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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Freedom School Project Director Jesse Hiatt talks to Mount Airy Board of Education members Mike Hiatt, Amy Bledsoe, Kate Appler and Vice Chairman Tim Matthews about the components of the school to bolster literacy among 50 at-risk students this summer.</p>
Freedom School targets students for summer
The Mount Airy Board of Education work session Tuesday was dedicated to presenting a summer school educational option for at-risk kindergarten through fifth-grade students known as Freedom School. Project Coordinator Jesse Hiatt and Site Coordinator Lee Hunter told the board about the project’s components and goals. “We are very excited about this,” said Hiatt. “We want to give our student scholars a head start, a healthy start, a safe st...
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Mayfest to offer wide variety of choices
PILOT MOUNTAIN — The streets of downtown Pilot Mountain will be closed to weekend traffic on Friday morning but should soon fill with festive residents and visitors gathered for the 32nd annual Mayfest celebration. As it has from the beginning, the Pilot Mountain Civic Club will serve as sponsor for this year’s festival. This is club Vice President Scott Needham’s first year as Mayfest chairman and he already has been faced with the chall...
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<p>Submitted photo</p><p>The Mount Airy Graniteers, a minor league Baseball team, was active in Mount Airy in the 1930s and 1940s. David Beal will present History Talks: The History of Minor League Baseball in Mount Airy on Saturday at 2 p.m., at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History.</p>
Area’s minor league baseball history focus of History Talk
The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History presents History Talks: The History of Minor League Baseball in Mount Airy this Saturday at 2 p.m., led by former Mount Airy commissioner and baseball enthusiast David Beal. The free presentation will focus on Chubby Dean, the Mount Airy Reds, and the Graniteers from the 1930s through the 1940s. According to the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History’s website, “almost every town of any size in Nor...
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• A dog valued at $1
• A dog valued at $1,000 has been reported stolen from a Mount Airy neighborhood, according to city police department reports. The crime, discovered Sunday, involving someone using bolt cutters to access a kennel at the home of Labrica Marki Revels on Galloway Street. An American Blue, a type of hound, was removed. • Air conditioners worth hundreds of dollars were discovered missing on May 1 from a location on Orchard Street where Leon Gran...
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Heart & Sole 5K slated for Saturday
PILOT MOUNTAIN — The Pilot Mountain Woman’s Club is extending an invitation to local residents to get up early this Saturday, before Mayfest music begins to play or the food is ready for consumption, take part in the fourth annual Heart and Sole 5K. The event will take place rain or shine, beginning in the parking lot of Cox-Needham Funeral Home. Registration will be held at the site from 7 to 8 a.m. with the event scheduled to begin at 8:3...
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ESHS Raiders to host fundraising car wash
PILOT MOUNTAIN — East Surry High School Army Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps will conduct its semi-annual car wash fundraiser on Saturday morning in the school parking lot at 801 W. Main St. And this year, the need for community support will be even greater than usual. According to Senior Army Instructor Lt Col. (Ret.) Richard Howe, the United States Army heavily funds the program’s classroom needs. This includes student uniforms, co...
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<p>Tom Joyce | The News</p><p>Representatives of the Shepherd&#8217;s House in Mount Airy are recognized at a Surry County Board of Commissioners meeting this week, in honor of the homeless center&#8217;s 10th year of operation. Shown, from left, are the Rev. Phil Goble Jr., Shepherd&#8217;s House executive director; Farah Davis, who chairs its board of directors; and Commissioner Buck Golding. Other Shepherd&#8217;s House representatives on hand were Traci Hamilton, Tammy Gravely, Mike Bowman and Bryan Taylor.</p>
Shepherd’s House honored by county board
Representatives of the Shepherd’s House in Mount Airy are recognized at a Surry County Board of Commissioners meeting this week, in honor of the homeless center’s 10th year of operation. Shown, from left, are the Rev. Phil Goble Jr., Shepherd’s House executive director; Farah Davis, who chairs its board of directors; and Commissioner Buck Golding. Other Shepherd’s House representatives on hand were Traci Hamilton, Tammy Gravely, Mike Bowman a...
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Special events cost city $42,237 a year
Special events held in Mount Airy cost city government $42,237 a year, according to figures for 2012, which also show the municipality is taking in only $2,575 in permit fees for them. Much of the expenditures result from a single event — the three-day Autumn Leaves Festival held every October by the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce — which costs the city $23,188 in extra manpower and equipment for such needs as security, traffic cont...
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<p>Gladys Henson of Yokefellow Co-Operative Ministry in Mount Airy sorts items collected by local postal workers during last year&#8217;s food drive.</p>
Local food collection ‘going postal’
Postal workers are known for delivering the mail through snow, sleet, rain and hail — and the same perseverance is applied toward collecting food for the needy. This Saturday, local mail carriers will put the stamp on an annual program that results in thousands of pounds of non-perishable items for distribution by Yokefellow Co-Operative Ministry of Mount Airy. “The carriers are delivering bags all week,” said Judy Hughes, a postal superv...
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Surry County EMS budget requests include essential equipment
Surry County Emergency Medical Services is asking for an increase of roughly $450,000 in the 2013-14 operating budget, but most of that is for capital expenses. The budget request, as presented to the Surry County Board of Commissioners, asks for $5,455,364, up from the present year’s budget of $4,997,082. John Shelton, Director of Emergency Services, said the budget request includes $652,000 for capital needs, which actually leaves the o...
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