready for recycling
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Blackwater United serves Christmas Eve meals to inmates
• Donation to help career academy move forward
• Over 100 turn out for Eve Before Christmas Eve event
• Victim suffers ‘significant burns’ in outbuilding fire
• Health calendar
• Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p
• Divorces
• Land Transfers
• Marriages
• Beamer Report
• Five arrested in early morning drug raid
• Christmas sales down in downtown, say business owners
• Property owner donates easement for lake
• Troopers to enforce Booze it and Lose it over the holidays
• Holiday to affect garbage schedule
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Teacher charged with having sex with student
• Atkinson reprimanded, responds to county property allegations
• United Fund of Surry campaign reaches 70 percent of Goal
• Cruise-in for Christ looking for children to help
• Downtown Food Drive hailed a success
• Mount Airy remembers “hometown hero” Griggs Hampton
• Gambling prevention initiative launched in Surry
• Cana Knights rescue local families in need
• United Fund of Surry increases aid in Pilot
• Santa Claus came to town
• Haynes, Strand and Co. helps Children’s Center of Surry
• The Mount Airy News employees enjoy annual Christmas luncheon
• Pilot employees to take six furlough days
• The Night Before Christmas Eve to feature Christmas stories, music
• Georgia law official praises Surry, Mount Airy officers in capture of fugitive
• Smith to perform one-woman show
• SCC expands testing service
• Salvation Army giving out toys today
• ‘Christmas Angel’s’ kindness proves contagious
• First-graders find the perfect Christmas tree
• Local Republicans nearly outnumber Democrats
• Man injured in moped accident
• • A Pinnacle woman was arrested Thursday on a felony drug charge
• Moravian band builds Christmas spirit
• Local bell-ringer breaks record; others continue
• MAPD warns of ‘secret shopper’ scam
• Teens arrested after church break-in
• Man tried in sex case
• • Two Winston-Salem residents are facing multiple theft violations after incidents Wednesday at two stores in Mayberry Mall
• Bell-ringer jingles his way toward record
• Man kills self after confronted by deputies
• Georgia fugitive arrested in Surry County
• Police briefs
• Dobson commissioners sworn-in
• Shoals students getting down to business
• Wake Forest MBA students assist Surry Children’s Center
• DBA food drive to wrap up on Saturday
• Rabies clinic to be held Saturday
• Woman escapes fire with help from passerby
• Fire official offers winter warnings
• PMMS named Signature School
• Country singer to return for hometown show on Saturday
• Time running out — enter Meals and Memories contest soon
• Joy Ranch holding live nativity
• Local hunters seek to feed the hungry
• SCC receives Project Skill-Up grant
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Tis the season to be giving
• John S. Clark downsizing, 75 to lose jobs
• ADN class donates to Grace Clinic
• New space all-around benefit for Yokefellow
• Teen charged in stabbing over presents
• Dobson commissioners to be sworn-in Thursday
• Local author uses puppet to teach life lessons to kids
• Surry Arts Council announces holiday shows, workshops
• Central Methodist Women share recipes for Christmas entertaining
• Eight members of family displaced by fire
• Garcia, Hicks receive police department honors
• Cedar Ridge students become Christmas crooners
• Share your meals and memories
• North Surry donates to sheriff’s Christmas drive
• Thursday commissioners meeting canceled
• • A false-pretense case involving the unauthorized use of a local resident’s debit card is under investigation
• Volunteers fill food boxes for Sheriff’s Christmas drive
• SCC unveils ‘cutting-edge’ robotics in automation lab
• Visitors from near and far attend Holiday Open House at museum
• Downtown Food Drive off to a slow start
• Free flu vaccines being offered
• WPO to host charitable Christmas party
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Divorces
• Marriages
• Bell-ringer seeks to break record
• Two die in house fire
• Locals take in Mayberry ‘Christmas’ story
• Cops help make Christmas brighter for kids
• ‘Christmas Blessings’ concert packs Central United Methodist
• Community calendar
• Health calendar
• Land Transfers
• Neighbors stores to change hands Monday
• Students get scientific at county fair
• Donation enables library to purchase more books
• An end and a beginning for YLS
• Museum to host holiday open house Sunday
• Police briefs
• ‘Chair Affair’ gets chamber off to a great start for 2012
• $359,000 grant to city will create jobs
• SCC president-elect Shockley speaks to elected officials
• ‘Christmas angel’ saves day after wallet theft
• Police briefs
• December precipitation already above-average
• Highland Park to be ‘Searching for the King’
• Cabins at White Sulphur Springs — a new upscale mountain retreat
• Church calendar
• Pastor, 90, has served through turbulent times
• Ararat River rises
• Food drive to be held downtown Saturday
• Christmas by Lamplight offers a step back in time
• ‘The Christmas Story’ to be featured in Professor Brower’s lecture today
• Race will provide toys for kids
• Secret Santas, apply here
• Police Briefs
• Christmas concert set for this Saturday
• Westfield Road should reopen Saturday, official says
• Local man survived Pearl Harbor attack
• Local postal facilities to remain open
• NSHS clubs go global with service project
• City school board celebrates achievements
• Yuletide Spirit and Gingercookie house workshop held for special friends
• Police briefs
• Surry County Nutrition Association members really know how to cook
• First Baptist Church pulls out of Surry association
• Santa getting help from high school students
• Pilot manager proposes salary reductions
• Funding approved for byway signage
• Board approves plan to purchase new technology
• Chamber of Commerce to hold ‘Chair Affair’ this Thursday
• Habitat welcomes Fleming family home
• Crowds turn out to tour area homes
• The Cardinal Guild provides outlet for creativity
• East Surry JROTC advances in quiz bowl
• SCEA contributes to backpack programs
• Holiday season parades into town
• Candlelight Christmas packs Rockford Methodist Church
• NSHS FFA continues competitive edge
• Wanted: Applicants for Citizens Police Academy
• Santa arrives in new bucket truck at city tree lighting
• New members join city board
• Fire destroys Lowgap Home
• Prestons plan to show home during tour
• City seeking grant for covert drug probes
• SCC hosts Angel Tree Festival
• SCC hosting Angel Tree Festival
• Music, dancing among Arts Council activities planned in December
• Three stories of Flouhouse home all decked out for Christmas tour
• Area teachers among t hose who receive Bright Idea grants
• Astronomy event planned at Dobson
• Winners named in Biggest Loser contest
• Christmas Tour of Homes is not to be missed
• • Equipment valued at $3
• Sheriff’s office seeking donations for Christmas fund
• Habitat for Humanity in need of applicants
• Smith houses to be featured on tour of homes
• Christmas By Lamplight returns to Horne Creek
• Kincaid is latest helped by Clara B. Farlow Foundation
• Pilot board may cut two jobs
• Johnson recognized for inspiring kids to be healthy
• Satterfield house to be showcased on tour of homes
• Matthew 25:35 to host toy drive at B52s
• Rosy Cheeks 5K
• County to explore composting operation
• Event offers slice of colonial Christmas
• Restored Coe cabin on this year’s Tour of Homes
• City tree lighting set for Thursday
• Couple celebrates Christmas in big way
• Public open house set tomorrow to review Farmland Protection Plan
• Drug task force coalition to meet
• Marines recruit Santa, Sir Purr, others for toy drive
• Horton home features antiques for Holiday Tour of Homes
• Community calendar
• Health calendar
• Spending a lifetime among the books
• Black Friday gets good marks here
• Tickets on sale for Christmas Tour of Homes
• Coat campaign exceeds expectations
• Pilot mayor, commissioners to be sworn in Monday night
• Police briefs
• SCC offering two seminars
• Restaurant uses holiday to help community
• Local man part of CNN broadcast
• Restaurant gives back to community
• Truckload of food collected at Zumbathon
• Christmas parade set for this Saturday
• Delivering holiday meals not always easy
• Charpiats to offer ‘Pilot Mountain Christmas’
• Turkey Day Fun Run set for today
• Santa Claus to visit at toy drive this Saturday
• Police briefs
• EMS adding equipment for overweight patients
• Second-graders moving to the music
• Grant sought for animal-adoption center
• Holder recognized with state award
• Kerosene spill occurs in city
• Burn the Bird food drive this Thanksgiving
• Man charged after wreck in city
• Police briefs
• Dr. Darrell Tate gives Thanksgiving forecast at senior adults luncheon
• County speeding up interstates project
• City firefighters cited for lifesaving efforts
• Association pleased with turnout for Community Thanksgiving service
• Fourth-graders read the night away
• Holiday to affect trash pickups
• Police briefs
• Community Thanksgiving dinner planned
• Stories, some fact, some fiction, were told at Tellabration
• Recording the sounds of Mount Airy
• A ‘blast’ from the past
• Tarhell Junior Historians win Newsome award
• Rockin’ in the New Year with Elvis and Friends
• Habitat entering partnership to build sustainable homes
• MCA students bring museum to classroom
• Cash registers ring during Downtown Open House
• Coe receives Raleigh Dingman Award
• Composting and vermiculture workshop to show ways people can reduce waste
• Jones celebrates history through Heritage Day
• Madison remembered as lifelong educator
• Family and consumer sciences recognizes 100 years of work
• 13 Bones to serve up Thanksgiving meals to needy
• Dobson supports changing elections to even years
• Mount Airy-Dobson water dispute ends
• Rockford offers traditional Candelight Christmas
• Ride for Rescuers gives to Children’s Center
• • A Mount Airy woman has been arrested on a multiple forgery violations
• History of local soldiers to come alive at museum Sunday
• LPN students help out Blue Ridge H.O.P.E.
• Toys for Tots program to help children in Surry, Stokes
• Voce continues Beam’s legacy with Merritt as director
• Youth group to host Armfield concert and food drive
• Dinner theater catering to families
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Letters by soldiers read at historical society meeting
• Workshop puts town ‘on the map’
• Zach Smith Fund awards second round of grants
• United Fund of Surry campaign at 47 percent of goal
• Announcement in lawsuit between Dobson, Mount Airy may come Thursday
• Board learns for construction progress
• Communtiy band returns this year
• Easter Seals celebrating reopening
• Church group seeks help for Thanksgiving meal
• College to renovate teaching auditorium
• City write-in votes include cartoon character, others
• Widowed Persons Organization doubles membership at second meeting
• Police briefs
• Another sewage spill reported in city
• ‘Elvis’ and friends on tap for New Year’s Eve
• Local scouts elected council officers
• Arrests made in area break-ins
• MCA students become informed voters
• Community Thanksgiving Service planned Sunday
• Westfield Booster Club to host Bingos
• Scouts show respect, honor for flag
• New policy could offer up more diverse technology
• YLS teaches history, tourism to students
• Elks honor those who serve
• Community calendar
• Health calendar
• Llewellyn revels as “nonesuch” writer and director
• Crowd braves cold to honor veterans
• Veterans honored at Skyline Memory Gardens service
• Retiring the colors for the final time
• Town receives $50,000 to help balance budget
• Saluting those who serve
• • William John Wieczorek Jr
• Local residents, veterans honor Veterans Day
• Remembering the cost of freedom
• Here’s to the ones who stand their ground
• Taking a moment to say thanks
• Local Marines celebrate 236th Corps birthday
• Veterans Day service to be held at Skyline Memory Gardens
• Church calendar
• Surry, Stokes county vets honored for their service
• Veterans called, thanked for service
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Scouts look at building bridges
• City can’t impose terms limits
• NoneSuch Playmakers hitting local stage
• Coloring books teach kids about prescription drugs
• Mizzi joins local ESC office as manager
• Contractor, fundraiser efforts announced for dv shelter
• Middle schools learning the art of debate
• City firemen seek to give muscular dystrophy the ‘boot’
• From parties to storytelling, Halloween has something for everyone
• East Surry JROTC team wins Raider’s meet
• ‘Hairspray’ takes most Opie Awards
• 3rd Annual Rosy Cheeks 5K
• Kids, parents enjoyed events at D.A.R.E event
• Dogs, runners, wine-lovers enjoy events at Round Peak
• Airport authority moving forward with project
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Surry not giving up on economy
• York challenges Sheppard to debate
• Daymark poised to take over New River services
• Unemployment rate drops; seasonal hiring begins
• Police briefs
• Celebrating Spartan swag
• City drug roundup targets 42 people
• Toy train now a reality for local drive
• Town may come to rescue of residents
• Extras needed for movie this weekend
• CRISS training looks at learning
• Teaching assistants attend reading program
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Church calendar
• Relay for Life 2012 set for fall
• Historical society annual meeting to feature Civil War program
• Local dry cleaner supports breast cancer awareness
• Sheriff’s office busts meth lab
• Votes needed in pumpkin decorating contest
• Political campaign brings problems with signs
• Second annual Farm Fest set for downtown
• PART route changes effective Monday
• D.A.R.E. Celebration set for Saturday
• Volunteers sought for tax-aide program
• Payne, Wall rank high at world expo
• SCC offering small business loan seminar
• Pilot Mountain officials OK budget cuts
• Underwood raises goods, funds for Shepherd’s House
• A Field of Screams continues this weekend
• Officials say success of recycling will depend on education
• Medicine drop to be held in Pilot Mountain
• Health department recommended for re-accreditation
• Stages set for spirits, sprints and stories
• Third annual Fall Fest offers fun for the family
• Marines hiking for cause
• City has fewer empty commercial buildings
• Search leads to arrests for meth lab
• Local teen wins Patrick County pageant
• CMT students renovating historic house for community
• Welcome to Casino Royale
• City OKs its part of Veterans Memorial Park project
• Shoals receives AED through community support
• • A larceny was discovered Thursday at the Head Start center on Jones School Road
• Board votes to buy recycling equipment - barely
• City primary process questioned
• Town turns out for candidate forum
• Ranger brings erosion to life
• Museum bringing Casino Royale to town
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Police briefs
• Church calendar
• Recreation needs cited at meeting
• Dobson students train like the Panthers
• Billings chosen for statewide FCCLA office
• Early voting begins today for municipal elections
• Dobson Fall Fest set to get under way Saturday
• Commissioners honor citizens
• Fire was accidental
• Police briefs
• Cox-Needham enrolls in Pursuit of Excellence program
• County approves NC Tomorrow application, tax schedules
• Questions remain after York settlement
• Board to vote on truck, carts for curbside recycling
• City school board approves calendar
• Event boosts food pantry by 6,588 pounds, $20,750
• Foothills Food Pantry asking for community votes
• Police briefs
• City reports wastewater spill
• Franklin Heights United Methodist members celebrate at homecoming
• Epperson facing multiple charges in ATF raid
• MAHS celebrates its students
• Coordinator named to lead fight against prescription drug abuse
• County pursues funding for interstates sewer project
• Boston company to spearhead Beck clothing line
• Deweys kick off Teen Read Week celebration
• Police briefs
• Meeting scheduled tonight
• Autumn Leaves Festival ends on a high note
• Shelton Vineyards celebrates harvest
• Museum hosts lecture on tobacco and culture
• Attendance high at 45th festival
• Museum activities for kids a success during festival
• Cornshucking Frolic keeps traditional activities alive
• Second hearing to be held for N.C. Tomorrow
• Autumn Leaves Festival kicks off
• Sheriff urges Congress to secure borders
• Students say aloha to good nutrition
• Schools honored for PBIS success
• Domestic violence vigil highlights stories, facility plans
• Pilot sorting out budget issues; finance director fired
• York settling in lawsuit against Pilot Mountain
• Man arrested on drug charges
• Tesh will be signing new book during festival
• Literature, music, wine and wildlife to be found at regional museum
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Church calendar
• Autumn leaf hunt
• Autumn Leaves Festival starts today
• NSHS raising awareness about breast cancer
• Johnson: PART funding from county unlikely
• Health department revamps Web site
• SECHSD recognized for high graduation rate
• Shelton Vineyards marks 6th annual Harvest Festival
• Band festival set for Saturday
• Crossroads selects replacement for New River
• Health department urging people to get flu vaccine
• Think Pink event to raise money, awareness about cancer in Surry
• Police briefs
• City enjoying rainfall surplus
• Assistant register of deeds receives state award
• Senate passes bill to sanction China over currency
• SCHS alumni ready for homecoming festivities
• Graham wins handily in city primary
• Students take a stroll through the past
• Utilities commission considering Duke Energy rate hike proposal
• Aussies Rotarians say Mount Airy felt like home
• County moving forward with new aging plan, Crossroads merger
• Domestic violence vigil set for Thursday
• Pilot board to consider settling lawsuit
• Car show to benefit wounded soldier
• Surry Senior Center cited for excellence
• Tailgate party to be held at MASH Friday night
• Students learn of options at SCC
• Danielle Hiatt finds Sunday meals bring family and friends together
• Solar farm opens
• Rep. Tillis holds town hall meeting
• Dearmin sworn-in as Pilot Mountain town manager
• Solar farm opens
• Students discover emergency services
• Trustees learn of changes to enrollment
• Rasmussen graduates basic
• SCC offering social media seminars
• Johnson says modern racing lacks excitement
• WPES flying high for reading
• • Three men are facing violations of larceny and possession of stolen goods after they allegedly were caught trying to remove steel Wednesday
• Beck project not dead, mayor says
• Cornshucking frolic set for Saturday
• Men critically injured in wreck near Dobson
• Profiles for at-large city commissioner candidates
• PMES students walk to school
• Meeting on prescription drugs planned Monday
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• BizFest brings local businesses together
• Largest-ever meth lab found
• • The Mount Airy Police Department is investigating a case in which someone failed to return a vehicle to a city business after a test drive
• Junior historians explore geocaching
• Meetings planned on city recreation
• County, Granite Tactical renegotiate agreement
• Hunter ‘humbled’ by success of tournament
• Penske to help GMAMH
• Food drive planned in Pilot Mountain
• Trout, trout, let them all out
• Energy program sees major changes
• Judicial center tests show no immediate health concerns
