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Franklin Co. Schools Offering Free Summer Meal Service
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy Franklin County Schools Franklin County Schools is offering a free summer meal service for students on Mondays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Meals will be available for curbside pick up at Bunn High School, Franklinton Elementary...
Vance Co. Schools Completes Commencement Exercises, Graduates 340
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Press Release, Vance County Schools Vance County Schools recently graduated 220 from Vance County High School, 41 from Vance County Early College High School and 79 from Advance Academy. VCS is so proud of the Class of 2020, as these 340...
School Re-Entry Plans Topic of Today’s Granville Board of Education Meeting
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy Granville County Public Schools The Granville County Board of Education will meet for a Special Meeting on Monday, June 15, 2020, at 4 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is for the Board of Education to receive updated information...
Granville Co. Board of Commissioners to Hold Regular June 15 Meeting Via Zoom
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy Debra A. Weary, Clerk to the Board, Granville County The Granville County Board of Commissioners will meet remotely by Zoom conference call on Monday, June 15, 2020, at 7 p.m. for the regularly scheduled meeting. In order to adhere...
Vance Co. Schools’ Free Summer Meal Program Begins June 15
THIS STORY IS PRESENTED IN PART BY DRAKE DENTISTRY -Information courtesy Vance County Schools Vance County Schools’ free summer meal program will begin on Monday, June 15 and continue through Thursday, July 30, 2020. Each week, meals will be available for pick up at Aycock Elementary School, EO Young Elementary School, Vance County Middle School and...
Advance Academy Graduates 79 in Drive-Thru Commencement Ceremony
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Press Release and photos, Vance County Schools Vance County Schools celebrated as Advance Academy held commencement with 79 graduates on Thursday, June 11, 2020, at 2:30 p.m. The drive-thru ceremony was held at Vance-Granville Community College. Though unable to have a...
Oxford Police Dept. Makes Arrests in Recent Murder, Attempted Murder Cases
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy Oxford Police Department, NC On June 10, 2020, Oxford Police Department Investigators arrested Darryl Lee Bumpass, Jr. for the murder of 19-year-old Kennedy Ashlynd Sloan. Kennedy Sloan was killed on the evening of May 31, 2020. While traveling in...
Granville Library’s ‘Imagine Your Story’ Summer Reading Program Kicks Off June 13
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Press Release, Granville County Government Although facilities for the Granville County Library System (Oxford, Creedmoor, Stovall and Berea) are temporarily closed to the public, the Summer Reading Program will kick off on June 13, 2020, with activities for children, teens and...
Special Meeting Called to Adopt Vance Co. Water District Budget Ordinance – June 15
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Information courtesy Kelly H. Grissom, Clerk to Board/Executive Asst., County of Vance Vance County Board of Commissioners Chairman Gordon Wilder has called a special meeting for Monday, June 15, 2020, at 6 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Conference Room, Vance County Administration...
Butner Federal Inmate Sentenced to 30 Months for Weapons Possession
100.1 FM ~ 1450 AM ~ WIZS, Your Community Voice ~ Click to LISTEN LOCAL -Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice An inmate housed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina (“FCC Butner”) was sentenced yesterday to 30 months of incarceration for possessing weapons inside the federal prison. According to court documents, Gerald Wayne...
