Mount Airy News

Morgan Wall/The News Taking a break from swimming, a group from the Reeves Community Center summer program rest near the pool.

Fiddlers ReStrung play a variety of music at the Blackmon Amphitheatre Tuesday night from bluegrass to Celtic music.

The word a oesurprisea was used over and over by colleagues of David Beal Tuesday in reaction to Beala s decision not to seek re-election to the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners.

Martha Mitchell, far right, helps Charlie a oeCruncha Devnew, middle, and Mike Staley, left, sign up for the 2009 North Carolina State Harley Owners Group Rally while at Goobers Sunday afternoon.

DOBSON a ' Surry County investigators are looking to incidents surrounding the shooting of a Mount Airy resident Friday.

Two men are in custody and charged in connection with an Ocean Isle Beach, NC, armed robbery following a Mullins traffic stop Friday morning.

Once again, Mount Airy has been designated a a oeFIT communitya by a state agency, but not at the level local officials might have desired.

Mount Airy found itself without an Independence Day parade in 2008, but organizers are hoping to see it return with a bang this year.

A Mount Airy man faces eight counts of statutory rape after allegedly engaging in a relationship with a 13-year-old who he met through her parents.

A former supervisor at the Surry County Department of Social Services has been charged with obtaining money by false pretense through her position at DSS.

I get inspiration from everything I do, everyone I meet and everywhere I go.a As much as Jane Tesh loved writing as a child, she never considered it a career path until her late teens.

A former basketball coach who spent five years in prison as a convicted sex offender was arrested Tuesday after he was accused of violating the law that prohibits sex offenders from being near children.

Mount Airy is proposing a zoning change to conform to a recent court ruling stating that localities cana t use age as a factor in prohibiting mobile homes from areas they regulate.

With the candidates' filing period nearing for the 2009 municipal elections in Surry County, only one of the three Mount Airy officials affected is publicly declaring his intention to seek another term.

Bill Hatherly, right, a member of HOPE Animal Assisted Crisis Response, chats with several dog handlers and their canines after Saturday's evaluation session at Millennium Charter Academy in Mount Airy.

The North Carolina Bankers Association is running a summer camp where low-income students can enjoy horseback rides and become financially literate.

A former star athlete at Mount Airy High School has been arrested on felony drug offenses, and police said other violations are expected in the wake of a search at his residence Thursday.

Mount Airy Public Library storytime graduates are: Front row, seated, from left, Mae Minor, Collin Phillips,Madison Berrier, and Colton Marion; back row, Librarian Tommie Smith, Mollie Edwards, Marissa McCann, Paxton Reece, Bailey Vaughn, and Raegan Amos.

The boyfriend of a 24-year-old woman found dead in Belews Creek last week was charged Sunday in her death, Stokes County deputies said.

Authorities say a body found in Belews Lake is a Mount Airy woman reported missing last weekend.