Surry County-based staffing service Workforce Carolina has promoted Kendra Garaventa to vice president of sales and marketing and Traci Hamilton to director of operations. Garaventa also will be responsible for the company’s new business development and customer retention. She is a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate who joined WorkForce Carolina three years ago. Hamilton […]
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WorkForce Carolina promotes two
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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Torres family builds multi-million-dollar business
November 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Alicia and Gabriel Torres came from Mexico to Mount Airy, N.C., in 1986 with little money, but a lot of determination to work hard and earn a better life in the United States. Twenty-one years later, they’ve built a multi-million-dollar business, Eagle Carports Inc., that recently paid $700,000 for the 132,000-square-foot former apparel plant where […]
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Fond remembrance of Mount Airy music store
October 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Surry County native Ralph Berrier, now a reporter for The Roanoke Times, writes fondly about buying 45-rpm records in Marty’s Record Shop at Mount Airy’s Mayberry Mall. You can read his column here.
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Sheltons will be inducted by N.C. Business Hall of Fame
October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
Surry County natives Charlie and Ed Shelton will be inducted into the N.C. Business Hall of Fame on Nov. 15 in Charlotte. The hall of fame recognizes men and women who have made a significant contribution to North Carolina’s economic development. The Shelton brothers grew up in Mount Airy, N.C., across the street from the […]
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New ‘Joe Gardener’ book coming in February
October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
In February 2008, just in time for gardeners planning their spring plantings, Cool Springs Press will publish “The Green Garden Book: Hundreds of Tips for Creating an Eco-Friendly Garden” by Joe Lamp’l of Mount Airy, better known to thousands of newspaper readers and television viewers as “Joe Gardener.” Lamp’l is a Master Gardener, Certified Landscape […]
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Livin’ the good life in Pilot Mountain
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Jonathan Keener left behind a sales job with a six-figure income when he and his wife, Sharon, and their six children sought a safer environment than a suburb outside New York City. They moved to Surry County, bought a five-bedroom house on 21 acres of green pastures and opened the Livin’ Lattes Cafe on Main […]
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‘Southern hospitality’ attracts actress to Surry County
September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Actress Betty Lynn, best known for portraying Barney Fife’s girlfriend Thelma Lou in “The Andy Griffith Show,” left Los Angeles and moved to Mount Airy earlier this year. “It wasn’t so much that Thelma Lou was looking for Mayberry, that mythical place implanted in the minds of millions of Americans who watched the original showings […]
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Mountaineers triumph over Michigan
September 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Congratulations to Coad Westra of State Road and the rest of the Appalachian State University Mountaineers who defeated University of Michigan’s football team on Saturday. Westra, a 5-foot-11, 200-pound freshman linebacker, graduated from Elkin High School.
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