• Colleges eye social sites
• Exceptional child event set for this Saturday
• Arts council announces changes, new program
• Gene Watson in concert Friday
• Changes announced for town hall meeting
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Werle joins staff of Northern Hospital
• Money issues dominate candidates forum
• Little named superintendent of city schools
• Petty, Johnson to appear at event to aid local food bank
• Local firmed named to fastest-growing list
• Modern Gardeners enjoy fall salad luncheon at September meeting
• Parks and rec projects approved at county meeting
• Sheriff’s office hosts chaplains conference; local chaplain receives award
• Top state official to hold town hall meeting here
• County holds first public hearing connected with NC Tomorrow
• Recreation master plan to be updated at meeting
• Schools take look at finances
• • A Mount Airy man has been threatened through electronic means
• Cycle NC passes through Surry
• Encampment recreates history
• Craft exhibit open at Mount Airy museum
• Widowed Person Organization formed
• Cash program deemed a success
• Home centered around volunteers, verse
• One-stop voting begins this week in Mount Airy
• Sonker Festival was well attended
• Hearing to be held for economic development strategy grant
• Community calendar
• Health calendar
• Rees awarded highest honor at PNC conference
• Police probing theft at solar farm
• Rotarians reading to students
• Copeland promoting health and wellness
• Sewage spill reported in city
• Police briefs
• Pet adoption fair, pet food drive to be held
• Bryant to be featured artist at gallery
• PTA club holding massage fundraiser
• Preservation conference under way
• Visitors deems party a huge success
• SCC receives $1.7 million grant for job training
• Cycle NC tour passing through area this weekend
• Ramblers to play old-time dance
• Funding available for nonprofits offering food, shelter
• Cooke helps assisted living with graduation project
• Police briefs
• SCC offering ballroom dance classes
• Surry Community College offering photo class
• County finance committee considering tax refund policy
• SouthData ‘Fast 50’ winner for seventh year
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Church calendar
• Beam’s piano to be donated at Voce concert Friday
• PART requests county funding to save trips
• PMES Pirates getting in ship shape
• Students study through dissections
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Comedian to perform
• Wyatt gets promotion at United Plastics
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• County agrees to administer grant for regional economic development plan
• County approves communications system upgrades
• City candidates to square off at Tuesday forum
• Civil War reenactment set for this weekend
• Foster parents needed, information meeting set
• Police briefs
• Four arrested on drug charges
• Author tells how family suffered after murder
• Maple Grove United Methodist Church celebrates 75 years during homecoming
• Motocross idea to get more study
• Surry County fair starts today
• Sonker Festival to take place Saturday
• County supports measure to aid development at N.C. 89 and I-77
• Grant received to finish Pilot Center
• Group to provide fellowship
• Crowds turn out for food drive
• Making cultural connections
• Chapel service spreads message of hope
• Bilson talks about life on TAGS
• Pilot board to hear request about firing range
• Bringing Mayberry to life
• Mayberry Idle growing in popularity
• Titans take BBQ cook-off crown
• Change in store for Willow Street
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Mayberry Days activities continued Friday
• Mayberry Days Postmark depicts Snappy Lunch this year
• Dobson employee, candidates question park
• Preservation block party planned
• Police briefs
• Mayberry Days banquet kept guests laughing
• Wounded local Marine coming home Sunday
• Teen cancer surviver raising money to battle the disease
• Community day planned Saturday by fire department
• EOC learns of grant renewal
• Surry partners for national viticulture and enology initiative
• Visit Mayberry News - Mayberry Days is Happening Now
• Broken water line closes SCC Thursday night
• Mayberry Days stars arrive
• Kasey Kahne gets store off to fast start
• EMS takes over convalescent care transport again
• Missing DSS records found; questions raised about transport policies
• Group addressing need for diapers
• Mayberry Days events slated at Robert Smith house
• Dobson board to discuss land purchase for park
• County works to remedy excess humidity at courthouse
• Teen to host food drive for Salvation Army Saturday
• Brittany to make first appearance at Mayberry Days
• Project in city could create jobs
• 22nd annual Mayberry Days schedule announced
• Science students work outside the box
• MAHS construction progressing but behind schedule
• Children’s Center holds annual meeting
• Falls Prevention event takes place today
• Local cook receives blue ribbon for Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies
• Shockley named new SCC president
• Commissioners concerned over funding for Interstates sewer project
• City manager gets a raise
• MCA students learn worth and value
• Ronnie Schell to perform during Mayberry Days
• Kasey Kahne to make pit stop in Mount Airy
• Judicial Center evacuated after bomb threat
• Downtown Cinema to be known again as the Earle
• Duffus discusses Blackbeard myths at museum lecture
• Local doctors prepare for service trip to Guatemala
• Casino night planned as museum’s largest fundraiser
• Sweet Potato Festival draws people to historic Rockford
• Realtors host Beach Bash to benefit Habitat
• Mayberry Days approaching again this year
• Community calendar
• County to hold hearings on secondary roads, rezoning request
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Police briefs
• Health calendar
• Schell is bringing Mayberry Days 50th anniversary DVD this year
• County schools honor military
• Citizens blast sustainable-communities plan at meeting
• Museum members preview new African-American Builders exhibit
• Hospital declines to help fund fire truck
• Friends and family mourn Woltz’s death
• MAHS named Blue Ribbon School
• Twist numbers enough to beat world record
• Today is voter-registration deadline for city primary
• Foundation’s first tournament deemed a success
• State releases SAT scores
• Pirates to invade Mount Airy museum
• Coin racer to raise money for United Fund
• Kitty-Palooza to help raise funds, find homes for felines
• PART fares increased; route changes postponed
• Officers’ actions backed in fatal shooting
• Discount exhibitor rates for BizFest extended to Friday
• City board to vote on aerial truck, repaving
• Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care opens Pilot Mountain office
• Police briefs
• SGA sponsoring weight-loss challenge
• Cruise-in set for Saturday in Lambsburg
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Future PGW applicants encouraged to pursue Career Readiness Certificate
• The old … made new again Three downtown buildings get a new life
• Resident asks county to consider ‘no kill’ policy at animal shelter
• Sweet Potato Festival in Rockford this weekend
• Minor earns Eagle Scout Award
• SCC named Military Friendly School
• SCC offering Storytelling 101
• Acrylic and oil painting classes to begin in September
• Workforce recognizes employees
• Friends ‘go blue’ with baby shower
• Commissioners view community health data
• Butterfly walk for lupus raises more than $9,000
• Commissioners approve funding allocations, judicial center ATM
• Trustees hear first-of-year updates
• Twist attempt still not official
• • Allowing someone inside one’s home to use the restroom can be a costly proposition
• Fisher River Park becomes a farm for a day
• Food drive for Salvation Army a ‘big success’
• Rockford’s value is more than ‘old buildings’
• Live streaming of city council meetings considered
• City pursuing fire truck grant
• Dobson 9/11 parade remembers the fallen
• Local man recalls service near Ground Zero site
• Missing Pilot Mountain woman turns up safe
• Man allegedly tries to kidnap pizza deliverer
• County schools plan military appreciation night
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Crowd tries to twist its way into record book
• Crossroads merger to retain Elkin office
• Board approves electronic participation in meetings
• Man charged with stealing pipes
• Community garden growing strong
• Group coming to Salvation Army’s aid
• Dobson parade to highlight 9/11 anniversary
• New breakfast program designed to increase participation
• Wharton leads students on writer’s journey
• Rescue operator issued cease and desist order
• City decides to accept DOT pedestrian grant
• Business bringing jobs to Pilot Mountain closes on building
• Police briefs
• Twister destroys store, storm leaves some without power
• County exercises eminent domain for airport project
• City in running for company headquarters
• County to move forward with gas-to-energy project
• Board gets update on new initiatives
• Results mixed in city schools improvement plans
• Mount Airy News publisher hosts family outing at Veterans Park
• BREAKING NEWS
• Jobs rally goes off as planned
• Register of Deeds employee compiles slave index
• Weekend event to celebrate agriculture
• Skull Camp VFD hosting breakfast to remember 9/11
• SCC offering personal enrichment classes
• Creative marketing seminars for artists and crafters
• SCC offering bookkeeping basics
• Ridge-Westfield days reminisced
• New deeds fees effective Oct. 1
• Preschool gardens going strong
• ‘Bring it Beck’ jobs rally today
• Jones alumni gather for reunion
• Mount Airy man charged in marijuana drug bust
• Trikes roll through town
• County commissioners to meet Tuesday
• Community calendar
• Health calendar
• ‘Charles the Chef’ serving up healthy eating tips
• Marriages
• Divorces
• Building permits
• Land Transfers
• Emergency services employees return from coast
• Storm causes more than 1,500 outages in Surry
• Trike-in turnout lower than expected on first day
• VFW Gun Show & Flea Market opens in Hillsville
• Old-Time dance Saturday to feature Slate Mountain Ramblers
• News e-mail restored
• Holiday garbage schedule announced
• PMES accelerates toward healthy choices
• City officials debate greenway connector costs
• Another HVAC-related arrest made in city
• Solutions prescribed for deadly drug problem
• Twisters urged to preregister
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Church calendar
• Too Much Sylvia to play Saturday
• New fire station making a difference
• Security upgrades may be solution to HVAC thefts
• Sheriff’s office investigating recent break-ins
• Dobson man arrested on meth trafficking charges
• Teachers learn to build with words
• News e-mail still down
• Spay/neuter grant to help dog owners in Mount Airy
• Police briefs
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Morrison prepares for court date over animal cruelty charges
• Grant awarded to connect city’s greenways
• Middle schools embrace PLTW
• J.J. Jones High School reunion set for weekend
• Becoming TV stars
• Craig Woolard Band returns to amphitheater
• Sewer project for Veterans Park moves forward
• UNC-TV focusing on obesity efforts
• Flea market to be held this weekend
• Mount Airy man charged in HVAC theft
• East Coast Trike-In to return to Mount Airy this weekend
• Unemployment rate holds steady
• Police briefs
• Houston packs park for series finale
• African-American Builders and Architects exhibit to open at museum
• Check presented at Downtown Rocks and Runs
• Calling all band instruments
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Community meeting planned on prescription drug abuse
• Getting ready to do the Twist
• Bands jam for Joe Fest
• Ridge Westfield set to hold first school-wide reunion
• BizFest: Celebrating business and innovation
• Mount Airy man arrested on drug, other charges
• Cupboard bare at Salvation Army
• Officers, paramedics on standby for coast
• Getting fit with Ronald McDonald
• MCA students create coats of arms
• • Four Trane air-conditioning units with a total value of $13
• YVEDDI dealing with transportation funding changes
• Waste Management delays start of recycling in Dobson
• Shoals fueling up once again
• ‘Passport Day’ planned at post office
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Emergency services prepares to respond to Hurricane Irene
• Familiarity tour teaches
• Air-conditioner thefts plaguing city
• State preservation group to meet in Mount Airy
• County teachers learning Haiku
• Dobson town board to meet
• Police briefs
• 50th anniversary version of Joy Ranch’s JoyFest to fly high
• Back to School for Mount Airy - Bus Schedules, Lunch Menus, School Supplies and more
• Residents recall earthquake
• Quake brings flurry of calls from citizens
• Burr details getting the U.S. economy back on track
• ‘Bring it Beck’ jobs rally planned
• Golden jubilee wins first place
• Friday night Zumba party to help Habitat
• Police briefs
• Share your earthquake stories
• Earthquake hits East Coast
• Shoals UMC rising from the ashes
• Paving to proceed in annexed area
• Fifth-annual ‘Joe Fest’ set for Saturday
• Board approves resolution to bring jobs to Pilot
• Police briefs
• Friends Helping Friends Bluegrass Festival
• Habitat dedicates three homes in Pilot Mountain
• Women hone skills, try new things at outdoors event
• Tour de Gaps bicycling event set for Saturday
• Final Music in the Park concert to feature Melva Houston
• Downtown Rocks and Runs a success
• Surry County sees increase in visitor spending
• Golf tournament to be held in honor of Hunter
• Angel takes flight
• The News hosting seminar to make sure ‘No Business Left Behind’
• Community calendar
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Results announced for Old Fiddlers Convention
• History lecture series to begin today
• Pilot board to consider resolution to bring 41 jobs
• Blue Ridge H.O.P.E. hosting benefit concert
• Health calendar
• Land Transfers
• Building Permits
• Marriages
• Divorces
• New teen room a hit at civic center Number of activities set for fall
• New fitness director coming to Armfield
• Scearce continues to serve despite cancer diagnosis
• State, local leaders celebrate Burton Signworks expansion
• City’s human resources director resigns
• Llewellyn takes third in national FFA competition
• City joins county in requesting state highway money
• Police briefs
• Tomato tasting contest coming to farmer’s markets
• Blue Ridge H.O.P.E. to host state training seminar
• SCC offering basic computer skills classes
• SCC offering hospitality seminar
• Cox Needham Funeral Home adds new funeral director
• Police chief cited for ‘taking bullet’
• Citizens getting more clout against state agencies
• Laptop initiative entering third year
• Storytelling event will be held at Cherry Orchard Theatre this weekend
• County approves resolution to aid development at I-74, U.S. 601
• Boy Scouts to remember Stone with breakfast event
• Families to get back-to-school help at clothing swap
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Church calendar
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Commissioners get in-depth look at Medicaid waiver, Crossroads merger
• City board to endorse Glenn Beck project
• American Red Cross realigns management structure of Surry County Chapter
• Pilot Center offers ESL classes to international contingent
• City election to be low-budget production
• SouthData increases green efforts
• Food bank in dire need of donations
• County approves feasibility study for new animal shelter
• Bledsoe named communications director
• City schools ‘off to good start’
• Crowd cools off eating homemade ice cream at Alfred Moore House
• County gets in on action to bring Beck
• Final land use plan drop-in session set for Wednesday
• Brown completes audio library for kindergartners
• The Pilot Center receives funding to add classrooms
• Tharrington preparing to kick off grant
• Leaders recognized by commissioners
• Grave matters discussed at meeting
• City solar farm taking shape
• Scam targeting local seniors
• County schools gearing up for more fruits and veggies
• Despite weekend showers, rainfall lagging
• • John Chatham Hatcher
• Career academy seen as vital to job growth
• Survey seeks public’s input on prescription drugs
• Downtown Rocks and Runs set for Saturday
• Commissioners to hear about Crossroads merger, shelter proposal
• Stevens honored by Bar Association
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• • Dexter Duane Bartley
• MCA staff takes closer look at school’s mission
• Brown to run unopposed in city election
• New town manager hired in Pilot Mountain
• • The theft of property valued at more than $500 was reported to the Mount Airy Police Department Wednesday
• Rep. Stevens outlines redistricting changes
• T-shirts promote Glenn Beck project
• Twist event planning moving forward
• SCC faculty, staff get input on presidential search
• Requiem for the Red House to open tonight at Levering Orchard
• Surry County to host genealogy conference Saturday
• Officials decline to comment on possibility of new jobs in Pilot Mountain
• • One stolen vehicle was abandoned at Walmart and another was taken from the same location Wednesday
• Assistant city manager resigns
• City may let bike-pedestrian grant fall by wayside
• Habitat hosting creative ‘Chair-ity’ Fundraiser
• Additional PART fare increases proposed
• City filing period ends Friday
• Police briefs
• SCHS has new alumni association
• Toast and Jam set for Saturday
• Learn upholstery at Surry Community College
• SCC to offer small engine mechanic class
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Battery laboratory opens in Mount Airy
• Dobson voters OK mixed-beverage referendum
• Educators prepare for success this year
• Registration begins for second Rockford Reunion
• Police briefs
• Library system holding raffle to soften funding cuts
• Salem United Methodist Church celebrates 70th annual homecoming
• Students speak out for Kelly at trustees meeting again
• Dobson mixed beverage election takes place today
• Glenn Beck tuned in to ‘Mayberry’
• Flat Rock Baptist moves forward with female pastor
• Freshmen get taste of high school
• Ghost tours off to a great start
• Tax Free Weekend was great for merchants
• Horne Creek to host quilt show and textile day
• History lecture series to begin this month
• It’s a dog’s world Dog Days of Summer was a hit, organizer says
• Board hears more changes for pre-K programs
• Shoppers hit the stores for Tax Free Weekend
• Spreading the Word in Honduras
• Local animal adoption agencies participate in national event
• Calling all bridge players
• Community calendar
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Rotaries donate funds
• Health calendar
• Rocking the gospel Pastor takes a ‘new spin’ on winning souls to Jesus
• Marriages
• Animal shelter policy creates stir
• Olivia Byerly is city’s teacher of the year
• City teachers urged to ‘make a difference’
• The power of imagining
• Workshop to help small businesses reach customers through GPS
• Church calendar
• Surry Central, Early College students go through freshman orientation
• ABCs show schools continue to grow
• World Breastfeeding Week celebrated
• Deputies arrest man after recovering stolen guns
• Police briefs
• Embers to play today
• SCS Educational Foundation hosting golf classic
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Women’s Conference slated for Saturday
• Dobson firefighters charged with thefts
• Could Glenn Beck revive city’s textile industry?
