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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Pilot Mountain Middle School Battle of the Books Coach Rene Mosley and team members relax at the end of a round of the county competition on Tuesday in the Sue W. Stone Media Center. Pilot won the competition to captured their fifth consecutive victory.</p>
Middle school Battle of the Books held at Pilot Mountain
PILOT MOUNTAIN — Surry County’s Middle School Battle of the Books competition opened Tuesday at Pilot Mountain Middle School with teams from Pilot Mountain, Gentry, Central Middle and Meadowview Middle squaring off to show their knowledge of literature. Pilot Middle placed first in the event with Central Middle School in second, Gentry Middle was third and Meadowview finished fourth. “This is a great competition,” commented Battle of the Bo...
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<p>Jessica Johnson | The News</p><p>Wade Wilson, center, describes his job as a sound editor for TV and film. Monday night&#8217;s presentation kicked off Teen Tech Week at the Mount Airy Public Library.</p>
Library’s Teen Tech Week kicks off with talk by film and TV sound editor
Teen Tech Week kicked off Monday night at the Mount Airy Public library with a presentation by Wade Wilson, sound editor and designer for film and television. Wilson is also a professor with the editing and sound department and assistant dean at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Wilson has worked on sound for multiple movies and television shows, including “The Hunger Games,” “The Simpsons,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Shrek...
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<p>The Rev. Bailey Edwards Nelson</p>
Female minister leaves Flat Rock church
Less than two years after her appointment as senior pastor of Flat Rock Baptist Church led to a backlash over a woman’s presence in the pulpit, Bailey Edwards Nelson has resigned. “She decided to step down because she thought it would be better for her and better for the church,” said Gail Hicks, a deacon at Flat Rock Baptist. Nelson’s resignation was announced “abruptly” last month, according to one source, with her tenure at the church en...
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‘Get your stuff and get out’
Last month, it was all about being in love, but this month a performance by Melva Houston and Terri Ingalls is focusing on the other side of the equation. On March 29, Houston and Ingalls will team up to present a light-hearted look at breaking up. Entitled “Love is a Bore,” the performance will feature a collection of sassy, happy break-up songs like “50 Ways to Leave your Lover” and “These Boots are Made for Walking.” Houston said she...
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Local precipitation 86 percent above normal
Despite a drier-than-normal February, total precipitation was 86.6 percent higher than usual in Mount Airy for the first two months of the year. As of Feb. 28, Mount Airy’s output for 2013 stood at 12.63 inches, according to a monthly report from F.G. Doggett Water Plant, the city’s official weather-monitoring station. That’s 5.86 inches, or 86.6 percent, above Mount Airy’s average precipitation for the first two months of the year, which...
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Police briefs
• Violations including larceny, possession of a Schedule II controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia were issued Monday afternoon against Donna Michelle Clark, 30, of 383 Dover Church Road, at a business location at 2133 Rockford St., which was not identified. Clark allegedly took hair products valued at nearly $30 and was banned from that location, according to Mount Airy Police Department reports. She also had opana, a ty...
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Linda Adame, manager of the Salvation Army Family Store on Frederick Street, surveys shelves that typically are full, but which now are growing bare due to a decline in donations.
Salvation Army store needs donations
When someone needs emergency assistance such as food or clothing, the local Salvation Army has been there to help. Now the public is being asked to boost a key part of its operation. The Salvation Army Family Store on Frederick Street normally is a place where one can find bargains on clothing and other items — but lately shelves there have become a little bare. “We have dropped down pretty low on our donations,” Maj. Michael Rodgers, hea...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Mount Airy High School Exceptional Children students Taylor Beasley, Kayla Hazelwood, Kassie Merwin and Justin Boyles stand near two care packages for soldiers in Afghanistan. The class has adopted two soldiers and collected items ranging from toiletries and candy to magazines and even issues of The Mount Airy News.</p>
Mount Airy students support troops with care packages
Members of the Exceptional Children’s class at Mount Airy High School are participating in a program to support two soldiers serving country overseas. According to teacher Jill Brown, she asked her son, Marine LCPL Joshua Brown, if he could think of a way her students could help soldiers. “I told him I would like for my students to do something to support the community and he suggested I check into programs were we could adopt a soldier,”...
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Fires strike mobile homes; one ‘suspicious’
Volunteer firefighters in Surry County responded to fires at two mobile homes during the weekend, one deemed “suspicious” and the other resulting from trash burning getting out of hand. Both were reported Saturday in different areas of the county. The first occurred at the site of a mobile home park on Champion Lane in the Westfield community. Flames had engulfed one structure by the time firefighters reached the scene. “The mobile home...
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<p>Jessica Johnson | The News</p><p>Margaret Procter from Apex, a National English Shepherd Rescue volunteer, holds one of the three puppies she will foster. Savannah Hutchens, right, from Pilot Mountain pets the puppy she helped Linda Collins to rescue.</p>
National English Shepherd Rescue aids dogs after owner passes away
The National English Shepherd Rescue organization’s president and volunteers arrived in Mount Airy last week to carry out the rescue of a group of 15 dogs, left behind after the owner passed away in late January. The president of the National English Shepherd Rescue, Nancy Houtkooper, arrived in the area last week, and she was joined by former president and “member at large” Kathi Tesarz, from California. Volunteer Margaret Procter arrived ...
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