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No Contact portable COVID-19 test booth, next to Mobile Pathogen Testing Unit (MPTU). Source: Granite Tactical Vehicles Inc of North Carolina

Mount Airy, NC Company Builds “No Contact” Portable Covid-19 Testing Booth

April 27, 2020 Guest Author or Contributor

Granite Tactical Vehicles, in the business of protecting personnel in vehicles in hostile areas, has changed its focus to help in the fight against COVID-19 with its designing and building of a no-contact portable […]

Robert and Philicia Marion of Mount Airy win top titles in 2019. Photo: Robert B Butler

Mount Airy couple earn top awards in US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship

March 24, 2019 Kay Whatley

The 5th-annual US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship was held in Wrightsville Beach “Going into this race, one of our goals is to win it together,” said Philicia Marion in a January interview. “How awesome […]

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The Strange-ness: Endangered Species Condoms Given Away for World Population Day

July 3, 2017

New Museum Program Highlights Effect of Human Population Growth on Wildlife By Sarah Baillie, endangeredearth.org Hundreds of free Endangered Species Condoms will be given away at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo on Thursday, July 6, 2017, as […]

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The Strange-ness: Glittery Food May be Gut-wrenching

September 13, 2013

By Kay Whatley, Editor Love those shiny pastries in brilliant colors? Grab that tasty candy for a snack after lunch? Depending on how your food was made, it may be bad for you on a whole new level. […]

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Couple Shares Bigfoot Photo Taken in West Virginia

March 9, 2020

By Kay Whatley, Editor Driving through southern West Virginia, its cities and towns are interspersed among the state’s millions of acres of forests. What might look like wilderness in the daytime, at night flickers with […]