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The Local Skinny! Lickskillet Dog Grooming Keeps Your Pets Looking Great

January 24, 2022
Doreen Hood works hard at making sure her canine clients don’t feel like they’re at the dreaded veterinarian’s office. Her Lickskillet Dog Grooming is an inviting spot where dogs come for baths and grooming. It’s like sending your pooch to a doggie day spa. Hood said she learned all about dog grooming in New York...
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The Local Skinny! Vance Eats: Jerry’s Hot Dogs

January 20, 2022
Food trucks are all the rage these days, but local folks know that their go-to spot for more than three decades is a true original. And whether you prefer your burger or ‘dog plain or all the way, stop by Jerry’s Footlongs & Italian Sausage and taste for yourself. Trey Snide, acting on a tip...
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January 19, 2022
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.: Use sand instead of salt products on walkways and driveways during winter weather and sand don’t hurt plants like salt can. Cut dead foliage off of ornamental grasses. Take care not to cut into the crown or growing point, which is at the center...
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The Local Skinny! Around Old Granville: Tungsten Mine

January 18, 2022
Timing is everything, and for a couple of local gold prospectors back in 1942, that adage certainly rang true. The Hamme brothers, Richard and Joe, didn’t find gold in the northwest part of Vance County, but what they did find certainly proved valuable and timely. It wasn’t gold. But they found tungsten. Mark Pace and...
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The Local Skinny! Jobs In Vance 01-18-22

January 18, 2022
The H-V Chamber of Commerce and WIZS, Your Community Voice, present Jobs in Vance for January 18th, 2022. The Chamber compiles the information, and it is presented here and on the radio. Contact the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce at 438-8414 or email christa@hendersonvance.org to be included. JOB OPENINGS IN VANCE COUNTY – Week of January...
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The Local Skinny! Latest Local Election News

January 17, 2022
Candidates who wish to file for local offices will be able to do so beginning Feb. 24, 2022 at 8 a.m., according to Vance County Board of Elections Director Melody Vaughan. The filing period resumes following a State Supreme Court ruling on newly drawn district maps. The filing period will end at 12 noon on...
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The Local Skinny! Vance Eats: Blackened Catfish From Restaurant 39

January 13, 2022
A lot of folks love a good plate of fish or seafood. Whether it’s fried flounder or shrimp fettuccine or some other dish, seafood can be some of the most delicious food you’ll ever eat. And that includes catfish, even though it’s not from the sea. Catfish can certainly be battered and fried, but if...
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The Local Skinny! It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time

January 13, 2022
It’s that time of year again – Girl Scout Cookie time begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday. And NC Coastal Pines Membership Director Teresa Wimbrow says there’s something for everyone in this year’s offering. Vance County has about 100 girls who participate in the scouting program, but Wimbrow said she is always ready to welcome...
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January 12, 2022
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.: Clean your greenhouse check for mice Use annual ryegrass as a temporary cover on bare spots in turf. Plan out your garden now, Be prepared to apply crabgrass preventer earlier. Plan on growing one vegetable that you haven’t grown before. Start checking the planting...
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Around Old Granville: Dr. Helen Chavis Othow

January 11, 2022
Dr. Helen Chavis Othow was an educator, a genealogist, an author and a longtime leader in civic affairs in her native Granville County. She also was a wife, a sister and a mother. Othow died on Jan. 1, 2022 at the age of 89. Mark Pace and Bill Harris remembered the life and work of...
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