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Warren County Gets More Than $1M From Golden LEAF To Extend Water Line To U.S. 1 Industrial Site
Warren County has been awarded $1,087,460 in SITE funding to extend a waterline to the Hwy 1 Industrial Site from the Golden LEAF Foundation. The money will be used for construction, engineering, due diligence and potential environmental remediation, county officials said. According to Warren County Community and Economic Development Director McKinley Perkinson, this award will...
No Candidates So Far Filed For District 7 Board Of Education Seat
UPDATE Dec. 17, 2025 — information courtesy of Vance County Board of Elections Director Haley Rawles The filing period for the March 2026 primary election wraps up at 12 noon on Friday, Dec. 19, and so far, there are no candidates who have filed for the District 7 seat on the Vance County Board of...
Raleigh Man Gets 50-Year Federal Prison Sentence For Cocaine Trafficking Operation
— information courtesy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of North Carolina On December 11, 2025, a federal judge sentenced a Raleigh man to 600 months, which is 50 years, in federal prison for leading a large-scale drug trafficking organization responsible for distributing cocaine, crack cocaine, fentanyl, and other narcotics throughout the...
Henderson Man Charged In Connection With Hit And Run That Results In Death Of Victim
– Press Release from Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow On November 26, 2025, officers with the Henderson Police Department responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in the area of 1202 E. Andrews Avenue. Upon arrival, officers determined that Phillip Warren, 56, of Henderson, had exited the vehicle he was operating...
SportsTalk: Lady Hurricanes Go Into ‘Break’ Excited for 2026
Dennis Gaskins, Head Coach for the Women’s Basketball Team at Louisburg College, joins SportsTalk with Scout Hughes and Steve Lewis to talk about how the Lady Hurricanes are going to assess the Christmas “Break”, and how they plan to come back in January ready for the rest of the season. Click Play! WIZS Radio ·...
The Local Skinny! Wrapping Up 2025 at Perry Memorial Library
As 2025 winds down, Perry Memorial Library Youth Services Director Melody Peters reflects on successes throughout the year as patrons, staff and the community celebrated the library’s centennial. Libraries have transformed over the years to being so much more than just a place to check out books, and Henderson’s library is no exception. Families can...
TownTalk: Dwaynna Ramsay Graduate Speaker at WGU
Growing up in Jamaica, Dwaynna Ramsay wanted to be a pharmacist. She excelled in school, and set her sights on college to continue on the career path she dreamed of. She was accepted into a couple of different schools, but money was tight, and Ramsay said she deferred her dream so she could work and...
Cooperative Extension with Michael Ellington: Mistletoe and Holly
Michael Ellington, on the Vance County Cooperative Extension Report: Today’s segment explores the botanical side of mistletoe and holly. Also included are reminders of Small Farm Boot Camp and the upcoming Tobacco GAP meeting. go.ncsu.edu/ncsmallfarmbootcamp Listen live at 100.1 FM / 1450 AM / or on the live stream at WIZS.com at 11:50 a.m. Mon, Tues...
The Local Skinny! Vance Co. Commissioners’ Special Called Meeting Tuesday, Dec. 16 At 4 P.M.
The Vance County Board of Commissioners will hold a special called meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 4 p.m. to hold public hearings on several zoning requests and to receive and potentially approve a fiscal operations policy. According to information from Clerk to the Board Dywanda Pettaway, Board Chair Carolyn Faines called the meeting, which...
TownTalk: The Blast Newspaper!
There are so many ways to get news and information these days – the more traditional methods like radio, television and print media often take a back seat to the ubiquitous screen. When the COVID pandemic shut down Faicia Elliott’s radio advertising job, she hatched a plan to get a real newspaper in the hands...
