This memorandum will serve as notice that Chairman Terry E. Garrison has called a special meeting for Monday, December 19 at 4:00 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Conference Room, Vance County Administration Building, 122 Young Street, Henderson, NC. The Board will be sitting as the Water District Board to: 1. Approve project plans and specifications subject to any modifications made by USDA.2. Authorize staff to solicit bids for operations and maintenance services.3. Solicit construction bids according the to engineer’s time table.4. …
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Donors step up to help NC secure $15 million federal grant
More than 20,000 North Carolina students to benefit from early college initiative Many companies, foundations and individuals from across North Carolina and across the country have stepped up to help the North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP) raise $1.5 million in pledges in recent weeks to successfully meet a required private sector match for a $15 million federal grant. This grant would extend successful early college strategies to as many as 20 traditional high schools in rural, low-income communities across …
VGCC Community Band concert includes holiday favorites
The Vance-Granville Community Band presented its fourth annual Holiday Concert on Monday, Dec. 12 in the Civic Center on the college’s main campus in Vance County. VGCC music instructor Michael Stephenson serves as director of the band. The program featured familiar holiday tunes, including several medleys of Christmas carols and the Leroy Anderson classic, “Sleigh Ride.” On “The Ultimate Christmas Medley,” the band was accompanied by veteran vocalist Raynah Adams. A Henderson native, Adams was a member of the U.S. …
The Letterman Christmas Show Tonight at Louisburg College
The Letterman Christmas Show, performing Friday December 16th at 8pm in the Jones Performing Arts Center. For tickets and more information please call 1-866-773-635
Friday / Weekend Open Line
This is the last full weekend before Christmas, we hope you’re ready for the holidays. If you still have more gifts, please take a look at our Holiday Shopping Guide. If your business would like to add your special please feel free to send us your discount and we’ll list your ad for no charge. We have also received a great suggestion to ask for your Christmas decoration pictures, be they your own at home, your business, or one that …
Henderson Police Department Seeking Charlotte Pendergass for Felonies
Members of the Henderson Police Department General Crimes Unit are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Charlotte Pendergrass, 28, of Henderson. Ms. Pendergrass is wanted on four counts of felony obtaining property by false pretense and four counts of misdemeanor worthless checks. If anyone should have information on Ms. Pendergrass’s whereabouts they are encouraged to contact the Henderson Police Department at 252-438-4141 or Crime Stoppers at 252-492-1925. Callers may remain anonymous. Crime Stoppers may offer a reward up to …
Vance County Schools – Laws for Motorists for Stopped School Buses
The Vance County Schools’ Transportation Department is joining with state school bus safety officials in reminding all motorists to stop for stopped school buses when they are loading and unloading students on city streets, county roadways, in parking lots and on school campuses. Derek Graham of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, stresses that when a school bus is stopped with its mechanical “stop sign” extended and red lights flashing all vehicles must stop. This applies to stopped buses on …
VGCC students donate books, coats to local elementary school
The Student North Carolina Association of Educators (SNCAE) chapter at Vance-Granville Community College recently completed a service project to collect books and new or gently used winter coats for children at South Warren Elementary School in Warrenton. Through the drive, VGCC students collected a total of 270 books and 18 coats. Another student club, the Phi Beta Lambda business student organization, partnered with SNCAE and contributed a number of the items. VGCC students presented the donations to representatives of the …
VGCC announces holiday schedule and delayed opening on Jan. 3
VGCC announces holiday schedule and delayed opening on Jan. 3 All four campuses of Vance-Granville Community College will take a break for the holidays, beginning Dec. 17, and then open for business again on Monday, January 2, 2012. VGCC will operate on a delayed schedule on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. The college will open to the public at 1 p.m. on Tuesday due to a meeting of all faculty and staff members being held earlier in the day. Classes are …
ACLU Calls Veto of Racial Justice Act’s Repeal a “Courageous” Step Toward Eliminating Bias in Capital Punishment System
RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue today vetoed a bill repealing an historic 2009 state law that would help ensure that death sentences handed down in the state were not the result of racial bias. The Racial Justice Act, repealed after a vote last month by the North Carolina state Senate, allows prisoners a hearing in which they can present statistics showing that death sentences state- and county-wide were tainted by racism and that their death sentence should …
