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PART to begin Stokes/Rural Hall service on Monday
The Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation will begin offering express service in Stokes County and Rural Hall on Monday.
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Fire & Police Briefs: Man charged with hurting 2-year-old
A Winston-Salem man was charged with felony child abuse after a child was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
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King hires police chief
A graduate of Appalachian State University who was once featured on a Discovery Channel show about detectives has been named the new police chief of King.
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Car crash kills Stokes teen
A junior at North Stokes High School was killed Friday morning when the car she was driving collided with a pickup truck on N.C. 89, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.
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Baptist: State's decision right one
The heated rivalry between Novant Health Inc. and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has intensified again in the Triad, this time in Stokes County.
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Regional Briefs: United Way drive sets goal of $18.4M
The United Way of Forsyth County has begun its 2008 campaign with a goal of $18.4 million. That is a slight increase over last year's goal of $18.3 million.
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24-hour mobile unit to assist three-county area on mental-health issues
A 24-hour mobile-crisis unit has been established to provide behavioral-health assistance to residents in Davie, Forsyth and Stokes counties, Forsyth Medical Center said today.
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Fire & Police Briefs: Tractor turns over, killing Stokes man
A Stokes County man was killed Wednesday when the tractor he was driving tipped over and fell on him, Stokes County authorities said yesterday.
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Man dies when tractor falls on him
A Stokes County man died yesterday after the tractor he was driving tipped over and fell on him, Stokes County authorities said today.
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King man faces murder charge in death of infant
Nicholas Garrett Parsons, 22, of King has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his one-month-old child.
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Lawson Family: Display centers on Stokes tragedy in 1929, when Charlie Lawson took a gun and killed his kin
When Shirry Madison was growing up, her father told her that one of the family's shotguns once belonged to Charlie Lawson, the Stokes County man who, on Christmas Day 1929, killed his wife and six of their seven children before committing suicide. After the killings, relatives of Lawson's opened the house to tourists, charging 25 cents to come through.
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Food and Family
Janelle Kent is most definitely an educator, but she doesn't teach in a school. In Kent's 30 years as a nutritionist and now as an extension agent, she has helped teach people how to eat better, cook more safely -- and ultimately live better lives.
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King man arrested after police chase in Atlanta
A King, N.C. man has been was arrested after leading police on a chase through several Atlanta and DeKalb County neighborhoods.
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Stokes Home Health takeover vetoed
Stokes County commissioners voted unanimously Monday night not to sell Stokes Home Health to a private company.
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Regional Briefs: Hospital gets OK to expand ER, add rooms
The N.C. Health and Human Services Department has approved a certificate-of-need application for Wilkes Regional Medical Center's plans to expand and upgrade its emergency department and add 11 observation beds as part of a $21.5 million project.
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Groups need better oversight, state says
Nearly a quarter of the 17 members on a Juvenile Crime Prevention Council in Stokes County that subsidizes local programs and services aimed at reducing youth crime are also involved in programs that get money from the council.
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Stokes board rejects proposed sale of home health agency
Stokes County commissioners voted unanimously last night not to sell Stokes Home Health to a private company.
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Stokes to look at plan
From a fiscal point of view, selling Stokes Home Health to a private company could make sense.
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Common Bonds
Samantha Coggin and the new friends that she made at YMCA Camp Hanes last week have something special in common -- they all have a parent in the U.S. Army Reserve.
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Program to save pastureland helps farmers stay in business
Wilkes County farmer Claude Shew Jr., who bought his farm with his dad in 1978, has never seen a drought like the one the state is in now.
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Stokes board approves budget with increase, but same tax rate
The Stokes Board of Commissioners approved a $42 million budget this week for fiscal 2008-09 that keeps the tax rate unchanged.
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Man who went missing at Hanging Rock State Park was from Winston-Salem
Man who went missing at Hanging Rock State Park is identified
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Severe thunder storm watch in effect for northwestern N.C.
A severe thunder storm watch is in effect for Forsyth, Davidson, Davie, Stokes, Surry, Alleghany, Wilkes, and Yadkin counties until 8 p.m.
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Names of two victims released in animal-related crash on U.S. 52
The N.C. Highway Patrol this morning released the names of people killed after they separately struck a cow that had wandered onto U.S. 52.
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Grape Recovery: Northwest N.C. vineyards hope this season will make up for losses from '07 freeze
North Carolina's vineyards, many of them in the Yadkin Valley, expect a full growing season a year after the Easter freeze of 2007 destroyed 50 percent of the crop. But the effects of the freeze on the vines could be lasting, agriculture officials say.
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