Apparently Mount Airy and Dobson officials have been meeting together, trying to work out some sort of compromise the two municipalities can live with in their ongoing water dispute. The two loc...
Saying good-bye to summer Once again, I’m working over Labor Day weekend and I’m OK with that, because in exchange, I’m going to get three days off next week in which I plan to go tubing, swimming and just languish in the ...
Opening a whole new world September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, making it the perfect time to head on over to your nearest library and get one for yourself. The libraries in Surry County boast fairly large coll...
County earns high marks for conservative approach
The conservative think-tank John W. Pope Civitas Institute recently released a report grading North Carolina’s counties, based on their ability to be fiscally responsible with their annual payrol...
The best thing about Parkway? In today’s Mount Airy News you will find the September edition of Simple Pleasures, which focuses on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Construction on that venerable scenic roadway began in 1935 — 75 year a...
Listening to Marley, and others, important in state budgeting
On Saturday, Marlena “Marley” Breeding and some of her friends staged a rally and protest. They were making their displeasure known with state cuts to mental health services which have had drasti...
Thumbs Up To local drivers. With the coming of school there are new traffic patterns around the county, delays caused by school buses stopping, and plenty of kids around roadways. We have not heard of a sin...
Apparently Mount Airy and Dobson officials have been meeting together, trying to work out some sort of compromise the two municipalities can live with in their ongoing water dispute. The two loc...
Saturday night, local forestry and fire officials were called to Pilot Mountain, where a small fire was burning. Although fighting the blaze was difficult because of the steep and rocky terrain, wo...
Oftentimes, the major headlines of the day push important work to the background. Nationally, the struggling economy, the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the recent elections have capture...
The North Carolina General Assembly, in its seemingly endless wisdom, enacted a law last year requiring motorists to carry coverage protecting them if they are in an accident with an uninsured moto...
The North Carolina General Assembly, in its seemingly endless wisdom, enacted a law last year requiring motorists to carry coverage protecting them if they are in an accident with an uninsured moto...
It’s often said that people don’t recycle enough — especially here in Mount Airy — but I must take offense with that notion. In fact, we have just completed a recycling project of major proportion...
To the Editor, Can we get a few answers please? On July 11, 2010, according to the Mount Airy News, a sheriff deputy or employee in a deputy’s uniform and in a marked sheriff’s car, is stopped for...
To the Editor, Your editorial Aug. 25, 2010 (asking Cawley to step aside raises questions) was on the mark. I would think that Mr. Cawley should be commended for his insight into the value of such...
To the Editor, My father, Ed Crossingham, was a founder of Cross Creek Country Club. As one of the few golfers involved initially, it was his desire to have an 18-hole golf course in Mount Airy, ...
To the Editor, This letter is in response to the recent string of articles regarding Mount Airy’s skateboard park. A quick background…On Saturday August 14, my wife and I, along with our 13 year o...
To the Editor, Syndicated columnist Tina Dupuy’s piece “Living in a Post-Raciest Society” was the most venom tinged article comprised of false and misleading statements that I have ever read about...
To the Editor, This is in response to the aticle by Tom Joyce titled: No set of statistics can excuse cold-blooded murder. While I can agree with that to a certain extent, I cannot accept that r...
For the first summer in 55 years, Mount Airy has not had a drive-in theater. That might not be a big thing in some people’s eyes, considering the lack of jobs, hunger and other major problems f...
Recently the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners decided to advertise it is taking offers on a sliver of land on Andover land, a parcel that is just 25 feet by 125 feet. But that decision did not...
“Bob. Jacob. Melinda. Isbel...” Last night members of the Surry County Historical Society read through a list of the names of 61 slaves known to have labored at the former plantation where the Edw...
From the Aug. 19 News & Observer of Raleigh Dean Smith called it the “four corners” when he coached the Tar Heels. The idea was to go into a sort of stall to hold on to a lead and run the clock ...
In a world of skeptics and pessimists, I tend to be an optimist who tries to see the best in people before I judge them and think the worst of them. As I sat at home Monday, I caught an episode of...
Mount Airy Commissioner Jon Cawley has stepped down from his seat on the Sports Development Committee, at the request of fellow commissioner and committee leader Todd Harris. The Sports Develop...
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