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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...
CropCheck Program Now Available to Farmers of Cotton, Corn & Soybeans
-Press Release, NCDA&CS This year, farmers can add CropCheck, a pilot program offered by Field Watch, that allows growers to map small grain/commodity crops by herbicide-resident traits. Crops include cotton, corn and soybeans. It’s been three years since the online mapping programs Driftwatch and BeeCheck were launched in North Carolina. Since then, it has become...
Vance Co. Schools: Early Release Day, Spring Break Reminders
-Information courtesy Vance County Schools April Reminders: Friday, April 12, 2019, is an early release day for Vance County schools. Elementary schools dismiss at 12 p.m. and middle and high schools dismiss at 12:15 p.m. Early College follows its regular schedule for Friday. Spring break for students is April 15 – 19. All Vance County...
Embrace Henderson Spectacular: FREE Family Fun Day at SaddleRock Farm!
-Information courtesy Jackie Ayscue, New Sandy Creek Baptist Church The Embrace Henderson Spectacular, an annual FREE Family Fun Day sponsored by the Embrace Henderson Committee and the Child Evangelism Fellowship, will be held Saturday, May 4, 2019, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at SaddleRock Farm, 1786 Weldon’s Mill Road, in Henderson, NC. It is...
