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Pilot commissioners meeting set for Monday
PILOT MOUNTAIN — The Pilot Mountain Board of Commissioner’s regular meeting on Feb. 25 is scheduled to open with a presentation by Surry County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President Faye Carter. She will be speaking on the groups mission in recognition of February as Black History Month. Resident Michael McCarty has signed up to speak during the public forum portion of the meeting about the subject of ...
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Honors Chorus concert is Tuesday
The Surry County Honors Chorus, composed of selected students from Surry County, Mount Airy City and Elkin City schools, has announced it will hold middle school and high school concerts on Tuesday. The concerts will be held in the Mount Airy High School auditorium. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students, and proceeds from the concert will fund future Surry County honors chorus festivals. Persons may contact Teresa Beshears at 469-2...
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Bannertown auxiliary hosts children’s consignment sale
The Bannertown Volunteer Fire Department’s Ladies’ Auxiliary is hosting a spring and summer children’s consignment sale and is asking for anyone who would like to consign items to sign up by March 12. The Super 75 Kidz Closet Spring/Summer Children’s Consignment Sale will be held at Mount Airy Wesleyan Church on March 22 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and March 23 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Items needed for the consignment sale include gently used spr...
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Sweeps yield animal citations
DOBSON — In an effort to improve the quality of life for the county’s pets, Surry County Animal Control officers have begun conducting sweeps of areas in the county that report a high number of calls to the department. “The Animal Control department has seen the need for conducting community sweeps for quite some time, and this is the third one we’ve conducted in three years,” said Thomas Williams, a spokesman for the department. In condu...
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<p>Keith Strange | The News</p><p>The Surry County Board of Commissioners spent Friday at their annual retreat, planning for next year&#8217;s budget. The board agreed to freeze any spending of the funds generated by the sale of the county&#8217;s home health care division.</p>
Board planning for rainy day
ELKIN — Faced with the prospect of an ever-tighter budget next year, the Surry County Board of Commissioners have agreed to set aside for a rainy day the $2.5 million they made through the sale of the health department’s Home Health Care division last year. The decision came as the board met for its annual retreat at the Klondike Cabins in Elkin Friday. Much of the day was focused on money issues and how to fund needed capital improvement...
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Police briefs
• Property has been reported stolen from the site of a historic house in Mount Airy which is being restored, according to city police department reports. The crime was discovered Wednesday at the Dr. C.A. Baird House on Cherry Street, where an oil-fired heater valued at $425 was taken. It was identified as a Reddy Heater model owned by Kidwell and Company Inc., the contractor for the work. • Brittany Kayla Herdman, 21, of Leon, W.Va., was a...
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<p>Donald Ray Beck</p>
Same song, second verse…
DOBSON — An Ararat couple and their teenage daughter were arrested Monday after county narcotics officers raided their home and discovered a methamphetamine operation — for the second time this year. Sheriff Graham Atkinson said Donald Ray Beck, 43, and Angela Henley Beck, 41, both of 109 Charles Beck Lane, were arrested after allegedly resuming methamphetamine sales from their home. The couple were first arrested on Jan. 4, when ...
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Cases involving bare breasts deserve close look
I often am reminded of the fable about a man who cried because he had no shoes, but upon seeing someone without feet realized just how lucky he was in comparison. This can be true of one’s chosen occupation as well. Sometimes when I think journalism is a really hard profession and how could I have been such a numb-skull to get involved with it in the first place, I look around and see where others have it much, much worse. One of the firs...
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Tourism board hopes to lure winter visitors
The Mount Airy Tourism Development Authority Board elected officers, discussed tourism-related issues such as a new website and logo for the city, reported on tourism statistics, and discussed upcoming events as well as new ideas to promote tourism in the winter months, during its meeting Thurday. John M. Overton, city finance director, called the meeting to order and the group moved directly into the first item on the agenda: the election ...
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Board OKs rezoning
DOBSON — The Surry County Board of Commissioners unanimously gave the nod to a proposed rezoning Monday night. The hearing was to consider a proposal filed by Dominic A. Payson to reverse a zoning change made in late 2005, when a .8-acre parcel located at the corner of Rockford Road and Stony Knoll Road was rezoned from its previous rural agricultural designation to a community business zone. Prior to the opening of the public hearing, Co...
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