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With the nation’s approaching 250th birthday as a backdrop, WIZS’s Bill Harris and local historian Mark Pace continue their conversation about people, places and events from right here in the four-county area, “Old Granville County.” Franklin County’s Regiment of Militia was officially formed in January 1779, in the middle of the Revolutionary War. This group […]
Just one day after presenting the recommended $51.7 FY 2027 budget, the Henderson City Council scheduled a work session Tuesday at 5 p.m. to begin the process of adopting a final version by the end of June. Finance Director Joey Fuqua told Council members Monday that this was a “very difficult budget, very sobering.” The […]
Economic Development Director Ferdinand Rouse was the guest speaker at the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce’s “State of” luncheon on Tuesday to talk about the current state of local economic development. Most of Rouse’s presentation dealt with plans, goals, strategies that need to be in place to attract business and industry before he touched on what […]
Henderson Mayor Melissa Elliott said Tuesday she will not seek a second term in office. Elliott sat down Tuesday afternoon with WIZS News and The Dispatch to provide an update on a lawsuit filed in fall of 2025 that claimed she wrongly received money for sale of a property on Charles Street. That lawsuit has […]
County Manager Renee Perry presented the 26-27 budget to commissioners on Monday. The proposed general fund budget is $72.47 million, which represents an 8.97 percent over last year’s budget. The budget maintains the current property tax rate and there would be no change in the fire tax, Perry said. About $7.5 million would be appropriated […]
CultureFest returns to downtown Oxford on Saturday, May 9 for its sixth year celebrating cultural diversity through music, dance, food, language and the arts. Hosted by the John Chavis Historical Society, CultureFest also is a nod to the legacy of Dr. Helen Chavis Othow, the society’s founder and the person who spearheaded the very first […]
For James Hutson, it all started with a 1994 green Thunderbird. And a personal desire to keep moving forward. That T-bird was Hutson’s first car, and he bought it with money he earned from having yard sales. Even then, as a teenager, Hutson was a salesman. He said he sold whatever he could get his […]
Joe Sharrow is a familiar name around Vance County. Although Sharrow didn’t grow up here, he claims Henderson as his second hometown because he grew here, with more than 10 years working in Vance County Schools and becoming a high school athletic director – first at Southern Vance and then at Vance County High School. […]
Jackson Taylor is a home-schooled student who spends several hours each morning on his four classes. That frees up his afternoons, evenings – and weekends – for online endeavors, but it has nothing to do with video games, online chats or TikTok videos. Taylor spends a lot of his time away from his studies focused […]
The Henderson City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve a resolution to oppose specific wording in Senate Bill 214 that would allow Franklin County to take property from Vance and two other counties named in the Section 5 portion of the draft legislation. N.C. District 32 Rep. Bryan Cohn updated Council members during a 1 […]
