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KING — Swim coach Vavina Lapham is working on a dream.

By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com Stokes County native Caleb Caudle will play an outdoor concert in the parking lot behind The Arts Place on Saturday. Zack and Kendra Harding, performing as the Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs, will open the Saturday show. Caleb Caudle’s latest album, called ‘Crushed Coins,’ came out in February. DANBURY — Caleb Caudle says there’s no place he’d rather be on Saturday night than in his native Stokes County playing music. “I grew up i...

From Staff Reports The Stokes County Arts Council is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Stokes County Arts Council Scholarships. Graduating high school seniors, as well as students currently in college pursuing a major in an Art-related field, were eligible to apply. Each year, members of the scholarship committee include Arts Council Board Members as well as members of the community. “The Stokes County Arts Council has been providing quality arts entertainment and programs since...

From Staff Reports DANBURY — A new event will kick off this Saturday, when the first Arts Block Street Market happens from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be vendors on the sidewalk in the 500 block of Main Street, across from the Old Courthouse and in front of The Arts Place, Rocky’s Coffee & Ice Cream and Artist’s Way Creations. The market will happen again on the second and fourth Saturday of the month: on April 24, May 8 and May 22. The events are scheduled rain or shine. “The Stokes ...

By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com If you were watching Sunday’s Super Bowl on the local CBS affiliate and stuck it out to the end of the game, you might have been surprised to see a commercial about Stokes County. “Stokes County State of Mind” was not a nationwide, multi-million dollar ad buy, but a regional commercial purchased with WFMY-TV that was mostly paid for with grant funding. It was the work of County Tourism Director Tory Mabe and a host of others. Back in the...

Unauthorized reproduction of this video is prohibited by law. " Another Christmas Eve, as I look out my bedroom window, and wonder where the kids could be, it seems so long ago," he sings in the opening verse of the melancholic, three-hanky folk song.  This song has special resonance for McGee this year. For the first time in his life, he wont get to see his mother, Martha, on Christmas. She became a resident at Priddy Manor in King a few weeks before the spread of COVID-19 forced assisted l...