As North Carolina and beyond continues to grapple with a deadly pandemic, one local family is spreading the word of the serious nature of how…
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‘Don’t punish the healthy,’ state official urges
By The Citizen on August 9, 2020
North Carolina continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed 2,160 people at last report, and a top official in Raleigh is keenly…
At last — celebrating graduation
By The Citizen on August 7, 2020
More than 100 members of the Mount Airy High School Class of 2020 finally got a chance to celebrate graduation — though it was far…
At last — celebrating graduation
By The Citizen on August 7, 2020
More than 100 members of the Mount Airy High School Class of 2020 finally got a chance to celebrate graduation — though it was far…
Artists, friends joint to open market
By The Citizen on August 5, 2020
A Pilot Mountain potter and businesswoman is using her creativity and passion for the arts to bring together an assemblage of talented area artists and…
Artists, friends join to open market
By The Citizen on August 5, 2020
A Pilot Mountain potter and businesswoman is using her creativity and passion for the arts to bring together an assemblage of talented area artists and…
Re-energized Spencer’s plan mulls targets
By The Citizen on August 5, 2020
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 being “a strange year,” Mount Airy officials are launching an initiative for redevelopment efforts on the former Spencer’s textile…
Movies, popcorn, and memories
By The Citizen on August 3, 2020
Drive-in theaters are as American as the proverbial baseball and apple pie. Many Americans of a certain age, like me, have wonderful memories of loading…
Water cutoffs face hundreds of city residents
By The Citizen on August 2, 2020
A day of reckoning is looming for delinquent water-sewer customers in Mount Airy due to the expiration last Wednesday of an executive mandate prohibiting cutoffs…
County fair canceled by corona
By The Citizen on July 31, 2020
No Ferris wheel, cotton candy, games, livestock shows or other attractions of a county fair are in store this year in Mount Airy as part…