Entries by WIZS Staff

Sheriff’s Office: Two Drug Arrests Made In Separate Vehicle Stops

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Press releases from Vance County Sheriff’s Office The Vance County Sheriff’s Office made two drug arrests Monday in two separate vehicle stops. On Monday, November 25, 2024, members of the Vance County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics unit conducted a vehicle stop in the 900 block of Faulknertown Road.  The driver was identified as Kemarreus Frank-Quan Jones, […]

TownTalk: Alert Christmas Parade Is Coming

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Looking for some good old-fashioned entertainment to help get you in a festive holiday mood? Check out the Alert Christmas Parade, set to kick off at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14. That’s right, A-lert, the community that’s just over the Franklin/Vance County line beyond Epsom. Larry Ayscue is one of this year’s parade organizers, […]

Program For Low-Income Residents Offers Help With Winter Heat Bills

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The Low-Income Energy Assistance Program provides a one-time annual vendor payment to help eligible families pay their heating expense.  If you received a LIEAP payment in 2023-2024, someone in the household was disabled and receiving services through the Division of Aging and Adult Services OR households containing a person aged 60, an automatic payment will be […]

Longtime VGCC President, Dr. Ben F. Currin, Dies

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Dr. Benjamin Fleming Currin, long-time president of Vance-Granville Community College,  died on Nov. 23, 2024. Under his leadership, VGCC grew from a single campus to four campuses, doubled its enrollment and saw its Endowment Fund swell to $5 million. He was 88. Ben was born on November 13, 1936 in Granville County to Sophia Hunt […]

The Local Skinny! 3rd Annual Vance County Camp Meeting

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It’s called a camp meeting, but it’s not the type of camp meeting that Scott Matthews’s granddaddy Jesse held, always the week of the Fourth of July under a tent on the grounds of Forest Hill Baptist Church. Back then, it could be 100 degrees, with 1,000 percent humidity, Matthews said, half joking half serious. […]

TownTalk: Around Old Granville – First Families Part Two

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Ready to hear how the area now known as Kittrell is connected to the first Thanksgiving? THE first Thanksgiving. The one that happened in 1618, a full four years before the Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated the first successful harvest in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. Leave it to WIZS’s Bill Harris and local historian Mark […]