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<p>This competitor in the Bottomland 4x4 Easter Seals Mudd Bogg signals to the crowd the mud may stop his vehicle but not his spirit. The writing on the top of windshield is upside down and reads “If you can read this roll me over.” A variety of vehicles participated in the event this year to benefit the local chapter of Easter Seals.</p>
Mudd Bogg stays true to roots as family fun
If you had to distill the very core of the annual Bottomland 4x4 Easter Seals Mudd Bogg to one sentence volunteer Kevin Flippin said it best when a first-time visitor asked who would win the event Flippin simply told her everybody wins. Eric Van Nieuwkoop, who with his wife Tonya Edwards Van Nieuwkoop hosts the yearly event, reinforced this notion. “We have always tried to help kids (with the Mudd Bogg),” said Eric Van Nieuwkoop. “We were...
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<p>A maturing Black Gold Cherry shines and is the star of the Levering Cherry Orchard, which boasts more than 50 varieties of the fruit.</p>
Cherry season waits for no one: Virginians seize moment.
ORCHARD GAP — For two Virginians with century old farms, the local cherry harvest is a sweet, intense frame of time to be savored on its’ own, yet a signal the thick of the mountain harvest is just beginning. Providing variety, flavor and early cash flow, cherries continue to do their part at Frank Levering and Donald Ayers orchards, coaxing in customers from all over the United States. Year after year, the cherry, belonging to the Genus ...
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Shoals Elementary receives NC Prevention Partners grant
CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina Prevention Partners recently recognized Shoals Elementary School in Surry County with a $1,000 Zone Health Award for reaching a high standard of excellence in student wellness and obesity prevention. According to information provided by the Surry County School system, administrators and wellness leaders at Shoals Elementary feel the award is one indication they have succeeded in building a culture of wellness at...
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Food preservation class set for this week
DOBSON — It’s that time of the year when many folks wanting to restock the pantry actually try to get into a jam, or perhaps a nice pint of homemade jelly. Family and Consumer Education Extension Agent Carmen Long has announced a food preservation workshop which will be held June 21 at the extension office in Dobson. Long said the workshop is set to be held from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. and participants are encouraged to call 336-401-8025 ...
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Public hearing set Monday on $71 million county budget
DOBSON — County residents will have the opportunity Monday night to weigh in on next year’s $71.5 million budget. A public hearing has been set for 6 p.m. in the Commissioners Meeting Room of the Surry County Government Center in Dobson. The hearing is set on the budget as presented by county staff, one that calls for a two-cent increase to the county’s property tax rate, taking the rate to 60.2 cents per $100 in value, compared to the pr...
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Grants for industries supported
During Thursday night public hearings in Mount Airy, favorable comments emerged concerning two city industrial projects. These could obligate the municipal and county governments to provide matching funds possibly totaling $48,000 for grants, but offer the prospects of about 60 new jobs. Support for the grants came during public hearings on proposals known by the code names “Project Craftsman” and “Project Glow.” The unidentified Projec...
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Pair allegedly sold prescription pills in parking lot
Two Lowgap residents have been arrested by Mount Airy police for allegedly selling prescription pills in a business parking lot. Cody Wayne Burchette, 20, was charged Thursday with one felony count of conspiracy to sell and deliver a controlled substance, and sale and delivery of a controlled substance, also a felony. Burchette was being held in the Surry County Jail Friday under a $30,000 secured bond. Rose Mary Norman, 41, is facing t...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>MCA English Teacher E. Ann Moore displays a copy of her book Mr. Jay Learns to Share which is one of a series of books she plans to teach courtesy and virtues to students. Moore was challenged by her students to author the book after she shared some of the early drafts of it with them as part of a creative writing project.</p>
MCA teacher authors book for children
Authors write for a variety of reasons. Millennium Charter Academy English Teacher E. Ann Moore’s two driving forces for her first published book were her students and a mounting concern of a nationwide loss of common courtesy. Moore said the entire project has taken her eight months with the publishing aspect alone taking five months of that time. The title of the book is Mr. Jay Learns to Share and the bird characters in the work repres...
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<p>Tom Joyce | The News</p><p>John Overton, Mount Airy finance director, describes how a city takeover of the county’ Flat Rock/Bannertown Water and Sewer District would be a losing proposition for the municipality.</p>
City declines to take over county water ‘business’
Thanks, but no thanks, is the apparent reply from Mount Airy officials concerning an offer to take over Surry County’s water-sewer system in the Flat Rock/Bannertown communities. That stance by the city board of commissioners during a meeting Thursday night boiled down to dollars and cents. The takeover would have kept Surry County from losing money on the system, at the rate of $66,000 per year. But it would represent lost revenue of abo...
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<p>Keith Strange | The News</p><p>Seventy-five-year-old Stanley Grey Collins was airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in critical condition following an early-afternoon motorcycle accident on Pipers Gap Road Friday.</p>
BREAKING NEWS: One critical following motorcycle wreck
A 75-year-old Cana, Va., man was airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Hospital from the scene after crashing his motorcycle on Pipers Gap Road. According to Surry County Emergency Services Director John Shelton, Stanley Grey Collins, of 4123 Flower Gap Road in Cana, was traveling toward Mount Airy on a Honda Goldwing when he ran off the right side of the roadway, striking a telephone pole and a mailbox located at 309 Wise Man’s Trail. Shelton...
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