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TownTalk: Sossamon Calls For Recount
Vance and Granville counties will conduct a recount in the too-close-to-call contest for House District 32, which has Democratic challenger Bryan Cohn leading Republican incumbent Frank Sossamon by 233 votes. Because that margin is less than 1 percent of the voting totals – .53 percent, to be precise – the challenger (in this case, Sossamon)
TownTalk: Annual Salvation Army Red Kettle Season Kicks Off
As if on cue, November 15 provided a crisp backdrop to the morning’s Red Kettle Season Kickoff, and dozens from the community showed up outside Belk to take the opportunity to drop in the first donations of the Christmas season. The Vance County High School chorus provided several seasonal and inspirational selections for the Salvation
TownTalk: ‘Shop With A Cop And Friends’ Reception: Fun With A Purpose
Wednesday’s celebratory reception for the Shop With a Cop and Friends program was sprinkled with laughter, music and levity, but the underlying message shone clearly in remarks by everybody from Chamber President Sandra Wilkerson on down to local law enforcement leaders – it’s all for the kids. “This is what we do and what we
TownTalk: Farmers Appreciation Day Celebration
The Vance County Regional Farmers Market is located close to where Leo Kelly remembers his family farmed. They weren’t big farmers, Kelly told a group gathered at the farmers market Thursday for the inaugural Farmers Appreciation Day in Vance County, but he remembers chickens, hogs and having spring, summer and fall gardens. Kelly, vice chair
TownTalk: Paws Of Hope Pantry At Pinkston Street School
Paws of Hope, the new food pantry at Pinkston Street Elementary, was filled with well-wishers from the community Wednesday who came out to show support for a program designed to feed a child – literally and figuratively. The new space has a fresh coat of paint – the school colors, of course – and banners
TownTalk: The Barefoot Movement Headlines Hurricane Relief Concert At SGHS
The Barefoot Movement’s Noah Wall and Tommy Norris have a deep connection to western North Carolina and east Tennessee, just over the Blue Ridge Mountains. They were dating and in a band when Norris was a student at Western Carolina and Noah was at East Tennessee State, and the two would meet in Asheville for
TownTalk: Ahmad Campbell Foundation
Alicia Campbell doesn’t get tired of telling stories about her boys, Ahmad and Rashad. Like the time they went off exploring instead of being down the street playing basketball. It was the only spanking Ahmad ever got, Campbell said. It was getting dark and the boys didn’t come when their mom called out the front
TownTalk: Around Old Granville: First Families
Just as in today’s real estate market, the phrase “location, location, location” rang true in the days when the very first families came to the area once known as Granville County. The English folks who’d settled Jamestown were branching out in the pre-Revolutionary era of the 1700’s and they looked south for more opportunities, said
WIZS Radio 2024 General Election Coverage
Democratic incumbent Carolyn Faines swept all three precincts Tuesday to retain her District 1 seat on the Vance County Board of Commissioners, defeating Republican challenger William Heitman, with 56 percent of the vote over Heitman’s 44 percent. The District 1 seat was the only contested local race on Vance County ballots, with three other commissioners
TownTalk: Economic Development In Vance County
As the county’s new economic development director, Ferdinand Rouse has spent his first few months on the job taking stock of all the things that make Vance County attractive to prospective business and industry. But he’s also digging into the county’s history and the people who have helped to shape it over the years so
