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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, […]
Listen live at 100.1 FM / 1450 AM / or on the live stream at WIZS.com at 11:50 a.m. Mon, Tues & Thurs. Click Play! WIZS Radio · Cooperative Extension With Michael Ellington: Community Gardens
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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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 […]
Cooperative Extension Listen live at 100.1 FM / 1450 AM / or on the live stream at WIZS.com at 11:50 a.m. Mon, Tues & Thurs. Click Play! WIZS Radio · Cooperative Extension With Wayne Rowland: Backyard Composting
The seminar on equine nutrition scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 3 in Littleton has been cancelled. Dr. Paul Siciliano, equine extension specialist with N.C. State University, had been scheduled to present “Preparing Your Horses for Winter,” to walk horse owners through a list of feeding and management strategies to consider as cold weather approaches. To learn […]
Those donation boxes at Vance Family Medicine and the fire station in downtown Henderson are part of the inaugural toy drive sponsored by Blk Sista Productions, a local nonprofit organization with a mission to support local families facing financial challenges. “Let’s come together to make this Christmas unforgettable,” is the message from Blk Sista Productions […]