• Youth have a drama-filled week
• Back-to-school shoppers prepare, Tax-Free Weekend to start Friday
• City police issue fraud alert
• ‘Dog Days of Summer’ set for Saturday
• Police briefs
• Saying goodbye to a family pet is not an easy thing to do
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Free food, fellowship and fun offered National Night Out
• City board may fund recreation master plan
• Lowgap firefighters, business coping with impact of blaze
• Project iLearn will see facelift
• Police briefs
• Rogers named Reserve Champion
• Mary Planer prepares delicious luncheon honoring Jack Greenwood’s retirement
• Conference designed to teach the teachers
• National Night Out to be held today
• Group seeks to shackle Surry prison plans
• Oil spill caused by theft at electrical substation
• Berrier seeking third school board term
• ‘Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less’ classes being offered
• Police briefs
• Openings available for CNA II class
• Registration open for SCC medical terminology class
• First Run to the Ridge a success
• Mixed beverage vote not as ‘opposed’ as it was three years ago
• Abuse of parents a problem
• Fire at trucking business takes hours to put out
• Siamese twins descendants hold 22nd annual reunion
• Nunn Brothers Festival draws bluegrass lovers
• Crossroads merger one of few approved by state
• Unemployment rate rises in Surry, across state
• Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Shelton inducted into NC 4-H Honor Club
• The News sponsoring Monday blood drive
• Health calendar
• Divorces
• Land Transfers
• Marriages
• Beamer Report
• City officials honor oldest retail business
• Friday filing will force city primary
• Wu presents research on Siamese twins
• Sheriff warns of new phone scam targeting grandparents
• Students get a Fresh Start at MAHS
• Couple arrested on drug charges
• • A vandalism involving fire extinguishers being set off at a former industrial facility was reported to the Mount Airy Police Department Tuesday
• Van Zant maintaining Lynyrd Skynyrd tradition
• Dog owner: investigation a matter of bad timing
• Dobson lowers 2010/11 budget
• New faculty members welcomed to school
• Former officer joining Patrick sheriff’s race
• • An Arkansas resident reported the theft of a $3
• Dogs taken from animal rescuer after visit about complaint
• Brinkley files for South Ward seat
• Reunion, events set to honor 200th anniversary of Siamese twins’ birth
• Let’s do the Twist
• Bible club, others served by youth
• Wanted: Volunteers, name for community garden
• TDA outlines relationship with chamber
• Man allegedly stole materials from school work site
• Faster action wanted on paving of neighborhood
• Graham files for city election
• The Legacy Center has a new location
• Tax collections better than expected; future uncertain
• TPSC to target Charlotte area
• Dobson board to discuss closing Folger Street
• Police briefs
• PCS free, reduced-price meal policy
• Experienced chef teaches youth how to prepare and cook food
• Faculty prepares for ninth grade academies
• City candidates waste no time filing for election
• Pair nabbed in password scam at Walmart
• Pilot board hears from two management companies about filling town manager position
• Wi-Fi up and running at Fisher River Park
• Pilot resident sentenced on mail fraud charges
• Police briefs
• Root, root, root for the home team
• Jukebox Sunday with The Debonaires
• Day campers learn scouting basics
• Health calendar
• Hot days in a cool river
• Construction continues at MAHS
• Filing period opens Monday for city election
• From classic to current, cars roll to Veterans Park
• Library to host drama camp
• Ride to the Ridge to rock Veterans Park
• Community calendar
• Pilot board to hear opposing views on officer memorial
• ‘Hairspray’ to open next Saturday
• Project Skill Up grant helps local students
• SCC offering 18-week welding course
• Ballard dolls may be heading to state museum
• U.S. News ranks Northern Hospital #4 in metro area
• Northern Hospital’s MRI AND Nuclear Medicine services receive accreditation
• Officer’s career spanned moonshine to meth
• Beamer Report
• Land Transfers
• Marriages
• Walla Walla wins ‘Friendliest City’ contest
• People struggling to pay for final arrangements
• Graniteers gathering for 11th reunion
• Hearing to be held for potentially dangerous dog
• Surry SCAN ride heads out Saturday
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• City housing project suffers setback
• It has been hot, hot, hot! Officials give tips to beat the heat
• County trying to get ATM for judicial center
• Prelim AYP results released
• Vintage car club visits Mount Airy
• ‘The Wedding of the Siamese Twins’ play to begin Saturday
• Hospital receives Joint Commission accreditation
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Church calendar
• Dobson First Baptist welcomes new pastor
• County amends zoning ordinance to reduce subjectivity
• City board to be briefed on housing project
• OneStop voting begins today for Dobson mixed beverage prop
• Lightening causes major problems at museum
• Perdue plans to apply for early learning grant
• Local trip to Harrah’s set for Friday
• County employee recognitions
• Members sworn in
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Bledsoe charged with second-degree murder
• Plastics recycling at convenience centers to be countywide
• Governor makes official announcement of company expansion in Elkin
• Pet Peace of Mind program is helping hospice patients in need
• Morris sees first day on the job for city schools
• Body of missing King man found in watershed in Pinnacle
• County recognizes retiree Roger Shore
• Mabry Mill Restaurant famous for buckwheat or sweet potato pancakes
• County approves incentives for Project Light
• Campers go wild for history
• County schools take next step towards regional academy
• Artist donates sculpture for governor’s residence
• Rescue crews searching for possible drowning victim
• No. 13 no problem for Nunn Brothers festival
• ‘Prison bus’ to hit road to Raleigh
• Group working to start men’s shelter dissolves
• Special-needs camp provides place ‘to go’
• City awarded grant for bike and pedestrian study
• Public hearings fill county commissioner agenda
• GMAMH will benefit from Young Democrats drive
• Judge denies city motion to collect damages from Dobson
• York running for Pilot mayor; two file for Dobson seats
• Candlelight vigil for deceased officer canceled
• Granite Tactical, Textron execs meet in Mount Airy, prepare for bid
• Suit claims doctor, Elkin hospital at fault in death
• Need for blood grows more urgent
• Students ready for class after Camp Middle School
• Three arrested on drug charges
• Mount Airy Visitors Center News - July 14, 2011
• Camp Med opens health care doors
• County to consider economic incentives Monday
• Tribute to fallen officer set for Saturday
• Habitat for Humanity seeks to re-stock store
• County schools open doors to new technology system
• Woman arrested on felony assault charge
• Police briefs
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• New policies in place for county school discipline
• Community garden planned in city
• Patterson files for seat on Dobson board
• Charity event to combine football, racing
• Neighbor 2 Neighbor car show moves to Mount Airy
• If zucchini is filling up the garden, the Hinsons have recipes for you
• Police briefs
• Seats available in nursing assistant classes
• Ararat River to become key fishing location
• Gallery Group hosting Creative Monday and Friday
• Recent rains a mixed bag for farmers
• Schools will see calendar changes this year
• SCC offering Hospitality Academy
• First-ever Surry Hand N Hand car show deemed a success
• Martín to vacate Dobson seat at end of term
• Lowry Tribute on tap for Friday night
• Abandoned cat caused trauma for everyone involved
• Naismith visits Mount Airy to scout for TV pilot
• 22 DWI arrests made over holiday week
• County calls meeting to discuss Westfield center
• Expert shares knowledge about ‘Old Southern Apples’ at Horne Creek
• Community calendar
• Health calendar
• New findings regarding child passenger safety seats and young children
• Couple recognized for Century Farms
• Harris to seek another term on city board
• Sheppard, Needham file for re-election to Pilot board
• Vintage car tour to include Mount Airy
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Police briefs
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Kids participate in fun activities at library summer camp
• Bear sited in Flat Rock
• Regristrations still being taken for Missoula Children’s Theatre
• Driver cited after hitting bridge with home
• Pilot Mountain dentist receives top N.C. Dental Society Award
• Pastor gives back with music
• Cabins being built at former resort
• Two county fires under investigation
• New candidate files to run for Pilot board
• Police briefs
• Arts council gets grant
• Kids learn about Saura Indians
• Three girls taken to the hospital following ATV wreck
• Redistricting could move Surry to 13th District
• Animal rescue group says there is a rise in number of abandoned pets
• Crowds invade city to celebrate Fourth, heritage
• New housing project would ease rental crunch
• Citizens asked to identify conservation needs
• Suspended MAHS guidance counselor resigns
• City commissioners’ meeting this week canceled
• • A property-damage incident has been reported to Mount Airy police in which sugar was poured into the gas tank of a local woman’s car
• Expert on Southern apples to speak at Horne Creek
• Changes in Shoals, Pilot Knob boundaries maybe on way
• Register of Deeds office now using digital birth certificate program
• SCAN gets donation of baby, back-to-school items
• Hagan introduces AMERICA Works Act
• A Boy Scout tradition like no other
• Kids ‘go green’ at Arts Alive
• Officers search ‘party house,’ arrest five people
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Pilot Mountain TDA presents plans to board
• Computers, TV sets banned from landfill
• Donnell and Don Quixote delight children
• ‘Let Freedom Ring’
• Fireworks safety stressed for Fourth
• Holiday to affect city garbage pickups
• Police briefs
• Dobson man arrested on rape charges
• SouthData announces promotions
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Death of Flippen ‘enormous loss’ to old-time music
• Students explore health field at Camp Med
• Decomposing body IDed, foul play not indicated at scene
• Two businesses lined up for Independence Plaza
• Gwyn asks board to remove plaque
• Filing period opens Friday for town elections
• Branch, Atanley to be featured at Uptown Gallery
• Retirees work so kids can play
• Pilot to seek new town manager
• City shares tourism ideas with Maggie Valley
• The North Star staff excels at workshop
• Countywide food drive kicks off Friday
• Storm takes down trees
• ‘Operation Firecracker’ under way
• Blue Ridge Dance Traditions concert set for Saturday
• Police briefs
• SCC chosen to lead improvements in online learning
• Woman critical following afternoon wreck
• Decomposing body found down embankment
• Pilot town manager terminated from contract
• SCC expands ‘green’ programming
• O negative blood in short supply
• Citizens turn out to support police
• New database requirement to target meth production
• Teens explore Project YES at camp
• One arrested on drug charges, another flees
• Traveling the world inside a park
• Vessels of Clay pack the park
• New legislation to affect charter schools
• Food and fun fuel fiesta day
• Woman dies from injuries after wreck
• Health calendar
• Young Democrats help collect goods for GMAMH clients
• City embraces the friendly side of life
• Camp helps allay fears of middle school
• Project: Connect the Dots wraps up grant initiative
• Local Roots and Shoots chapter taking flight
• Museum camp to expose kids to pioneer life
• Girl Scout creates teen closet for Surry SCAN
• Divorces
• Marriages
• Land Transfers
• Beamer Report
• County parks and rec camp under way
• Man shot in groin after confrontation
• Bridge to be named for late sheriff
• Group forming to support city police
• Wreck sends three to hospital
• Arrest made in lottery ticket theft
• Man in critical condition after trail bike wreck
• Music in the Park series kicks off Sunday
• Traveling the world in 80 books
• Police briefs
• State board approves calendar waiver policy
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Friendliest city judges to arrive Saturday
• Efforts to rescue driver prove futile
• Town board votes to lift restrictions on Internet gaming business
• Cutest Kids Contest winners announced
• Morris returning as interim superintendent
• Local students arrive in Greece
• Church calendar
• BREAKING NEWS: One killed in fiery crash on I-77
• Several citizens at county meeting oppose PART funding
• Training AIMS to improve classrooms
• Copeland oil leak in clean-up process
• Tourism Partnership agrees to go forward with map proposal
• Drug defendants sentenced in federal court
• Lottery tickets taken in break-in
• Police briefs
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Sheriff’s office buying new data terminals with jail savings
• Johnson calls for study of YVEDDI services
• Schools facing tough decisions with budget
• Chick-fil-a possibly moving to Mount Airy
• Commissioners honor life saves
• Dobson board to consider adopting 2011-12 budget
• No tax increase
• Three arrested after rash of vehicle break-ins, thefts
• West Lebanon Street being repaved
• Grant takes new look at healthful living
• Nationally-ranked trick-shot billiards artist coming to Galax
• Local church seeks to supply ‘Bible sticks’ to military members
• Health department encouraging parents to ask about guns
• Clubs to sponsor city fireworks display
• Foxx to attend local Tea Party rally
• • A check of a suspicious vehicle at Riverside Park has led to the arrest of a man wanted on two charges
• Student seeks to help homeless
• Public hearing for county budget set for Monday
• Utilities help continues as top 2-1-1 request
• • A coin-operated device was discovered broken into Wednesday at Bannertown Exxon on South Main Street
• Browne wins four-year merit scholarship
• Filings to begin soon for municipal elections
• SCC ranked as exceptional Critical Success Factor Report
• Cub Scouts learn about scouting at Raven Knob
• County cut could mean rise in city rec fees
• City budget approved with 2-cent tax cut
• Report: Woman struck by seven police bullets
• Exploring the world through summer reading
• Information about fatal crash turned over to the DA’s office
• ‘Otis’ case continued to September
• Quilter’s exhibit to open Saturday
• ‘The Cup Guy’ donates art to Andy Griffith Museum
• Two city officers put on leave in fatal shooting
• University to do fire study in Mount Airy
• Local manufacturer, banker presented with SBA awards
• Pilot commissioners considering 10-percent water and sewer increase
• Tourism number are up
• Two arrested in connection with break-ins
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Police briefs
• Cloverbuds create seasonal crafts
• Annexation of solar farm site on tap
• Church reaches out with dogs and burgers
• Plans rolling for local motocross park
• County schools to start Project Lead the Way
• Summer youth programs offered at Surry Arts Council
• Museum to be open on Mondays in June
• Museum has new Web site, logo
• New Vision accepting students
• City schools celebrate end of another year
• City tax rate to be cut further
• City police chief returns to work
• Board proposes changes to library, schools funding
• Atkins found in good health
• Trustees hear concerns from viticulture program on instructor termination
• Police briefs
• New historic ghost tours to begin next weekend
• Health calendar
• Local master gardener is named horticulture communicator of the year
• Participants needed for Fourth of July parade
• Drop-in session for land use plan set for Wednesday
• Elderly man missing
• Commissioners approve resolution in support of trails
• North Surry’s Class of 2011 graduates
• Mount Airy High School Class of 2011 graduates
• More catfish caught at this year’s roundup
• PMMS students create cranes for relief
• Tree topples in storm
• Community calendar
• Military news
• Northern Hospital celebrates National Nursing Assistants Week
• Disaster victims have a friend in Cathy Loggins
• Beamer Report
• Land Transfers
• Divorces
• Marriages
• Officials searching for escaped inmate
• Breaking news
• Woman killed, police officials wounded
• Lockdown disrupts last day of school
• Escaped inmate didn’t make it far
• Surry Central Class of 2011 graduated Friday night
• East Surry class graduates
• Breaking News
• Homeowner narrowly escapes fire
• Library, others could face tough cuts from county
• ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ jet spends night in Surry
• Etheridge takes look at school construction
• Retirees remembered ‘for good’
• Senator says he ‘exaggerated’ East’s fast driving
• Three arrested on trafficking charges
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Alzheimer’s group gives comfort, education to caregivers
• City to buy aerial truck from fund balance
• Board vetoes extra benefit for city workers
• Higher PART fares approved, county funding need uncertain
• County schools look at instructional changes
• Wheelin’ Sportsmen to host Catfish Round-up Saturday
• Animals to take center stage at Horne Creek
• Mount Airy man arrested on drug charges
• Police briefs
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Infants get much-needed heart surgeries
• Fiddlers convention winners announced
• Historical society hosting walk to historic mill
• City won’t cut funds for library, others
• County schools take look at technology progress
• Will Mount Airy be named ‘Friendliest’ town in America?
