Mrs Cox Elected Mount Airy Library Board Chair
Mrs Mary Madman Cox was named chairman of the Mount Airy Public Library board by the nine member panel. Jackie Cumby was chosen as vice chair and Mary Alice Lewis as secretary treasurer. Mayor Beamer announced plans for interior and exterior repairs, grounds work, and demolition of an unused bath house behind the library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Madman Cox
The
Mount Airy
Town Board of Commissioners
Lotts
Cox
Library Board
Jackie Cumby
Mary Alice Lewis
Maynard Beamer
Beamer
Housing Improvement Toast Community Seeks $1 Million HUD Grant
Sandy Level Community Council pursues a HUD grant up to 1 million dollars to rehab 200 to 300 homes in Toast over two years. Nor thwest Economic Development Inc leads the application and a summer survey will define needs before a fall pre application to HUD. Work targets include housing upgrades water and sewer lines and demolition.
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Sandy Level
Pat Ashworth
Northwest Econome Development
Iketcies Inc
Margie Yar
Department of Howing and Urban Development
Northwest Commission
Yadkin Valley
Patton
Ashworth
Surry County works to start kindergarten without teachers
County schools expect full kindergarten enrollment this fall aided by a new middle school. Sam Gentry warns some mobile classrooms may be used until teacher slots are funded, with registrations still rolling in and uncertainty about final class sizes after school begins.
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Surry County
Sam Gentry
County Schools
Ventry
Gentry
Dobson Elementary
Pilot Mountain
White Plains
Huffman Named New Associate Superintendent in Surry County
A White Plains native, Gilbert T Huffman, principal of Westfield Elementary, is chosen by the Surry County Board of Education as associate superintendent to start July 1. He succeeds Katie Graham, who becomes superintendent. Huffman has a long career in local schools and holds degrees from UNC Chapel Hill, with additional study at Wake Forest and Appalachian State.
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White Plains
Surry County
Hoss
Gilbert T Huffman
Westfield
Katies
Graham
J Sam Gentry
Huffman
Surry County Board of Education
Flat Rock
Norman
Philo Junior High
Forsyth
White Plains High School
University of North Carolina At
Chapel Hil
Wake Forest
Appalachiantate University
Surry County Officials Weigh Deputies Pay Raise Request
Deputies and Surry County commissioners failed to resolve a 15 percent across the board raise amid broader pay hike plans and new uniform and equipment demands. Deputies led by Set Floyd Gwyn pressed for equipment upgrades, while county officials offered a smaller increase and possible budget cuts to fund other needs. A Monday meeting was set to continue talks as trustees consider staffing and magistrate delays and school funding tensions surface in the budget debate.
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Surry County
Sheriffs Department
Meve McKeaver McKeaver
Floyd Gwyn
Gwyn
Butner
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Mrs. Cox
Mrs. Con
Jim Miller
Southern Railway
Pinnacle
Jones
Toast Community
Area
Howsing
Ma Ashworth
Ziglar
Board
Seatie Pacific College
Winston Salem Forsyth Schools
Pio
Surry Counts
North Carolina Association
Huffman i
Melvina Tifton
Mount Air
Robert
Bikin
Meads
Flicin
Elkan
Friends of the Library
Old Elkin
Hugh Chatham
Stuart Matthews U
John T Matthews
North Carolina
NC Agriculture
James Graham
Haywood Merritt
Sheriff's Department
McKeaver
Mra
Camille Cook
Harry Folger
Folger
Schoo
Merritt
Cook
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