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Rockford hosts living history encampment this weekend
ROCKFORD — Civil War living history enthusiasts will once again stage re-enactments at Rockford this Saturday and Sunday. Spokeswoman Carolyn Carter of the Rockford General Store said local groups and others from Virginia and Yadkin County will stage the historic encampment which will re-create the Bond School Shoot Out, on the 150th anniversary of the event. Carter said that organizers of the annual event prefer to call it a living history...
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<p>Tom Joyce | The News</p><p>The Bridal Fair fashion show features wedding attire for the entire bridal party.</p>
Upcoming Mount Airy Bridal Fair provides inspiration for weddings
With the year leaping toward spring, bridal season has arrived. The Mount Airy Downtown Business Association is sponsoring the annual Bridal Fair on March 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Old North State Winery in downtown Mount Airy. The free event will feature multiple vendors representing all wedding needs: wedding attire, venues for weddings and receptions, wedding planners, travel specialists, a photo booth, rentals, photographers, hair an...
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<p>Becky McCann</p>
New personnel director on job for city
The city of Mount Airy has a new human resources director and that has meant “a second chance” for Becky McCann. McCann worked for 33 years at Perry Manufacturing Co., which shut down several years ago as part of a wave of textile industry layoffs locally. “When Perry Manufacturing closed, I thought, ‘it’s over for me,’” said McCann, who was vice president of human resources there at the time. However, what she considers “a second chanc...
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Local animal group receives grant
In a move that local animal advocates say “couldn’t have come at a better time,” the Petco Foundation has presented Mayberry4Paws a $500 grant that will be used to help control the unwanted pet population in the county. The grant, announced last Thursday, will be used to help market the group’s spay/neuter programs in Surry County. According to officials with Petco, Mayberry4Paws should receive the grant in the coming weeks. Jane Taylor...
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Mount Airy Livestock Report
Sales totaled 335 head, including cattle (322), goats (9), sheep (2) and hogs (2), during Tuesday’s sales at Mount Airy Stockyards Inc. Animals sold on the livestock market, based on 100-pound weights, were: • Slaughter cows: utility and commercial, $78-$90.50; cutter and boning, $76.50-$91.50; canner and low cutter, $42-$56.50. • Slaughter bulls: 1,000-1,500 pounds, $91-$97; 1,500 pounds and up, $98-$103. • Stock cows: 875-1,050 poun...
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House vote delayed on topless ban
RALEIGH — A scheduled vote by the N.C. House of Representatives on a measure that effectively could mean prison terms for women who bare their breasts in public was delayed Tuesday. However, a local legislator who backs the proposal doesn’t see this as a sign that support for it is waning. House Bill 34 seeks to redefine “private parts” to include the female nipple and areola in North Carolina’s obscenity law targeting acts of indecent ex...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Nine-year-old Maddie Combs-Marshall, who finished 117th nationally, and 11-year-old Miguel Paredes was 156th, are the top two Flat Rock Elementary School Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG) students who with their classmates won the Sumdog competition. Sumdog is a national math tournament held online. A total of 41,400 students played in the tournament.</p>
Flat Rock Elementary students win Sumdog math competition
Flat Rock Elementary School’s Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG) students recently captured national honors in the Sumdog Mathematics Competition in their first outing in the Internet competition that was decided in a race to the wire. AIG teacher Melissa Sanders said a total of 634 schools played in the competition, representing a total of 41,400 students playing. “They (Flat Rock AIG students) need to be pushed (to learn more) e...
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<p>Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC)</p>
Hagan: Country on fiscal precipice
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Local officials are keeping a wary eye toward Friday, the day that crippling, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration are set to take effect. During a retreat Friday, members of the Surry County Board of Commissioners noted that without knowing whether the cuts will take effect it is hard to plan for next year’s budget. But one county officials said that if the cuts do take effect it could ultimately help ...
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<p>Matthew Dowell</p>
Students set good examples for others
A split-rail fence would appear to have no relationship with a swimming pool, but there is a common thread in that each has brought special recognition to two Mount Airy youths. When Matthew Dowell was looking for a service project to complete as part of requirements for his Eagle Scout Award, the search led to Westwood Park, a city recreation facility on Galax Trail. It would involve removing and replacing more than 1,000 linear feet of ...
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<p>Jessica Johnson | The News</p><p>The Touring Theatre of North Carolina presents &#8220;The Life and Times of Fannie Lou Hamer&#8221; on the campus of Surry Community College, in celebration of Black History Month. The play features Greensboro-based actors, from left, Dauna Brown-Jessup, Stephen Gee, Juan Fernandez and Cassandra Williams, who played Fannie Lou Hamer.</p>
Play presented at Surry Community College in honor of Black History Month
Fannie Lou Hamer is not an immediately recognizable name. The Civil Rights Movement is full of well-known individuals who were part of the movement to bring justice and freedom to our country — people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, Medgar Evers, and Emmett Till’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley, among many others. Individuals like Fannie Lou Hamer also made a significant contribution in the fight for civil rights, but ...
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