Entries by Laura Gabel

TownTalk: A Busy Spring For Rebuilding Hope

When you drive through the Rebuilding Hope campus on April 26 to pick up plates of that delicious barbecued chicken, sides and dessert, you’ll get a pretty good view of the property, which for so many years was the site of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. If you choose to park and eat in, Rebuilding Hope […]

TownTalk: Around Old Granville: Churches And Religion, Part 2

Religious scholars and historians have labeled the general time frame between 1760 and 1800 as The Great Awakening, a time of religious revival that basically helped to shape – and reshape – how Christians viewed their relationship with their churches in the era before and after the American Revolution. Granville County was established in 1746, […]

Corbitt Preservation Association To Hold Spring Fling Saturday

The plan for Saturday’s Spring Fling at the Corbitt Museum is to have trucks and tractors on display for the public to view and ooh and aah over, but when you’re dealing with vehicles that are as old as the Corbitts that are around here, Tom Burleson said “you keep your fingers crossed.” The annual […]

TownTalk: NC Should Have Good Weather To View April 8 Eclipse

As a meteorologist, Jonathan Blaes is a scientist well-versed in the vagaries of weather, especially in North Carolina and especially in the springtime. But next week, he just may divert his attention – for a few minutes, anyway – to observe a celestial event that has nothing to do with storms, or clouds or rain […]

TownTalk: Community Info Series To Focus On Dementia

It’s something that many of us worry about as we get older and can’t remember things like we once did, but Michael Patterson, a family caregiver specialist for Kerr-Tar COG Agency on Aging breaks down what falls in the “normal forgetfulness” category and what does not. Patterson was a guest on Wednesday’s TownTalk and previewed […]

TownTalk: Jayden Watkins Part of 2024 Disney Dreamers Academy

Henderson’s own Jayden Watkins is set to board a plane Wednesday and head to Orlando, FL to participate in the Walt Disney World Dreamers Academy. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that almost wasn’t, but Watkins said, “God worked everything out.” You see, his mom had accidentally thrown away the packet of information that Watkins was supposed […]

TownTalk: Communications Tower To Benefit Emergency Responders

A new communications tower could be in place in another year or so to provide increased coverage – and reliability – for Henderson and Vance County law enforcement agencies and first responders. It’s been communication of a slightly different sort that has gotten the project this far; city and county leaders had been looking for […]

TownTalk: Around Old Granville: Restoring Cemetery Monuments

  When it comes to maintaining cemeteries, we’re used to seeing landscape crews out with mower and weed eaters, making sure the grounds are manicured and neat for visitors and other passersby. But just as important – maybe more so, says Hilary Verville of Verville Preservation in Oxford, is a bucket of water and a […]