• Deputies, marshals check up on sex offenders
• City schools approve property transfer, child nutrition plan
• School officials may turn to social media
• Commissioners recognize Garwood
• Author signing books Thursday at Pages
• Northern Hospital awards scholarships
• Bike and Rod show to be held at Firehouse Ministries
• Citizens show support for PART at county meeting
• Little boy’s big dream comes true
• County manager proposes no tax rate increases
• State review keeping fluoride out of city water
• School board approves plan for third year of laptops
• Autopsy results may provide answers on homicide
• United Fund of Surry gearing up for 2011-12 campaign Cagle named campaign chair
• Police Briefs
• Hundreds turn out for fiddlers convention
• County manager to present budget recommendation Monday
• MCA students perform symphony at spring concert
• Cruise-in to return on Saturday
• Love of music brings diverse groups together
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Cancer survivors and caregivers honored at Relay for Life
• Fiddlers convention starts tonight
• Benefits and Fundraisers • Woodville Baptist Church will have a car wash and bake sale on June 4 from 9 a
• • Electronics
• Marion, Hungry Bears featured on Yum-o!
• Lawyer appointed to represent ‘Otis’
• NAACP banquet well attended
• High temperature breaks record
• Sheriff warns of new scam
• Grant denied for city aerial truck
• Bill targets death penalty
• ‘Crooked Road’ putting Patrick community on map
• Plans gearing up for big bike rally, concert
• Relay for Life to take place Friday
• House Bill 744 gets one step closer to changing immigration status information at schools
• Jobless rate continues to fall, no significant job growth
• Police briefs
• Body found, death ruled accidental
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• RidgeCrest residents entertained Monday at Memorial Day cookout
• Norman, Lowry honored Monday
• Group trying to cope with soldiers who are away from home
• Wilson honors Legion volunteers
• Speer scores high on math portion of SAT
• Students excel in the stock market
• Wall named SCS School Bus Driver of the Year
• Rolls Royces, Bentleys line Main Street
• Rockford remembers those who have fallen
• Pilot commissioner proposing utilities hike to balance budget
• Dobson able to decrease budget
• First Carrie Elmore Award grants shopping spree
• Students shine at Park Art V
• Community calendar
• Kids fishing derby to be held
• Police briefs
• GMAMH to participate in Combined Federal Campaign
• Marriages
• Beamer Report
• Land Transfers
• Courtney Beals serves as General Assembly page
• Military news
• Health calendar
• Davenport gets lunchtime surprise
• Legacy class still believing
• White Plains Christian School graduation
• L.H. Jones Auditorium restoration celebrated with open house, ceremony
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Hodges family preserves cabin
• Ararat River flood levees need work
• GMAMH set to build new domestic violence shelter
• Dobson board to go ahead with mixed beverage vote
• County wellness program benefits employees
• Eric & the Chill Tones to play amphitheater Saturday
• Holiday to affect city sanitation schedule
• MAPD takes 25 to talk about child safety
• Sen. Burr to speak at city Memorial Day event
• Fund-raiser tonight for bike-wreck victim
• SCHS JROTC honored for accomplishments
• Former students arrested in connection with NSHS vandalism
• • The Mount Airy Police Department is investigating the weekend theft of jewelry items valued at $5
• County seniors celebrate Decision Day
• Open house, reception planned for L.H. Jones Auditorium
• Rockford Memorial Day Service set for Saturday
• MAHS art show opens with reception
• Patrolman: wreck caused by texting
• Stone dies in Monday evening wreck
• County, state recognize volunteers
• Blue Ridge H.O.P.E. granted extension
• Veterans Park rep requests county help for sewer system
• Board tables ordinance to allow gun dealer on Main Street
• FES family sending its own to Ecuador
• Tweaks allow balanced-budget proposal
• Mr. Jessup Going To Washington
• Ararat celebrates heritage with a bang
• Celebration of life planned to honor Sandy Beam
• Bikers make noise for wounded Marine
• Giving blood could mean free flight
• Habitat reopens housing application process
• Dobson Library to host fundraiser to help pay off mortgage
• Tharrington vying for exemplar status
• ‘Otis’ at odds with police over city ordinance
• Lewis decides not to seek re-election
• Proposed city budget includes tax cut
• NSHS FFA honors Holt, others at banquet
• SCC golf tourney raises $55,000 for scholarships
• Bikers gearing up to aid wounded Marine
• Too Much Sylvia appearing tonight at amphitheatre
• VOCE to perform free concert Sunday
• Carolina Travelers to play Saturday night
• ‘Person of interest’ eyed in armed robbery
• Students place at state competition with Tape Wear
• New visitor’s guides to be released
• Father in wreck that killed sons had lost license in 1996
• Board accepts superintendent resignation
• Police briefs
• Ruritans to celebrate 21st anniversary and remember Jackson
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Mount Airy, Dobson await next step in water fight
• County approves fire tax district for Pleasant Hill
• TIP offers enrichment for students
• County adopts energy policy, talks recycling expansion
• Officer cycles 250 miles for National Police Week
• Police briefs
• No tax, utility hikes expected in city budget
• Merger planned for Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare
• Armfield Scholarship recipients recognized
• City to buy downtown site for parking lot?
• Blue Ridge CareNet sponsoring shred-it day
• Hospital recognizes workers, retirees
• Police briefs
• Officer’s memorial wall unveiled
• Surry Central celebrates 50th anniversary
• Grigg’s fundraiser nets $2,500
• Schools prepared to help students with loss of classmates
• More schools get grant for fruits and vegetables
• Arts grant workshops set for Tuesday
• Two children die in single-car accident Saturday
• Habitat Crazies brave the rain to build houses
• City police announced child safety campaign
• Marching through a history of protests
• March of Dimes walk raised $45,000
• Community calendar
• Robbers strike store in city
• County considering fire district expansion, Crossroads merger
• Chilton receives Eagle Scout award
• Health calendar
• BREAKING NEWS: Two children die in wreck
• PART Express in jeopardy in Surry County
• SCC grads: Wear sunscreen
• City officers still investigating homicide
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Girl Scouts prepare to say good-bye after a lifetime in scouting together
• Red Head Express to perform downtown Saturday
• City Man’s Death Investigated As Homicide
• Elected officials get a lesson on the state budget
• Donations for wounded Marine exceed $40,000
• Summer Explosion registration starts Tuesday
• Show off your children with Cutest Kids Contest
• Cox performs Appalachian songs and stories
• Shelton receives honorary doctorate degree
• Letter carriers to collect food donations tomorrow
• N.C., Va., trio charged in Cana break-ins
• Search continues for stolen puppies
• Benefits and Fundraisers • Jesus Tabernacle
• Hartness leaving for position in Davie County
• CNN broadcast promotes tourism in Mayberry
• Future bright for local solar farm
• Visitors enjoyed special treat at Welcome Center
• MAHS taking audience “Into the Woods”
• PART route changes approved
• City approvals pave way for housing project
• Bannertown VFD hosting community day
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• CNN to film live on Main Street today
• Habitat ‘crazies’ to invade Surry County this weekend
• Event to help Hampton make impact despite illness
• Museum month is filled with concerts and more
• Howey coaches MCA students on writing
• Police briefs
• Spring carnival to raise money for MCA
• Accessory charge dropped against woman in fatal stabbing
• Police memorial wall to be dedicated Sunday
• Woman charged with DWI after striking barn, tree
• Summer music series off and running
• FBI offering $100,000 reward in officer’s murder
• Museum wraps up ‘Just a Dollar’ campaign
• Trustess welcome new members, officer
• SCC taxidermy conference to draw nation’s best
• Surry SCAN officially back in business after fire destroyed office
• Senate bill causes concern for pretrial release program
• White Plains Elementary holds field day
• MONDAYS Surry Cancer Support Group Surry County Cancer Support Group meets on the first Monday of the month from 7 to 9 p
• Man sentenced by federal court for ammunition possession
• Kids get ‘unplugged’ at Riverside Park
• Officials continue investigating attempted abductions
• Child neglect investigation leads to drug charges
• Attempted child abductions reported
• Ravens take state Battle of the Books comeptition
• City May Privatize Garbage Service
• Revised Charter Limits City Manager’s Powers
• Women face assault charges after man hospitalized
• Shelton family sending XX to college with scholarships
• Senior dance slated for Friday
• Man arrested on indecent liberties charge
• Man arrested after taking stolen car to recycling center
• Bank gives to Habitat
• Recycling Showdown Set In City
• PART requesting additional funds from county
• Stone to Story places at state competition
• Board looks at after-school program
• Police briefs
• Habitat holding furniture restoration class
• Elkin project moving forward
• Commissioners approve college board replacement
• Recognitions highlight school board meeting
• Ararat Heritage Festival gears up for second year
• National Day of Prayer to be observed Thursday
• Mount Airy man charged with rape
• Auditions set for Hairspray, Siamese Twins plays
• updated BREAKING NEWS: Source: Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead
• Hungry Bears Zumbathon exceeds expectations
• Public input needed to update land-use plan
• Reliving fashion of the 1800s through dolls
• Free ‘Outdoor Expo’ planned next week
• Unemployment rate decreases
• May 7 is Free Comic Book Day
• Attendees call festival a success
• Communities come together for infants in need of heart surgeries
• Churning out a history lesson at Heritage Day
• Preschools embrace gardening through grant
• Contracts for Elkin project, MAHS renovations ready for approval
• Community calendar
• Arnder claims America’s Senior Miss
• Military news
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• MONDAYS Surry Cancer Support Group Surry County Cancer Support Group meets on the first Monday of the month from 7 to 9 p
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Ag Agent’s Many Years Of Service Coming To End
• Land Transfers
• Marriages
• Celebratory tea with the new duke and duchess
• No charges to be filed in church embezzlement
• Sheriff warns of scams
• Women team up for art show
• Special Olympics: ‘It takes a village’
• Children hospitalized after accident
• Montgomery, Johnson join Carolina Farms & Homes
• Local designer wins sign making award
• Local day care receives 5 stars
• Surry Telephone, Verizon to deliver mobile broadband to rural areas
• Benefits and Fundraisers • Grace Moravian Church
• Firefighters train on live burn
• County to get 911 upgrade
• $100,000 recycling grant confirmed for city
• Rule resigns from Pilot town board
• Third annual Adam Marion Memorial Golf Tourney a huge success
• Mount Airy Livestock Report
• Marcaccio named administrative professional of the year
• Community honors Friedman with reception
• ASU Head Coach to give motivational speech Friday night
• SCC among top community colleges
• Pilot board to hear request for a statue
• Hospitality academy gets grand tour of Mount Airy
• Board of Elections looking for new 2012 voting site
• Trustees welcome Reeves, accept resignation
• Residential building projects on the rise, commercial remains low
• Eagle Scout class named for Stone
• Traditional music professor to speak at Historical Society Spring Meeting
• Citizens Police Academy graduates honored
• Mount Airy 2011 Summer Music Series
• Help us make your newspaper even better
• FES is not afraid to take a stand
• ‘Landmark’ Vote, Public Hearings On Tap Tonight
• Bright Leaf Drive-In Property Sold
• Fire departments make budget requests
• Dobson considering utility fee increases
• Early college family celebrates as Amos is named TOY
• Goins races to POY status
• Alumni, former educators enjoy East Surry’s 50th anniversary
• Former mayor to be honored
• Weather affects turnout at this year’s British car show
• Regional museum to celebrate National Poetry Month
• Dobson to host budget workshop after town meeting
• Area Teaching Fellows recipients named
• Paper clover campaign beginning
• Four arrested on drug charges thanks to citizen tips, sheriff says
• Pinnacle View youth clean up community
• Local farmer to be featured on Lowes Foods commerical
• Community calendar
• Sheriff’s Briefs
• Kids enjoy free music camp
• Beverly wins third annual Pound Downtown
• Commissioners to hold regular meeting Monday
• Two days left for Just a Dollar campaign
• Community Fun Day postponed
• High school student helps library with face lift
• Remaining department heads present budget requests
• Glass maker bringing 260 jobs
• East Surry celebrating 50 years this weekend
• Schools present requests
• City’s public housing authority marking 50th year
• Correction
• Police Briefs
• Runners to ‘Pound Downtown’ this Saturday morning
• Sunday luncheons with Frances Nixon bring family together around the table
• Lunch Menus
• Automotive Glass Co. coming to Elkin
• Public hearing draws crowd
• Kids eat ‘Lunch with a Hero’
• Project Clear incentives approved
• Hospice shows appreciation for volunteers
• Trustees delve into the process of replacing president
• City to collect unusual items during cleanup
• Hidden Heroes training program to be held in Rowan
• Sun shines on Egg hunt, parade
• More antennas eyed for ‘Andy and Opie’ tower
• Chamber’s Speed Networking program growing by leaps and bounds
• HOSA qualifies for national convention
• Problem tree is finally gone
• Soaring Eagles Bikers to host Community Fun Day
• Local Parks and Rec group to sponsor Easter egg hunt
• Hundreds of locals attend child abuse prevention event
• Unemployment rate drops back down
• Summer camp locations reduced
• Dobson church grows Easter production
• Scott uses project to help sick kids
• Community Calendar
• Health Calendar
• Military news
• Northern Hospital awarded Susan G. Komen grant
• Book commemorates East Surry 50th
• Book Smarts
• Middle school students learn about staying healthy
• City gearing up for recycling hearing
• Creating stories at the library
• Students sign promise not to drink and drive on prom night
• Man charged with setting fire to house
• Landfill fees to be refunded for tornado clean-up
• Police Briefs
• Samaritan’s Purse volunteers lend a hand after storm
• Steps taken toward housing project
• County awarded grant
• Fire demolishes local house
• Wanted: volunteers for major Habitat project
• Local man arrested on kidnapping charges
• Easter egg hunts, bazaar set for Saturday
• College Job Fair offered many opportunities
• Police Briefs
• March was record-breaking month for weather
• Peace, be still!
• Church Calendar
• Tharrington Primary gets a new flag
• Departments present requests
• Accident victim praises buddy system
• Board takes first look at budget process
• Abandoned house lost in Cana fire
• Benefit set to help pay boy’s funeral cost
• Annual Tartan Day celebrated at museum
• SeedMobile visits Cedar Ridge Elementary
• Police Briefs
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Livestock report
• Tornado hits Ararat, no injuries reported
• Annexation request linked to new housing
• Glenn Miller Orchestra performs in Mount Airy
• Commissioners hear presentation on sustainability
• County approves new graduation recognitions
• Correction
• Employment fair set
• Xtreme Team performs for J.J. Jones
• County honors memory of Howard Woltz
• RidgeCrest retirement community wins national award
• Hospitality veteran named Primland GM
• Columbiettes serving soups for Lenten suppers
• Lunch Menus
• BREAKING NEWS: Tornado strikes Ararat
• Opinions voiced for Project Clear
• Longtime agent retiring May 1
• Police probing embezzlement at local church
• Schools expanding technology integration
• ‘Taming of the Shrew’ to be performed this weekend
• Police Briefs
• Scouts pave way for school garden
• Driver facing criminal charges in fatal crash
• Activities set for Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Mission Competition: Weight-loss Edition
• Mount Airy woman killed in wreck
• Central winter guards fare well at competition
• Proposed incentives on county agenda
• Rescue association gets boost from memorial ride
• Youth fasting for a cause
• United Fund of Surry gears up for Community Cares Day
• Regional youth traditional music workshop planned
• MAHS students serve as pages in Raleigh
• Land permits …
• Community Calendar
• Building permits …
• Marriages
• Have truck, will repo
• Downtown business location getting facelift
• Cooperative extension facing cuts
• ‘Connecting to Collections’ workshop teaches artifact care
• Empowering students through GenYES
• ESAAT announces plans for ‘Cardinal Cornhole Classic Tournament’
• Stolen car discovered
• Police Briefs
• Canosa named SBA Champion of Year
• Postmaster back after crisis
• Man allowed to keep pit bull on leash
• WSYD to change format to oldies
• Search committee begins process of finding new president
• Armfield to host first spring carnival
• Wastewater spill reported in Pilot Mountain
• Police Briefs
• The Devil made me do it!
