Mount Airy News

Belk has announced it will host its bi-annual Kidfest in-store event August 9, from noon until 3 p.m. in Mount Airy.

Officer Todd Bledsoe of the Mount Airy Police Department holds a newly acquired body cam that is allowing arrests and other incidents to be recorded.

North Carolina author and storyteller, Sheri Wren Haymore will visit City Lights Bookstore on Saturday, July 26th at 3 p.m. to present her two novels, A Higher Voice and A Deeper Cut.

Blood and platelet donors of all types, especially O negative, B negative and A negative, are needed in the face of a looming summer shortage to avoid an emergency situation with the supply available for patients.

For the quarter ended June 30, 2014, net income totaled $767,779 or $0.18 per fully diluted share, compared with totaled $800,843 or $0.19 per fully diluted common share earned during the second quarter of 2013.

The plug has been pulled on plans for a solar farm at the former Mount Airy landfill on City View Drive.

Nearly 100 gather to question state DOT officials and contractors about the N.C. 268 bridge project over U.S. 52 in Pilot Mountain Thursday, after the bridge was removed and work has not proceeded for more than three weeks.

A West Virginia man whose wife and unborn child died in a 2006 traffic crash in Mount Airy is suing General Motors, claiming that a faulty ignition switch in her car was responsible.

Monroe Capital has increased the credit facility to OSG Billing Services , an ESOP owned-business, to support the acquisition of SouthData .

Despite indications Surry County would allocate its share of funding to extend natural gas to Westwood Industrial Park, "Project Glow" got left in the dark during a meeting this week.

The Henry County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a rezoning request for a proposed Dollar General store across from Sanville Elementary School.

The dance marathon craze, which emerged during the 1920s and 1930s, will be rekindled during an upcoming event at Mount Airy Elks Lodge which offers a $1,000 prize to the last couple standing.

Thursday night's board of commissioners meeting in the town of Dobson is about one thing: Clearing the few remaining hurdles to construction on the planned Dobson Square Park.

Vijavat Isarabhakdi, Thailand's ambassador to the United States, is shown with President Obama.

On July 13, Marjorie Wagoner Draven, 42, of Toyland Trail in Pilot Mountain, reported that someone stole her window mounted air conditioning unit.

Two Pinnacle residents turned themselves in Wednesday on assault charges that had been filed that day in Mount Airy, according to city police department reports.

On July 14, Samantha Lou Etz, 19, of Industry Road in Rootstown, Ohio, was arrested and charged with being a fugitive from justice.

Last week the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners again took on the question of mandatory water and sewer hook-ups for city residents.

Members of the city's new redevelopment commission are, from left, Commissioner Jon Cawley, Commissioner Steve Yokeley, Tom Webb, Alton Gaither, Jarod... Mount Airy officials have delayed spending as much as $110,000 for an outside entity to help a new redevelopment commission get organized.

Vijavat Isarabhakdi, Thailand's ambassador to the United States, is shown with President Obama.