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There’s a buzz in the air among car enthusiasts in and around Pilot Mountain this week as the word got out that the Hot Nights and Hot Cars summer cruise-in series will finally be making its return to the downtown area. All 2020 series events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic along with the first two cruise-ins of the current season. On July 3, however, the series will celebrate the Independence Day weekend by coming back to life with a full slate of traditionally favorite activities from past events, including live music. According to Jerry Venable, chairman of the sponsoring Mou...

By Dean Palmer Special to the News Local resident Josie Grogan has been the inspiration and a driving force behind the creation of this bottle cap mural, now on display adjacent to the Town of Pilot Mountain parking lot. Volunteers representing the entire downtown Pilot Mountain community have joined together to bring the mural’s concept to reality. (Dean Palmer | Special to the News) Community volunteers have played an active role throughout the mural’s creative process, collecting and sorting caps, submitting design ideas, preparing and attaching bottle caps to the mural’s base and d...

April 16, 2021 One of the big guns at CBS News could be heading to Mount Airy soon for a special report by the television network on this city’s Mayberry connection and its identification with recent national events. This concerns a project involving longtime correspondent Ted Koppel which has been in the works for months. It is targeted for “CBS News Sunday Morning,” a news magazine program on the air for more than 40 years. Dustin Stephens, a producer for that show, said in January that its focus on “Mayberry” is part of the TV network’s ongoing coverage of a unique period for t...