In addition to the meeting of the county commissioners tonight at 6 at the old courthouse, the Vance County Board of Education will meet at 7 tonight at the school system’s Administrative Services Center on Graham Avenue. The agenda includes recognition of schools for success on the state ABCs testing and the presentation of plans to improve Western Vance High School’s results. Meanwhile, the floor is open.
Month: November 2005
Agenda items for county commissioners
The following are among the important items that will be discussed at the meeting of the Vance County Board of Commissioners at 6 p.m. today:
Friday’s open line
We’re lacking in sources for Middleburg and Kittrell, but we’re looking forward to the elections in those towns Tuesday. Anyone have a read on those elections? Anyone care? In any case, the floor is open.
Thursday’s open line
One of the downsides of the rise of activist volunteer organizations in the past couple of years is that you get a very different mix of people from meeting to meeting, with the result that the same problems and same facts are discussed over and over. Wednesday’s VOICE meeting was apparently the latest example. According to the daily newspaper and an e-mail message from City Manager Eric Williams, the VOICE chairman, the group had a lively discussion about gangs, schools, …
Wednesday’s open line
The City Council’s Public Utilities Committee is scheduled to meet today at noon, and it could be the final time that John Wester presides over one of those meetings before his time on the council comes to an end next month. There are a lot of things going on at the water plant, so it could be interesting to see what Wester can get done during the time he has left. With that, we open the floor to comments.
Milestones extra: Halloween in Henderson
I’m disappointed that there has been so much inveighing against Halloween these last several years. I think that it is the quintessential Henderson holiday.