Long to leave Alleghany extension after 16 years

After a 16-year career at the local cooperative extension office, Carmen Long has decided to make a move. She will be transferring to the Surry County Center of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension on June 1 to be with her husband, Brent, who has accepted a teaching position with Surry County Schools for the upcoming year.

Carmen Long will be working as the family consumer education extension agent for Surry County.

"We have loved living here," Long said. "This has been a wonderful place to start our careers and raise our kids." However, she said the family decided it was time to make a change.

"The opportunities were there and we decided we'd see how it went," she said. "It looks like it was the way it was meant to be."

Long said she and her husband both appreciate the opportunities they have been given here and the kindness they have been shown. "We're very excited about the move, but we're also comforted to know that our friends from Alleghany won't be too far away."

Long said she has also enjoyed working with children here. "I have done a lot of things with kids and that's fun, but you can really make a difference in kids' lives."

She said the Extension and Community Association has been very helpful to her. "They have been like my adopted grandmas, aunts and mothers," she said.

Long moved to the area in September of 1987 from Elizabethton. She has served as the interim county director for the county since Bob Edwards accepted a regional director position with extension. David Isner will serve as the interim director until a new director is hired, she noted.

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