This area’s latest bout with Old Man Winter — Winter Storm Viola to be exact — prompted the declaring of a state of emergency in…
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A brief history of Valentines Day
By The Citizen on February 15, 2021
February, the month of love; be it the love of early spring or continued winter with the prediction made on Groundhog Day, or the quintessential…
Downtown Mount Airy stoplight issue has some seeing red
By The Citizen on February 12, 2021
In a high-tech world boasting such wonders as self-driving vehicles and robot vacuum cleaners, one might consider the synchronization of traffic lights to be an…
Surry Medical Ministries awarded $40,000 grant
By The Citizen on February 12, 2021
Most health-related news these days is bad — courtesy of COVID-19 — but a rare positive development has occurred with a $40,000 grant being awarded…
Public support shown for hotel, funding
By The Citizen on February 7, 2021
There is strong support among citizens for a hotel in downtown Mount Airy — and using a hefty sum of city funds to help bring…
Local businesses retool for COVID
By The Citizen on February 3, 2021
One bright spot surrounding COVID-19 has been the ways the local business community has restructured operations to meet needs prompted by the pandemic, something that…
Taliaferro family offers rich trove of history
By The Citizen on February 1, 2021
On NC 89 at the intersection of Pine Ridge Road stands a solitary highway marker often overlooked as cars pass by. The name inscribed on…
‘Enjoyed every minute’
By The Citizen on January 31, 2021
In 1972, a 14-year-old Mount Airy High School student named Pat Johnston needed to raise some money for a class trip to Washington, D.C., so…
City eyeing loan for fire, garbage trucks
By The Citizen on January 29, 2021
Mount Airy officials put the wheels in motion Thursday afternoon for the purchase of major capital items including new fire and garbage trucks at a…
City eyeing loan for fire, garbage trucks
By The Citizen on January 29, 2021
Mount Airy officials put the wheels in motion Thursday afternoon for the purchase of major capital items including new fire and garbage trucks at a…