The dream is becoming reality: Stokes is one step closer to a stand-alone community college

(By Leslie Bray Evans, The Stokes News) - After years of discussion about a stand-alone community college in Stokes County, the issue seems to be leaving the dream stages and becoming reality at long last. The purchase of land to locate the college will be on the action agenda at the next county commissioners’ meeting on Monday, December 28. The proposed site in Meadows would also house the Stokes County Early College High School.

“It’s geographically in the center of the county,” said Willis Overby, a former Stokes County Commissioner who was on hand to witness the historic announcement at the commissioners’ meeting on Monday, December 14.

“For our county, it’s a dream starting to come true,” said newly elected chairman of the board, Jimmy Walker.