Click image to view complete, full-size document. Here is the agenda for the Henderson City Council’s work session. The work session is held on the fourth Monday of each month immediately following the short regular session in City Hall, 134 Rose Avenue in Henderson, North Carolina.
Month: August 2010
Council to award bid for water main replacement
Click here to view complete, full-size document. Here is the agenda for the Henderson City Council’s short regular session. The short regular session is held on the fourth Monday of each month beginning at 6:00 p.m. in City Hall, 143 Rose Avenue in Henderson, North Carolina.
Monday’s open line
Due to Vance County Schools’ open house, Home in Henderson will not be able to provide coverage of any of today’s meetings, video or otherwise. Those attending the meetings with a secret wish to be “Editor for a Day” should feel free to send us your written, photographic, or video accounts of any of today’s three meetings. For those of you who have school-age children, please don’t miss this opportunity to meet your child’s teacher(s). Here’s your open line.
Rep. Wray’s Raleigh Report
Education is one of the most important services of government in North Carolina and all of us agree that providing a good education for our young people is critical for the success of our state.
NC gets $225 million for broadband access
North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue on Wednesday announced that North Carolina has received $115 million in five federal recovery grants to extend broadband connectivity in North Carolina.
Vance firefighters present tractor pull Aug 27 & 28
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Special county commission meeting called Monday
The Vance County Board of Commissioners will hold a special called meeting on Monday, August 23, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in the Commissioner’s Conference Room located in the County Administration building, 122 Young Street in Henderson, North Carolina.
Man sentences to federal prison for crack, firearm
During the month of August 2008, members of the Henderson Police Department’s Power Shift executed a search warrant at 645 Arch Street in Henderson, North Carolina.
Friday/weekend open line
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Pitman HPD’s Officer of the Month
David Pitman of the Henderson Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division has been chosen as the Officer of the Month for July 2010.
County education committee meets tomorrow
The Vance County Board of Commissioners’ Education Committee will meet tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. in the officer of County Manager Jerry Ayscue. The committee is comprised of Commissioners Deborah Brown, Dan Brummitt, and Terry Garrison. No agenda was provided for the meeting. The county manager’s office is located in the County Administration Building, 122 Young Street in Henderson, North Carolina.
Thursday’s open line
There was this motto that hung in my father’s office for years. It went something like this: “We, the unappreciated, led by the unknowing, doing the impossible for the ungrateful, have done so much with so little for so long it’s widely assumed that we can do anything with nothing.” And he worked in the private sector. Still does. Here’s your open line.
HPD makes arrest for vehicle B&E
On August 13, 2010 around 9:34 p.m. a vice/narcotics Officer with the Henderson Police Department was in the area of the 200 block of S. Williams Street in Henderson, North Carolina when he heard a car alarm coming from a vehicle in a church parking lot.
Search warrant yields pot, pills, scales, and bags
On August 18, 2010 officers with the Henderson Police Department Vice/Narcotics Unit conducted a search warrant at 720 Highland Avenue, Apartment 6F in Henderson, North Carolina in reference to numerous citizen complaints.
Tips for getting kids back into school routine
by Gina DeMent, Public Information Officer Five County Mental Health Authority Need help getting your kids out the door in the mornings?
Elissa Yount: A clock that tells more than time
In the latest edition of National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors magazine there was an article my husband read about a most fascinating clock.
Wednesday’s open line
It’s a slow week so far, so make your own fun. Here’s your open line.
7 Days at the Golf Course, Utopia
by Julian Oliver Utopia, Texas is no longer a small town west of San Antonio and in the Hill Country of Texas, but now a movie-making Mecca.