Fate of mall remains in limbo

Elkin church marking 120 years

Coordinators named for Spencer’s project

‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’ this weekend

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Surry County Sheriff Reports

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Fate of mall remains in limbo

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Coordinators named for Spencer’s project

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Old Time Dance concert slated

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SCC roadwork recognized by sign

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Schools busy over summer break

SCC roadwork recognized by sign

DOBSON — The N.C. Department of Transportation has recognized a portion of U.S. 601 being adopted by Surry Community College with a new sign.The...

August 16th, 2018 |

Relay dinner honors cancer survivors

Cancer survivors were honored by Relay for Life Surry County with a dinner Saturday at Faith Baptist Church.The annual dinner was attended by 175 to 1...

August 15th, 2018 |

Pilot board addresses animals, grants

PILOT MOUNTAIN — Town commissioners again addressed the issue of animals and animal-related nuisances at their August board meeting on Monday ni...

August 15th, 2018 |

Mountain Valley names new director

Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care has named Melissa Hiatt as director of development.“We are excited to have Melissa join our team,&...

August 15th, 2018 |

Marsha Morgan Band to play

The Marsha Morgan Band will be at the Blackmon Amphitheatre on Friday as part of the Surry Arts Council Summer Arts Series.The show is slated to begin...

August 15th, 2018 |

SPORTS

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Down, but not out

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Lady Eagles crash MA’s celebration

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Cards soccer improves to 2-0

Cards come back to conquer Hounds

PILOT MOUNTAIN — “Better late than never,” was the consensus reached by the Cardinal faithful after Tuesday’s home volleyball ...

August 14th, 2018 |

Lady Eagles open with tough loss

DOBSON — Brittany Tolbert got everything she wanted out of her first official match as Surry Central’s head coach, except what she wanted ...

August 14th, 2018 |

Tolbert, Lady Eagles ready for fresh start

DOBSON — Brittany Tolbert’s volleyball journey has now come full circle. The 2010 graduate of Surry Central High School enters her first s...

August 13th, 2018 |

Putting Down a Dream

Perhaps the finest hour in the history of Mount Airy women’s golf, to date, came on the evening of October 23, 2017, in Pinehurst.The Lady Bears...

August 13th, 2018 |

Bears wrap up promising preseason

NEWTON — Head coach Will Hurley says his 2018 edition of the Mount Airy men’s soccer team doesn’t have the level of depth that he wo...

August 11th, 2018 |

School board to honor Diamont on Sept. 9

Former East Surry head football coach David Diamont, who announced his retirement following the 2017 season with 291 career victories, will receive an...

August 11th, 2018 |

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Old Time Dance concert slated

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Marsha Morgan Band to play

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Updated: 10:43 am. |

Tomato pie, ‘one of life’s greatest gifts’

Art Matters

Art Matters is a new weekly column which highlights some of the upcoming performance art, display art, and similar events in the greater Mount Airy ar...

August 13th, 2018 |

Made of butter?

Our History is a regular column submitted by Kate Rauhauser-Smith, Director of Education and Programs at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, ex...

August 12th, 2018 |

Gordons celebrate 50th anniversary

Phillip and Marie Gordon of Pinnacle, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 27. A party and reception was given in their honor at Pinnacle...

August 12th, 2018 |

ACC hosts Summer Swim Season Championship

PILOT MOUNTAIN — The Tri-County Swim Association held its annual Summer Swim Season Championship Meet at the Armfield Civic Center last month. T...

August 8th, 2018 |

How are your squash doing?

This is the time of year when gardeners are usually fully engaged in making use of the prodigious quantities of zucchini and squash that are magically...

August 8th, 2018 |

Patent history runs deep

Our History is a regular column submitted by Kate Rauhauser-Smith, Director of Education and Programs at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, ex...

August 5th, 2018 |

OPINION

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Do you want to get well or not?

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Parvenu’s Guide to Social Climbing

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Truth about the media? Friend of the people

It’s no better after three years

The start of another school year is almost upon us.Which means only one thing: Jeff had to waste another perfectly fine weekend moving his kid back to...

August 16th, 2018 |

Made of butter?

Our History is a regular column submitted by Kate Rauhauser-Smith, Director of Education and Programs at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, ex...

August 12th, 2018 |

Route 601 median bad idea?

To the Editor,I have read the stories in Mount Airy News that the city wants to replace the current center turn lane with a cement median to cut down ...

August 12th, 2018 |

Spinning down our rush to judgment

There are things in life that cannot be hurried, no matter how quickly you want them to be resolved. The skill for spinning down the rush to make quic...

August 10th, 2018 |

Nursing home escape to music festival

Doesn’t this sound like the setup for an arguably tasteless joke?“So two elderly men escape a German nursing home and turn up later —...

August 10th, 2018 |

You can’t take thoughts out of sports

On Tuesday, ESPN posted two baseball stories that seemed to contradict one another.One article told how the prevalence of defensive shifting was killi...

August 9th, 2018 |