One of the social events of the year will be taking place soon, and in 2020 the event will feature a band that has a…
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This region is criss-crossed with dozens of streams that empty into the Yadkin River which forms our southern border. More than 215 miles long, it…
Officials with the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce hope 2020 will be a big year. It will have to be to top the organization’s…
It was Groundhog Day 1948. Folks in and around Mount Airy and through the Hollows, across the river and up the mountain were all gathered…
Redevelopment efforts at the former Spencer’s industrial property in downtown Mount Airy usually wind up being costly propositions for the city government now owning it…
This month is the beginning of Surry County’s 250th birthday. Sort of. There are few written records that remain from this area during Colonial Days…
Bringing more transparency to city government operations was a major issue during the 2019 municipal election, and now new members of the Mount Airy Board…
A few days before Wednesday’s “Mayberry Man” Kickstarter fundraising campaign launch, Producer Cort Howell joked if the project were to raise $1 million, “We’d be…
It may be unseasonably warm outside right now, but one local merchant is hoping people remember it is winter, it will be cold again, and…
In the 1880s former slaves started buying land in the Slate Mountain and Chestnut Ridge section of Surry County. They were farmers who worked together…