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Event salutes Memorial Day''s real meaning
There’s always talk about Memorial Day kicking off summer or being a time for cookouts, but the keynote speaker at an event Monday reminded that this most solemn of holidays means much more. “Memorial Day is a time to reflect on the past, to take a look at the present and to renew our contract to the future of America,” U.S. Marine Corps veteran Dave Dinkins said. Dinkins was speaking...
Delayed harvest trout waters open June 1
Renovations to State’s Primary Trout Hatchery Will Affect Next Year’s Stocking RALEIGH – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open 32 trout streams and two lakes classified as Delayed Harvest to trout harvest on June 1 through Sept. 30. From 6 a.m. until 11:59 a.m. on opening day, Delayed Harvest waters are open only to youth younger than 18 years of age. At noon, waters open to all anglers. During...
Flat Rock Baptist celebrating 125 years
As the end of the century neared — the 19th century — 14 men from around the region came together for one purpose, to organize a new church to serve the Flat Rock area. The men, according to the church, were from neighboring Baptist churches, coming together “under the leadership of the Holy Spirit” to form the new church, known simply as The Rock on Jan. 15, 1899. Less than a month later, the church had its first pastor — Rev. J.H. Powers — who...
Wagner's home an oasis from the world
The fourth 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 Regional Hospital. 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 of the...
Still plenty of strawberry harvest
The merry month of May still has a week remaining and the strawberry season is still going strong, with warm May days the berries are getting ripe quicker. Usually the strawberry harvest will last until the first full week of June. There is still plenty of time to make a trip to a field in your area and pick several buckets to freeze for winter and make a batch of strawberry jam. Season of pollen still here ...
United Fund gets donation from Westfield, Alliance Insurance Services
Westfield and the Westfield Insurance Foundation recently partnered with Alliance Insurance Services to donate $21,000 to the United Fund of Surry. The donation was made as part of Westfield’s Legacy of Caring program. Each year, Westfield’s top independent insurance agents, such as Alliance Insurance Services, are invited to nominate a local nonprofit in their community to receive a donation in cities throughout Westfield’s national footprint. Since 2015, the Legacy of...
Marriages 0525
The following marriage licenses were issued in Surry County: - Lucas Anthony Koons, 26, of Surry County to Emilie Marie Fierek, 31, of Surry County. - Andrew Walker White, 24, of Surry County to Lacey Caroline Riggans, 24, of Surry County. - Diego Jesus Rebollar, 25, of Surry County to Brenda Hernandez, 24, of Surry...
41 Surry-Yadkin Works interns sign with Northern Regional
Surry Community College, Surry-Yadkin Works, and Northern Regional Hospital recently held a celebration to mark the end of the first youth apprentice program for registered nurses at the hospital — the first in North Carolina. Twenty-two local students have committed to apprenticeships at Northern Regional Hospital in Mount Airy, while an additional 19 have signed to continue their employment with Northern Regional Hospital through the Surry-Yadkin Works program. Dr. David...
Golden Eagle grads soar into future
DOBSON — Although a rain threat had prompted Surry Central High School’s commencement exercises to be moved indoors, enough rays maneuvered through the clouds to enable departing Golden Eagles to fly into a sunset toward future destinations. Surry Central High School seniors Thursday night joined hundreds of others donning caps and gowns this week across the county. In the case of Surry Central, where the school mascot is the Golden Eagles, 142 graduates were listed. ...
MAHS seniors set to tackle life
References to WWE wrestling and delivering a punch to the gut figured prominently during Mount Airy High School’s graduation program — with speakers not advocating violence through those remarks, but using them to make important points about life. Experiences involving siblings were the basis for such comments by Senior Class President Ian Gallimore and Valedictorian Kinlee Reece during their respective addresses for Saturday morning’s commencement exercises at Wallace Shelton Stadium. ...
Museum’s Junior Historians show out at state competition
The Jesse Franklin Pioneers, the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History’s chapter of the Tar Heel Junior Historians, recently brought home nearly a half-dozen awards for their work displayed at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh as part of the Junior Historians state conference. In the Video Documentary contest the Intermediate Group, consisting of Rickie Caudill, Adah Huff, Kylie Jones, Madilyn Kassen, Paytin Key, and Solomon Shipley, brought home first place for their “Home Town Homicides” video. This documentary covered the Lawson Family...
Booksmarts
New Library Service Hpopla Digital. Enjoy audiobooks, eBooks, comics and manga, music, movies, TV, and more—all with no waiting. Sign up for Hoopla with your Northwestern Regional Library card at hoopladigital.com or download the hoopla app from your device’s app store. Special Events An Afternoon With the Author — Join us Saturday, May 25 at...
Memorial Day to alter sanitation routes
Next week’s observance of Memorial Day has prompted changes in sanitation schedules for Mount Airy. This will include no yard waste collection in the city on Monday. The next such pickups are to occur a week later on June 3. Also, the commercial garbage routes normally run on Monday will be serviced on Tuesday instead. This same Monday-to-Tuesday shift is in store for the city’s industrial roll-off route. Municipal offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day.
Date set for Ground Steak Festival
DOBSON — The dessert dish known as the sonker isn’t the only food item with roots firmly “grounded” in Surry County. There is also the ground steak sandwich that will be celebrated at an upcoming event. “It really is a Surry County thing,” Coordinator Travis Frye of the Dobson Tourism Development Authority is fond of saying. The unique sandwich will be the focus of the second-annual North Carolina Ground Steak...
City schools name new assistant superintendent
Mount Airy City Schools has a new assistant superintendent — but it is a familiar face and name to many in the city school system. Dr. Olivia Sikes has been named Assistant Superintendent of the city school system, filling the post left vacant when Dr. Phillip Brown was named superintendent of the district, who in turn replaced the retiring Dr. Kim Morrison. Sikes brings 21 years of experience to the...
Local book to be featured at national book festival
RALEIGH —Two books have been chosen to represent North Carolina in the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival, and one of those has local ties. Bountiful Red Acres: Two Farms, Two Families, and a Year on the Land written by Eileen Heyes and illustrated by Dare Coulter, is a book aimed at young readers in the age range of 8 to 11. The story is designed to let those readers get a taste of farm life in the North Carolina Piedmont through Bountiful Red...
Hawks wins Triple Jump State Championship
GREENSBORO — Mount Airy’s Blake Hawks won the ultimate prize in his fourth and final trip to Marcus T. Johnson Track and Field. The senior UNC-Asheville-commit qualified for the 1A State Championship Meet all four years of outdoor track, as well as all three seasons of indoor track; his freshman indoor season was cancelled due to COVID. Hawks entered this year’s meet with six state medals in jumping events. He...
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