by SurryEDP Staff | Sep 16, 2020 | News
Mount Airy-based Nester Hosiery has won a contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for its Farm to Feet brand of socks. The order for its Kodiak and Fayetteville styles is in support of the U.S. Army’s need for technically advanced socks for soldiers. Details of the...
by SurryEDP Staff | Sep 9, 2020 | News
Officials with Surry County Schools are celebrating the system hitting an all-time-high graduation rate this year, while Mount Airy City Schools officials are likewise pleased graduation rates there have exceeded 90%. “Surry County Schools hit another milestone with...
by SurryEDP Staff | Sep 1, 2020 | News
The Board of Directors of Surrey Bancorp (Pink Sheets: SRYB) last week declared a quarterly cash dividend of 10.5 cents per share on the company’s common stock. The cash dividend is payable on Oct. 9 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 18....
by SurryEDP Staff | Aug 28, 2020 | News
When the potential impact of Covid-19 on his company became evident this past spring, Renfro President and CEO Stan Jewell faced the prospect of furloughing employees and idling machinery in Alabama, Tennessee and in the Triad. The world’s largest sock maker of some...
by SurryEDP Staff | Aug 26, 2020 | News
As the community of Dobson struggled with the impact of COVID-19 on local schools, a local Wayne Farms employee saw an opportunity to intervene with a $10,000-plus fundraising effort focused on remote learning and digital home education. The fundraising effort began...
by SurryEDP Staff | Aug 24, 2020 | News
Surry Communications was recognized as part of North Carolina’s Rural Broadband Week, an honor put into place via a declaration from Gov. Roy Cooper in early August. Broadband, the high-bandwidth transmission that enables access to high-speed internet, has been...
