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More than 20 miles of state-maintained roads in Vance County will undergo resurfacing and shoulder improvements, according to information from NC DOT. Carolina Sunrock of Raleigh was awarded a $2.7 million contract to mill, resurface pavement and improve shoulders along 21.4 miles of Vance County roads, including Tungsten Mine, Jacksontown and Morgan roads. ST Wooten […]
Vance-Granville Community College plans to launch a new technology platform for student services that school officials said will help students across the four campuses whether they are taking in-person classes, virtual classes or a combination of the two. The school is partnering with software company ConexED, whose technology is intended to promote student success, according […]
Carbon footprints, fossil fuels and emissions reductions all are buzz phrases that are grabbing headlines these days and it can be dizzying to try to make sense of it all. “Clean” transportation has nothing to do washing, waxing and detailing vehicles, as it turns out, and everything to do with types of fuels cars […]
Katherine Burnette has some tried-and-true advice for aspiring novelists: Treat it like another job and set aside some time to write every day, to help you stay in practice. That advice has served her well as she recently published her first book while keeping her “day job.” Burnette lives in Oxford and is a district […]
The Granville Education Foundation (GEF) has distributed awards totaling more than $50,000 to schools across the county during its recent “Prize Patrol” celebration. The foundation funded 40 grants in 16 different schools, according to GEF Executive Director Jennifer Cufalo Carpenter. A total of 82 applications were reviewed and scored by GEF grant committee members. Names […]
N.C. MedAssist will be in Franklin County on Friday, Dec. 17 for a free medicine giveaway. Vaya Health is sponsoring the event, which will take place at the Franklin campus of Vance-Granville Community College, 8100 NC Hwy. 56 in Louisburg. No appointment is required, according to information from Lisa Szabo, Mobile Free Pharmacy Events & […]
A new emergency program launched today (Dec. 1) to help low-income households afford water and wastewater services. The program, called Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program is scheduled to run through September 2023 or until the funds are all used up. It is a federally funded program administered through the North Carolina Department of Health and […]
The community is invited to participate in a couple of activities this weekend that are part of the NC DOT study of the proposed S-Line rail project. Henderson and Norlina are both being considered for stops along the line. There will be a pop-up community meeting in Norlina on Friday, Dec. 3 as the plan […]
Vance Sheriff Curtis R. Brame announced the arrests of two people on drug charges in separate incidents over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Gregory Brown was stopped by members of the patrol division on Tiny Broadwick Boulevard on Nov. 25 for an expired tag. During the traffic stop, Brame said Brown told a deputy that […]
Derrick Iozzio’s phone is always on, he says. Always. And that’s one of the things that sets him and his organization apart from other groups that provide services to military veterans and others in crisis. Iozzio, a trained peer support mental health specialist and facilitator, founded Catch-22 Peer Support in response to what he saw […]
