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On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext. Clean and sanitize your seedling trays Buy fertilizer for the mid February application to tall fescue Clean and sharpen pruning equipment. Purchase new equipment if needed. Begin scouting pastures for buttercups. Treatments need to be applied in late Feb. Check spraying equipment. Have one...
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The van fleet at Rebuilding Hope, Inc. has doubled, thanks to a recent donation by Island Creek Baptist Church. Randolph Wilson, coordinator of the non-profit, located in the former Coca-Cola Bottling Co. location, said the 15-passenger van will be especially helpful when it’s time to take volunteers to various project sites during the summertime Servants...
The Local Skinny! Students Learn To Extinguish Fires
They are everywhere – in office buildings and schools, under kitchen sinks and in so many other places where fires could break out. But just because we see fire extinguishers throughout the course of a day doesn’t mean we know how to use them. Vance County Schools puts a strong emphasis on providing students with...
The Local Skinny! St. Paul’s Lutheran Food Minsitry
The kickoff event for the “Feeding the 5,000” food ministry is set for this Saturday, and Corey Brooks, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church near Ridgeway, said volunteers will be ready to serve a hot meal between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. “Come in, sit down, have a hot mealand enjoy a time of fellowship,”...
Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext. Plant microgreens to enjoy in salads, Ex/ radish,broccoli, arugula. Prepare beds for cool season crops that will be planted in February. Organize your seed, tools, make a system that will enable you to locate what you need when you need it! Be prepared to...
The Local Skinny! Youth Programs Happening Perry Memorial Library
Chocolate fondue. Sewing on a button. Legos. Not necessarily what you’d associate with a library. But Melody Peters, youth services director at Perry Memorial Library says all these things – and more – are available for library patrons. From Mother Goose Story Time on Thursday mornings to Life Hacks sessions, Peters said the library...
The Local Skinny! City Of Henderson Financial Health
The city of Henderson is in pretty good financial shape, according to a recent report presented by the auditor who completed the annual comprehensive study. Bryon Scott delivered the positive news to City Council members during its November meeting, and he said the only bit of information that concerned him was uncollected taxes. In the...
Armed Robbery Mast Drug Dabney Drive
UPDATE Noon Friday – When asked if there was anything new to report, Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow said, “Nothing that has led to an arrest.” ********************** UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Thursday – Press release information from Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow: Jan. 19 at approximately 9:30 a.m., two subjects entered Mast Drug at 418 Dabney...
Oxford Man Sentenced to 10-Year Statutory Maximum After Shooting Two People and Leaving One for Dead
— press release — William Brian Coghill was sentenced this past Friday to 10 years in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a felon after shooting two acquaintances and leaving one for dead at his home in Oxford, North Carolina. This is the statutory maximum sentence available...
Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext. If space for a garden is limited consider constructing garden beds. Continue planting trees and shrubs. It’s better to plant them now than waiting until the temperature heats up in late spring. Write down on paper what garden problems that you had last year...
