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.
Vance County Sheriff Peter White told WIZS News that Tommy Ellington was killed early this morning at his home. White said Ellington was found shot to death on his property in the 1200 block of Stewart Farm Road east of Henderson. White said the motive was unclear, although it could have been the result of […]
— courtesy Vance County Manager Jordan D. McMillen Vance County is pleased to announce the hiring of Dennis Jarvis, II, as the Director of the Henderson-Vance Economic Development Commission. He will begin in this position on November 6th. Jarvis has a total of 18 years experience in economic development, with the last 2½ years serving […]
— courtesy of Clerk to the Granville County Board of Commissioners NOTICE of SPECIAL JOINT MEETING All interested persons please take notice that the Granville County Board of Commissioners and the City of Oxford Board of Commissioners will hold a Special Joint Meeting on Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. at the Masonic Home, […]
— courtesy Orange County Speedway — by Jim Cribbs Orange County Speedway, Saturday, September 30 Annual Chad Pergerson and Kevin Bowen Memorial Race Twin 50-lap races for the Mike Bledsole Mechanical Heating and Air Late Model Stocks may have shaken up the points race for this year’s track championship a bit, as points leader, and […]
September is National Recovery Month, which celebrates people in long-term recovery and encourages individuals in need of treatment and recovery services to seek help. “It is estimated over 23 million Americans are addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs, and just as many American adults are living in recovery. For each person actively addicted, or recovering, […]
— Scouting Reports by Jeff Jenkins Vance County Friday Night Football is on 1450 AM WIZS live beginning at 6:45 p.m. Friday nights as well as live streamed on wizs.com. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Please see our full schedule following the scouting reports. Southern Vance at South Granville Southern Vance finishes up a 3-week […]
— courtesy VGCC VGCC scholarship endowed by local funeral home A new Vance-Granville Community College scholarship has been endowed by J.M. White Funeral Home of Henderson in memory of its namesake and co-founder, Jerry Marshall White Sr. His widow and co-owner of the funeral home, Betty Oakes White, said that the family sought to create […]
Volunteer Services of Maria Parham Health will be hosting a $5 Masquerade Sale this week in the John T. Church classroom. The event takes place Wednesday, Sept. 27 (7am-4pm) and Thursday Sept. 28 (7am-2pm). Lisa Radford is the volunteer coordinator at Maria Parham Health, and in an email to WIZS News she said, “Volunteer services sponsors […]
— courtesy VGCC Vance-Granville Community College will hold an Open House for its Adult Basic Skills department on Tuesday, October 3, from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. and later from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., in room 7212 of Building 7 on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County. “We invite all who did not […]
— courtesy Vance County Schools zSpace, Inc. sponsored a visit by its Virtual Reality Classroom to the campus of Southern Vance High School on September 21, with the lab available for viewing by local students and educators throughout the school system. Students and educators had an opportunity to go inside the traveling classroom, contained in […]
