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Oxford Man Sentenced to 60 Months for Illegal Possession of Firearm
-Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MAURICE SHAWAYNE HARRIS, a/k/a “Gator”, 38, of Oxford to 60 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised released. On January 2, 2019...
VGCC Announces Changes to Public Cosmetology Services
-Press Release, Vance-Granville Community College The Main Campus (Henderson, NC) Vance-Granville Cosmetology Department will no longer offer services to the public effective April 11, 2019. Beginning May 21, 2019, services will be offered at our Franklin Campus, located at 8100 Hwy. 56, Louisburg, NC. Services will resume at our South Campus, located in Creedmoor, NC...
Water Outage Planned for Oxford Road – Mon., April 15
-Information courtesy the City of Henderson The City of Henderson announces that there will a water outage on Oxford Road from the intersection of Dabney Drive and Oxford Road to the intersection of Oxford Road and Willowood Drive on Monday, April 15, 2019, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Contractors will be working on a...
Oxford Prep Announces MaryAnn Crews as Lower School Director
-Press Release, Oxford Preparatory School Oxford Preparatory School (OPS), a free public charter school, is pleased to announce that MaryAnn Crews will be joining the leadership team as Lower School Director beginning July 2019. In the coming 2019-2020 school year, the OPS Lower School is expanding down to serve the 5th grade. Beginning in August...
Agenda: Granville Co. Board of Commissioners Meeting – Mon., April 15
-Information courtesy Debra A. Weary, Clerk to the Board, Granville County The Granville County Board of Commissioners will meet Monday, April 15, 2019, at 7 p.m. at the Granville Expo and Convention Center, 4185 US Highway 15 South, Oxford. Agenda items include: Consent Agenda 1. Contingency Summary 2. NC Education Lottery Fund Request 3. Minutes...
Granville Board of Education to Hold Financial Work Session
-Press Release, Granville County Public Schools NOTICE TO PUBLIC AND PRESS The Granville County Board of Education will meet for a Financial Work Session on Monday, April 15, 2019, at 2:30 p.m. at the Granville County Public Schools Central Office, 101 Delacroix Street, Oxford, North Carolina. The purpose of the meeting is to receive a...
NC 39 Water Main Break in Franklin Co. Now Repaired
-Press Release, County of Franklin Update – April 12, 2019, @ 4 p.m. The water main break on NC 39 between Ferrells Bridge Road and Alford Mill Road has been repaired and service has been restored. Customers that were without water will have some air in their water lines. Please run faucets for 5 –...
North Carolina Room Preserves Historical Flavor of ‘Old Granville County’
In honor of April 7-13 as National Library Week, Mark Pace, North Carolina Room Specialist at the Richard H. Thornton Library in Oxford, was the featured guest on Thursday’s edition of WIZS’ Town Talk program. A part of the Granville County Library System since the early 1960s, the North Carolina Room’s primary mission is to...
Justice Dept. Files Lawsuit Against Warren Co. Board of Education
-Press Release, U.S. Dept. of Justice The Department of Justice announced that it filed a complaint today in federal court against the Warren County, North Carolina, Board of Education (Warren County), to protect rights guaranteed to an Army Reservist, Command Sergeant Major Dwayne Coffer (CSM Coffer), by the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act...
