Vance County Middle School is the latest area school to fall victim to the raging omicron variant and school officials announced that middle school students will shift to remote instruction for the first part of next week.
According to information posted Friday afternoon on the school system’s social media page, which stated, in part: “In an effort to mitigate the rapid increase of staff and student COVID-19 cases” reported at VCMS, students will not have in-person instruction on Monday, Jan. 10 and Tuesday, Jan. 11.
Families with students at VCMS will be contacted over the weekend with details, according to information posted about 3 p.m. Friday.
At this time, all other VCS schools will continue on a normal schedule with in-person instruction.
VCMS students are instructed to login with their teacher at their designated class time.
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“We don’t often play in close games,” said Vance Charter Knights’ head women’s basketball coach Brian Howard on the Coach’s Corner of SportsTalk with Trey Snide. However, the Knights found themselves in a nail biter this week against Granville Central. The 6 – 3 Knights scored with 4 seconds left to pull out a 60 – 59 win over Granville Central who fell to 5 – 6. Kayla Simmons was the game’s hero scoring the last second basket. She totaled 17 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocked shots. With her performance, she was named WIZS Player of the Week.
Simmons and the Knights got off to a great start with an early 15 point lead but a series of turnovers allowed Granville Central to get back in the game. Coach Howard said the close game was beneficial to his team. The Knights get a lot of minutes from two freshmen and Howard said the stress of a close game was helpful to those freshmen players.
In speaking about the Granville Central game after Simmons hit the winning shot Howard said is first thought wasn’t about the shot but about getting back on defense. Four seconds can be an eternity in basketball and Howard wanted to make sure his team was prepared for a last second shot by Granville Central.
Howard said he expects that level of play from Simmons every game, She certainly delivered against Granville Central. Congratualations to Kayla Simmons, the WIZS Player of the Week.
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The Granville County Board of Education will meet for a regular board meeting on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 at 6 p.m. at the Mary Potter Center of Education, 200 Taylor Street, Oxford, NC 27565. Members of the public are invited to view via livestream. To join the livestream meeting, please use the following link: https://live.myvrspot.com/st?cid=MDhkZj.
The Board also will meet in closed session in accordance with N.C. General Statute 143.318.11 (a)(6), 143-318.11 (a)(3), 143.318.11 (a)(5) and Section 115C-321 for Personnel and Attorney/Client Privilege.
Public comments for this meeting can be made in person at the board meeting or in writing by using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y37evl6z Comments made using the link must be submitted between the hours of 12 noon and 4 p.m. on Jan. 10, 2021. A copy will be distributed to board members. A maximum of 30 minutes in total will be allotted for public comment.
All meeting attendees must wear face coverings and comply with all safety measures, including social distancing. Face coverings must be worn at all times while inside the building.
Anyone without access to WiFi may use the internet services at the Richard Thornton library 210 Main Street, Oxford, or the South Branch Library, 1550 South Campus Drive, Creedmoor.
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Vance and Granville counties continue to rack up new COVID-19 cases, and the local health district reports a total of 1,376 new cases in the last seven days. The state figure stands at 28,474.
According to GVPH Director Lisa Harrison, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services notified local health departments that boosters for those ages 12-15 will be available beginning next week. Vaccines and boosters are available Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. in Henderson at 115 Charles Rollins Road and beginning Monday, Jan. 10 at the new location in Granville County at 1028 College St. in Oxford, behind Granville Health System.
Both counties remain in the “high community transmission” category, with Vance at 25.5 percent positivity rate and Granville at 17.2 percent positivity rate. Both counties still fall below the state’s positivity rate, which currently is 31.2 percent.
Specifically, in the past week, Vance County has had 685 new cases and Granville reports 691 new cases, according to a weekly report from the Granville-Vance Health District.
There have been 9,935 cases of COVID-19 in Granville County and 8,648 cases of COVID-19 in Vance County for a total of 18,583 across the health district.
Granville County has documented 107 deaths as a result of COVID-19 and Vance County has a total of 104 deaths for a total of 211 deaths across the health district. Across North Carolina, 19,619 people have died of COVID-19.
“The numbers of cases of COVID-19 are higher than ever and still climbing in short order,” writes Health Director Lisa Harrison. She said that her department is “making an overall shift to paying closer attention to hospitalizations and deaths rather than cases as an indicator of overall risk. Just remember that hospitalization and death are also lagging indicators so given how MANY cases we are seeing, even if the majority of them are experiencing mild symptoms or no symptoms, the sheer numbers dictate that we will still see hospitalizations and potentially deaths increase in the coming weeks as well. Hospitalizations are up locally and statewide this week as the graphs show: https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard/hospitalizations. Omicron is not to be ignored,” Harrison wrote in the weekly update.
The Henderson City Council will meet Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 at 6 p.m. for its regular monthly meeting in City Hall Council Chambers, 134 Rose Ave. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Anyone who wishes to address the council must do so in person or submit comments or questions to the city clerk no later than 3 p.m. on Monday. Questions and comments from the public are no longer taken via Zoom.
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Tomorrow’s auction at Corbitt Emporium will have a special twist, thanks to the owner of the collectibles and antiques business – he’s donated all the remaining inventory to the American Cancer Society.
