News

• Holiday to affect garbage schedules

  January 18, 2019 0

  The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday will affect sanitation operations in Mount Airy. This includes no yard waste collections that day. Also, the Monday industrial roll-off route will be collected on Tuesday instead. [...]

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  Museum to host genealogy swap meet

  January 18, 2019 0

  Tracing one’s family tree is a growing pastime — as illustrated by popular television shows such as “Genealogy Roadshow” or websites including Ancestry.com — and an upcoming event seeks to aid that process on the [...]

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  ‘Super-majority’ rule shot down by city

  January 17, 2019 0

  The Spencer’s Redevelopment Saga took another unexpected turn Thursday night, when a previous decision requiring at least four of Mount Airy’s five commissioners to approve any actions regarding the project was reversed. In late summer, [...]

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  Willis: Drug users aren’t getting help

  January 17, 2019 0

  DOBSON — Emergency workers run dozens of overdose calls a month, but the patients aren’t getting treatment afterward, according to a county director. County officials are planning to set aside time to discuss opioid addiction [...]

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  Surry County Sheriff Reports

  January 17, 2019 0

  DOBSON — The Surry County Sheriff’s Office has released the following arrest reports: • Matthew Lee Senter, 31, of Old U.S. 52, Mount Airy, was served an order for arrest Dec. 23 for failure to [...]