Surry Business

All four schools in the Mount Airy City Schools system showed adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward meeting the federal No Child Left Behind Act goals in 2006-07. Eleven of the 16 schools in the Surry County Schools system also showed adequate yearly progress and two of the three Elkin City schools achieved AYP, according to […]

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From Dennis Lowe, Surry Community College Small Business Center Remember the bumper sticker “Keep On Truckin’?” Surry County residents Brady and Helen Jones epitomize that phrase. You can see it in their Surry County startup company, Crescent Manufacturing Inc. Brady Jones has long been affiliated with the trucking industry. His introduction came in 1963 when […]

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FCA/South Street LLC, a limited-liability corporation organized in March 2007, has purchased a former Kentucky Derby Hosiery (KDH) property in the 300 block of South South Street, reportedly for $725,000, and is offering it for lease. The 36,500-square-foot Plant 6 Administrative Office sits on a 3.22-acre lot fronting on South Street. An adjacent 71,000-square-foot Plant […]

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The Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce’s new Business Development Committee will steer prospective business owners toward programs, organizations and other resources that can help them start and develop a company. Dr. George Sappenfield, the new committee’s chairman and the chamber’s vice-chair for business development, said the chamber started the committee because many chamber members […]

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Beary Country Gifts & Collectibles, 128 Old Beary Trail (off N.C. 89 west of Mount Airy), will host artist and author Kathryn Andrews Fincher from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. Fincher paints inspirational pictures of children, landscapes and still-life scenes. Her work appears in books, calendars, sculptures, greeting cards, inspirational giftware, journals, […]

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B-52’s Bar & Grill at 972 N. Andy Griffith Parkway (U.S. 52 just north of Starlite Road) will begin its grand-opening celebration with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. Other events will start at noon. Sisters & Company will perform. B-52’s telephone number is (336) 719-2411.

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TopRetirements.com, “where active people 55-plus can find the best place to retire,” ranks Mount Airy among the nation’s 180 best communities for active retirees. Asheville (No. 1) and Winston-Salem (No. 10) top the list. Among all states, only North Carolina and Arizona have two Top 10 communities; North Carolina alone has 13 on the 180-city […]

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Outdoors enthuasists with their sights set on paintball combat seek out The Meadow Paintball at 134 Marvin Edwards Lane in State Road, reports Jeremy Moorhouse in the Elkin Tribune. Now in its fourth year of operation under owners Junior and Joyce Andrews, The Meadow Paintball has become a hot spot for paintball enthusiasts from nearby […]

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Surry County’s high schools in 2006 reported the fifth-highest graduation rate in North Carolina, according to new data from the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center and the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. NCDPI defines “graduation rate” as “the percent of students graduating from high school four years after entering 9th grade.” Surry County has […]

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The Crumb Stash, a bakery near Shelton Vineyards off Snow Hill Church Circle southwest of Dobson, not only produces all-natural products, it does so with recipes that have stayed the same since the 1800s. “We use no preservatives, no chemicals. We use raw sugar. I have health problems, as a lot of people do, and […]

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