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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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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Surry County NAACP President Faye Carter presents Pilot Mountain town commissioners with programs detailing the history, vision and work of the group. Carter stressed that the group works for equal rights for everyone and anyone can be a member, regardless of race.</p>
Pilot commissioners hear presentation on mission of NAACP
PILOT MOUNTAIN — The regular meeting of the town of Pilot Mountain Board of Commissioners opened Monday night with a presentation by President Faye Carter of the Surry County Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Carter began by explaining the structure of the organization which also has national, conference and state chapters. “We are a local branch of the national NAACP. There are branches in a...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Cana Rescue Squad Member Jason Busick leads a class in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the squad building on Saturday. The first-ever event drew a good response with 16 persons attending the workshop at 10 a.m. The squad is hoping residents trained in CPR will fill a critical gap in an area without first responders. Quick treatment in cases of cardiac arrest greatly increase victims&#8217; chances of survival.</p>
Cana Rescue holds community CPR training day
Cana Rescue Squad Member Jason Busick leads a class in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the squad building on Saturday. The first-ever event drew a good response with 16 persons attending the workshop at 10 a.m. The squad is hoping residents trained in CPR will fill a critical gap in an area without first responders. Quick treatment in cases of cardiac arrest greatly increase victims’ chances of survival.
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Coble admitted to Cone Hospital for tests
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), who has been experiencing bouts of dizziness and light-headedness for the past few weeks, was admitted to Moses H. Memorial Cone Hospital in Greensboro Tuesday afternoon for testing. Coble, who said he almost fainted this morning while preparing to fly back to Washington, went to Cone Hospital on the advice of his primary care physician. Ed McDonald, Coble’s chief of staff, said that doctors...
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Sewage spill occurs in city
The assessment of a recent sewage spill in the Riverside Drive area of Mount Airy has revealed no resulting environmental damage. City personnel were notified of the spill on Feb. 20, which involved an estimated 1,760 gallons of untreated wastewater entering an unnamed tributary of the Ararat River. The incident was reported this week, with the city required to do so by state law and the provisions of its systemwide wastewater-collection ...
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