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<p>Even after receiving their diplomas these Surry Community College graduates remained intent on taking in the emotions of their classmates on stage at Peace Haven Baptist Church Thursday night. SCC held its commencement ceremony with a total of 203 students participating.</p>
SCC holds its commencement ceremony
Where: Peace Haven Baptist Church, Yadkinville. When: Thursday night at 7 p.m. Number of graduates: 355 with 203 participating in the SCC Commencement Ceremony. Speaker: Surry Community College President Dr. David Shockley. What the speaker said: “I will keep my comments direct, short and very serious. This year the North Carolina Community System is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary. A total of 58 colleges make up the third...
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Crash claims one life
One man was killed and another injured Thursday morning in a two-car collision on Judesville School Road in Dobson. One man was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was airlifted to a nearby facility. The wreck occurred at 6:19 a.m. Thursday at 904 Judesville School Road. David Jackson Wilmoth, 56, of Dobson was killed in the wreck, which occurred a few miles from his home on Red Hill Creek Road. The other man, Casey Garrison, w...
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<p>Commissioners Scott Graham and Shirley Brinkley receive copies of Mount Airy&#8217;s proposed budget during a meeting Thursday night.</p>
Proposed city budget includes 2-cent tax cut
Mount Airy’s preliminary budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, unveiled Thursday night, includes some good news for most everyone. And in other business during a meeting of the city board of commissioners, officials took action that could mean 48 new jobs involving an unnamed industry. Budget Highlights City taxpayers are in store for a 2-cent cut in the property tax rate, and no increase in water and sewer rates, according to details ...
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Spring Fling, Juvenile Diabetes Walk set for Saturday at MCA
Millennium Charter Academy will be hosting its annual Spring Fling on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event is hosted by the school’s parent-teacher organization, MPACT (Millennium Parents and Concerned Teachers). The event will have a real carnival feel, and the community is invited. In addition to the Spring Fling, MCA’s Student Leadership Council is hosting a walk for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. School officials repor...
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Scouts seek police monument in Pilot
PILOT MOUNTAIN – An effort is under way to erect a monument in memory of two Pilot Mountain police officers killed in 1969. Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon, community leaders and Boy Scouts from the Pilot Mountain area will be collecting donations at Hardee’s at 200 W. Main St. The contributions will be used to pay for a permanent granite monument in honor of officers Glenn Branscome and Ralph East. It will be erected near the spot where the...
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<p>Robert Lee Adkins</p>
Virginia man charged with multiple break-ins
Detectives from the Surry County Sheriff’s Office solved more than a dozen break-ins in the Flat Rock and Buck Shoals areas of the county and arrested an Ararat, Va., man on multiple charges. Sheriff Graham Atkinson said investigators had linked a prisoner in the Surry County Detention Center with some of the incidents and he allegedly admitted to some of the allegations during interviews. Robert Lee Adkins, 32, of 225 River Road, was cha...
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<p>Copeland Elementary Student Council President Dan Snow, Vice President Grace Hodges and Secretary Yasmin Hernandez check to see home much change they have collected through the Change for Change project. All proceeds go to improve the school&#8217;s playground.</p>
Copeland Elementary aims to inspire lifelong fitness
SILOAM — Copeland Elementary School’s emphasis on inspiring children to keep fit for the rest of their lives is being expressed in a tangible way with a perfect storm of support driving improvements to the school and playground and courtyard. Principal Sharia Templeton explained the outdated and deteriorating equipment isn’t able to provide fitness structure and safer activities. Templeton said the school offers universal free breakfast a...
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<p>Submitted photos</p><p>Luthier Johnny Gentry works to create a banjo. Gentry is part of the new Luthier&#8217;s Craft: Instrument Making Traditions of the Blue Ridge exhibit opening this Saturday at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History.</p>
Museum’s Luthier’s Craft exhibit opens Saturday
This Saturday, The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History premieres its newest traveling exhibit, The Luthier’s Craft: Instrument Making Traditions of the Blue Ridge. The exhibit explores the luthier’s craft of making stringed instruments and will include sections on banjo, guitar, and fiddle creation in the southern Appalachia and Blue Ridge Mountain areas, as well as biographical information on the luthiers. The exhibit includes a number...
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Black to be recognized during board meeting
DOBSON — The Surry County Board of Commissioners will hold its regular second meeting of the month Monday at 6 p.m. at the Surry County Government Center, 118 Hamby Road, Dobson. A public hearing is scheduled to hear comments on a proposed rezoning at 155 Hawks Road, Lowgap. In addition, Social Service Director Wayne Black will present for consideration the Leslie Eldridge Special Account for Children Resolution. At 7:15 p.m., a reception...
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Police briefs
• Property valued at more than $1,000 was stolen Sunday from a carport at the home of Ryan James Bunker on Galax Trail by a “known” individual, according to Mount Airy Police Department reports. Included were two truck transmissions, a water pump and two children’s bicycles, one a Barbie model. • Constance Lynn Starkey, 56, and Richard Wesley Grubb, 38, both of 1846 Siloam Road, were arrested Sunday during a traffic stop on outstanding warr...
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