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Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 3:20 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 3:25 p.m. Dining review: Quartermaster's Cuisine: American seafood with a few French and Italian touches Location: ...

Rising kindergartners who would have attended Summerfield Elementary School in the fall will instead go to Laughlin Elementary.

Morgan Wall Staff Reporter DOBSON - "Did You Know ... Shift Happens?" This video, shown at the beginning of the Surry County School Board's retreat at Hampton Inn and Suites at Shelton Vineyards, helped to ...

Tom Joyce Staff Reporter DOBSON - Surry County Democrats have a new home, just as the party is getting geared up for the 2008 election season.

Morgan Wall The Mount Airy News mwall@mtairynews.com DOBSON -- An Elkin man died late Monday night in an apparent motorscooter accident.

Submissions to the community calendar need to be in writing and arrive or be brought into The Mount Airy News office before 5 p.m. at least five days before the event should appear in the newspaper.

A site near Elkin was chosen for the second of three poultry litter fueled energy plants in North Carolina.

Fibrowatt, a company that generates electricity by burning chicken waste, will build a $140 million power plant near Elkin.

Golden LEAF recently identified Surry County as the recipient of up to $2 million in grant funds from its Community Assistance Initiative.

Erin C. Perkins Staff Reporter Options for what could be the permanent location for the Mount Airy Visitor Center dominated the discussion at the Tourism Development Authority meeting Wednesday.

Erin C. Perkins Staff Reporter Tears fell and sniffles echoed throughout the crowd as more than a hundred gathered to honor fallen soldiers for Memorial Day yesterday and pay special tribute to the loss of a ...

Garth Eliassen wants to help open up a view of the universe from the sidewalks of Monmouth-Independence for earthbound inhabitants, but they have to do some of the work themselves.

“We take a young shoot and train it into a cordon.”

North Carolina's vineyards, many of them in the Yadkin Valley, expect a full growing season a year after the Easter freeze of 2007 destroyed 50 percent of the crop. via WNCN-TV Raleigh

“You have got to read this book, 'The Gift of the Red Bird' by Paula D'Arcy!”

About 5:30 on the morning Mama died, an awe-inspiring, amazing, and remarkable thing happened. via Salisbury Post

Guilford and Alamance Counties are under a Tornado Warning until 12:15am. Rockingham and Caswell Counties have a Tornado Warning until 12:45am. Doppler radar indicated a possible tornado like activity in ... via WFMY-TV Greensboro

The body of Pfc. Adam Marion, the North Carolina National Guard soldier killed near Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, will arrive in the state Saturday and be taken to Moody-Davis Funeral Service in Dobson, NC, in ... via WFMY 2 Greensboro

A joint investigation of the trafficking of methamphetamine in Surry County and surrounding areas was conducted Saturday. via WXII12

The Sidewalk Astronomers held a Star Party at Hansen Dam on Friday night. They brought out their homemade Dobsonian telescopes and gave us great views of the moon, Saturn, Mars and more. via My Word with Douglas E. Welch