Mount Airy News

June 18--With a long summer, many parents and grandparents are searching for free activities for children, in order to encourage them to keep learning and growing creatively while school is not in session.

A man who has done much to preserve the beauty of North Carolina on film will be featured at a program Saturday in Mount Airy.

Mount Airy Mayor Deborah Cochran and Commissioner Jon Cawley go over figures during a workshop Monday which culminated with the adoption of the 2013-2014 city budget.

These could obligate the municipal and county governments to provide matching funds possibly totaling $48,000 for grants, but offer the prospects of about 60 new jobs.

Two Lowgap residents have been arrested by Mount Airy police for allegedly selling prescription pills in a business parking lot.

Those participating in recent Crisis Intervention Team training are, front row, from left, Christi Fulp, Surry Central-Communications; Patrick Long, Yadkinville Police Department; Kelly Hiatt, Mount Airy Police Department; Jared Roundy, Surry County Sheriff's Office; Susan Bolen and Daniel Watson of Northern Hospital; Ray Arnder and Alan Freeman of ... (more)

Equipment, wire, tools and other property valued at nearly $4,500 were reported stolen Wednesday as a result of two separate incidents in Mount Airy.

Writer Philip Gerard talked about how the lives of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker served as a metaphor for the Civil War.

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service Family and Consumer Agent Carmen Long has announced two Medicare changes workshops to help seniors protect themselves from fraud by learning how to read the new format of Medicare billing summaries.

The sounds of trees crashing to the ground in Westwood Industrial Park in Mount Airy could be music to the ears of city taxpayers, one official believes.

Mount Airy commissioners are considering selling timber on the city-owned Westwood Industrial Park for an estimated $400,000, and some board members see this as a way to drop the city's tax rate in the upcoming budget year that begins on July 1. The 2013-2014 budget under consideration already calls for a 2-cent decrease, from 56 cents per $100 of ... (more)

Surry Community College has graduated another group of Associate Degree Nursing students who will soon sit for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses .

Imports of prestressed concrete steel rail tie wire from China, Mexico and Thailand are being sold in the United States at less than their fair value and are harming the domestic industry, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday.

Members of Boy Scout Troop 538 prepare Sunday to raise a new banner at Mount Airy Elks Lodge during its annual Flag Day program.

Leadership Surry County has recently been re-launched as a business and community development educational series, which is a partnership program of Surry Community College and the Surry County Economic Development Partnership.

The statistics are clear on this point. Of 83 people charged or cited for marijuana-related cases from June 2012 until now, 74 were male and just 9 were female.

Dom Flemons, center, a member of the Grammy-winning band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, makes a special appearance at the Mount Airy fiddlers convention.

As the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate is organizing its 20th anniversary celebration for next weekend, the group also is embracing an interim director and board members are taking on more responsibility following the recent resignation of the executive director.

But there might be a bit of a downside involved due to customers now encountering a little more trouble to learn that information, which is resulting from a change in the notification procedure some have found confusing.

As Tropical Storm Andrea bears down on New Bern Friday, the now-completed Jack Smith Creek Storm Water Project will get a chance to be tested.