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WIZS Radio Local News Audio 01-17-23 Noon
Click Play to Listen. On Air at 8am, 12pm, 5pm M-F WIZS Radio ~ 100.1FM/1450AM WIZS Radio · WIZS Radio Local News Audio 01-17-23 Noon ...
The Local Skinny! Valentines For Veterans
Gentiva Hospice in Oxford is hosting a Valentine’s For Veterans event later this month to make Valentine’s cards that will be shared with veterans in five different are counties. This is the third year that Gentiva, formerly Kindred Hospice, has sponsored the activity, and Patient Care Coordinator Whitney Allen told WIZS’s Bill Harris on The...
TownTalk: Classes Help Seniors Navigate Technology And The Internet
By all accounts, Edy Thompson says, the class designed for senior adults who want to learn more about how to use technology is a success. From reading the evaluations from those who attended the first class, everyone thinks it’s an “excellent idea,” Thompson told John C. Rose. “And they’re coming back.” Completing an evaluation is...
Franklin County Creates, Fills Second Assistant County Manager Position
Franklin County is getting a second assistant county manager in a couple of weeks. The county commissioners approved adding the position in its 2023 budget and officials recently announced that Ryan Preble will begin his new role on Jan. 25. Preble has more than 20 years’ management across a variety of organizations, including the private...
US Attorney’s Office Gets Guns Off the Streets In 2022
-information courtesy of the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of North Carolina The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of North Carolina has announced that, as a result of litigation efforts during 2022, at least 280 illegally owned, possessed, used or obtained firearms were forfeited. “Getting illegal guns out of the hands...
TownTalk: Reflections On Dr. Martin Luther King
Monday’s TownTalk segment includes reflections from area pastors in observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Please listen back to hear these reflections in their entirety. The Rev. Joseph Ratliff, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, said he views the MLK holiday “not simply about a single man, butthe struggle of Black people...
WIZS Radio Local News Audio 01-16-23 Noon
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Sossamon Sworn In As Dist. 32 Rep In N.C. House
Frank Sossamon was sworn in last week as the new legislator representing Vance and Granville counties in the N.C. House before an audience of supporters in the lobby of McGregor Hall. The Hon. John Dunlow administered the oath of office following remarks from county officials representing the local county commissions and chairmen of the Republican...
$25,000 Reward Offered For Information About 2018 Homicide
A $25,000 reward is being offered by the state of North Carolina for information about an almost five-year-old unsolved murder in Vance County. Gov. Roy Cooper’s office made the announcement Thursday in connection with the death of 22-year-old De’Cedric Tyquon Alston. In the late evening hours of Feb. 22, 2018, Alston was shot multiple times...
SportsTalk: Mike Joyner on KVA Athletics
As an athletic director Mike Joyner of Kerr Vance Academy stays busy overseeing all of the sports his school provides to students. In addition to that there are tournaments that also are part of the school’s athletics. Over the recent holiday period KVA hosted a basketball tournament with Oak Forest winning the men’s’ championship and...
