Entries by WIZS Staff

Wise Independence Day Parade & Festival Friday, July 4

Organizers of the Wise Independence Day Parade & Festival are preparing for a day full of fun for the whole family and this year, the event will be held on Friday, July 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Danielle Edgerton and Gary Paynter are two of the organizers, which includes a parade, live music […]

SportsTalk: Cale Bolton and the Tar Heels are ready for the NCAA Tournament

For Louisburg’s Cale Bolton, baseball has always been a part of his life. Bolton’s been playing since the age of three, and last Sunday, he and his UNC teammates won the ACC Tournament with a 14-4 thumping of the Clemson Tigers. “It was an awesome moment,” Bolton told WIZS’s Scout Hughes and George Hoyle on […]

Grand Opening of Community Garden at VCRFM

The community garden at the Vance County Regional Farmers Market held its official grand opening Saturday, May 24, 2025. Dr. Wykia Macon, director of the Vance County Cooperative Extension, was on hand and hands on! She spoke recently at the Vance County Regional Farmers Market and said agriculture is “undeniably central to our lives,” when […]

Home and Garden Show

On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext. The Vance County Regional Farmers Market is now open on Saturdays from 8am to 1pm. Monitor rows in garden open ends of rows that have water pooled up in them. Check tomatoes for leaf spot diseases. You can prune all leaves below the first […]