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MONDAYS Surry Cancer Support Group Surry County Cancer Support Group meets on the first Monday of the month from 7 to 9 p.m. in Grace Moravian Church, 1401 N. Main St., Mount Airy. Informational programs are featured and refreshments are served. For more information, call 789-9779. Grief Support This group meets Mondays from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Sycamore Baptist Church, Stuart, Va. Anyone dealing with grief is welcome. For more infor...
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Pilot of crashed plane identified
A pilot involved in a crash Thursday night at Mount Airy-Surry County Airport has been identified. Chris Gammons was the person injured in the incident, according to Myron Waddell, senior supervisor of Surry County Emergency Services. Gammons is about 35 and has a Statesville address, Waddell said, and is a former Surry County resident. He was alone in a BD-5, a small single-engine experimental aircraft, which had left Statesville Munic...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Mountain Park Coach Tobey Mitchell jokes with team members in between rounds. Mitchell stressed that the most important thing for his team was to enjoy themselves in the battle of the books competition at Rockford Elementary School Friday. He characterized the event as a celebration of reading.</p>
Competition level increases in Elementary School Battle of the Books
DOBSON — The second Surry County Schools Elementary School Battle of the Books Competition hosted by Rockford Elementary School had the intensity of its middle school division counterpart but appeared more competitive with 11 teams fielded. Coordinator Donna Bledsoe said 11 teams really increased the excitement for the event. She said elementary participants read from a listing of 17 books for the elementary division competition. “The com...
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Answer filed on airport suit
The Surry County Airport Authority has filed a response to a suit charging that the airport, through its manager, John Spane, tried to destroy the business of a county flight instructor. The response moves for dismissal of the Jan. 7 suit, alleging that the plaintiff, James Michael Venable, and his business, Foothills Aviation LLC, fails to state a claim warranting relief. In the response, filed last week in Surry County Superior Court, a...
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Tax move to hurt local business
A move by the state to change the way vehicular property taxes are sent out is going to hurt one local business. The state is taking over the collection of property taxes on vehicles in an effort to increase the collection rates in counties which are having trouble collecting taxes, a change that many tax officials see as more of a headache than a help. SouthData Inc., located off of Riverside Drive in Mount Airy, processes tax documents...
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<p>Surry Community College student Nathan Gunter is treated for exposure to hazardous materials and readied for transport during a multi agency mass incident drill at the college Friday. The exercise began with a larceny in progress reported on campus.</p>
Surry Community holds mass incident drill
DOBSON — Surry Community College’s Police Department hosted is first multi agency mass incident drill Friday. Chief Marty Shropshire was pleased with the level of cooperation he saw between agencies. “The drill went as planned. The collaboration between departments has been wonderful. No issues came up,” said Shropshire. “That was expected because we all have worked and trained together for years.” The drill took place on the Dobson campu...
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Local tour group on board malfunctioning Carnival Dream cruise ship
A local tour group, Day Trips and Tours, is on board the malfunctioning Carnival Dream cruise ship docked at St. Marteen (also called St. Martin) in the Caribbean, according to an employee of the business, Ronda, who declined to give her last name. According to a statement released by Carnival, the Dream ship docked at St. Marteen on the last leg of the seven-day cruise. During a routine inspection, emergency backup generators were malfunct...
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<p>Wendy Byerly Wood | The News</p><p>Fire and rescue crews work to gain access to patients, the number of which are unknown, in a plane crash off the side of the runway at the Mount Airy-Surry County Airport at about 7:30 p.m. tonight.</p>
One injured in plane crash at Surry County Airport
Deputies with the Surry County Sheriff’s Office secured the scene of a single-engine aircraft accident Thursday night at Mount Airy-Surry County Airport until a team of Federal Aviation Administration investigators can arrive Friday. According to airport spokesperson John Springthorpe, at around 7:30 p.m. a single-engine light aircraft with identification numbers N30BA, which was said to be a BD-5, was on its final approach to land. He said...
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<p>Officers remove evidence from a room at Starlite Motel Thursday as Mount Airy firemen stand by in case of an explosion, due to the volatile chemicals used in methamphetamine production.</p>
City motel searched; meth charges filed
A man’s attempt to have customers at a local pharmacy buy a nasal decongestant for him led to a search of Starlite Motel and felony methamphetamine charges being filed, Mount Airy police said Thursday. Law enforcement personnel were at the motel from late Wednesday night until Thursday afternoon processing evidence discovered inside a room there. The local and state officers who were involved found precursors, items typically used in the ma...
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<p>Elliott Draughn | Submitted Photo</p><p>Surry Central senior Elliott Draughn helps prepare some chicken for the barbecue. Draughn, with the help of his church, family and friends, staged a fundraiser meal that netted $2,100 to help missionary Jeremy Holloway in the Republic of South Sudan.</p>
Surry Central senior’s fundraiser staged to help Christians in South Sudan
DOBSON — Surry Central senior Elliott Draughn’s senior project recently required the young Christian to coordinate the talents of friends, relatives and his church family to stage a benefit barbecue chicken meal. He said the effort will help fund education to fellow Christians in South Sudan. Draughn, who is a member of Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Mount Airy, realized a need through meeting missionary Jeremy Holloway and his family who ...
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