Surry Business

Outdoors enthuasists with their sights set on paintball combat seek out The Meadow Paintball at 134 Marvin Edwards Lane in State Road, reports Jeremy Moorhouse in the Elkin Tribune. Now in its fourth year of operation under owners Junior and Joyce Andrews, The Meadow Paintball has become a hot spot for paintball enthusiasts from nearby […]

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Will the Mayberry/Mount Airy connection or the Yadkin Valley vineyards and wineries attract more tourists to Surry County? Don’t overlook the powerful attraction of scenery, including the county’s four rivers and many streams; Pilot Mountain State Park and Fisher River Park and local parks; old farms and modern vineyards; Raven Knob Scout Camp and other […]

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Jane and Michael Stern, the nationally known authors of “Roadfood,” the best-selling guide to America’s top-notch diners, hot dog stands, ice-cream parlors, and uniquely regional restaurants, rank the Snappy Lunch pork chop sandwich among their 100 favorites in a new book, “Roadfood Sandwiches: Recipes and Lore from Our Favorite Shops Coast to Coast.” The book […]

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The Mount Airy Visitors Center at the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce, 202 N. Main St., now is open on Saturdays and Sundays. Tourism Director Jessica Icenhour told The Mount Airy News the visitor center assists about 1,400 people Monday through Friday when the office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. “I […]

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As many peach lovers feared, and growers already knew, North Carolina’s peach trees couldn’t recover from the impact of last spring’s Easter weekend freeze. North Carolina peach production will be in the pits for 2007. (It was too hard to resist the pun, but this really is no laughing matter.) The National Agricultural Statistics Service […]

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Brothers Ed and Charlie Shelton have opened the new Hampton Inn along I-77 at Dobson, but that’s only the start of their Shelton Village development near Shelton Vineyards. Click here for aerial views (PDF document; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) of the site.

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Horne Creek Farm finally will get a visitors center. The state budget signed today by the governor includes a $442,000 appropriation for the project. One of Surry County’s most often overlooked tourist attractions — and when did _you_ last visit it? — Horne Creek Farm is a working farm operated by the N.C. Department of […]

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