Some of this week’s stories: • Supervisors not planning to discuss monument• New private school to open• District COVID-19 cases surpass 1,000• Surry native embarks on new project• IW ...
For an awful lot of white people — and a large number of black people as well — sitting down and talking face-to-face about race ...
Board muzzles Surry citizens Editor, The Smithfield Times: In March, Surry County leaders followed COVID-19 guidelines and closed government offices and meetings to the public. ...
Some of this week’s stories: • Senator fights recall effort with countersuit• Hearing set on Surry monument• Surry mayor makes history• Teen entrepreneur expands business• School reopening decision ...
No evidence of systemic racism Editor, The Smithfield Times: In his July 1 letter “Monument proposal insufficient,” Rev. Dr. Lilton J. Marks says this nation has ...
This year’s Fourth of July was tamped down thanks to the pandemic that thus far is known to have infected 2.8 million Americans and killed ...
Some of this week’s stories: • Protest highlights injustices• Response is community supported effort• County Fair moving forward for now• Museum curator steps down Forum: Independence Day reminds ...
Saturday’s Black Lives Matter march and rally in downtown Smithfield embodied the very best of our constitutional right “peaceably to assemble and to ...
Monument proposal insufficient, he says Editor, The Smithfield Times: I wish to commend Mr. Albert Burckhardt (“A compromise on monument,” June 24) on his attempting a ...
Some of this week’s stories: • Smithfield protest planned on Saturday• Salutatorian snubbed at Smithfield• George Floyd protests come to Isle of Wight• Arrest made during Surry protest• New ...