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- Civic Club names Citizen of the Year - 5:09 am
- Pilot Mountain Police Reports - 8:28 pm
- Still time to be part of Sweet Repeats - 4:58 pm
- Jones named Ruritan of Year - 4:08 pm
- View Story - 12:30 pm
- Local Scouts gather food for Outreach Center - 11:36 am
- Jazz artist launching solo series in Pilot - 12:10 pm
- Pilot Mountain Police Reports - 6:47 am
- Board moves forward with water, streetscape - 5:14 am
- 50 years later, officers remembered - 4:45 pm
- Pilot Mountain Police Reports - 3:47 pm
- Walk to remember slain officers - 12:03 pm
- Pilot board rezones property - 9:17 pm
- Body found in Fancy Gap, murder charge issued - 11:54 am
- Mom, daughter honored for work - 11:43 am
- Pilot Mountain Police Reports - 3:47 am
- Pilot board appoints commissioner - 6:29 pm
- Holiday House Tour kicks off tomorrow - 7:18 am
- Pilot swears in new mayor, commissioners - 12:46 pm
- Singer brings anti-bullying message to Pilot - 12:30 pm
- Four Granite Bears fill HOSA seats - 11:39 am
- Deck the halls in Pilot Mountain Saturday - 10:18 am
- Geology class tours granite quarry, Pilot Mountain - 2:15 pm updated: 5:04 pm.
- Rethink Rockford Street plan? - 8:16 am
- HOSA club has busy month - 3:01 pm
NEWS

50 years later, officers remembered
A group of family members, town officials and local residents assembled in the parking lot of Tlaquepaque Restaurant on Old U.S. 52 Bypass in Pilot Mo...

Pilot Mountain Police Reports
The following reports were filed by the Pilot Mountain Police Department in recent weeks:• An incident/investigation report dated Jan. 22 covers...

Walk to remember slain officers
PILOT MOUNTAIN — Area residents are invited to join in the annual memorial walk to honor the memory of fallen Pilot Mountain police officers Gle...

Pilot board rezones property
At the Jan. 14 meeting of Pilot Mountain’s town board, the commissioners approved a request for a zoning change after a public hearing and a gre...

Body found in Fancy Gap, murder charge issued
A body believed to be that of a Stokes County man missing since last week was found in Fancy Gap, Virginia, late Wednesday night and a Winston-Salem m...

Mom, daughter honored for work
A local mother and daughter were honored recently by the Narcolepsy Network for their efforts to increase public awareness of narcolepsy and for co-fo...
SPORTS

East Surry names new fieldhouse for Coach Downs
PILOT MOUNTAIN — Long-time coach Barry Hall started out as an assistant to Downs, only to have Downs reverse the tables a bit when he told Hall ...

East turns the tables
RONDA — Some things are so nice they need to happen twice.The East Surry Cardinals and the East Wilkes Cardinals first met this season in week 1...

Three SCC spikers honored for ‘17 performance
DOBSON — Moving back to her natural position of outside hitter paid huge dividends in 2017 for Anika Thomas and Surry Community College’s ...

Cards pull it out with 33 seconds left
PILOT MOUNTAIN — East Surry sent Starmount packing for the second time this season with a 21-14 victory over the Rams in the first round of the ...

East Surry wins JROTC Raider Challenge
The East Surry Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program seemed to enjoy being at home Saturday as it took on a large and impressi...

Silver Cardinals
BURLINGTON — About 15 minutes after their season came to an end on a damp Saturday evening, one could notice many of the East Surry tennis playe...
LIFE
Westfield News
Saturday is Groundhog Day! An early spring time would be nice.The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club was founded in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in 1887 by a ...
Library plans holiday story walk
The Charles H. Stone Memorial Library will be putting a twist on a favorite activity this week as it introduces a holiday version of Story Walk.The li...
Westfield News
Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. At that time you should set your clocks and watches back to 1 a.m., if they don’t do i...
Westfield News
October is Fire Prevention Month.Paul Portch was recently honored with the Tom Downing Fellow Award in appreciation of his unselfish personal efforts ...
Westfield News
Tracey, Hanna, Sara and Matt Coker from Richmond Hill, Georgia, spent several days with Janice and Sammy Lawson this past week. Janice and Sammy are T...
OPINION
Writer has had enough with city leaders
To the Editor,After retiring from the Air Force and Postal Service I just wanted to settle down and enjoy my retirement years with no responsibilities...

The internet is indeed a world wide web
Have you noticed your inbox being flooded with permission requests from just about everybody that has your email address? From the internet giants to ...

Who is America’s greatest living novelist?
Is it too soon to ask who is now America’s greatest living novelist? Philip Roth has been dead since Tuesday, and I’m a little curious as ...

Celebrities are just like us, they die
It is really annoying the way celebrities whom one has never met are constantly dropping dead and inflicting unwanted reminders of mortality on all of...

A ‘peony’ by any other name
A most delightful aroma was wafting out of my colleague Kim Cagle’s office on Thursday as I walked by. I looked inside, and she had a glorious b...
Reader stunned by city action
To the Editor,I was astounded to read the story about the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners refusing the rezoning request for the Shepherd’s Hou...