Stokes receives $180,000 grant for communications equipment

(Winston-Salem Journal) - When Stokes County’s emergency-response agencies worked together in 2006 to search for two young brothers whose bodies were later found in the Dan River, they scrambled to find a piece of equipment that would allow all of the agencies involved to talk to each other.

Now, with money from a federal grant that has been awarded to the county, the agencies will have that equipment on hand, the sheriff of Stokes County, Mike Joyce, said yesterday.

Stokes was one of two North Carolina counties awarded a federal grant to pay for needed security and communications equipment. Person County was the other.