By David Broyles dbroyles@thecarrollnews.com
Organizers of the annual Hillsville VFW Post 1115 Flea Market and Gun Show are looking for a good turnout as the market returns this year following relaxation of Governor Ralph Northam’s Executive Order enacted during the pandemic. In spite of long-term participant Bowman’s Field not re-opening, the event is still moving forward and has not been cancelled.
David Broyles | The Carroll News
While Mount Airy is home to a few of its own big-draw events Mayberry Days and the Autumn Leaves Festival top the list just north of the city, in Virginia, what might be the world’s largest flea market takes place every Labor Day weekend.
July 22, 2021
• A Mount Airy man has been jailed under a $100,000 secured bond on second-degree forcible rape and assault charges filed in Surry County, according to city police reports.
In addition to the felony rape charge, Michael Ray Simmons, 63, of 208 Mayberry Ave., is accused of assault/battery on an individual with a disability, which is a misdemeanor.
Simmons was served with warrants on those cases by city officers at his home on July 13, with no other details listed in police records regarding the charges and further information unavailable Thursday from the Surry County Sheriff’s Office. Simmons is scheduled to appear in Surry District Court on Aug. 11.
April 18, 2021
DOBSON ― Alicia Fallaw, second grade teacher at Flat Rock Elementary School, recently was named the 2021-2022 Surry County Schools Teacher of the Year. This announcement came as a surprise to Fallaw as she was named during a previously scheduled faculty meeting.
Her husband, Chris Fallaw, their three children, Anderson, Christopher, and Westin, as well as her parents, Jimmy and Jane McMillian, were in on the surprise along with the Flat Rock Elementary faculty and staff, Surry County Board of Education members, Superintendent Dr. Travis L. Reeves, and other district administrators.
Fallaw has taught since 2003 and is an 18-year veteran of the Surry County School System. She began her career teaching second grade at Dobson Elementary before transitioning to Flat Rock Elementary in 2010. She taught third grade at Flat Rock for two years before returning to second grade where she has remained since 2012.
April 16, 2021
One of the big guns at CBS News could be heading to Mount Airy soon for a special report by the television network on this city’s Mayberry connection and its identification with recent national events.
This concerns a project involving longtime correspondent Ted Koppel which has been in the works for months.
It is targeted for “CBS News Sunday Morning,” a news magazine program on the air for more than 40 years.
Dustin Stephens, a producer for that show, said in January that its focus on “Mayberry” is part of the TV network’s ongoing coverage of a unique period for the nation.
The complete article can be found at AlabamaNewsCenter.com.
By Jeremy Henderson
Alabama Living
All of a sudden, Allan Newsome’s wife, Jan, will point at him: “There – you’re doing it right now!”
He doesn’t hear it. In his mind, when he gets back from a Mayberry Days event and it’s time to hang up the coat and put away the scissors, that’s it. He’s back to being regular old Allan Newsome, a 54-year-old Huntsville man with a mustache that he’s had since high school, an information technology guy at Redstone Arsenal who happens to run a couple of personal websites on the side, not a barbershop.