News and views from the heart of Vance County, N.C.
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Program at Vance-Granville Community College recently sponsored two of its youth participants to attend the sixth annual North Carolina Youth Summit at The Embassy Suites in Greensboro. The NC Youth Summit is a two-day statewide conference for youth enrolled in WIA programs. The Summit was developed so that young adults [...]
Jessica B. Cheek of Oxford, a Culinary Arts student at Vance-Granville Community College, recently won an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2012 National Restaurant Association Show, held May 5-8 in Chicago. Cheek entered a contest on web site of the culinary apparel provider, ChefUniforms.com, in which culinary students and professionals from across the country submitted their [...]
The Northern Vance High School PTO is sponsoring an evening 50′s style. The evening’s event is entitled, “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and it will feature students from Northern Vance. The event will be held at the Civic Center at Vance-Granville Community College on Friday, May 18. From 5 to 7 p.m. there will be a [...]
Eaton-Johnson Middle School and Henderson Middle School are in desperate need of test proctors for next week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (May 15-17). The proctors (volunteers) would be needed to monitor students during state end-of-grade testing from 8 a.m. to about 11 a.m. each day. It is that simple – you’d just watch the kids during [...]
Darcy Grimes, a third grade teacher at Bethel Elementary School (Watauga County Schools) today was named the 2012-13 North Carolina Teacher of the Year at a luncheon held in Cary. Grimes succeeds Tyronna Hooker, an exceptional children teacher at Graham Middle School (Alamance-Burlington Schools). In making the presentation, State Superintendent June Atkinson said Grimes is [...]
The Vance-Granville Community Band will hold its fourth annual outdoor concert, as a special treat for Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 13. The program will begin at 3 p.m. at the Gazebo on VGCC’s Main Campus in Vance County. In the event of rain, the concert will be held in the VGCC Civic Center. Admission [...]
There’s been a lot of talk recently about education funding in North Carolina. But if you want to know the truth about school budgets, there’s no better place to go than local superintendents. This video shows that superintendents across North Carolina know that there’s a problem. The Republican-controlled General Assembly forced deep and unnecessary education [...]
Dr. Kimberly R. McNeil, a professor at North Carolina A&T State University who grew up in Henderson, will be the principal commencement speaker for Vance-Granville Community College’s graduation exercises on Friday, May 11. Katina D. Harris of Warrenton, a College Transfer student and president of the VGCC Student Government Association, will be the student speaker. [...]
After the State Board of Education met last September to look at our goals and set the course for the coming year, we determined that there was a need to shift the current conversation around public education and its role in our state and in our society. Following this meeting and at the Board’s request, [...]
Constitutional Amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.
Total Voters: 17
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