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VCS Recognizes Teachers, Principals at Annual Excellence in Education Event
THIS STORY IS PRESENTED IN PART BY DRAKE DENTISTRY -Press Release and photos, Vance County Schools Vance County Schools held the annual Excellence in Education event on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. At the event, the District’s Beginning Teacher of the Year, Teacher of the Year, Assistant Principal of the Year and Principal of the Year were...
Federal Grant Will Fund Missing Link on Southeast Rail Corridor
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Press Release, N.C. Department of Transportation The N.C Department of Transportation has received a $47.5 million federal grant to purchase the S-Line rail corridor between Raleigh and Ridgeway in Warren County. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded this grant to the...
Granville Co. Public Schools Seeks Substitute Teachers
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy Granville County Public Schools Do you love children? Would you like some steady part-time work that pays well? Would you like to make a difference in our community? Then consider becoming a SUBSTITUTE TEACHER today! Interested candidates must pass...
GRRO Hires 25 Community Health Workers to Fight COVID-19 in Rural NC
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Press Release, Green Rural Redevelopment, Inc. On Friday, September 25, 2020, 25 community health workers will complete their training and be deployed into communities in Granville, Vance, Franklin, Warren, Nash, Pitt, Halifax and Wake Counties. Green Rural Redevelopment, Inc. (GRRO) a...
Local Noon News Audio 9/24/20
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL Vance County EMS Selected as a 2020 Mission Lifeline Award Recipient Green Rural Redevelopment, Inc. (GRRO) has hired 25 Health Workers to Fight COVID-19 in Rural NC Duke Energy Offering Extended Payment Plan Options Click Play to Listen to Full Details...
Vance County EMS Selected as a 2020 Mission Lifeline Award Recipient
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information and photos courtesy the County of Vance Vance County EMS was recently selected as a 2020 Mission Lifeline Award recipient by the American Heart Association. On Wednesday, County Manager Jordan McMillen and Chairman of the Board Gordon Wilder presented Paramedic...
New VGCC Scholarship Endowed in Memory of George Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Daniel
THIS STORY IS PRESENTED IN PART BY DRAKE DENTISTRY -Press Release, Vance-Granville Community College Faye Daniel Chappell and her brother, R. T. “Tom” Daniel, both of Oxford, recently established a new scholarship at Vance-Granville Community College in memory of their brother, George R. “Ronnie” Daniel. VGCC will award the Ronnie Daniel Memorial Academic Achievement Scholarship to...
After Second Public Hearing, City to Move Forward With Coronavirus Grant Application
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL Henderson City Manager E. Terrell Blackmon provided WIZS with the following summary of the City’s second public hearing regarding the submission of a Coronavirus-related Community Development Block Grant (CDBG-CV). The hearing was held Wednesday, September 23, 2020. There was no one...
Planning Committee to Consider White Goods Disposal at Hwy 39 Convenience Site
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy the County of Vance Please be informed that Vance County’s Planning Committee (Faines, Kelly, Wilder) is scheduled to meet Tuesday, September 29, 2020, at 4 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Administrative Conference Room of the Vance...
Duke Energy Offering Extended Payment Plan Options
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy Tanya Evans, District Manager, Duke Energy As Duke Energy gradually resumes standard billing and payment practices in North Carolina, our goal is to work with customers in need to ensure they have the opportunity to enroll in a payment...
