The Oxford Board of Commissioners will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at 7 p.m. inside the Commissioners Board Room at City Hall – 300 Williamsboro Street, Oxford.
At this meeting, there will be a public hearing to receive citizen input as to the needs of low and moderate income residents and neighborhoods within the City of Oxford.
-Information courtesy of Cynthia Bowen, City Clerk, City of Oxford
The public is invited to attend the second annual Multicultural Festival on Saturday, May 12, 2018, at the Central Children’s Home and Gym located at 211 West Antioch Drive in Oxford.
The event is sponsored by the John Chavis Historical Society and festivities will go from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Vendors and food trucks will be on site and door prizes will be given to lucky winners.
The festival will feature the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble, the Haliwa-Saponi Native American Dancers and Latin American Vocalist and Guitarist Juan Gomez.
Come enjoy a fun-filled, cultural and inspiring day!
The highlight of the festival will be the Instoolment of Dr. Helen Chavis Othow as Queen Mother with Chief Omotolokun Omokunde presiding.
Tickets: Adults – $10.00; Family Group of 5 – $35; Students and Seniors – $5; Ages 7 and under – FREE.
Tickets can be purchased by calling (919) 693-9133 or emailing hdothow@embarqmail.com. Please send a cashier’s check or money order payable to The John Chavis Historical Society. Contributions to the John Chavis Historical Society may be mailed to P.O. Box 1737, Oxford, NC 27565. Your donation is tax-deductible.
(This is not a paid advertisement)
-Submitted by Cynthia Bowen, City Clerk, City of Oxford
The Finance Committee for the Oxford Board of Commissioners will meet on Friday, April 27, 2018, at 10 a.m. The meeting will be held in the 1st Floor Training Room of City Hall at 300 Williamsboro Street in Oxford. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the FY 2018-2019 budget.
All those interested are invited to attend.
-Information provided by Debra Weary, Clerk to the Board/Assistant to the County Manager – Granville County
Reminder for Granville County Businesses and Residents:
If you haven’t yet taken the Granville County Residential or Business Survey about internet access, please make sure you do that before the end of the month. If you’re willing and able, we would greatly appreciate you spreading the word to your networks. Thanks for helping Granville County think strategically about the future of broadband in our county!
Remember–
Surveys can be found by clicking the links:
-Submitted by Tommy Anstead, Oxford Prep Softball Coach
The Oxford Preparatory Griffins softball team lost to Southern Vance High School on Monday, April 23, 4-3 on the last play of the game of the 8th inning. O.P. lost despite out-hitting Southern Vance 6 to 4. It was a hard-fought game, neither team gave up. Proud of the girls, they have never been 8 innings before.
There will be a Kids in Parks Track Trail ribbon cutting at Granville Athletic Park Friday, April 20 at 3:30 p.m.
According to an email from Charla Duncan, management analyst and JCPC coordinator with Granville County, “We’re gearing up for Earth Day weekend! This is one more reminder before our grand opening of our Kids in Parks TRACK Trail program at the Granville Athletic Park! The kiosk will be installed at the first trail entrance of the park (enter through the main entrance of the GAP off of Belltown Road). We encourage you to bring your family! The activities for this trail are geared toward 6-12 year-olds. Consider registering your child prior to the event.”
The web page www.kidsinparks.com says, “Kids in Parks is an expanding network of family-friendly outdoor adventures called TRACK Trails. Each TRACK Trail features self-guided brochures and signs that turn your visit into a fun and exciting outdoors experience.”
The idea is to get kids unplugged from electronic devices and to get them outside doing physical activity.
Submitted by Jennifer Grimes, Financial Development Assistant, The Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Inc. Click the story above to visit www.mhc-oxford.org
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
REVISED MONTHLY STORMWATER CHARGE
The public will take notice that the Board of Commissioners of the City of Oxford has called a public hearing at 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in the Commissioners’ Board Room, 3rd Floor, City Hall, 300 Williamsboro Street, Oxford, NC, to receive input on revising the current stormwater rates. If adopted, this would increase the current monthly stormwater rate from $2 to $3 per month per single family residential unit or Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU) of 2,368 square feet for non-single family residential properties.
Written comments will be accepted until Thursday, April 5, 2018, via email to cbowen@oxfordnc.org or by mail/hand delivery to Oxford City Hall at P.O. Box 1307, 300 Williamsboro St., Oxford NC 27565. To be considered, written comments should include the name, address, and signature of the person submitting the comments.
Additional information is available at www.oxfordnc.org or by calling 919-603-1100.
— press release
Granville County Conducts Internet Access Survey
Oxford, NC, March 20, 2018- Granville County is working hard to develop solutions to the Internet connectivity issues many of our residents and businesses face. Granville County has teamed up with Vance and Franklin Counties to work with the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments and the firm Mighty River, out of Wake Forest. Mighty River, LLC is working to advise and assist all three counties in developing a broadband strategy tailored to the needs of each region.
Before Granville County can determine solutions, the Granville County Broadband Action Committee members need more information about the current state of affairs involving Internet/broadband connectivity throughout Granville County. Even if residents and businesses are satisfied with their Internet, the Granville County Broadband Action Committee is interested in hearing from those individuals and entities.
In order to help Granville County obtain more information, please take the brief residential and/or business surveys about your current Internet/broadband service (or lack of service) in Granville County. Share the surveys with your friends, family, and work associates (but please only take it once). Home-based businesses are asked to fill out both surveys. Information collected through the surveys will only be used in the Internet/broadband strategic planning process.
Surveys are available at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GranvilleCountyResidential
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GranvilleBusinessSurvey
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NOTICE TO PUBLIC AND PRESS
The Granville County Board of Education will meet in a Closed Session for Personnel/Attorney Client Privilege in accordance with N.C. General Statute 143.318.11 (a)(6), 143-318.11 (a)(3), 143.318.11 (a)(5) and Section 115C-321 on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 5:15 p.m. at the Board of Education Administrative Offices, 101 Delacroix Street, Oxford, North Carolina. The next scheduled Board work session for the Board of Education will be held on Monday, March 26, 2018.
Dywanda Pettaway
Clerk to the Board of Education
