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<p>Keith Strange | The News</p><p>The Surry County Board of Commissioners spent Friday at their annual retreat, planning for next year&#8217;s budget. The board agreed to freeze any spending of the funds generated by the sale of the county&#8217;s home health care division.</p>
Board planning for rainy day
ELKIN — Faced with the prospect of an ever-tighter budget next year, the Surry County Board of Commissioners have agreed to set aside for a rainy day the $2.5 million they made through the sale of the health department’s Home Health Care division last year. The decision came as the board met for its annual retreat at the Klondike Cabins in Elkin Friday. Much of the day was focused on money issues and how to fund needed capital improvement...
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Police briefs
• Property has been reported stolen from the site of a historic house in Mount Airy which is being restored, according to city police department reports. The crime was discovered Wednesday at the Dr. C.A. Baird House on Cherry Street, where an oil-fired heater valued at $425 was taken. It was identified as a Reddy Heater model owned by Kidwell and Company Inc., the contractor for the work. • Brittany Kayla Herdman, 21, of Leon, W.Va., was a...
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<p>Donald Ray Beck</p>
Same song, second verse…
DOBSON — An Ararat couple and their teenage daughter were arrested Monday after county narcotics officers raided their home and discovered a methamphetamine operation — for the second time this year. Sheriff Graham Atkinson said Donald Ray Beck, 43, and Angela Henley Beck, 41, both of 109 Charles Beck Lane, were arrested after allegedly resuming methamphetamine sales from their home. The couple were first arrested on Jan. 4, when ...
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Cases involving bare breasts deserve close look
I often am reminded of the fable about a man who cried because he had no shoes, but upon seeing someone without feet realized just how lucky he was in comparison. This can be true of one’s chosen occupation as well. Sometimes when I think journalism is a really hard profession and how could I have been such a numb-skull to get involved with it in the first place, I look around and see where others have it much, much worse. One of the firs...
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