• Church Calendar
• News and Programs for Mount Airy, North Carolina
• North Surry plant sale to begin Friday
• Backer: Study too ‘conservative’
• Stabbing victims apparently released
• New house is goal of ‘Operation Katie’
• Students succeed at state science fair
• Animal Control to hold public hearing on dog
• Students reap rewards
• Livestock Report
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Suspect pleads guilty to murder; Hiatt sentenced to life without parole
• ‘No Need 2 Speed’ targeting aggressive drivers
• Yopp continues to provide full-service at local gas station
• Two teens hospitalized with knife wounds
• Moser takes home scouting volunteer honor
• Schools offer wellness fair for staff
• Wood turner to be featured as artist of the month on Sunday
• Farm Bureau Insurance Companies honor local agent
• SouthData employees race for health
• Gardeners attend flower arranging program and springtime luncheon
• Lunch Menus
• Pigeon racing is a passion for local club
• 8-year-old killed in tractor accident
• Pilot board wants company to clean up dumping ground
• Bee school a success, field day set for Saturday
• Ball teams to battle cancer
• Teens participate in Kick Butts Day
• Glenn Miller Orchestra to perform
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• Out-of-towners fare well at convention
• Walker goes the extra (10,000th) mile
• Program brings PLANETS to life
• Highland games, festival coming soon
• PART bus program to expand in Surry
• Convention strikes a happy chord
• County staff training for a new birth certificate program
• Community Calendar
• Calling all artists: Gallery is offering ‘Friday Creative’
• Public forum offered at Pilot Mountain town meeting Monday
• Police Briefs
• Cutest Pet contest winners
• Health Calendar
• Pat’s Library expanding through donations
• Book Smarts
• Fall down the rabbit hole with GMS
• Mother defends suspect in assault
• SECHS creating a legacy
• Cochran participates in Mayors for Meals program
• Police Briefs
• Chamber presents awards to local businesses
• Some standardized tests eliminated
• Dobson may consider water, sewer hikes; No change in taxes anticipated
• Man critical after cutting
• Meetings set for Project Clear debate
• Cana man wanted on weapons, drug charges
• Local scout’s project enhances greenway
• Livestock Report
• Accountability
• Church Calendar
• Chef Lyon back in Mount Airy, filming episodes for popular television show
• Planning board drafts letter for commissioners
• Hall inductees to be honored April 17
• Charter Academy students offer a Helping Hand
• Mount Airy police warn of fraudulent disaster solicitations
• Budget hearing to be held before Dobson’s monthly town meeting
• Fire damages mobile home
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• MCA students advocate for charter schools
• Sports plan could reap $3.7 million
• Board disbands County appearance commission
• Sheriff’s office arrests most wanted
• TRACK Trail grand opening set
• Police Briefs
• Local hospital makes top list
• Walters attends certification training
• Maria Orozco treats Lutheran youth to authentic Mexican chicken soup
• School Lunch Menus
• County tables reduction request
• United Fund reaches campaign goal
• City joins regional group over local official’s objections
• Beginners’ Day provides intro to school for kindergartners, parents
• Ongoing cure sought for surplus pills
• Police Briefs
• FFA hosted unique fundraiser at stockyard
• Couple planning International Fiesta Day
• Rep. Foxx explains new health reform act
• Zumbathon raised money to cure disease
• Art League announced show winners Sunday
• GMAMH ramps up Web presence
• Leathers joins Blue Ridge Care Net
• Cuts are affecting local hospital
• Merit badge college growing every year
• Surry Old Time Fiddlers Convention to offer toe-tapping fun
• Board to meet in Elkin, discuss incentives
• Health fair was well attended
• Marriages …
• Wharton juggles habitat leadership, career as author
• Health Calendar
• Northern Hospital of S.C. celebrates GI nurses week
• Land permits …
• Getting bystanders to stand against bullies
• Board rejects non-resident voting
• Girl hit by car wants safer crossing
• Rebirth sought for Surry Young Democrats
• Clark takes first in World Peace Essay Contest
• Proposed incentives unclear
• City officer cleared in fatal shooting
• Board OKs hearing on recycling
• St. Patty’s Day event big hit
• Local students heading to Greece for global summit
• Correction
• PMMS students evacuated, no threat found
• Serve Him
• Church Calendar
• County makes changes to board
• Land company gets extension on foreclosures
• Affray charges dropped against three students
• New location sought for community meal
• Toyama enjoying stay in America
• Students’ efforts add up to success
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• Community Calendar
• Livestock Report
• The comet is coming! Surry paramedics place second with mass casualty scenario
• SCC president stepping down
• Dobson gets more time to answer lawsuit
• College students help Habitat during spring break
• Woman transported to hospital after stepping into traffic
• City meeting to include recycling vote
• City board approves resolution
• Mount Airy museum to host St. Patty’s Day event
• SouthData of Mount Airy announces promotions
• St. Patrick’s Day theme prevails at Modern Gardeners March meeting
• School Lunch Menus
• Murderer gets three life terms
• Construction students tour SCC programs
• Dobson sends out letter to residents
• Seven students charged in fight
• WPES students learning about service
• Zumbathon charity event is Saturday
• Surry Community College Trustees meet
• Mount Airy Public Library needs donations for spring book sale
• Police Briefs
• St. Patrick’s Day event packs Gertrude Smith House
• Crossroads agencies move in time
• AirCare coming to Surry County
• The Crazies are coming — to build Habitat houses
• Special Olympics planning to host St. Patty’s Day competition, dance
• Rescue squad celebrates 50 years
• State lawmakers may cut their pay
• Museum kicking off ‘Just a Dollar’ campaign
• Talent on display at MAHS
• March Mayhem and your chance at a million dollars
• Community Calendar
• Military Briefs
• Health Calendar
• Applying the ‘new’ Dietary Guidelines in Surry County
• Key collecting stuffed animals
• Book Smarts
• Shur is first Surry woman to be awarded RAFI grant
• County plans EMS restructuring
• Co-defendant sentenced for role in death
• Foster parent arrested on sex charges
• Fight breaks out at Mount Airy High
• Deadline for award nominations near
• Sheriff’s Office makes arrests in theft cases
• Celebration of Sandy Beam’s life planned
• Police Briefs
• Surry Red Cross chapter to receive much-needed donation
• Man gets 6-8 years in stabbing
• County cracking down on worthless checks
• Scout improves city park facilities
• Trees dying due to improper pruning
• Surry rabies clinic set for this Saturday
• Local dry cleaner wins international award
• Spiritual hoarding
• Church Calendar
• Reception held for library photo contest
• ‘Make-or-break’ time nearing
• Community Lent service brings out a crowd
• Respect a priority at Pilot Mountain Middle
• Problem tree has elderly couple asking for help
• Name released after fatal car wreck in Virginia
• Livestock Report
• Open house held at Pilot Center
• Police Briefs
• MAHS students to showcase talent this Saturday
• Sheriff's Briefs
• TDA on board with Very Surry
• County considering incentives for ‘Project Clear’
• Others’ recycling costs exceed local estimates
• PMMS soars to Battle of the Books victory
• Fallen boulder causes fatal I-77 crash
• Correction
• Resident helps put out fire
• Medicine Drop set for March 22
• Contract awarded for road work in Surry
• NSHS FFA holding livestock sale
• Authentic New Orleans dishes served at Mardi Gras celebration
• School Lunch Menus
• Reval set for 2012
• East Surry High School parents turn out for open forum
• New sidewalks a priority of city board
• Winds overturn pair of tractor-trailers on I-77
• Students prove their scientific prowess
• Wet weekend halts dry period
• Local police escorts advised for late night bank deposits
• War-time women: From hoop skirts to camp fires
• Consolidated report good news for area schools
• SCC open house events this week
• Free photography workshop set
• Squad celebrates 50 years
• All in a day’s work for a Civil War soldier
• Reval one of many topics set for county meeting
• Community Lenten services begin Wednesday
• Cause of fire still under investigation
• Benefit shower, pounding to aid house fire victims
• Farmers markets to begin in April
• Community Calendar
• Book Smarts
• Marriages
• Cats bring Sharon Chriscoe to writing
• Woman ejected during car wreck
• Record crowd turns out to support the arts
• Cashier charged with alleged embezzlement
• EDP sees fewer big projects, more inquiries in 2010
• Surry County School District awarded STEM grant
• Police Briefs
• Walden speaks at annual EDP meeting
• Lower landfill fees to be sought
• Census results show little growth in county
• Students build sheds for Habitat
• Attempted robbery occurs at bank
• Students add to resume with competition
• Vocé to dedicate Sunday concert to Sandy Beam
• Police Briefs
• Carroll receives $15 million construction bond
• Community Calendar
• Too many are ignorant
• Church Calendar
• Wilkes Livestock Report
• The more you read the more you’ll know:Surry celebrates Seuss in style
• Commissioners to discuss reval
• Relay for Life off to a good start
• City board to discuss recycling, charter issues
• ‘Hometown hero’ dealing with medical crisis
• Artist of the month show set for Sunday
• Mardi Gras party set for Friday
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• Livestock Report
• EMS Explorer Post members get hands-on experience
• Habitat looking for 20 churches
• Gas prices expected to continue rising
• Mountain Park community to hold another meeting
• Students share The Leader In Me with board
• Banking executive finds art of cooking is enjoyable and rewarding
• Lunch Menus
• Civil War returning to Rockford
• Board looks at funding for coming year
• County board talks tourism, economic development
• Jewelry party to raise funds for Surry Animal Rescue
• Storm brings about little damage
• Pilot center to get new windows
• Ceasar spends summers serving
• Book Smarts
• Men make ‘stand’ at local church
• Officials take aim at dilapidated structures in city
• Gentry Middle raises record amount for Victory Junction Gang
• Police Briefs
• Festival pays tribute to key organizer
• ‘Winter Blast’ rocks MA High
• Copeland students getting fit
• Community Calendar
• Police Briefs
• Pilot Mountain town board to meet Monday
• ArtsBall set for Friday
• Military Briefs
• Health Calendar
• Are you out of alignment?
• Cutting taxes top priority of board
• Tommy Jarrell Festival Dance brings out a crowd
• County commissioners set priorities for coming years
• Students learn how to be superheroes
• Elvis, Tunderbird, and Shepherd’s House draws hundreds to fundraising event
• Race to the Top money finally arriving in districts
• United Fund of Surry County gives out awards
• Tommy Jarrell Festival begins
• Future of Planning Department
• Public hearing to be held on recycling
• Dobson board meets with attorney
• Rain does not dampen spirits at groundbreaking
• Young at Art Club to meet today
• Sandy Level community hosting a fundraiser
• African-American Read-in well attended
• Habitat for Humanity ReStore grand opening is planned
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• Marketing business through social media
• Livestock Report
• Don’t despair! Jesus does care!
• Church Calendar
• Fire destroys Surry SCAN office
• Cawley plans to bring recycling issue to a vote
• Lima takes spelling bee for second year
• Reformers Unanimous program grows at Temple Baptist
• Public’s help being sought in curtailing area copper thefts
• Pilot pig on the loose meets demise
• Speed limit reductions to be considered at Dobson meeting
• African American read-in set today
• Bagnal ends long library career
• Historic bus boycott recreated
• Board opposes any state moves to merge school systems
• City board to huddle for retreat
• Teen collects jeans for homeless
• Identity of local fire victim confirmed
• Hospital to conduct lockdown drill Friday
• Final flu clinic set for today
• Needle art exhibit on display
• Police briefs
• Extension Agent Long introduces ideas for eating healthy super snacks
• Lunch Menus
• Shoals gets healthy, active
• Board approves new web service
• Candlelight vigil to remember slain detective
• City officials get glimpse of ‘socialist’ future
• Students learn about pet care and safety from Susie
• Lyons promoted to banking officer
• Teen killed in hit and run
• Black history event features teacher
• Third graders getting dictionaries from Ruritans
• Wiley to perform at museum Tuesday
• Tommy Jarrell festival begins this week
• Tourism expected to grow in 2011
• Specialty items set for auction
• Lowgap forest fire almost out
• Firefighters appreciate food donations during crisis
• Community mourns after Beam’s sudden death
• Two arrested in meth raid
• MAHS set to honor one of its own
• Students targeted during Through With Chew Week
• Commissioners to discuss tax department changes
• Local teen takes pageant crown
• Hart receives award
• Health Calendar
• Crossroads receives expansion grant
• Community Calendar
• Hatcher works to stay young
• Land permits …
• Marriages …
• Building permits …
• Fatal fire kills Mount Airy resident
• Criminal aliens are deported through program
• Reaction mixed to state park, welcome center closings
• Police Briefs
• Flat Rock loves the bus
• Towell tapped at Yadkin Valley Financial
• BREAKING NEWS: Fatal fire in Flat Rock
• Former principal Templeton will be missed by community
• Day will honor slain officer
• Fifth-grade student recognized for Hungry Bears program
• Business Web site drops City Hall references
• Girl collects food at birthday party
• Fundraiser to help local family with baby adoption
• Police Briefs
• Sheriff's Briefs
• The Shelton Foundation scholarship applications available
• Tax-return filings offered for free
• Civic center asking residents to vote for favorite project
• Community Calendar
• We’ve come a long way, and I’m so grateful!