Aaron Ramsey opened the business more than five years ago, which featured items from individual vendors as well as items he had collected over the years. The auction is being sponsored by Frances and Friends, a local Relay for Life team.
The auction begins at 10 a.m., but the 1508 Second Street location will open at 9 a.m. for customer viewing.
Auctioneers Dan Weldon and Tom Eaves will conduct the sale, which includes antiques, collectibles, glassware, old tools, seasonal items and much more.
Items purchased from the American Cancer Society are tax-deductible.
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The Granville-Vance Public Health office in Oxford is in the process of moving to its new location near the hospital and will re-open Monday, Jan. 10. All services that clients normally receive at the health department will be unavailable EXCEPT for residents who want a COVID-19 vaccine, according to www.gvph.com.
The new address for Environmental Health is 1028 College St.; the health clinic’s address is 1032 College St.; and the WIC office address is 1036 College St.
Both health department locations – 115 Charles Rollins Rd, Henderson and 101 Hunt Dr., Oxford – have COVID-19 vaccines available Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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The spike in COVID-19 has prompted West Oxford Elementary School to cancel in-person learning for tomorrow (Friday) and Monday, Jan. 10. Instead, both days will be full virtual learning days, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
But the Granville County Unit of the Boys & Girls Club that operates at West Oxford will be open to serve its registered club members on both days. The club will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Parents should send devices and bookbags with their students to the club, according to a post on the school’s social media site from BGC Chief Operating Officer Jacqueline Robinson.
School leaders posted on social media Thursday evening about the change, and offered several opportunities for parents and students for school assignments and for lunch pickup.
Students in Granville County Public Schools returned to school on Wednesday after the winter break.
The Facebook post stated, in part, that “nearly half of all of our teachers at our school are unable to report to work, mostly due to the pandemic.”
The lack of substitutes available further exacerbated the situation.
West Oxford students with an internet connection and a device are supposed to login to their Google classroom to get lessons and assignments at 9 a.m. Parents of students without a device or an internet connection can come to school after 11 a.m. to pick up an instructional packet. Parents who come after 3:30 p.m. will find packets in the self-serve stations.
The school plans to run regular bus routes about midday to deliver both instructional packets and meals. “These routes will run approximately five hours later than their normal pick-up time in the morning,” the post stated.
Parents also may stop by the school between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to pick up a lunch free of charge for any student.
West Oxford serves Pre-K through grade 5 and is located at 412 Ivey Day Rd, Oxford.
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Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow said in a press release, “Earlier this morning, at approximately 3 a.m., a Henderson marked patrol unit stopped the suspect vehicle, in this case (of stolen currency), near the 200 block of Dabney Drive. Two individuals were identified as occupants of the vehicle and due to the clarity of the surveillance footage, Kenneth Lee Williams Jr was identified as the suspect from the previous incident (see below).
“We also found instruments of the crime and other evidence that the two occupants had just perpetrated the same crime prior to the vehicle stop. The other occupant was identified as Curtis Mathew McDonald Jr.”
Chief Barrow said, “Both were charged and taken before a Vance County Magistrate.”
The vehicle involved, a 2022 Dodge Charger, was an Enterprise rental car.
At this time, Henderson Police are following up with other agencies to see if they have had similar crimes to occur in their jurisdictions.
Kenneth Lee Williams Jr, 37, of 104 Lillians Ln. Rockingham NC, received a $40,000 secured bond.
Curtis Matthew McDonald, 31, of 241 Northam Rd. Rockingham NC, received a $10,000 secured bond.
— Original press release January 5 from Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow
On Tuesday, January 4, 2022, officers with the Henderson Police Department received a report of a subject using a device to manipulate a currency machine located at the Dabney Exchange Car Wash, 200 Exchange Street, Henderson. The incident occurred on the 4th at approximately 2AM.
The subject was able to obtain an undisclosed amount of currency from the machine.
The Henderson Police Department requests assistance from the public in identifying the person(s) involved in this case.
If anyone has any information about this incident, please contact us through Henderson-Vance Crime Stoppers at (252- 492-1925 or P3 app), call us at 252-438-4141, or contact us through Facebook or Instagram.
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Triangle North Healthcare Foundation has announced the launch of its 2022 grant cycle, and is accepting letters of interest through March 1, 2022.
Nonprofit organizations, government agencies and schools are eligible to apply for funding projects that will provide positive impact in one or more of the five focus areas: Child Well-Being, Chronic Disease, Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Reproductive Health.
Executive Director Val Short said funding local projects brings to life the foundation’s mission to encourage, support, and invest in quality efforts that measurably improve health in the areas it serves.
“Our hope is that the Foundation’s investment of grant funds in our communities will result in long lasting improvements in the health and wellbeing of our children and adults,” Short said in a press statement.
Since 2013, the foundation has invested more than $3.3 million in programs across the four-county region that includes Vance, Granville, Warren and Franklin.
Short and the foundation’s grants coordinator Carolyn Powell are available to discuss ideas for grant projects or to assist with grant writing. Call 252.430.8532 to schedule an appointment. Information about current and past funded programs and projects is also available on the website.
A regional healthcare grant-making organization based in Henderson, NC, Triangle North Healthcare Foundation was established in 2011, following the merge of Maria Parham Medical Center and Duke Lifepoint.
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