Surry Business

John S. Clark Company, LLC, of Mount Airy has formed a new Building Improvement Division, succeeding and expanding its former Special Projects group. Vice President Bill Sinclair will head the new division located at 11 Brookstown Ave. in downtown Winston-Salem. Sinclair joined the company in 2005. He has 15 years’ experience in commercial construction in […]

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Smith Phillips Building Supply, a Winston-Salem distributor of building materials, is closing its Elkin sales branch, The Business Journal of the Greater Triad reports. The move will cut about five positions, the firm said. Some employees will have the opportunity to transfer to other Smith Phillips Building Supply locations. “Consolidation of the facility has been […]

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Casey A. Vedder has opened White Sulphur Springs Physical Therapy at 2994 Riverside Drive just north of Willis Gap Road outside Mount Airy. The clinic shares the building also occupied by Dr. Robert W. Hower’s White Sulphur Springs Chiropractic Center. Vedder earned a bachelor’s degree at St. Johns University in Collegeville, Minn., and his master’s […]

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Because construction work on the new Surgical Services building is about to begin, Northern Hospital of Surry County has closed its main public, patient, and visitor parking in front of the Martin Memorial Building on Rockford Street in Mount Airy. Motorists will be redirected to the Worth Street parking lot. Signs will be posted. A […]

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“We can change,” the emerging theme for this year’s presidential election, could be the slogan for Mount Airy, judging by comments Tuesday at an economic-development summit meeting. Convened by newly elected city commissioners Dean Brown and Deborah Cochran, the session at the Olympia Family Restaurant attracted a standing-room-only crowd of about 100. Many were business […]

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An “economic summit” where citizens can offer their suggestions for economic development in Mount Airy will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, in the Olympia Restaurant on Riverside Drive at Linville Road. City commissioners Deborah Cochran and Dean Brown set up the meeting. Both campaigned last year on promises to stimulate economic development and […]

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Insteel Industries of Mount Airy will webcast its first-quarter 2008 earnings conference call at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 17. The company will release its first-quarter financial results at 8:30 a.m. that day. The conference call can be accessed on the company’s website where it will be archived for replay.

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Surry County’s unemployment rate fell 0.1 percent in November while employment remained near its high for the year. The North Carolina Employment Security Commission said 33,077 people in the resident workforce had jobs — only 64 fewer than in June when seasonal employment swelled the labor market. There were 2,077 people seeking work and receiving […]

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Claudia Stowers, owner of Surrey Emporium in Mount Airy, is the Downtown Business Association’s new president. She succeeds Twyla Sickmiller, co-owner of the Maxwell House Bed & Breakfast, who steps down to vice president. Brandon Billings was re-elected treasurer. Amy Slate, owner of Scarlet Begonias, and Sickmiller were reelected to the executive board. Joining them […]

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Richard Vaughn of Mount Airy, chairman and CEO of John. S. Clark Company Inc., has received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Old Hickory Council of Boy Scouts of America. The council gives the annual award to an individual from northwest North Carolina who best exemplifies the ideals of Scouting through contributions to the community, […]

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