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.
Henderson City Councilwoman and the pastor of Holy Temple Church, Rev. Ola Thorpe-Cooper, plans to appear on TownTalk Monday, January 4th. She is a past worker for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is also planned that Ola Thorpe-Cooper will be joined by Toni Wilson, who operates the Talk to Toni Wilson […]
On Monday, December 21 at 4 p.m., Vance County’s properties committee met, and part of that meeting was to address a couple of courthouse repairs. The full committee consists of commissioners Dan Brummitt, Archie Taylor and Gordon Wilder. Commissioner Wilder told WIZS News, “We have had it repaired…(including) the caulking joints in the side of […]
THIS STORY IS PRESENTED IN PART BY DRAKE DENTISTRY With the number of active cases of Covid-19 in Vance County approaching 1,000, the total percentage of the county’s population having tested positive for coronavirus is now just above 5.75 percent. For the latest Vance County covid data, see the table below. For the latest on […]
The first food giveaway, round one if you will, on December 26 being a success, Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Zion Church now moves on to round two. Round two will happen Wednesday, December 30th starting at 9 a.m. at the church located at 5448 Highway 158 Business, Henderson, NC 27537. Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Zion Church is […]
Vaccine is here. Maria Parham Health is administering within guidelines. Last week Maria Parham Health CEO, in talking about Covid-19, said, “It’s been an amazing journey and amazing to watch our healthcare providers in our teams step up over the last year in spite of everything that’s gone on. So I would definitely use exciting […]
— information courtesy of a press release from Sheriff Curtis Brame On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at approximately 11:18 a.m., the Vance County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division assisted the Henderson Police Department Patrol Division. They were chasing a 2011 Honda Accord with a North Carolina registration in the area of Willowood Drive inside the city […]
The latest National Weather Service briefing includes the possibility of stormy, maybe even severe, weather for the WIZS area. You can always see the Latest Briefing of from the National Weather Service by clicking this link. While the strongest, most wide-spread weather is expected along and east of the I-95 corridor as of this […]
Vance County Schools developed and last week adopted a plan for the return to face-to-face learning. But when? The plan itself calls for two days of face-to-face instruction and a staggered entry. The entry would begin with PreK then K and 6 grades followed by grades 1 and 2 and finally grades 3-5. Self-contained EC […]
WIZS Local News Audio at Noon 12-23-20 Local Covid Local Covid Vaccine Perry Memorial Library Possible severe weather Christmas Eve, storms, wind For the news audio, click play… WIZS Radio · WIZS Noon News 12-23-20 Local Covid Vaccine
The total number of Covid cases in Vance County since the pandemic began equals 2,406 as of today, December 22, 2020, and that means 5.4 percent of the population of Vance County has been diagnosed with the virus. The 883 active cases of Covid-19 right now in Vance County represents 1.98 percent of the population […]
