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TownTalk: Rural Water Apprenticeships Are Available
How many times a day do you use water? Morning showers, preparing a pot of coffee or washing dishes after a meal are just a few of the many ways we use water throughout the day. We turn on the spigot and expect clean, safe water to come flowing out. But it takes a lot
TownTalk: Purr Partners Prepares For Kitten Season
Having a pet can be a wonderful experience – who doesn’t love the idea of a cute little furr ball greeting you when you come home after a hard day’s work? But with pet ownership comes responsibilities, in addition to general care and trips to the vet, and Lawanna Johnson sees the consequences first-hand when
TownTalk: Osteopathic Medicine Helps with Those Aches And Pains
There are lots of reasons why people develop arthritis – either we’re genetically predisposed to achy joints, we’ve suffered an injury that later brings on pain or it could be just simple wear-and-tear on our bodies that produces the aches and pains we associate with getting older. But Mark Messmer, a doctor of osteopathic medicine,
TownTalk: CyberHIRE 2023 Makes It Easy To Find A New Job
Job seekers and employers will get a unique opportunity to “meet” later this week during a Cyber Hire event sponsored by the Kerr-Tar COG. Employers from across the five-county region – Vance, Granville, Warren, Franklin and Person – will make presentations that will be livestreamed to a site in each of the counties, where prospective
TownTalk: American Legion Post 60 Celebrates 100 Years
Henderson’s American Legion Post 60 is celebrating 100 years of service to the area with a special program Saturday evening to mark the occasion. Post 60 Commander Ted Grissom reminds members of the program that is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25, beginning at 6 p.m. Post 60 Vice-Commander Hartwell Wright spoke with John C.
Lillian Brooks, Oxford Prep Senior, Chosen For UNC-CH Morehead-Cain Scholarship
Lillian Brooks, a senior at Oxford Preparatory School, has been selected for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the daughter of Angela and Chris Brooks of Oxford. Brooks, set to graduate summa cum laude, also serves as senior class president and participates in numerous groups at Oxford Prep,
Henderson Man Jailed On Drug, Federal Detention Order
A Henderson man is in jail on a couple of charges, one of which is possession of cocaine, according to Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame. Members of the sheriff’s office narcotics unit assisted U.S. marshals locate Terrance Hargrove on Friday, Feb. 17, Brame stated in a press release Monday. Hargrove, 45, was found in the
TownTalk: Katie Haynes: 2022 Miss U.S. Agriculture People’s Choice
Growing up in 4-H, Katie Haynes said, she got interested in showing rabbits, something she’s been doing now for 11 years now and still enjoys it. “4-H really helped boost my public speaking skills and confidence levels,” Haynes said. She’s likely going to continue using those skills and more as she travels to Alabama this
TownTalk: Corbitt Preservation Reissues Book In Digital Form
By all accounts, Richard Johnson Corbitt was an excellent businessman and a person of high character, but he probably wouldn’t have believed that anyone who said that someone in the future would be able to put an entire book inside a piece of plastic smaller than a pack of chewing gum. Corbitt’s company operated right
TownTalk: Vance County Receives Positive Audit Of Finances
Vance County Manager Jordan McMillen said the county’s audit for FY 21-22 was a good one, overall. And while the results of the audit may not have been a surprise, it’s always a relief to get the official word from those outside auditors that things are going along smoothly. “In terms of financials, we had
