Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "People from Mount Airy, North Carolina" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Mount Airy / ˈ m aʊ n t ər i / [4] is a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 United States census , the city's population was 10,676. [ 5 ] As of 2020, the city is the most populous municipality in Surry County.
The district encompasses 187 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding industrial and residential sections of Mount Airy. They were primarily built between about 1880 and 1930 and include notable examples of Late Victorian and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture.
Mount Airy: Second set of boundaries represents a boundary increase of August 28, 2012; third set represent a boundary decrease of April 9, 2021; fourth set represent a boundary increase of April 27, 2021. 21: North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex: North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex: August 6, 1980
In addition to music, WPAQ offered local news, community announcements and obituaries. Live broadcasts aired on weekends, with performers waiting as long as six months to go on the air. [5] Paul Brown, who later became program director of WFDD, worked at WPAQ in the 1980s. He described his experience as "like walking into another era."
Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their late father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the ever-elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after allegedly finding his parachute hidden in their home, according to a new ...
Surry County is home to three local newspapers, The Mount Airy News of Mount Airy, The Pilot in Pilot Mountain and The Tribune of Elkin. Additionally, the larger daily Winston-Salem Journal covers news and events in the county. One local newspaper, The Messenger in Mount Airy, ceased operation in approximately 2011.
The Mount Airy News and The Tribune have the same corporate parent. In June 2007, both The Mount Airy News and The Tribune were part of a sale from Mid-South Management Co., Inc. to Heartland Publications, LLC of Connecticut. [4] Mount Airy had two newspapers until around 1980, when the weekly Mount Airy Times was bought by the News.