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WorkForce Carolina promotes two

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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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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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