Entries by Laura Gabel

TownTalk: Repair Cafe Event Coming To Granville County

Don Fick of Repair Cafe NC discusses how his organization repairs many daily household items keeping them out of local landfills. For complete details and audio click play. Just because the button on your household gizmo is broken doesn’t mean it needs to go straight to the landfill – it may just need a quick […]

Glen Raven Announces $82 Million Expansion At Norlina Plant

  Glen Raven, Inc. Custom Fabrics, LLC, in Norlina announced today (Wednesday, July 21) an $82 million capital investment plan that will create 205 new jobs. The expansion at the Warren County manufacturing plant will add about $6.5 million in annual salaries, according to a press release from Warren County. Governor Roy Cooper also announced […]

Construction Of New Park Set To Begin Where Vance Hotel Once Stood

Plans for construction of a park near downtown Henderson have been in the works for a couple of years, but Henderson City Manager Terrell Blackmon said this week that materials have been delivered and a ground-breaking ceremony will be held “in the near future.” Among the features are a skate park and bike park, a […]

TownTalk: Elmwood Area Eyed for Redevelopment

For complete details and audio click play. The city’s re-established Redevelopment Commission is holding a listening session Thursday, July 22 at 6 p.m. to hear from the community about plans for making upgrades to an area known to city officials as the Elmwood Urban Redevelopment Area (URA). This listening session, which will be held in […]

School Board To Review, Discuss Survey Results July 22

The Granville County Board of Education will meet for a special called meeting Thursday afternoon at the Mary Potter Center of Education to receive and discuss results of a community survey in its continuing discussion about school consolidation. The July 22 meeting will begin at 1 p.m. and will be open to the public, but […]

TownTalk: NCWorks NextGen Program Helps Young Workers On Career Path

The NextGen program that operates in the five-county area as part of NCWorks offers young adults support and help in the search for gainful employment, but they get much more than just the hope of a paycheck. Helen Bradby, NextGen’s director, shared information about the program on Monday’s Town Talk and told John C. Rose […]

New Tethering Ordinance Takes Effect Aug. 1 For Oxford Dog Owners

Beginning Aug. 1, Oxford residents who tether their dog could be in violation of a new city ordinance that carries a civil penalty of $100 for each day they are found to be out of compliance. The board adopted the ordinance at their July 13 meeting.  City Commissioner John Tovey said he brought the issue […]

Oxford Announces Interim Police Chief

The City of Oxford has announced that former Oxford Police Department Captain Pat Ford will return to the Police Department to serve as interim police chief. Ford will begin the job on Aug. 2 and will lead the department as it conducts a search for a permanent chief. Chief Al Coley announced in June that […]

Police Department One Step Closer To Body-Worn Cameras, If Grant Comes Through

The Henderson City Council has given the go-ahead for a couple of requests for grant funding to equip police officers with body cams and law enforcement cruisers with additional cameras. At its July 12 meeting, council members approved grant proposals that Police Chief Marcus Barrow and staff have prepared. “Our officers have been asking for […]