Mount Airy News

In the 1940s and 50s, bluegrass music could be heard on radio stations all over the country, with many offering live performances and playing host to regular shows by Flatt and Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, Jim and Jesse, and the like.

Dave Nazaroff left early Thursday morning for another leg of his 900-mile charity bike ride from New York to Georgia.

This large lot beside the Mount Airy Post Office has been closed for months, but city officials are pursuing an agreement with the U.S. Postal Service... A large parking lot beside the Mount Airy Post Office has been barricaded for months, but city officials could be closing in on a deal that would allow it to reopen through a rental agreement.

Jimmy Lowry's daughter Jennie, on right, said the annual tribute concert honoring her father has become something of a homecoming for performers who t... The Blackmon Ampitheatre will come alive Friday as friends, family and fellow musicians gather to celebrate the legacy of renowned Mount Airy musician Jimmy Lowry.

Whitney Jade Bledsoe of Mount Airy and Jacob Bradley Long of Mount Airy got married at 5 p.m. on June 7, 2014, at Dewberry Farm in Kernersville.

Todd and Kim Beverly of Mount Airy announce the engagement of their daughter, Chelsy Brooke Beverly of Mount Airy, to Tyler Jordan Payne of Mount Airy.

Jennifer Fosner lays down a bead of construction cement before she and other volunteers place an interior wall in place.

Local author Tom Perry talks to Mount Airy Public Library Meet the Author Luncheon participants on Monday.

Sudwolle Group is setting up shop in a building at 769 W.Lebanon St. and will employ a small number of people at first.

Julie Catherine Henson, of Dobson and Lance William Haymore, of Mount Airy were married May 10, 2014 at seven o'clock in the evening at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens in Charleston, South Ccarolina.

Winston-Salem police reported finding the body of a Mount Airy man late Tuesday morning, although few details were available.

Whitney Jade Bledsoe of Mount Airy and Jacob Bradley Long of Mount Airy got married at 5 p.m. on June 7, 2014, at Dewberry Farm in Kernersville.

When Larry Scott went to work at a Mount Airy car dealership in June 1964, the first Ford Mustang had rolled off the assembly line just three months earlier.

Thousands of residents and visitors converged on Main Street in Mount Airy Friday morning for the city's annual Fourth of July Parade.

A counterfeiting ring specializing in $100 bills has hit three businesses in Mount Airy, and while one of its members has been apprehended others are being sought.

"You always want to have adult supervision. You really don't want little kids playing with them.

Larry Scott, who has worked for 50 years in the parts department at Scenic Motors, holds a cup of coffee earlier this week while waiting to assist the... When Larry Scott went to work at a Mount Airy car dealership in June 1964, the first Ford Mustang had rolled off the assembly line just three months earlier.

Winston-Salem police reported finding the body of a Mount Airy man late Tuesday morning, although few details were available.

Mount Airy businessman Vann McCoy hopes to have the doors open on Mayberry Spirits, a new distillery in the city, in August.

The name greenways seems appropriate, since the two trails in Mount Airy are generating much "green" for the community - $578,585 per year, according to a newly released study.