Mount Airy officials have identified 13-year-old Mason Paul Kearns as the boy killed in Thursday’s flash flood, and a ...

Mason's 15-year-old brother and his mother tried to pull the teen out of the water as he got stuck in the drain, just 20 feet ...

The Mount Airy Police Department has identified Mason Kearns as the 13-year-old who died after being swept into a storm drain ...

The Mount Airy Police Department has identified Mason Kearns as the 13-year-old who died after being swept into a storm drain during Thursday's flash floods. His family is holding a candlelight vigil ...

A flash flood hit a small Maryland community in a matter of minutes. In even less time, a 13-year-old boy was gone. Mason Paul Kearns was swept into a storm drain just 20 feet from his family’s front ...

A sign directs people to the path for the Mount Airy Rails to Trails on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. The trail spans a half-mile from the former train station on Main Street to Watkins Park along the ...

A 13-year-old boy drowned after being swept into a drainage pipe during a heavy rainstorm on Thursday evening in Maryland.

That's because the granite used in the $15 million park is from N.C. Granite Corp. in Mount Airy, which boasts the title of the world's largest open-faced granite quarry.

On Aug. 21 at Watkins Park, Mount Airy, Cadet Col. Aurora Albertson was presented the highest award a Civil Air Patrol cadet can achieve, the Gen. Carl A. Spaatz Award, #2307. Capt.