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If there is such a place as Canine Heaven, Brownie appeared to be there.
The Beagle-Chihuahua mix from Claudville, Virginia, scampered happily around a large fenced-in area at the Rotary Pup Dog Park in Mount Airy Wednesday afternoon. At times, Brownie was proving to be more than a handful for the person at the end of its leash, Andrew Hill, 11, to restrain.
After all, the spacious grounds along the Emily B. Taylor Greenway behind the Lowes Foods shopping center were offering not only room to run, but small agility stations featuring hurdles, bridges and other obstacle course-implements appealing to canines’ playful side.
• A $500 handgun has been reported stolen in Mount Airy, according to city police reports.
The crime was discovered Sunday at the home of Michael Gerald Kightlinger on South Gilmer Street, where the Glock 9mm weapon with night sights was removed from his unsecured Ford pickup along with other property of Kightlinger’s including a Streamlight tactical pistol light and 15 rounds of 9mm hollow-point ammunition. The items taken were valued at $635 altogether.
• Jennifer Nichole Sawyers, 42, of 1208 Newsome St., was served with a criminal summons for a larceny charge Sunday after officers encountered her during a civil disturbance call at a residence on Northwood Drive. The summons had been issued through the Surry County Sheriff’s Office on March 12 with Robert Shane Webb of Northwood Drive as the complainant.