John is a graduate of Northern Vance High School & UNC-Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism. He has been a radio personality since 1989.
John is the Marketing Consultant, News, Sports, & Town Talk Broadcaster, Technician, & Treasurer for WIZS Radio.
He is the current On-site Radio Engineer for Duke Basketball and Football and has been their scoreboard announcer in the past as well.
Thursday night at the Vance Granville Community College Civic Center, the Henderson-Vance Crime Stoppers organization held its 20th annual awards and recognition banquet. Crime Stoppers Chairman Lorraine Watkins emceed the event, which included remarks from Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow, Vance County Sheriff Peter White and the keynote address from Dr. Stelfanie Williams, President of […]
Not only is Thursday, September 17 the day of the annual Crime Stoppers Meeting and Banquet, but the Crime Stoppers Crimes of the Month for September 2015) are out as well. The banquet is Thursday night a 6:30. Tickets can be purchased from Crime Stoppers Board Members and from several area business like Screen Master […]
By George Rush and WIZS News Staff Former County Manager Jerry Ayscue announced his retirement in August 2014 after 30 years as Vance County’s first and only manager starting in 1984. He gave the Board of Commissioners six months notice and actually retired in January 2015. At the time of his retirement, one of the […]
The Vance County Board of Education Monday night approved Dr. Brad Jones as the new principal at Eaton-Johnson Middle School and Mr. Kristian Herring as the new principal at Zeb Vance Elementary School. Jones and Herring will begin their new duties on October 1. Jones has been the principal at Cedar Grove Elementary School in […]
by George Rush and WIZS News Staff RECENT UPDATE The Head Start Board has held two special meetings, the most recent being on September 10. The two meetings have been described as “Mass Chaos,” with those in attendance challenging the Board and Staff with comments such as: don’t you dare look at me or I […]
Funeral arrangements have been finalized for Commissioner Eddie Wright. The funeral is scheduled for Monday, September 14 at 1:00 p.m. at South Henderson Pentecostal Holiness Church in Henderson. The family visitation will be at 11:00 a.m. that same morning. Mr. Wright will be buried Tuesday, September 15 at the Maryland National Memorial Cemetery in Beltsville, […]
Vance County residents now have more answers in an embezzlement case that dates back to July of 2014. Christa Harris Reavis pleaded guilty late Wednesday afternoon to one count of embezzlement by a government employee in excess of $100,000, a Class C Felony. As a part of her plea, Harris was ordered to pay $20,000.00 to […]
Press Release- September 3, 2015 On Tuesday, September 1, 2015, members of the Henderson Police Department Special Operations Unit and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation arrested three individuals on cocaine trafficking charges. Those arrested and charged are as follows: Arnold Frank Booth Jr., 52, 125 Bearpond Road Lot 8, Henderson was charged with […]
It should come as no shock to you that internet, computer and Wi-Fi scams are on the increase. Your favorite coffee house or the lobby of a hotel/motel or the local public library, where ever you find yourself using the internet in “public,” this may be a train wreck waiting to happen. Some people (scam […]
Data released Wednesday by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction for the 2014-2015 school year is encouraging for the Vance County School System. Eight Vance County Schools increased performance by one letter grade as determined by the state required School Performance grading system. The four-year cohort graduation rate increased by more than four percentage points […]
