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Sheriff’s Office: Two Drug Arrests Made In Separate Vehicle Stops
Press releases from Vance County Sheriff’s Office The Vance County Sheriff’s Office made two drug arrests Monday in two separate vehicle stops. On Monday, November 25, 2024, members of the Vance County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics unit conducted a vehicle stop in the 900 block of Faulknertown Road. The driver was identified as Kemarreus Frank-Quan Jones...
TownTalk: Alert Christmas Parade Is Coming
Looking for some good old-fashioned entertainment to help get you in a festive holiday mood? Check out the Alert Christmas Parade, set to kick off at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14. That’s right, A-lert, the community that’s just over the Franklin/Vance County line beyond Epsom. Larry Ayscue is one of this year’s parade organizers...
Program For Low-Income Residents Offers Help With Winter Heat Bills
The Low-Income Energy Assistance Program provides a one-time annual vendor payment to help eligible families pay their heating expense. If you received a LIEAP payment in 2023-2024, someone in the household was disabled and receiving services through the Division of Aging and Adult Services OR households containing a person aged 60, an automatic payment will be...
Longtime VGCC President, Dr. Ben F. Currin, Dies
Dr. Benjamin Fleming Currin, long-time president of Vance-Granville Community College, died on Nov. 23, 2024. Under his leadership, VGCC grew from a single campus to four campuses, doubled its enrollment and saw its Endowment Fund swell to $5 million. He was 88. Ben was born on November 13, 1936 in Granville County to Sophia Hunt...
The Local Skinny! 3rd Annual Vance County Camp Meeting
It’s called a camp meeting, but it’s not the type of camp meeting that Scott Matthews’s granddaddy Jesse held, always the week of the Fourth of July under a tent on the grounds of Forest Hill Baptist Church. Back then, it could be 100 degrees, with 1,000 percent humidity, Matthews said, half joking half serious...
WIZS Radio Henderson Local News 11-25-24 Noon
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TownTalk: Around Old Granville – First Families Part Two
Ready to hear how the area now known as Kittrell is connected to the first Thanksgiving? THE first Thanksgiving. The one that happened in 1618, a full four years before the Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated the first successful harvest in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. Leave it to WIZS’s Bill Harris and local historian Mark...
CANCELLED: Dec. 3 Equine Nutrition Seminar In Warren County
The seminar on equine nutrition scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 3 in Littleton has been cancelled. Dr. Paul Siciliano, equine extension specialist with N.C. State University, had been scheduled to present “Preparing Your Horses for Winter,” to walk horse owners through a list of feeding and management strategies to consider as cold weather approaches. To learn...
Local Nonprofit Sponsoring Christmas Toy Drive
Those donation boxes at Vance Family Medicine and the fire station in downtown Henderson are part of the inaugural toy drive sponsored by Blk Sista Productions, a local nonprofit organization with a mission to support local families facing financial challenges. “Let’s come together to make this Christmas unforgettable,” is the message from Blk Sista Productions...
Remember Henderson Family YMCA On ‘Giving Tuesday’ Dec.3
The days following Thanksgiving are a retailer’s dream – slash – nightmare – Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday. But then comes Giving Tuesday, where the emphasis is not on retail so much as on ways to support local organizations. It’s a global day of giving that has come into its own as a...