• Church Calendar
• Fire on the mountain: Day three
• Stolen $6,000 returned to local businessman
• School converges art and technology
• Business use of city facilities violates policy
• City school board going paperless
• ‘Dearly Departed’ play set for this weekend
• Zumba benefit to help American Heart Association
• Westfield Booster Club to host ‘Sweetheart Dance’
• Correction
• Lowes Foods to become Just$ave
• Livestock Report
• Origin of Lowgap structure fires undetermined
• Lowgap blaze under control
• Changes in Egypt applauded locally
• Police to take on city’s ABC law enforcement duties
• YLS students learn about justice
• Groundbreaking set for MAHS
• Free flu vaccine offered today
• Police Briefs
• Central Methodist Youth entertain at talent show and Sunday luncheon
• Lunch Menus
• NEWS UPDATE: Blaze now covers 600 acres
• Forest fire breaks out in Lowgap
• Dobson sued by city of Mount Airy
• Elementary locked down as precaution
• Arrests made in armed robbery, larcenies
• Downtown street repair expected by this Friday
• Cedar Ridge loves reading together
• College to undertake projects to update facilities
• Police Briefs
• Event features doo-wop music
• True Love Waits rally features comic approach
• Party Hearty raises money, awareness for Special Olympics
• Carroll Geneaology club to meet
• Children’s center event draws crowd
• SCC emphasizes local education at elected officials conference
• Scouts collect food for agencies
• Veterans in need of volunteers
• Community Calendar
• Military News
• Health calendar
• Northern marks 2nd anniversary for center
• Website edition delayed
• Scholarship to help seniors afford Lifeline service
• Forum addresses prescription-drug deaths
• Valentines dance draws largest center crowd yet
• MAMS students to experience ‘suite’ life at Bobcats game
• Coaches getting CPR course
• Food pantry receives $1,100 donation
• Tommy Jarrell Festival 2011
• Surry Arts Council kicks off annual fund drive
• Partnership sticks with Very Surry
• Revamped Web site boosts genealogy efforts
• ‘Grocery giveaway’ set for next week
• Career and Technical Education week hopes to open doors for students
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• No need to worry about what may come tomorrow
• Church Calendar
• Speaker teaches students about Tuskegee Airmen
• Leak sends Jones students home
• Police warn of jury duty, other scams
• Teacher remembered at North Surry
• Fundraiser under way to aid civic center
• ‘Fix it February’ calls for volunteers
• Driver’s license offices to close Feb. 21 for upgrades
• Three Mount Airy residents arrested in Cana paintball spree
• ‘Prescribed burn’ held at local state park
• Livestock Report
• County approves bid for MAHS renovations
• Delinquent tax list to print later
• Autopsy shows fatal shot hit arm first
• Wanted suspect described as ‘big porker’
• Friday is Parents Night Out at RCC
• Police Briefs
• Wineries hosting Valentine’s event
• Year 2011 gets off to a dry and chilly start
• ‘Souper’ Bowl Party draws enthusiastic sports crowd to Yokeley home
• Correction
• Lunch Menus
• Monument will honor fallen officers
• NSHS able to pursue partnership with Habitat for Humanity
• Group learns about nutrition to lose weight
• Tourism group wants to ditch Very Surry
• ‘Double taxation’ should end, commissioner says
• City official seeks landfill rebate
• Guns seized at Carroll Intermediate School
• Police Briefs
• Hall family honored by area Republican party
• Special artists’ talent on display
• Let’s go to the hop
• Millennium Charter now sending tweets
• SCC’s Small Business Center to hold seminar
• Elementary my dear West Stokes claims Quiz Bowl title
• School officials to address county commissioners
• Americana to be on display at fundraiser
• Valentine’s date with The Duke
• House fire displaces family of three
• Farmers input needed at meeting
• ‘Starting a Successful Business’ series to begin at SCC
• College financial aid help available at Surry Community
• Community Calendar
• February serves as American Heart Month
• Health Calendar
• Hospital celebrating perianesthesia nurse week
• Clinton Carter filled a vital role in the military
• Gallimore makes most of second chance
• State provides child care funding
• Students explore issues in pop culture elective
• Area foundation still calling for applications
• Local storyteller receives arts grant
• MAMS SGA gets crash course in leadership
• Gated-community plan stalled
• County wants utility service to interstates
• N.C. House votes to favor health care overhaul challenge
• Crossroads providers scrambling to find new facilities
• Police briefs
• Community Calendar
• Corn growers to vote on assessment referendum
• Labor department urges businesses to apply for safety awards
• Church Calendar
• All things are possible if we believe in Jesus Christ
• Lyons to pastor Lambsburg church
• Shooting across the curriculum
• Law enforcement collecting DNA
• City could get first gated community
• Gates takes CMS geography bee
• County closing building on Riverside Drive
• Man charged with kidnapping wife
• Fire destroys garage, camper and car
• Three charged in Dobson embezzlement case
• Police Briefs
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Community Calendar
• Livestock Report
• Merritts participating in AgBiz Planner Program
• Tonnesen takes home prize in county spelling bee
• Computer crimes triple
• Homelessness program on track
• Contractor recommendation comes out of board meeting
• Gallery Group to host Student Artist Show
• Surry County’s tourism Web site goes mobile for smartphones
• Commissioners call special meeting for tonight
• Mount Airy man gets 10 years for drunk driving
• Auditions for Taming of the Shrew set for Feb. 7
• Grant to aid Pilot Mountain Pride
• Faye Carter takes time from busy schedule to share special recipes
• Lunch Menus
• Bread co. announces expansion
• Delp’s building sustains damage in car wreck
• County group hopes to unify
• Rabid fox still on the loose
• High schools to compete in Quiz Bowl Saturday
• WorkForce Carolina relocating office
• Habitat gives family growing room
• Many activities for Black History Month
• Forecasting apple showers with a chance of vitamin B
• Police Briefs
• Two local museums receive grant funding
• Scouts learn wilderness survival skills
• Local event celebrates Scottish poet, heritage
• Top blue grass awards goal for DJ, WPAQ
• Community Calendar
• ATKINS
• Moving to the music
• Home fire losses rise; commercial damages fall
• Tea Party to host special speaker
• Child care program facing cuts
• Barber celebrates 87th birthday
• Community Calendar
• Ed, Charlie Shelton named citizens of year
• Sheriff, lieutenant attend gang summit in Arizona
• Ruling will change admission policy
• Salvation Army officials nix fuel-tank idea
• Tickets still available for Robert Burns Supper
• Police Briefs
• Correction
• Piney Grove to host Chi Rho
• Church Calendar
• The light of the world Jesus-You-Me
• ‘Helping Hands’ reaching out
• Pet vaccinations up, euthanization remains high
• Patrick sheriff to seek second term
• College advising corps making strides in county
• Class set for beginning beekeepers
• Additional free flu shot clinic
• Police Briefs
• Livestock Report
• Cooperative Extension helping create healthy kids
• Local legislators to have full plate
• ABC privatization fight continues for local officials
• Mount Airy launches citizen alert system
• Number of overdose deaths remains high
• Walk to honor memory of fallen officers
• Singles club plans gathering
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Snowflakes, roses and party foods prevail at garden club luncheon
• Lunch Menus
• Gentry Middle School evacuated
• Priorities set at goals conference
• Town of Pilot being sued by Neighbors
• ‘Medicare made clear’ meetings set
• Huddle up for healthy activity
• Web site devoted to courthouse tragedy
• Police Briefs
• Habitat dedicates home to Baylors
• New Vision Christian Academy offers alternative
• Junior historians gearing up for state
• Two men arrested on drug charges
• Health Calendar
• Racing history draws hundreds
• Donkey basketball raises funds
• Wilkes community band looking for members
• Domestic violence shelter has new name
• Community Calendar
• Military briefs
• Pilot commissioners to discuss landscaping traffic circles
• Book Smarts
• Dowdy answers call to ministry
• Wellness fair draws healthy turnout
• Brown to run again; others undecided
• County to help people collect unclaimed cash
• Racing exhibit brings history to life
• Truck hauling cabbage overturned on I-74
• SCC looking ahead to another exceptional year
• Police Briefs
• Surry County wine to be featured at U.S. Figure Skating Championships
• Attorney hired by Dobson to fight city
• Local kerosene prices see huge increase
• City board wants revaluation on schedule
• County gets look at transportation plans
• MA High School students give back to the community
• Community Calendar
• Church Calendar
• A challenging gospel
• Dads make a difference, Fathers learn how to help their children at Super Dad seminar
• County wants to allow trapping
• Rash of fires straining Red Cross resources
• Fourth annual senior health fair set for Friday
• Free flu shot clinic to be held Friday
• Commissioner Golding recovering after wreck
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• Livestock Report
• Young at Art Clubs 2011 meetings announced
• Revaluation to be discussed later
• City school board makes decision on calendar
• City board to consider fire district change
• YVEDDI has new executive director
• Snow causes changes to school exam schedules
• MA Middle School hosting donkey basketball
• Dobson to discuss budget audit
• Wolfe charged with third DWI
• Northern Hospital to conduct phone surveys of patients
• Ersie McIntyre entertains kinsfolk for Betty Farnsworth’s birthday
• Lunch Menus
• Speaker says struggle not over
• Crowd attends MLK bridge dedication
• Kerosene campaign raises $11,000
• Local man tries to recover after fire
• Lifeline pregnancy center undergoes name change
• Junior Johnson to launch racing exhibit at museum
• County urging state to restore school funds
• Help available for domestic violence victims
• Local campaign spending totals $163,051
• Health center celebrating ‘first birthday’ of smoking ban
• Mount Airy native makes impact in nursing field
• King’s Legacy Remembered
• Domestic violence — a prevalent problem
• County schools testing dropout prevention software
• Think your pet’s the cutest? Show off him (or her) to the world
• Cornell University gives Children’s Center a check-up
• Board to discuss transportation, animal trapping on Tuesday
• County schools announces calendar changes
• Community Calendar
• Board favors delaying revaluation
• George name regional principal of the year
• Police officer in fatal shooting still on leave
• Winter weather leaves Red Cross dry
• MCA forms National Junior Honor Society chapter
• Police Briefs
• Holiday to affect city sanitation operations
• Virginia man embarks on year of service
• School Notice
• 2-1-1 calls down in December, reflecting trend
• Fund-raiser to provide kerosene to needy
• Local native ID’d as Stokes fire victim
• Mount Airy government now has Facebook presence
• Dobson park generates plenty of interest
• Police Briefs
• ProHealth to celebrate 10th anniversary
• Church Calendar
• Free flu shots offered today
• Student’s poem deals with deployment
• M.L. King Bridge dedication is Monday
• Charter academy holding school, others still closed
• Family struggles to recover
• Gift cards offered for cancer research
• Police briefs
• Sheriff's briefs
• MA medical facility re-accredited
• John S. Clark hires human resources manager
• Accidents down; caution advised
• New year brings mental health system changes
• ‘Surprising’ winter to get milder, NWS says
• Local woman featured in recent Sports Illustrated online article
• Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon planned
• Truck smashes into Kangaroo Express
• City garbage schedules revised
• Dobson to meet about new proposed park
• Police Briefs
• Williams joins WorkForce Carolina
• Town folks turn out to honor Terry Pruett at retirement party
• School Lunch Menus
• Weather causes few problems
• Make-up days set by area schools
• Arson suspected in mobile home blaze
• Gym-naming honors Pruett’s contributions
• Wreck on Highway 601 sends man to Baptist
• Mount Airy tourism committee wants to see change
• Police briefs
• Salvation Army still in need after busy holiday season
• Shooting their way to regionals
• Snow coming, schools close in advance
• Scottish Society plans Robert Burns supper
• Children’s Center planning Valentine’s event
• Health Calendar
• Pat’s library comes to life
• Mayberry Ballroom dances into a new location
• Manager in no rush for new planning director
• Martin Luther King Jr. celebration planned
• Community Calendar
• Ministry of Hospitality adds new board members
• Book Smarts
• Hiatt shows courage through losing her leg
• Fire displaces elderly city resident
• Program sees 1st-month success
• Two more schools placed in lockdown
• Flat Rock man arrested after failed larceny
• Perry to speak at SCC, Mount Airy library
• Post office permanently closes
• City may solicit cost-cutting ideas from citizens
• Winter weather causes rising home heating costs and strain on locals
• Unemployment rises across state
• Patrick program to provide cell phones to elderly
• Church Calendar
• Police Briefs
• Reeves Community Center names new program supervisor
• Dairy Center featured in ‘Our State’
• Three schools put on lockdown
• City schools sees project iLearn off to successful start
• Commissioners approve bid for Cody Creek project
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Livestock Report
• ‘Elaborate’ drug operation found
• County manager to stay on for additional years
• City board takes look at evaluation tool
• A company with a heart: Central States employees appreciate ‘Giving Back’ program
• Foxx to chair House education subcommittee
• National School Psychologist Awareness Week observed
• Lunch Menus
• Surry Central J.R.O.t.C cadets travel
• Dale Sechrist ranks champ in RCC annual Spaghetti Sauce Contest
• Meth lab found in Mount Airy
• Board approves deposit on property
• New accountability measures to go in effect this month
• Merchants hopeful for the new year
• John S. Clark Company promotes two
• GMAMH hopes to raise money
• City officials offer goals for 2011
• City board meets Thursday night
• New law targets young bikers
• New year welcomed in big way here
• Commissioners prepare for a tight new year
• Public hearings to take place at county meeting
• Community Calendar
• Event highlights African traditions
• Sheriff's briefs
• Military News
• Journey to America, Korean students immersed in local culture
• Small changes can make big difference Experts offer realistic ways to keep that weight loss resolution
• Electrical fire destroys garage
• Police held New Year’s Eve checkpoints, patrols
• Police briefs
• Surrey Bancorp repays $2 million in TARP funds
• Carroll County HS students retain Appalachian heritage
• Pilot Mountain Middle School surpasses United Fund goal
• Police plan New Year’s Eve checkpoints, patrols
• County considering property purchase in Elkin
• Arrest made in theft of catalytic converters
• Local Internet cafes still operating despite ‘crackdown’
• Canned food goal of Zumba event
• Sheriff’s Office charges man with break-in
• Police Briefs
• Hope for the new year
• Church Calendar
• Courthouse blueprints offer look at past
• Elks Lodge to see change with new year
• Dobson looks to make 2011 a strong year
• Hospice looking for volunteers in the upcoming year
• Southern Community Bank branch goes green
• Rotary gives food, money to pantries
• Kwanzaa celebration set for Saturday
• Library photography contest starting
• Mission Competition: A way to get serious about weight loss
• Police Briefs
• Cooks of the Week
• Carroll County Intermediate School having a renaissance
• Lunch Menus
• Local mom launches tomato-growing operation
• Man on phone to police when fatally shot
• Fire destroys home on Burke Road
• Snow affects gift returns, shopping
• Snow affects garbage services
• Residents enjoy a white Christmas
• Local commissioner pens historical work
• Celebration planned at local church
• Biggest Loser program to feature Boot Camp
• United Fund struggles to make goal this year
• Two dead in shooting, few details released
• Citizen of the year nominations being taken
• Hospitality ministry finds new office
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Community Calendar
• Event to benefit museum is shaping up
• Teachers receive National Board Certification
• Teacher comes full circle after Army service
• Church serves up lunch, prayer at jail
• Two people shot, details sketchy
• New tournament fees set to prevent money loss
• Local lovefeast remains a local tradition for many denominations
• Friends Feeding Friends still accepting donations
• Christmas at Miss Gertrude’s is tradition
• City resident faces trafficking charges
• Cruise-in brings in toys for kids
• Cana man arrested in armed robbery
• Wi-Fi making its way to Dobson’s Fisher River Park
• City adjusts operations for holidays
• Police Briefs
• Church Calendar
• Local man designs dancing Christmas lights
• County approves new recreation incentive grants
• Cedar Ridge penny drive a success, Students get to meet soldiers
• Multimedia projects create new learning platform
• Jewell receives Land Realtor of the Year
• Teen collects coats for others
• Betty Lynn wishes everyone a Merry Christmas at museum
• School bus gets stuck in Lowgap
• Couple rescued from smoke back-up in home
• Gold parties in homes concern city police
• County offices to close for holidays
• Branch kids and families return home for Mom’s great cooking
• B.H. Tharrington raises money for the Make-a-wish foundation
• St. Paul Honor Roll
• Presents, possessions survive attic fire
• New assistant manager hired for the town of Dobson
• County fund balance down, financials sound
• Dobson Elementary students punt, roar and celebrate
• Man remains hospitalized from mishap with saw
• Sammons recovering from icy fall
• Police Briefs
• Family expresses thanks for support
• A Merry Mayberry Christmas to be celebrated
• Storytelling gatherings to begin
• North Surry senior honors fallen friend
• Holiday light exhibit to host Grammy nominated singer
• Brunch with Santa raises money for Relay
• New board to meet on Monday
• Glee comes to Surry County
• Military Briefs
• Holcomb earns industry certification
• Community Calendar
• SCC nursing assistant classes begin in January
• Adjusting to a different world
• Wrecks from ice continue into Friday
• Local goes all out for Christmas spirit
• Fire destroys trailer in Lowgap
• Mount Airy High School nominated for national award
• Toy drive to be held
• Embers concert canceled
• Pilot Mountain Bobcats to play Saturday
• Ice wreaks havoc on motorists, others
• Students learn to give back
• Church Calendar
• Weather causes school cancellations
• City commissioners meeting canceled
• County commissioner retreat canceled
• Observance of Virginia courthouse shooting under way
• Missing teen turns up at friends house
• City ordinance changes target abuses
• Mayor recovering after traffic accident
• Cost figures received on sports complex
• Police Briefs
• Embers concert bad weather back-up plan announced
• Tharrington students get a visit from local firemen
• Search continues for 16-year-old
• Community helps Salvation Army meet staggering need during holiday
• Unemployment rate continues near 10 percent
• Family tries to recover after fire
• Ladies turn passion for sewing into giving
• Cory Tucker joins Surrey Bank & Trust
• Telephone company donates toys
• Garden club members share recipes at Christmas luncheon
• Lunch Menus
• B.H. Tharrington Primary Learns new songs
• Family loses everything in fire
• Sheriff’s office secretly plays Santa
• Sheriff’s office makes drug, larceny arrests
• ABC system doesn’t need fixing, lawmakers say
• Two real estate firms announce merger
• Police Briefs
• Museum opens its doors to the public
• A very Gertrude Christmas
• Give a Kid a Coat campaign concludes
• Food boxes ready for Christmas
• Local Cops and Kids go shopping
• Cheerleaders freeze their pom poms for Special Olympics
• Job Fair declared a success
• Tis the season for pomegranates
• Community Calendar
• The Embers to play Christmas show Thursday night
• Book Smarts
• Donnell pursues love for arts
• Trees on parade for Surry SCAN
• Relay for Life to hold Parents’ Night Out Dec. 17
• City hires lawyer in water dispute
• Local attic fire displaces family
• Recount of appeals race set for next week
• Old Skool Drama production to benefit United Fund
• Museum to host Holiday Open House
• Police Briefs
• Toy drive exercises holiday spirit
• Free flu vaccine now available at health department
• Students stuff stockings for Salvation Army
• Early College clubs donate to United Fund
• Sheriff's briefs
• County schools bring in the dough
• Three arrested in death of city man
• Reception to honor outgoing rec official
• Time of giving can also be a season for stealing
• Police Briefs
• Precipitation at deficit level
• Board swears in new members
• No Need 2 Speed finds more than 300 violations in county
• Wreck shuts down Highway 103
• This year’s New Year’s party to benefit museum
• American Cancer Society looking to open resource center
• Mount Airy parade appeals to all ages
• Dobson water deadline is today
• $39,900 grant awarded to promote youth fitness
• Fire chief issues heating, Christmas tree warnings
• Early snowfall blankets area
• Action delayed again on tougher utility policy
• Cable TV rates to rise soon
• First Presbyterian to honor Beam
• Military Briefs
• New commissioners to be sworn in Monday
• Community Calendar
• Police Briefs
• Candlelight Christmas attracts crowd
• Mount Airy eyes recycling costs, options
• County science fair chance for students to shine
• New Animal Control director named
• Dobson parade to be held today
• Horne Creek visitors take a step back into Christmas past
• Dealership embezzler gets active time
• City taking aim at grease problem
• Kidwell home to be featured on Tour of Homes
• Authors showcase best of the area at talk
• Local author holds first book signing Saturday
• Local author to aid non-profits
• Church Calendar
• Pilot parade to feature Tucker as grand marshal
• News and Programs at Mount Airy - December 01, 2010
• New town manager named in Dobson
• Kids to get toys through event
• City finance officer cited by national group
• Moore house to feature local garden clubs on annual Tour of Homes
• Parade of Trees set for next week
• Author to give presentation and book signing today
• Advocacy workshop slated
• Local educators attend tech program
• Junior Women’s Club looking for toys
• Local firm acquires Alabama company
• Mount Airy’s Franks Body Shop receives award
• Simulation tests emergency workers
• Parade dreaming of a Mayberry Christmas
• Mount Airy site of promotional video work
• Signups under way for Citizens Police Academy
• Art gallery, law office to be featured on annual upcoming Tour of Homes
• Police Briefs
• Gentry Middle School Volleyball team celebrates wins at Mom-Daughter Party
• School Lunch Menus
• Pearl Harbor vet to light city tree
• County to get help with beaver problems
• San Antonio group visits local greenway
• Students’ cards spur response from NC soldier
• Colonial Christmas was a hit with visitors
• PBIS creating better atmosphere in county schools
• Jobs in Health Care Occupations focus of SCC Event
• Historic home, church to be featured on annual Tour of Homes
• Auditions set for Dearly Departed
• To Your Health: Do you have migraine headaches?