Butterfield Praises the End of the War in Iraq and Announces Press Call Tomorrow with Military Spouse of the Year Crystal Cavalier
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today joined President Obama and his congressional colleagues in recognizing the service of more than one million troops who served in Iraq and saluting the end of the war. Butterfield and Military Spouse Magazine’s 2011 Army Spouse of the Year Crystal Cavalier will hold a press call on Thursday, December 15, at 11:00 a.m. to describe how the end of the war in Iraq will affect African American veterans and military families. …
Thursday Open Lines
President Obama traveled to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Wednesday — home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces — to salute the service of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines who fought in Iraq and helped to bring the war to an end. “As your commander in chief, and on behalf of a grateful nation, I’m proud to finally say these two words,” he said, “Welcome home.” He told the crowd assembled in a hanger on base: …
Butterfield Votes Against Bill Threatening North Carolina’s Unemployed and Healthcare Providers
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today voted against H.R. 3630, the so-called Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, which, among other things, would block a major cut to physicians’ Medicare reimbursement rates, reduce the number of weeks laid-off workers can receive unemployment benefits, and impose new restrictions on unemployed Americans seeking unemployment benefits. Although the bill is expected to fail in the Senate, Butterfield said the bill would drop 180,505 North Carolinians from receiving long-term …
Wednesday Open Line
American troops have served in Iraq with honor and distinction since March 19, 2003, but the cost to our nation has been great. December 2011 marks the end of our mission in Iraq, and the fulfillment of a promise Barack Obama made to the American people even before he became President. Now, President Obama has made another promise to the troops and their families: We will fight as hard for them as they return home as they have done for …
VGCC Culinary Students get creative in Gingerbread House competition
The Culinary Arts program at Vance-Granville Community College continued a holiday tradition by holding its third annual Gingerbread House competition on Dec. 2. Chef Ross Ragonese, who heads the VGCC program, has used the competition as a fun, challenging exercise for his second-year students near the end of each fall semester since 2009. Each year, he gives his students only two basic guidelines: the houses have to be researched and created entirely by the students, and the houses have to …
Vance County Board of Education Meeting Schedule Change
The Community Relations Committee Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, December 13th, at 5:30 pm has been postponed until Wednesday, December 14th, at 5:00 p.m. So the current standing is as follows: Community Relations December 14th 5:00pm Building and Grounds December 15th 8:30am All meetings are held in the Superintendent’s Conference Room
Tuesday Open Lines
Tonight may be your best night for viewing the year end meteor shower Geminid. Normally providing about 50 meteors an hour, this year a bright moon will overpower most of the ‘shooting stars’. But you can still take a glimpse outside, if you are up to the challenge, although word is you may only see one an hour considering the moons effect on it this year. If a flu pandemic strikes the United States, a Novartis plant in North Carolina …
Vance County Board of Education meeting Monday December 12th
The Vance County Board of Education will hold a 7pm meeting tonight in the Administrative Services Center. The agenda contains: Reclaiming Our Youth Presentation Presentation of the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2011 Audit Report by Winston, Williams, Creech, Evans & Company, LLP Teaching Fellows Scholarship Program Resolution And more! Download the full agenda packet (33 pages) for the full listing 20111212_vcboc_agenda_packet
Senator Richard Burr Message
This week, I joined a bipartisan group of Senators to introduce the Taxpayers Right to Know Act, a bill to increase accountability and efficiency in government by requiring every federal agency to provide an annual report card for each of its programs detailing how taxpayer dollars are being spent. The American people deserve to know where their hard-earned money goes when they send it to Washington. With all the waste and abuse that occurs at the federal level, it is …
VGCC holds College Day for transferring students
Vance-Granville Community College hosted admissions representatives from four-year colleges and universities on Dec. 1 in Building 6 on its main campus. The event was VGCC’s annual College Day, in which students obtain important information about transfer requirements, financial aid and scholarships that can help them continue their education. College Day is organized by the VGCC Counseling Services department. VGCC students browsed through displays and talked with representatives from approximately 20 four-year schools, while picking up college applications and catalogs. Most …