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Henderson’s auditor has asked for a private meeting with City Council member Elissa Yount to answer her audit-related questions, and he suggested that meeting be held more than two weeks into the next fiscal year.

The first appeal of a civil penalty under Henderson’s city code has been rejected.

Engineering technician Terry Leyen, Finance Director Traig Neal, City Engineer Frank Frazier, firefighters and others take a shot at dunking City Manager Eric Williams on Friday. (All photos with this story are courtesy of Sandra Wilkerson.) The city of Henderson’s Relay for Life team raised about $1,200 Friday with a hot dog sale, bake sale, yard sale and dunk tank at the Central Fire Station on Dabney Drive, said mayoral assistant Sandra Wilkerson, one of the organizers of the event …

The H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library will help young readers travel back to the Middle Ages through this year’s summer reading program.

The Vance County Board of Education will meet in a special session Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Administrative Services Center on Graham Avenue to discuss personnel issues and act on recommendations in that area for next school year.

We’re not directly tied to any military bases here in Henderson, although we have a fine armory available if the Pentagon ever wants to come back. But on the theory that what affects the state at large eventually will trickle down to (or on) us, we kept a wary eye on this morning’s Base Realignment and Closure recommendations.

Almost a year after the retirement of Ronnie Lassiter, Henderson and Vance County have an assistant fire chief again.

Henderson had all the evidence on its side during Thursday’s appeal hearing on the civil penalty levied against the abandoned property at 1002 Standish St. The other side didn’t show up.

Libraries by their nature are important repositories of history, but some city leaders squirmed through the Embassy Square history lesson library officials delivered Wednesday night.

Note: This article first appeared Tuesday morning. We have moved it up the roll because of the high number of comments. The Rev. C.J. Dale was back before the Henderson City Council with a complaint about the Henderson Police Department on Monday night.

The fate of the Beacon Light Apartments will take some time to settle, and the City Council hopes to use that time to decide what it wants to happen with the subsidized housing project off Boddie Street.

Each City Council member naturally has his or her own big issues, but in the past three months two council members have stood out for the persistence with which they have seized the role of lonely voice in the wild, with little hope for rescue.

Tuesday was one of our favorite issues of The Daily Dispatch of the year: the annual advertisement of tax liens on businesses and homeowners who didn’t pay the previous year’s property taxes.

The Henderson City Council received a revised amortization ordinance for auto repair facilities and junk yards Monday night and promptly pushed the matter aside until July.

Henderson doesn’t need a downtown gallery to produce a big crowd for an art show. It’s just a matter of picking the right artists.

The Vance County Board of Education tonight will consider the first of what will be a series of health-related policy revisions.

The state Department of Public Instruction has approved Vance County Schools’ application for $2 million in Qualified Zone Academy Bond money.