• Minton gets back to basics in treating patients
• Mount Airy native plays on ‘Today’ show
• Sen. East wants change on county board
• Proposed budget cuts will affect classrooms
• Ranger’s cabin to be featured on the annual Tour of Homes
• Commissioners meeting set for Monday night
• Community Calendar
• Retailers call Black Friday a hit
• Medicare phone scam targeting local residents
• Two Cherry Street homes to be featured on Tour of Homes
• Area schools work to Fuel Up To Play 60
• Pilot Mountain library hosting holiday storytelling event
• Church sees growing need in community
• Group feeds inmates, others from 13 Bones
• Food, fellowship served up in ample portions
• Surry in need of foster parents, donations
• Tobacco lofts to be on display for annual Tour of Homes
• Candlelight Christmas in Rockford to take place
• Police Briefs
• Local company makes ‘fastest-growing’ list
• Volunteers deliver food, get much in return
• Wire thefts plague electrical companies
• Limited space available for ‘Christmas by Lamplight’
• Fire displaces family
• Tickets on sale for Christmas Tour of Homes
• Commissioners’ board making history
• Giving thanks, two local groups give back
• Marine Corps League collecting toys at parade
• Burton recognized at final school board meeting
• Sheriff's briefs
• Cook of the Week
• City tones down tougher utility rules
• Bannertown Baptist collects record number of shoe boxes
• Thanksgiving meals to be delivered across Surry
• Pilot residents to get reduced rate on water hook-ups
• County offices closed for holiday
• Garbage schedules tweaked for holiday
• Police Briefs
• Arts council hosts The Nutcracker
• Food bank in need of donations
• Ministerial association sponsors Thanksgiving service
• Military briefs
• Tellabration! draws record crowd
• City on solid financial footing
• If you build it they will come: Lights going up at Dan River Park
• Shoals Ruritan Club plans Angel Tree, decoration contest
• Community Calendar
• Jones students celebrate heritage
• New holiday event planned
• Thanksgiving service is Sunday
• East Coast Trike-in organizers help local charities
• Sheriff's Briefs
• DARE coloring honors to be awarded
• MAMS students hope to stomp out smoking
• City board approves MLK bridge
• Sheriff’s office collecting donations for Christmas
• Angel Tree Festival to benefit SCC kids
• Meeting highlights slavery petition project
• Police Briefs
• Church Calendar
• Bridge may be named to honor King
• Names of fatal crash victims released
• Tea Party to set goals for county
• Hartness finalist for statewide recognition
• Rabies alert issued as cases rise
• Credit Union efforts create holiday boxes
• Police Briefs
• Browne
• Livestock Report
• Pile-ups on I-77 kill two, injure dozens
• Loyal fans brave the rain for a chance to meet Betty Lynn
• Storytellers to hold Tellabration!
• Public invited to Angel Tree Charity Festival at SCC
• Nutcracker performance Sunday to feature local dance students
• Central Methodist Church family gathers at Lyons’ Farm for annual autumn festival
• Tharrington community helpers
• Lunch Menus
• Breaking News: Travel Advisory
• Open house held for Relay for Life
• Highway patrol campaign targeting speeders
• Tourism figures continue climbing in Mount Airy
• Cancer surpasses heart disease in county and state
• Public Works building should be finished in December
• Surry to develop a protection plan
• New grant to help enhance classroom experiences
• Program aims to garner college applications
• ‘Family Fun Night’ a big hit
• Veterans honored at Elks Lodge
• New art club offers youth a chance to get creative
• Betty Lynn to sign autographs on Tuesday
• Military Briefs
• Community Calendar
• Police Briefs
• Assistant city manager happy in backup role
• Book Smarts
• Goins-Mosley couple united in outdoor wedding ceremony
• Gentry-Perkins Engagement
• Birth Announcements
• It’s crunch time for United Fund
• Christmas shoe boxes will be collected this week
• Last ‘Toast And Jam’ event is today
• Local therapy dogs bring joy to Special Olympics participants
• Breaking down boundaries between countries
• Junior Women’s Club to raise money for LifeSpan
• Church Calendar
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Auction is walk back in time
• Tempers flare at Dobson meeting
• License-plate covers being outlawed
• Veterans treated to a night of luxury
• Veterans honored during parade, ceremony
• Program hopes to unlock ‘mysteries of Medicare’
• The reason they serve
• Veterans honored at SCC event
• Livestock Report
• Police Briefs
• Annual Historical Society meeting set for next week
• Connect the Dots sets Family Fun Night Sat.
• Avid readers alert: Cheap books on sale at library
• Andy Griffith Museum attracts 54,295 in first year
• Local lineman takes second in Pole Top competition
• Northern Hospital nurse receives honor
• Police Briefs
• Lunch menu
• Cooks of the week
• Holiday to affect trash pickups
• U.S. Defense Department official makes visit to a local business
• Ground to be broken next month
• County eligible for aid due to 2010 crop loss
• Surry Arts Council Special friends program provides learning and fun
• SCC looking to start two new programs
• City backs away from modular structures issue
• Paramedics win second international title
• Autumn Arnder crowned Teen Miss Autumn Leaves
• Police briefs
• Local rainfall drying up
• Hospital celebrates perioperative nurses week
• Local Marines to celebrate anniversary
• ‘Freeze Your Pom Poms’ to benefit Special Olympics
• Dance proves it’s good to be square
• Classroom project is a little fishy
• Preservimg the past for those in the future
• Farm Fest fun for families
• Dive team searches county watershed
• Viticulture center finally opens its doors
• Farm Fest off to roaring start
• Community Calendar
• Military Briefs
• Sheriff amendment passes by overwhelming majority
• Woman blankets area with love for hospice
• Stockyard ready for Tuesday’s sale
• City Veterans Day tribute, other events planned
• Shooting victim has dreams for the future
• Thankful
• Church Calendar
• Piano Performance Team to give free concert Sunday
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• Local Brief
• Fire being investigated as arson
• County water tower issue still drags on
• Fire leaves renters out in the cold
• Dobson gets 30 more days on water agreement
• ‘Mayberry Plaza’ could create 100 jobs
• Friends Feeding Friends sees frenzied beginning
• Bright-Leaf proposal draws takers
• Volunteers sought for tax assistance
• City school board hears about facility rentals
• Bridge may be named after former Sheriff Bill Hall
• Cause still unknown in stockyard fire
• Social set for seniors
• Driver safety class is Thursday
• Scheduled event to focus on Alzheimer’s
• Livestock evacuated from stockyard after fire starts
• Candidates pay Young Life students to clean up election signs
• Unopposed candidates see no strong challengers
• East captures seventh Senate term
• Stevens wins re-election to House
• Atkinson re-elected to sheriff
• Election Day gets off to rough start for area voters
• Republicans sweep commissioner races
• Franklin marks Constitution Day
• Lunch Menus
• 226 earn GED from community college
• Carroll County fifth graders participate in Ag field day
• Carroll County High School Honor Roll
• WMU treats jewelry party guests
• Wolfe issues apology, no longer focused on state campaign
• County schools calendar calls for Aug. 10 start
• State report cards released for schools
• Museum has great turnout for Boo Bash event
• Downtown trick-or-treating cleans merchants out of candy
• Wolfe jailed on DWI, related charges
• Foundation requesting applications, starting campaign
• Police Briefs
• SCC to honor veterans with ceremony, free meal
• Surry jobless rate dips slightly
• County approves stricter kennel limits
• City commissioners to meet Thursday
• Healthy turnout expected for election
• Military Briefs
• New SCC program opens doors for a manicurist career
• Community Calendar
• Commissioners to address zoning requests
• Most Wanted
• ‘Operation Silent Night’ declared successful
• Race for County Commissioner, Mount Airy District
• Farm Fest set for this weekend
• Trick-or-treaters hit the streets
• Church calendar
• Authorities search for missing man
• Second Dobson Fall Fest a success
• Halloween to be a weekend deal in Surry
• Judges, district attorney to run unopposed
• Doctor’s office holding pumpkin decorating contest
• Race for County Commissioner, Central District
• Give a Kid a Coat campaign gets off to a slow start
• Opie Awards announced
• Project Night urges all attendees to connect the dots
• Ararat pair being sought as fugitives
• Race for the House
• Vigil sheds light on domestic violence
• Early voting off to ‘great’ start
• Race for the House
• Dockery sworn in on Dobson board
• White Plains has “hay” day with fit and fun frolic
• Center dedicated in honor of Marion
• Police briefs
• Police briefs
• Project Night once again taking over Downtown Cinema
• Two sex offenders arrested, sheriff to conduct ‘Operation Silent Night’
• Museum to offer frighteningly good time at Boo Bash
• City hosting domestic violence candlelight vigil
• Pinnacle man charged with stealing from recreation center
• State Road man charged with molesting child
• Mount Airy school board candidates run unopposed
• Hope Loft ready for youth to drop-in
• Missing man found in Laurel Fork
• Pilot board hears positive feedback
• Police scare up safety tips for Halloween
• Officials hear from COG
• M-Powering youth to be conscientious citizens
• Atkinson campaign raises $68,910
• Dobson to consider new board appointee
• Alleged drug traffickers arrested
• Old landfill site unsuitable for sports complex
• Clerk of Court running unopposed
• School Lunch Menus
• Community Calendar
• Race for County Commissioner, South District
• ‘Wish list’for roads under development
• Cooks of the Week
• Race for Surry County Sheriff
• No water dispute lawyer hired by city, yet
• Sheriff's briefs
• Race for Surry County Sheriff
• $9 million may have come from festival
• Musical Treats begin Friday
• A Howl-O-Wine good time
• City fire department duties could expand
• Man still critical following fatal crash
• Opie Awards to be held Saturday
• Dobson Fall Fest set for Saturday
• New school has open house
• Parent Advisory Council aims to increase involvement
• First wave of iPod Touches out
• Health Calendar
• Shepherd’s House names new director
• Field day can be healthy, active and fun
• Howl-O-Wine set for Saturday
• Medical trip to Nepal a success
• Halloween dance Friday for 50-plus group
• Police Briefs
• Community calendar
• Bark in the Park a real tail-wagger
• Wreck proves fatal for Mount Airy man
• City planning director to retire
• Having a shucking good time
• Police briefs
• Jim Quick to perform free concert
• Lifeline trainings sessions offered
• Park planned
• 4-H food drive a success
• RCC announces senior trips
• Man arrested for stealing lottery tickets
• Student allegedly points paintball gun at bus
• Rockford opens doors to show off facility
• Rockford Elementary embraces the past, looks forward to the future
• Church treasurer charged with embezzlement
• Even big boys still want their toys
• First day of one-stop voting a success
• Bark in the Park set for Saturday
• ‘Nightmare on Main Street’ averted
• Surry Central celebrates 50th homecoming
• City ready to press water issue
• Ravens reaching to new heights
• Church Calendar
• MAMS holding dinner
• Officials believe policy won’t affect school level much
• East speaks at Tea Party forum
• Police Briefs
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Livestock Report
• Flu and pneumonia clinics are Friday
• Effort seeks to bring YMCA to Surry
• Toy auction offers look to the past
• Fight critically injures one
• More government employee records now available
• They’re the Pilot Mountain Pirates And they say Arrrgh Arrrgh Arrrgh
• First Baptist Church celebrates at homecoming service and luncheon
• SCC has final fundraiser tally for cancer research
• Mount Airy hosting band competition
• Residents offered tips on open burns
• State BOE takes surprise action
• Man saves woman from apartment fire
• Neighbors shooting leads to more charges
• Correction
• Trustees learn more about viticulture center opening
• George named P.O.Y. for city schools
• Identity of crash victim released
• PART park-and-ride lot dedicated
• Cornshucking frolic set for Saturday
• Mail carrier aids accident victim
• Cowan to appear at tea party forum
• Motorcycle, SUV crash claims life
• Festival might have set record
• Perry to speak tonight, book proceeds going to library
• James Gregory, Funniest Man in America to perform
• Annual precipitation still at a surplus
• Church to hold ‘sacrifice’ auction
• Fostering fitness and fun on field day
• Pilot Elementary students walk this way
• Living healthy program starts this Monday
• Autumn Leaves Festival under way
• U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors to perform
• Military Briefs
• Community Calendar
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Area students tapped for choral performances
• ‘American Chopper’ stars rev up crowd
• 2-1-1 reveals need for utilities help
• Festival shaping up as one of best ever
• Cell phones from SCC students will help U.S. soldiers
• October youth art class being offered
• SCC students providing help for local animals
• Church Calendar
• Bed and breakfast inns honoring soldiers, veterans
• Harvest Festival to be held this weekend
• Local high schools come together to cheer on the soldiers
• City officials adopt code of ethics
• Habitat has new executive director
• Franklin students learn to govern
• Pilot Mountain Bobcats to play at Blue Ridge Music Center
• Mount Airy football field vandalized
• City to honor Easter Brothers
• Recycling — Bulldogs CAN do it
• White Plains Post Office remains open
• Surry paramedics win second state title
• Eagles to tackle cancer Friday
• Salem “MYF 49’ers” still attend reunions and love eating good food
• Board hears newest school improvement plans
• Layman to sign ‘The Over-Winterers’ this Saturday
• County endorses partnership
• Kids learn fire prevention at Tharrington
• Livestock report
• Local vets on flight of honor today
• Authors holding weekend book signings in area
• GOP, dems neck and neck as deadline looms
• Yadkinville Art Gallery to showcase SCC art
• City taking a look at modular units
• SCC employees wear jeans to fight cancer
• Franklin McTeachers serve up food to raise money
• Police Briefs
• SCC offering new class
• Fire department to host community day
• Board gets started on new foundation
• Harrell recognized for 20 years of service
• Annexation request tops city agenda
• Towns, county to observe Halloween on Saturday night
• Officers write second chapter to drug bust
• Halloween to be celebrated Sunday
• Civil War reenactment attracts families
• Reenactment draws largest crowd
• Grant pays for Foothills food Pantry freezers
• Military Briefs
• Sunday comics cut from News
• Man dies after house fire
• Board to receive updates on schools
• Communities get chance to see new schools
• Public health celebration well attended
• Sonker Festival new for some
• Divorces
• From humble beginnings
• Marriages
• Land Permits
• Community Calendar
• Southern States associate honored for customer service
• House fire sends Cana man to hospital
• 4-H teaming up with Second Harvest Food Bank
• Country club to get ‘fresh start’
• SCC offers tour to GED graduates
• Police Briefs
• Betsy Davis named teacher of excellence
• Museum has full schedule for Autumn Leaves Festival
• Camp group volunteers for Habitat
• Paramedics to face off at competition
• Brady and Helen Jones honored as Laity of the Year at Salem Methodist
• Church Calendar
• New PART facility opening today
• A whole new world — of fruits and vegetables
• County to celebrate 90 years of public health services
• Therapeutic riding center to open
• Livestock Report
• Riverside Building recognized
• SouthData ‘Fast 50’ winner for sixth time
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• Crews honored for efforts
• Autumn Leaves Festival celebrates 44th year
• City schools hosts district meeting
• Police taser car-theft suspect
• Alleged cocaine supplier arrested
• Fog, speed factors in I-77 wrecks
• Little change to unemployment rate
• Hazardous trash topic of conversation
• Pilot Center offering GAP training
• Police Briefs
• RidgeCrest hosting benefit breakfast
• Harvest Day Festival at Brinegar Cabin Saturday
• Sonker Festival set for Saturday
• Randy Riggle to perform Saturday
• Pot plants found near Claudville
• Martin bikes across the U.S.
