Stokesdale News

Guilford County Board of Elections has released the names from its write-ins from the November 3 elections.

Entries in Autumn Arts 2009, the 34th annual juried art show sponsored by Vance-Granville Community College and the Kerr Lake Art Society, have been judged and are on display at Vance-Granville. The public is invited to view the artwork, which is on display on the second floor of Building 7 on the college's main campus in Vance County through Nov.

Bill Knight, who ran on a fiscal conservatism message, won the city's close mayoral race Tuesday, edging out incumbent Yvonne Johnson 51.3 percent to 48.6 percent.

Miranda Lee Ellis of Dover and Jeremy Ross Barton of Greensboro were united in marriage at 5:30 p.m. Sept.

A model displays a design by Guillermina Baeza during the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show in Madrid.

Detectives in California arrested a woman wanted in the Triad for fraud. Rockingham County Sheriff's Office issued an arrest warrant for Christine Black for defrauding Sharon K. Hopper Fine Gardening Inc.

A Kernersville woman was arrested in California and charged with embezzling at least $100,000 from a gardening company.

Dean Price of Stokesdale and Gary Sink of Thomasville, the owners of Red Birch Energy, based in Bassett, Va., participated in an Energy Leadership Briefing on Aug.

A Roanoke man has fulfilled his dad's 30-year-old wish. Laurence Hammack Jim Fannin Sr., who lives near Greensboro, N.C., gazes into the 1979 Dodge pickup his son bought, restored and gave to him Saturday at a car show in Roanoke.

According to the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office, Dennis Wayne Fulk, 47, of 150 Wood Ford Lane in Stokesdale entered the Clerk of Courts office on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug.

Marden- Martin Couple: Abigail Marden and Brock Martin Parents: Tom and Susan Marden of Rochester, Rick and Kari Martin of Atlantic, N.C., and Judy Martin of Stokesdale, N.C. Occupations: Abigail is a department head at The Home Depot in Apex, N.C. Brock

Marden- Martin Couple: Abigail Marden and Brock Martin Parents: Tom and Susan Marden of Rochester, Rick and Kari Martin of Atlantic, N.C., and Judy Martin of Stokesdale, N.C. Occupations: Abigail is a department head at The Home Depot in Apex, N.C. Brock

People living in Guilford County's Stokesdale community claim they've seen a bobcat roaming the area.

"Staycations," or the explorations of areas close to home rather than those out of town, are becoming increasingly popular in today's economy, considering the high unemployment rate and rising gas prices.

The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office has charged a Stokesdale man in a series of break-ins on Tuesday morning.

A missing person search Saturday near Humphrey's Ridge Family Campground at Belews Lake ended with the discovery of the body of a 27-year-old Stoneville man.

Stokesdale, NC -- Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page says a man swimming in Belews Creek drowned Saturday afternoon.

NARFE Meeting: The Winston-Salem chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the Hanes Mall Golden Corral.

Times may be tight, but the cash-strapped state of North Carolina has awarded Durham County $12,000 to prepare a National Register nomination for Stokesdale.

For the next year, drivers can only drive west on South Mebane Street in Burlington.