The Davie County Montage is now available through the Davie County Chamber of Commerce and Collette Art and Framing.  The highly detailed pen and ink drawing tells the story of Davie County and commemorates our past and present architecture as well as the sites, people and history of Davie County.   The Montage also includes several businesses, churches and nonprofit organizations who signed up as sponsors for the project.   It is the eclectic mix of old and new and the artist’s interpretation of familiar images that gives the Montage its unique and compelling character While the signed and numbered originals are […]

With his wife and children looking on with great pride, John Phillips became the fifth pilot to make their first solo flight at Sugar Valley Airport in the last two years. Phillips, who lives with his family in the William R. Davie School community of Davie County, started flying lessons at the airport last fall. On Saturday his instructor, Eddie White, determined that it was time for Phillips to fly alone. Pilots “solo” after they achieve a level of proficiency which convinces their instructors that they can safely fly alone. Saturday morning Phillips made his three takeoffs and landings without […]

Citizens of Cooleemee and surrounding communities are invited to attend one or more of the “Community Design Workshop” this Saturday at 10: 00 AM, 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM at the VFW Hall located at 7722 NC Hwy 801 South.  Plenty of refreshments will be available for each 2 hour session. With over 330 original mill houses, the Bullhole and dam at RiverPark and the old cotton mill still standing along the banks of the South Yadkin River, Cooleemee is perhaps the best preserved Southern mill village of the post civil-war industrial age.  Cooleemee’s mill, built in 1900 at the […]

EDITED 5/13/2013 to reflect new start date of May 31-June 3 NC DOT contract forces will be closing all lanes of westbound I-40, during weekends, at the Yadkin River Bridge in order to perform bridge preservation work. A new concrete overlay will be places on the riding surface of the bridge. The bridge is at the Forsyth/Davie County line at mile marker 181 approximately 1 mile west of the Harper Rd. interchange (Exit 182). Highway to remain open Memorial Day weekend The road closures will occur beginning on Fridays at 8:00 PM with the road reopening by 6:00 AM on […]

Sugar Valley Airport, located in the heart of Davie County, continues to expand its reach into our community by serving others. In a recent community event, over 250 Boy Scouts and Scout leaders from the Rowan District of the Central North Carolina Council held an aviation camporee at Sugar Valley Airport over the weekend of April 19 – 21.  The focus of the event was for the scouts to complete requirements for their aviation merit badges. Stations were set up around the airport for each participant for learning about airplane instruments, pre-flighting an airplane, building a model airplane, learning about […]