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• Health Calendar
• Civil War re-enactment marking 20th year
• Literacy — more than what it used to be
• Mayberry Days special: State BBQ champs crowned
• Lindsey donates Goober’s hat
• Mayberry Days ends quietly in the rain
• Police Briefs
• Rockford Street to be closed today
• Traffic discussed at Pilot Mountain meeting
• Hodges benefit set for Thursday
• City woman charged in scam
• Community plans more efforts for family in need
• Officer donates sidecar to museum
• California man takes home title of Mayberry Idle
• Mayberry Days Parade draws huge crowd
• Military News
• Foothills Food Pantry receives $5,000 grant
• Community Calendar
• Sunday comics to cease October 3
• Project Connect the Dots targets substance abuse
• Representative gets firsthand look at revised home care program
• Mitchell claims second in international poster contest
• New program to benefit ‘Our Best Friends’
• South Surry building new fire station
• White to go over the edge
• Barbecue judging started Friday night
• ‘Tied Up in Knotts’ is a big hit with fans
• Appler pulls out of tea party event
• Mayor named ‘Potato Queen’ during Mayberry Days opening
• Confederate Railroad to play B52s tonight
• Board to appoint new Dobson commissioner
• Pennsylvania priests speaks to local mission group
• Mayberry Days events planned at Smith house
• Church Calendar
• Fire ruled accidental
• Southard named regional sales manager
• Sheriff's briefs
• Uptown Gallery to host free event
• Easter Brothers nominated for hall of fame induction
• Students gather at the pole for prayer
• Mayberry Days Postmark available starting today
• The stars have arrived: Mayberry days is under way
• Man shot by customer arrested
• Board gets first look at renovation plans
• Surry residents indicted on meth charges
• Customer shoots would-be robber
• Ronnie Schell to visit Mayberry Days for the first time
• Pair arrested on drug charges
• Knotts to return for Mayberry Days
• Cooks of the week
• Northern Hospital celebrates National Surgical Tech Week
• Yesterdays opens in downtown Mount Airy
• Cornhole tournament to raise money for charities
• Cave receives national recognition
• Child health fair scheduled for Saturday
• Senior trips announced
• Police Briefs
• Backpack program gets funding
• Author unveils ‘Images of Mount Airy’
• Girls injured in ATV accident
• Custodian suffers cardiac arrest at school
• Lockdown drills prepare schools for the worst
• State barbecue crown to be awarded during Mayberry Days
• Park closer to completion
• A case of chocolate fever
• Ellie Walker to return for Mayberry Days
• Platforms expressed, voting encouraged
• Health Calendar
• Local animal groups sponsoring Fix Fido Day
• Garden club to hold dedication
• Correction
• Police briefs
• Ride for Rescuers to raise money for EMS
• Coleman finds enjoyment in helping others
• Schools gearing up for healthy students
• Marriages
• White Plains students learn about everyday heroes
• Divorces
• Amendment added to ballot
• Building permits
• ‘Town-hall’ atmosphere sought
• Land transfers
• Community Calendar
• Surry County Fair set for Sept. 28 through Oct. 2
• Board to address packed agenda
• Mayberry Days celebrates show’s 50th anniversary
• Mayberry Days Events Schedule
• Organizers overwhelmed by response at first D.A.R.E. Day
• Volunteers, organizations connected
• Coop promotes three
• Engineer recognized for saving life
• Sheriff's briefs
• Church Calendar
• Charges filed in Wednesday wreck
• Fall litter sweep starts Saturday
• Local Habitat group gets ‘green’ grants
• Officers find marijuana
• White Plains ZIP code may continue
• New Franklin station construction under way
• Police briefs
• Kids at RCC start campaign to give back
• NAACP hosting meet the candidates night Sunday
• City has more unpaid taxes
• Death blamed on lack of seatbelt
• Country club could be dissolving
• One critical, three injured in collision
• Surgeons ready for Nepal trip
• Sheriff’s office hosting all county D.A.R.E. event
• SCC is named military friendly
• Horse trailer floor collapses, highway blocked for hours
• Tourism numbers on rise
• Probe under way in Tuesday gunshot death
• MCA students make annual honor pledge
• Fall enrollment should hold steady at SCC
• Third rabid skunk found
• Candidates tackle tough issues
• Family loses everything in blaze
• Area high schools score well on SAT
• Police Briefs
• Health department, hospital urging ‘early’ flu shots
• House fire ruled accidental
• Triking for a cure
• Post office closing, residents upset
• Watson shares passion for helping others
• Community Calendar
• Military Briefs
• Carroll genealogy club to meet Wednesday
• ‘Magical objects created at museum
• Families have fun with farming
• Volunteer fair set for next week
• Extension hosting grant workshop for farmers
• Museum to host events
• Police Briefs
• City police make drug arrest
• Man charged in home invasion, sexual assault
• Parkway’s 75th celebration under way
• Church Calendar
• Tea Party forum to feature trio of candidates
• Alert customer helps catch alleged thief
• Rabies case confirmed
• Using technology to work on literacy
• Skull Camp Sept. 11 breakfast will honor emergency workers
• Woman charged with breaking into church
• County asking state to save camp
• Bus program to open new facility in city
• Webcast set for Suicide Prevention Day
• SCC implements thin-client technology
• 2-1-1 up and running
• Department of Labor investigating death
• Rooftop rescue required by blaze
• Library cards open doors to opportunities
• Livestock Report
• Pool closings signal summer’s end
• Town Commissioner Dockery dies
• Food to be given away next week
• High school looking at more renovations
• Police Briefs
• Man dies as a result of injuries from electrical shock
• County board seeking patrols for interstates
• Board gets first look at new budget
• Cawley says Harris comments ‘disingenuous’
• Operation Harvest Time a success
• More submissions for ‘Faces’ exhibit needed
• Board to vote on Cawley resignation
• Health calendar
• Laurel Hill Publishing releases ‘Images of Mount Airy’
• The early bird gets the spot, cruise-in faithful have learned
• Remember Rockford reunion considered success
• Hodges dies unexpectedly at age 59
• Mental health cuts possible
• Community Calendar
• County schools will look at calendar waiver
• Commissioners to meet on Tuesday
• Burton bicycles from Alaska to Pilot Mountain
• Trike-in brings hundreds to area
• Flea market expected to be biggest
• Church Calendar
• Sheriff's Briefs
• Police Briefs
• Special music program to be held at Cherry Orchard
• Daley remains in burn unit
• Holiday to affect pickups
• Elkin Center open for learning
• August fog no snow guarantee, statistics show
• Local seniors embracing craze
• Fresh from the farm
• Secretary meets with officials
• SCC offering several classes in hospitality training
• Lowgap wilderness camp to close
• Boucher takes aim at gun show proposal
• Surry County has new trike group
• County to celebrate agriculture
• Dobson pondering two ‘options’
• Teaching to tech savvy students
• Livestock Report
• Trail watchers mobilize in city
• Hoe-down for Habitat planned for Sept. 11
• Outlook bright for solar farm
• MCA students hit the ground running
• Couple awaits sentencing in federal drug case
• Police Briefs
• Storytime tradition returns to Pilot Mountain library
• Hodges recovering after heart attack
• Firefighters must stay in shape
• Skunk found to be rabid
• Candidates answer hard questions
• Mount Airy man shocked
• Unemployment rate holds steady
• Rally raises awareness for mental health
• Vineyard celebrates anniversary
• Community raises money for family in need
• Manning to retire as sheriff at end of term
• Surry County receives ‘A’ grade from research group
• Joe Fest honors legacy of teacher
• Marion brings excitement to the classroom
• Community Calendar
• Police Briefs
• Could Sink be Florida’s next gov?
• Lindsey donation draws throngs of Mayberry fans
• Church Calendar
• Finding artifacts a pastime for some
• Officials disagree over land sale
• York asks board to consider cooperation on water agreement
• Tea Party forums kick off Monday
• Slave cemetery dedicated
• Police Briefs
• Benefit today to help Mountain Park family
• Mental health rally set for tomorrow
• SCC considers solar panel project for campus
• Alternative program helps students
• Police seek ‘extra eyes’ at parks
• Flat Rock man arrested
• Livestock Report
• Police Briefs
• SCC names educators of the year
• Paula Dellenback and Fox River to perform
• Viticulture center progressing
• Major project beginning near post office
• City greenway to ‘link’ with parkway
• Pirates ready to set sail for new year
• North Carolina receives Race to the Top funding
• Cawly asked to resign from sports group
• Black Wolf Vineyard has new owner
• Phone scam targets grandparents
• Cross Creek Country Club struggling
• Police Briefs
• Officer suspended for speeding
• Pilot Mountain Pride success discussed at town meeting
• Skateboard facility feeling growing pains
• Four arrested on meth charges
• Store coming to mall displacing others?
• Health calendar
• Surry County schools sponsor blood drives
• Back-to-school tips for students, parents
• Trike event planned in September
• DBA planning Mayberry Farm Fest
• Houston helps celebrate birthday
• Local Habitat for Humanity announces free training classes
• SCC ready to open Elkin Center
• Learning about the Leader In Me
• Group raising funds to preserve cemetery
• Museum to unveil items from ‘Goober’ on Friday
• Downtown rocks, runs in rain
• New fire chief is where he ‘wanted to be’
• Community calendar
• Signs at local business attack city government
• Board members spar on sports complex vote
• Educators hoping for picture perfect year
• Pilot Elementary will open for first day
• Sheriff's Report
• SCC offering do-it-yourself instruction
• Scouting exhibit opens at Mount Airy museum
• City schools celebrating 115 years
• County schools celebrating 125 years
• Artists to benefit from contest
• SCC faculty member authors book, holding signing
• Mount Airy celebrates the Parkway’s 75th anniversary
• Blue Ridge Music Center presents American piano masters this Saturday
• Church Calendar
• Livestock Report
• Historical society to dedicate slave cemetery
• Broadband antennas eyed for water tanks
• Authorities give advice on how to handle door-to-door
• Trespassing cases being dropped
• District Governor speaks to both rotary groups
• Orientations allay fears of starting high school
• Volunteers at People’s Church spend Mondays cooking for those in need
• Marijuana plants found in raid
• Bocce comes to Surry County
• Tax collections finish strong
• DBA tries to get stores to open on Sundays
• ‘Reach the City’ helps families with school supplies
• Man arrested on sex abuse charges
• Commissioners receive good news on utilities projects
• High’s graduation project sets lofty aspirations for young students
• Board hesitates to endorse byway
• Death row inmate claiming reverse discrimination
• Bright Leaf Drive-In could live again
• Central States off to a good start
• Health calendar
• Kids learn food safety, new recipes
• ‘Joe Fest’ is keeping teacher’s memory alive
• Police gearing up for start of school
• For firefighter, this call was different
• Sheriff's briefs
• Police briefs
• County commissioners to address water and sewer projects
• Betty Lynn to make special appearances
• News’ Web site offers new interactive features
• Commissioners get look at new schools
• Building permits
• Land permits
• Divorces
• Marriages
• Book smarts
• Shaw has become ‘face’ of Mount Airy to visitors
• Community calendar
• Military news
• Carroll County Geneaology club to meet
• Mr. Pokeeto’s History of Humor: Part 1, Family Show set for Sat.
• County graduation rates remain above the state average
• Residents learn about health-care reform Friday
• Mount Airy hires assistant city manager
• RidgeCrest awarded top certification
• Women in the Outdoors event planned Saturday
• Church Calendar
• Community colleges key to recovery, officials told
• Tea party to hold candidate forum series
• Child left in car prompts officials’ warning
• Learning the middle school ropes
• New teachers learning the ropes
• Livestock Report
• Man survives shock
• SCC goes tobacco free
• Trucking company accused of sexual harassment
• County high schools getting technical
• Soil borings on deck at sports complex site
• Wal-Mart re-opens after storm
• Dog Days of Summer benefits local animal rescue groups
• Mount Airy bank robber gets life
• Free fans available to residents
• Neighbors share good cooking and lots of Southern hospitality
• Health Calendar
• Sheriff’s office searching for woman impersonating county school official
• Sheriff supports using force against burglars
• U.S. Space Shuttle program honors NCFI Polyurethanes with excellence Award
• Roundabout construction to begin in Pilot Mountain
• United Fund of Surry campaign off to a good start
• Downtown Mayberry has gone high-speed
• Police Briefs
• 1930 still holds record for hottest July here
• Grown-ups play dress up for Black Tie and Blue Jeans event
• ‘Cats’ to feature local talent
• SCC offering new Fall classes
• Shoppers take advantage of tax-free weekend
• Tax personnel may visit city businesses
• City can’t pave annexed streets until 2011
• Horne Creek to host 2nd Saturdays finale
• Donor gives 27 gallons of blood
• Location has DBA, Rotary searching
• Church Calendar
• Pine Ridge VFD to hold tractor show
• SCC Trustees ready for new facilities
• Marriages
• Mount Airy News Community Directory partners with Surry County Animal Welfare
• Company claims ‘impersonator’ is a legitimate contractor
• Charges filed in home invasion
• Land transfers
• Police Briefs
• Accused burglar arrested Tuesday
• Book smarts
• Marion to perform at amphitheater Saturday night
• Summer ‘explosion’ impacts county 4-H’ers
• Eleven cited for trespassing at city park
• Yeatts retires after 41-year career as attorney
• Schools do well in ABCs results
• City schools get grant of $1.2 million
• Cooke files for school board seat
• Community Calendar
• Officials want water dispute solved
• Roof work, storm send shoppers running
• Ex-deputy serving time in DWI death
• Military Briefs
• Teachers attend technology conference
• MCA welcomes new ‘family’ members
• Registration deadline nears for Rockford Reunion
• Health reform meetings planned for seniors
• Mount Airy News Community Directory partners with Surry County Animal Welfare
• Hundreds turn out for National Night Out
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• Community calendar
• City votes 3-2 to hire lawyer over water deal
• Let the skateboarding begin
• Police briefs
• Jones is new city manager
• Two cancel travel plans due to ad
• Thief reportedly caught red-handed with paper rack
• Livestock Report
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