News

• Police reports

  February 15, 2019 0

  • A woman from Laurel Fork, Virginia, has been charged with stealing items from businesses in Mount Airy, according to city police department reports. Wenda Marshall Groce, 64, of 3155 Laurel Fork Road, is accused [...]

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  City woman charged with murder

  February 15, 2019 0

  A woman who has been jailed since October after allegedly assaulting a Mount Airy man who subsequently died is now charged with murder in the incident, city police announced Friday. Christy Leighann Jessup, 32, who [...]

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  City museum hosts ninth Read-In

  February 15, 2019 0

  More than a dozen people gathered at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History on Wednesday to participate in the museum’s ninth-annual African-American Read-In. The gathering, hosted by the Plaid Cloth Literary Society, is part [...]

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  Library begins 2019 author series

  February 15, 2019 0

  If someone is unable to make it to at least one of the Mount Airy Public Library’s spring author series, it’s not for lack of trying by branch librarian Pat Gwyn. Gwyn said that in [...]

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  ‘Dangerous’ street conditions concern city

  February 14, 2019 0

  Mount Airy officials have identified hazardous street conditions at the site where a building was gutted by fire last June and its remnants recently were demolished. The property is located at 207 E. Oak St. [...]