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Local Restaurants Serving Locally Grown Food
This is the second article of our three-part series on Buying Local. Our last feature focused on the Vance County Regional Farmers Market. You can search for that piece by typing Farmers Market into the WIZS.com search box. This piece will take a closer look at some of the independently owned restaurants in our area that serve...
Meet Me In The Street Concert
2016 MEET ME IN THE STREET CONCERT SERIES The Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce will hold its first concert of the Meet Me in the Street series tonight — Friday, May 20, 2016 from 5:30-8:30 pm. “The Konnection Band” will be in town. This band is a local favorite and is one of the East Coast’s...
Hurricane Preparedness 2016
Note: You can always return to this article by entering Hurricane Preparedness in the WIZS.com search box. Information provided by Brian Short, Director – Vance County Emergency Operations. “The 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season is about to begin. Are you prepared?” The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1st of each year and ends on November...
VGCC honors Radiography graduates
Twenty-one new graduates of Vance-Granville Community College’s two-year Radiography program were honored in a May 9 pinning ceremony in the college’s Civic Center. Members of the 2016 Radiography graduating class at Vance-Granville Community College who received their pins May 9 included, on first (front) row, from left: Jessica Lynn Loera, Elizabeth Nichole Cooper, K...
HPD Gattis Press Release
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, Geoffrey Gattis, 22, was served with a true bill of indictment returned by a federal grand jury. Gattis was taken in to custody at the Vance County Jail where he was being held on state charges. Gattis was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Gattis...
School Entry Controls at Six Pilot Schools
Starting this past Monday, May 16, six Vance County Public Schools initiated a pilot program for building access. The new Access Control System in place requires all visitors during the school day to identify themselves before being allowed into the school. The schools include: Aycock, New Hope, L.B. Yancey, Henderson Middle, STEM Early High and...
