Mount Airy officials want to buy some property — apparently so much that they opted to hold a special called meeting on Tuesday night to discuss the matter.
May 25, 2021
An old saying goes, “if you want to get something done, ask a busy person to do it” which applies to a local tourism official who also is becoming president of the Blue Ridge Parkway Association.
Jessica Roberts already wears multiple hats, including serving as executive director of the Mount Airy Tourism Development Authority and the Tourism Partnership of Surry County.
Along with spearheading local tourism efforts for the past 17 years, Roberts continues to chair the Piedmont Triad Film Commission based in Winston-Salem, which seeks to lure movie and television productions to Surry and other communities in the region. She has held that position since 2018.
May 05, 2021
For the second straight year, the COVID-19 pandemic will keep area residents from gathering in public to mark the National Day of Prayer on Thursday.
That doesn’t mean local clergy won’t be leading an observance.
The Mount Airy Ministerial Association will be holding a National Day of Prayer service at 12:30 p.m., with the event carried live on WPAQ, at 740 AM and 106.7 FM on the radio dial.
“The theme this year will come from II Corinthians, chapter three, verse 17,” said DM Dalton, president of the ministerial association. That verse reads “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”