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Welfare groups, shelter officials plan sit-down
DOBSON —Just days after the Board of Commissioners voted to table proposed changes to the county’s animal control ordinance, representatives from area animal welfare groups are set to sit down with animal control officials in an effort to work out their differences. The meeting is set to get under way at 4 p.m., Thursday in room 335 at the Surry County Government Center in Dobson. The sit-down was scheduled after a Long Island, N.Y., resc...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>North Surry senior Avery Pike has been named second chair, Northwest District Band contra bass clarinet. Pike had competed in her freshman year on clarinet but was not named to the district band. Band Director Blake McCraw characterized her as a hard worker.</p>
North Surry senior named to second chair, Northwest District honors
A North Surry senior’s tweaking her strategy going in the latest round of Northwest District Band competition has let her hit a high note by being named to district honors band as second chair, contra bass clarinet. Avery Pike said she had competed her freshman year but just “didn’t get it with the bass clarinet.” “I got really depressed after that,” said Pike. “This ( contra bass clarinet) was a rare instrument in competition this year whi...
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County residents making use of libraries
DOBSON —Surry County residents are getting their money’s worth out of the county’s libraries, John Hedrick, director of the Northwest Regional Library System, told the Surry County Board of Commissioners Monday night. Hedrick was on hand to present an update on library usage to the county board during its regular meeting in Dobson. He said that county residents are heavy users of the resource. “Your libraries are heavily used, and are a...
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Police briefs
• Amber Renee Schneider, 49, of 797 W. Lebanon St., has been arrested on two felony charges, obtaining property by false pretense and larceny of chose in action, according to Mount Airy Police Department reports. The latter violation typically relates to the alleged theft of items such as checks or other financial instruments and using them for unauthorized transactions. Police records did not list the name of the victim(s) in this case. Sc...
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<p>Commissioner Jon Cawley</p>
Cawley wants to fund restroom project
A member of the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners wants to resurrect a four-year-old project to provide restrooms to serve Veterans Memorial Park and the Emily B. Taylor Greenway. However, that does not include a related effort to build a city playground at the same location on West Lebanon Street. A $60,000 price tag has been suggested for the restrooms, to be located at the northeast corner of the sprawling Veterans Memorial Park where i...
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<p>David Broyles | The News</p><p>Flat Rock Elementary fourth-grader Kassidy Dollyhite is congratulated by Vice Chairman Brian Gates for participating in the Sum Dog national math tournament. A group of 19 students from the school won the spring event topping a field of more than 632 schools.</p>
County school board recognizes math, short story achievements
DOBSON — The Surry County Board of Education opened its regular meeting Monday recognizing students’ accomplishments in math and literature. Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Charles Graham served as the presenter for the recognitions. Students from Flat Rock Elementary School were honored by the board for their victory in Sum Dog, a national spring math competition. Graham said during the online contest, 41,400 students from acro...
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Saturday’s Polar Plunge event to raise money for Special Olympics of Surry County
DOBSON — This Saturday, Special Olympics of Surry County is hosting a Polar Plunge fundraiser that begins at 1 p.m. at Fisher River Park in Dobson. The Polar Plunge is a popular winter event during which people submerge themselves in frigid waters; versions of the plunge are held all over the world. According to Shannon Lewis, Special Olympics cheerleader coach and one of the organizers of the event, this type of event has never been held...
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City action Thursday could lead to 20 jobs
Mount Airy officials are expected to get the ball rolling Thursday afternoon for an expansion of a local metal-working company that will bring 20 new jobs. A vote to set a public hearing regarding a city government incentive package for the project is among the items for a meeting of the board of commissioners to begin at 2 p.m. in the Municipal Building. Also on tap is a discussion on changing the municipal election process, the consider...
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<p>Barry Anderson</p>
Area residents named in federal drug indictments
STUART, Va. — Seven people, including a Mount Airy man and two Claudville residents, have been arrested on federal narcotics-trafficking and weapons indictments, according to Patrick County Sheriff Dan Smith. One person indicted, Barry James Anderson, 41, of Claudville, is still at large. The indictments were issued by a grand jury in late February, with the arrests part of two-year covert investigation by the Patrick Sheriff’s Office whi...
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<p>Jessica Johnson | The News</p><p>Burke Robertson, chairman of the Tourism Partnership of Surry County, shows group members the cover for the new &#8220;Very Surry&#8221; visitor&#8217;s guide, which will launch in May.</p>
Tourism Partnership sets Very Surry guide
DOBSON — The Tourism Partnership of Surry County on Monday set the launch of a new “Very Surry” visitor’s guide for May. The partnership continues to work directly with a graphic designer Jennifer Scott, who designed a cover for the visitor’s guide which featured an autumn photograph of the knob of Pilot Mountain in the foreground with Hanging Rock and Sauratown Mountain in the background. Several members remarked that the guide is improv...
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