Morning wreck backs up I-77 North
ELKIN — A Saturday morning accident on Interstate 77 backed up traffic in the Elkin area. John Shelton, county emergency services director, said a large Ryder rental truck headed north ran off the...
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SURRY COUNTY MOST WANTED
The Surry County Community Corrections office is seeking information on the whereabouts of the following individuals, all for probation violations: • Jessica Marie Bullins, age 31, white female, on...
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City police replacing Dodge Charger fleet
If something seems different about Mount Airy’s police cars these days, there’s a good reason for that. The familiar Dodge Chargers manned by city officers over the past seven years have been joined by...
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Santa has a doggone good time
On the day before his annual around-the-world trip delivering toys and gifts to good girls and boys, Santa found time to stop in at Bark and Meow Mount Airy on Main Street for some last-minute confabs...
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The following divorce was granted in Surry County – Horace P. Bondurant and Patricia W. Bondurant Married March 15, 2013, Divorce granted Dec. 20 – Larry K. Smith and Robin S. Smith Married May 21,...
View ArticleReal Estate Transfers
In recording deeds, the state of North Carolina does not require that the amount paid for a parcel be stated on the deed. However a tax stamp at the rate of $2 for every $1,000 in value is affixed to...
View ArticleBooksmarts
The following books have recently been received at the Mount Airy Public Library, and are available for checkout: Year One by Nora Roberts, fiction How the Finch Stole Christmas by Donna Andrews, large...
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Joyce attends meeting of nation’s top women advisors
For the fourth consecutive year, Edward Jones Financial Advisor Tammy Joyce of Mount Airy attended Barron’s Top Women Advisors Summit held in Palm Beach, Fla., recently. The conference gathers the...
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Surry County Sheriff Reports
DOBSON — The Surry County Sheriff’s Office has released the following arrest reports: • Shane Gray Hawks, 27, of Tony Holder Road, Lowgap, was served warrants Dec. 14 at the courthouse on charges of...
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Civil litigation class holds mock jury trial
The classroom transformed into a courtroom for students enrolled in LEX 141: Civil Litigation II at Surry Community College as those studying paralegal technology put their knowledge and skills to the...
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Cookies vie for favor of Santa, legislator
The first holiday cookie contest at Miss Angel’s Heavenly Pies in downtown Mount Airy on Saturday was the stuff Christmas movies are made of — adversity, setbacks, an appearance by Santa, and finally,...
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Students, parents build gingerbread houses
B.H. Tharrington’s Pre-Kindergarten students and their families enjoyed the festive holiday tradition of decorating gingerbread houses recently. Organized by teachers Beth Welch and Denise Ward,...
View ArticleCity garbage collections resume Wednesday
Mount Airy residents who might desire to be rid for good of discarded Christmas gift wrapping or other refuse must wait until Wednesday, due to the holiday’s effect on Tuesday’s city sanitation...
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Opie’s Candy among N.C.’s finest stores
A local candy shop has been recognized as one of the best in the state by a website, something Mount Airy residents and visitors have known for years. The Best Things North Carolina website (from...
View ArticleMount Airy top NC attraction?
Mount Airy’s Main Street has been nominated as one of the Top 20 attractions in North Carolina — and local residents can help put the downtown throughway at the top of the list. USA Today’s 10 Best, a...
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Just in time for Christmas
For one local family, Christmas came just a bit early. And it was a doozie. That’s because Christy Bost and her three children were recently handed the keys to their new home, courtesy of the Greater...
View ArticleOfficer sidelined by spinal injury in suspected DWI crash
A Mount Airy police officer is recovering from a spinal injury caused by a weekend traffic crash involving an allegedly impaired driver. Sgt. L.T. Whitaker was hurt when his patrol vehicle, a newly...
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Man decorates tree with golf balls
Not every golf ball lands perfectly on the green to the cheers of onlookers — there are also those strays that have suffered less-glamorous fates, being hit into the woods or waterways and forgotten....
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• Property valued at $800, identified as a Fieldpiece digital scale and a Porter miscellaneous power tool kit, has been stolen from a vehicle in the city, according to Mount Airy Police Department...
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Spelling bee champs named at Shoals
Shoals Elementary School recently held its classroom and schoolwide spelling bees. The winners were: overall school champion, Sid Sutphin; fifth grade champion, Nadia Rankin; and fourth grade champion,...
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