Some King residents expressed disbelief Thursday about what they say is the King City Council's secretive move to possibly have the Stokes County Sheriff's Office provide police service in the city — and effectively disband the King Police Department.
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When some of the top country and bluegrass musicians in the country needed emergency repairs made to their instruments, they paid a visit to Joe "Snuffy" Smith's workshop in King in the shadow of the Sauratown Mountains.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina will begin two programs that deliver food to hungry families in more personal ways, including the expansion of a pilot program that delivers 65 pounds of food, per person, at drive-by distribution points such as high schools.
CenterPoint Human Services has started hiring an additional 89 employees in a pivotal workforce expansion as it transitions to a new status overseeing behavioral health services.
Students at South Stokes High School in Walnut Cove will be getting out of school at noon today because of a nearby water main break, school officials said today.
It was hard not to notice that something extraordinary was about to happen in first-appearances court.
A firm owned by a member of the board that oversees the state's Golden LEAF Foundation has received more than $129,000 so far for two projects funded largely by the foundation for work in Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin counties, according to local and foundation records.
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Board members of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation complained Wednesday that they are not getting enough information about a federal audit of the agency's finances and what's being done to fix the problems raised in the audit.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration issued a ruling Friday that increases certain protections for poultry and hog farmers.
After more than two years of renovations, Habitat Humanity of Stokes County is moving into its new office at 117 Dalton Road in downtown King.
A Lawsonville native's design idea has resulted in a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for N.C. State University's environmental engineering department.
Colleagues and friends of former Stokes County Sheriff Mike Joyce, who died Thursday after battling cancer for nearly two years, remembered him as an effective and popular sheriff. He was 63.
A man and a woman are in the Stokes County jail after authorities charged them in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
Ryan Howard can be forgiven for racking up some fairly pedestrian bowling scores last Saturday afternoon at Northside Lanes.
Stephen James has officially withdrawn from the King City Council race and is now running as a write-in candidate in the mayoral race, said Jason Perry, the director of the Stokes County Board of Elections.
The snow that fell in the North Carolina mountains last weekend was the earliest measurable snowfall ever recorded in North Carolina, and less frosty precipitation — rain — in Forsyth County has moved it out of abnormally dry conditions.
Alan Wood wants to put a bug in the ear of Stokes County consumers who drive into Winston-Salem or Stuart, Va., for hardware, groceries and other goods and services.
Walnut Cove commissioners are sorting through résumés in hopes of hiring an interim manager by early October.
A Walnut Cove man with a history of domestic violence is accused of fatally shooting his possibly pregnant wife Saturday while the victim's 11-year-old son was in the house, Stokes County Sheriff Mike Marshall said.
The growing popularity of tubing along the Dan River has brought more tourists to Stokes County.
The combination of more visitors to Forsyth County and higher fuel and food costs contributed to a 9.2 percent jump in spending last year to $622.9 million.
Below is Part 2 of a three-part series listing who has filed for municipal races in northwest North Carolina. Today's listing is for Davie, Stokes and Surry counties. For more filings listings, go to JournalNow.com.
PINNACLE -- Emergency workers plan to resume searching Tuesday for the body of a King man believed to have drowned when his kayak overturned on a private lake in southern Stokes County, authorities said.
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