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Preparing for Christmas plants

Getting Christmas cactus and ferns ready to move April has reached the halfway point. The Christmas cactus, asparagus fern, panda fem and snake plant have…

What is child neglect?

Editor’s Note: Community Comment is a periodic column in The Mount Airy News featuring commentary from community leaders in Mount Airy and Surry County. This…

Stress is a real problem for teens

Editor’s Note: Community Comment is a periodic column in The Mount Airy News featuring commentary from community leaders in Mount Airy and Surry County. This…

Voter ID? Use Real ID

To the Editor, This is in reference to Feb. 28 “Their View” (Get off the voter ID merry-go-round) by John Hood. One aspect not touched…

Reader takes issue with letter

To the Editor, Shame on you Mount Airy News. In the world we live in and you publish a letter to the editor on Feb.…

Reader assails ‘liberals’

To the Editor, This is primarily about Rob Schofield who apparently is suffering from dementia. I say this because he accuses Republicans of the very…

City school board a champion for children

Editor’s Note: Community Comment is a periodic column in The Mount Airy News featuring commentary from community leaders in Mount Airy and Surry County. This…

How you enter heaven is your choice

Please allow me to clarify myself, before there’s any shots fired. As crazy and controversial as this message title sounds, I don’t mean you have…

Input equals output

Have you heard that old saying, “You are what you eat?” There’s some truth in that; since the things you consume are broken down by…

The gifts of God

Here we are in January 2023 already! Just a short while ago we closed the chapter on 2022, right? Well, just like the media likes…