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Family influences dominate Mills Farm
The first in a series highlighting each of the six private gardens featured on this year’s Mount Airy Blooms Garden Tour scheduled for Saturday, June 8. The tour is presented by Mount Airy’s three garden clubs. Proceeds will benefit a variety of charities. Ticket-holders will have a bonus opportunity to drive through the Healing and Prayer Garden at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Tickets for the Mount Airy Blooms Garden Tour are available at Eventbrite.com, the Mount Airy Visitors Center and at each garden site on the day of the tour. Advance tickets are $20 while tickets on the day...
Hale-Wilkinson-Carter Yard Sale, Raffle
Come join us on May 16, 17, 18 at The Hale-Wilkinson-Carter Home for our annual yard sale. There will be many antique items from inside the Carter Home such as furniture, paintings, lamps, etc. There will also be a variety of clothes. For this year’s yard sale we are also including a raffle of items businesses around our area have donated. We have many items to choose from such as several gift baskets with all the must-have spring necessities, a car wash gift set, jewelry, and many gift certificates from restaurants and local hair salons. We will also be selling some baked goodies. So come on down to the Hale-Wilkinson-Carter Home Yard Sale and Raffle located at 405 N. Main Street in Hillsville for a day of fun.
Talk a walk on the dark side: Ghost tours resume
“They’re back.” For fans of the Poltergeist horror movie series, that simple declaration may send a few chills up and down the spine. That reaction might be appropriate with the return of a popular local other-worldly activity as well. The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History’s ghost tours have returned, with local guides taking hearty...
'Women in Old-Time Music' exhibit to open
For Immediate Release May 8th, 2024 Museum to Feature New Traveling Exhibit Perhaps nothing is identified with Surry County more than its place in old time music history, and now the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History will be focusing on the role of women in that musical genre with its new exhibit, “I’ve Endured:...
Surry County should be spared Cicada problems
This year marks the emergence of periodical cicadas. Two broods, one 13-year (XIX) and one 17-year (XIII) will emerge soon from underground nests across a large section of the Eastern United States. Fortunately, North Carolina will only experience Brood XIX, a.k.a., the Great Southern Brood. We have not seen these 13-year cicadas since 2011. Even better news, not all counties in North Carolina will see a cicada emergence. Based on historical data from the University of Connecticut, fewer than 20 North Carolina counties can expect...
Hale-Wilkinson-Carter Home hosts reception for Carroll students
The Carroll County Art Show sparked a “Mother’s Day Card Project” and both became magical events where the talent of the county’s youth was shared with everyone. The Carroll County Creative Arts and Hale-Wilkinson-Carter Home Foundation wish to thank the Blue Unicorn, Dr. and Mrs. Ken Williams, The Friends of the Blue Ridge, and Mr. Cary Simms for their financial support for the winners of this year’s Spring Art show. The high school winner received a $200 check, the middle school winner received a $100...
Woods honored for 35 years of service to Food Lion
SALISBURY, NC — Food Lion is proud to announce more than 350 associates are celebrating more than 30 years of service this year. Among them is one long-term associate from a store in Hillsville. On April 18th, associates were honored during an annual event where the retailer shares appreciation and gratitude for long-term associates, presenting them with the Years of Service Award. These individuals bring Food Lion’s brand, strategy and culture to life and have served their towns and cities for 30, 35, 40, 45...
Local students named as regional winners in VSBA art contest
Local school board members were treated to an impressive display of creativity and faced some tough decisions in selecting the 2024 winners in the Virginia School Boards Association’s Southwest Regional Art Contest on April 30, 2024. Student art from the elementary, middle, and high school levels represented each school division in the competition, were judged at the regional forum for area school board members. The following local students were named to regional honors: ...
Historic house tours resume Saturday
The public has the chance to tour one of the oldest homes in the region this weekend, when an annual open house series resumes at the historic Edwards-Franklin House. This is a free event to be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday by the Surry County Historical Society, which owns the site at 4132 Haystack Road west of Mount Airy. A host will be on...
Small town, BIG sound
If the tunes of Stuart McLamb and Charles Crossingham strike the right chord, Fancy Gap may soon be known for a lot more than Frank Beamer and Sidna Allen. The serene, picturesque Carroll County community nestled alongside the Blue Ridge Parkway, Fancy Gap is known as the home of legendary Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer and the unique homeplace of Allen, one of the key figures in the infamous Carroll County Courthouse Tragedy of 1912. But McLamb and Crossingham, a pair of Raleigh, N.C.-based...
SCC to hold old-time music camp
Surry Community College will be offeing its fifth annual Surry Old-Time Music Camp, from July 8 through July 12, on SCC’s campus in Dobson. Surry County has an intact music culture that is passed down from generation to generation. The old-time music style of the Appalachian Mountains uses fiddle, banjo, and guitar as core instruments to create a unique folk music. Old-time music of the North Carolina and Virginia mountains date back to before the invention of sound recordings. ...
Yadkin Winefest coming in May
ELKIN — While Mount Airy area residents are no doubt familiar with the annual Wine & Craft Beer Budbreak festival, that gathering is not the only event which celebrates wine making in the region. The Yadkin Valley Wine Festival, which is marking its 21st year, takes place on Saturday, May 18 at Elkin Municipal Park. Organizers say it is a day which “Celebrates North Carolina’s premier wine region each spring...
Elton John discoverer visits city
Elton John has been a superstar for more than 50 years, and the person who got him started in the music business was in Mount Airy this week to discuss how it all happened. “I was fortunate to meet so many people at such a young age,” Ray Williams told an enthusiastic audience of about 80 people Tuesday during a Rotary Club luncheon meeting at Cross Creek Country Club. Williams,...
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