Category: Open Lines

I know there are lot of animal lovers on the site, and wanted to bring to your attention something happening in North Carolina.  Cumberland County officials are considering halting adoptions of so-called “bully breeds” of dogs that are linked with frequent attacks on people and other animals. Cristóbal Berry-Cabán, chairman of the animal control board, said the animal shelter doesn’t have the resources to check up on all potential adopters. He said the shelter would try to send such breeds …

Tonight, the Vance County Board of Commissioners will hold their monthly county commissioner meeting.  Agenda will be posted on our website today. This weeks presidential Weekly Address President Obama calls on Congress to extend and expand the payroll tax cut — to protect middle class families and ensure that the economy continues to grow. Another video released this weekend shows a recap of last weeks events in the administration called the West Wing Week. And finally, President Obama was joined …

Friday night, Christmas With The Embers holiday concert begins at 7pm.  If you still need tickets, you can get them from the Henderson Vance Chamber of Commerce.  Congratulations to NYNative, our winner of 2 tickets to the concert from our website.  Be sure you’ve picked up your tickest at the chamber! Saturday, Townsville will host their Christmas Parade beginning at 10am. Sunday, Henderson will host their Christmas Parade beginning at 2:30pm.  The parade route goes from the Dabney Drive Extension …

In case you didn’t see, NYNative is our winner of the Christmas With the Embers tickets.  Tickets are still available at the Chamber of Commerce for $10.00 per adult.  $5.00 per child.  The concert is Friday night at VGCC.  Thank you to everyone who entered, and stay tuned for our next contest.  If your business would like to sponsor a contest with a prize item or gift certificate please contact us at submit@homeinhenderson.com. It provides good free advertising for your …

Last night, the city hosted a lighting of the official Christmas Tree in Downtown Henderson.  Attending were Mayor Pete O’Geary, Rev. Mary Anderson with the Invocation, the South Henderson Pentecostal Holiness Church Choir, Scripture Reading by Rev. Brenda Peace-Jenkins, First Methodist Church Choir, Statement from Downtown Development Coordinator Phil Lakernick, Musical Solo by Raynah Adams, Shiloh Baptist Church Choir, and closing statements by HVDDS Chairman Jason Stewardson.  Although not speaking or presenting, many council members from the City and County …

Monday evening the NC Legislature put together discussions to not allow an already in place hike in gas tax to take effect on January 1st.  North Carolina’s gas tax is linked to the wholesale price of gas. It adjusts automatically every six months. It’s scheduled to increase by nearly 4 cents per gallon on January 1st.  Capping the tax at its present level would mean the loss of $95 million in revenue for the state’s transportation system.  About a third could …

We welcome back everyone from vacation, friends and family, shopping, relaxing, driving, flying, whatever you did this entrance to the holiday season.  I know it’s a bit late for this, but I wanted to share this video of the president pardoning this years turkey:   This weeks Weekly Address: And finally, this weekend, the White House also recieved it’s Christmas Tree.  First Lady Michelle Obama received the official White House Christmas tree on Friday. The tree, a 19-foot balsam fir, …

Yesterday many people said thanks at their dinner table, and I’d like to share a thank you letter sent to us by a reader thanking Lindsey Davidson, Administrative Secretary for the City’s Public Works Department. As a volunteer for the Find a Grave web site I was looking for information on a few people who are (supposedly) buried in Elmwood Cemetery and was lucky to come across Lindsey Davidson Administrative Secretary for the City of Henderson Public Works Department.  I explained …

We’d love to hear from all interested today regarding your business specials this shopping weekend.  It’s important for our economy to encourage residents to spend money in town, and not out of town this year.  I’m disappointed to hear many local business not offering any specials this weekend.  We’ll be calling again during the day today to get deal info, but yesterday we only netted 4 businesses interested in sharing any specials this weekend.  Please support your local businesses this …

Governor Perdue’s Statement Monday:  “The Republican budget is full of extreme, short-sighted and unnecessary cuts to education. It’s hard to understand in North Carolina why the General Assembly pitted deaf children against blind children in a fight to keep their school open.  North Carolina must find ways to reduce spending, but our future demands that we also make investments in our people.   Our constitution guarantees a quality education for all, and that includes deaf and blind children.” That statement is …

This past week, President Obama traveled to Hawaii for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, visited Australia for meetings with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and an address to Parliament, and Friday  in Indonesia for the East Asia Summit.  Check out the highlights below: While in Indonesia, President Obama talks about his administration’s work opening up markets to support thousands of American jobs and keep us on track to double American exports by 2014 for this weeks Weekly Address: A special …

The big news Thursday saw massive protest in New York City from the Occupy Wall Street group in a call for a national day of action.   The protest march was legal, as they did secure a permit for the march, however the sheer number of people proved a tough job for the police force.  The day started at 7am in Zuccotti Park, the same park that was closed Tuesday and evicted the protesters camping out.  The protest started Thursday morning …

A reminder to all if your business would like to offer a special product or service to advertise for this upcoming shopping season, be sure you send us your article on it and we’ll publish it for free before November 30th.  Hit those black Friday shoppers with discounted specials, or offer a discounted rate on your services and offer it as a gift certificate type deal.  Email your deals to submit@homeinhenderson.com North Carolina State Representative Kelly Alexander has introduced House …

Next week is of course Thanksgiving.  And the day after… ‘black friday’.  The day some retail stores last year opened at 4am to sell discounted merchandise in the hopes of turning the company books from in the red to in the black.  However, retailers this year are deciding to open even earlier, with Target and Best Buy opening at midnight Thanksgiving evening.  Walmart will open at 10pm Thanksgiving, and Toys R Us at 9pm Thanksgiving.  Some consumers love these deals, …

Monday, Medicago, Inc. celebrated the opening of its U.S.-based, state-of-the-art vaccine facility in Research Triangle Park in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to a company press release.  Medicago USA officials were joined by guests Governor Bev Perdue, Secretary Keith Crisco, U.S. Senator Richard Burr and Congressman David Price at the event, which included a tour.  According to the release, the 97,000-square-foot, Virus-Like Particle (VLP), plant-based vaccine facility includes a fully-automated greenhouse and state-of-the-art extraction and purification unit. The Medicago USA operation …

Tonight, the City of Henderson City Council will hold a meeting Monday, 14 November 2011 at 7:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, 134 Rose Ave., Henderson, NC.  For the agenda please visit our Friday post about the meeting here. President Obama and the First Lady ended Veterans Day aboard the USS Carl Vinson where they watched the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team defeat Michigan State University in the first-ever Carrier Classic.  This was also the ship that …

Friday is Veterans Day.  On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.” Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans …

Last Friday was a busy day for the local police, with 3 residences being searched and bringing out 8 drug abusers.  About 123 grams of marijuana, 68 doses of heroin,  2 doses of Suboxon, 1 stolen laptop, 3 handguns, and one assault rifle.  These arrests were made directly  in repsonse to numerous drug complaints from concerned citizens.  If you see suspicious activity, do your duty and report it to the local police department.  If you know of someone who is …

During the Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday night, there appeared a few documents that were not given to us last week.  If you downloaded the packet before the meeting, please check back to the post and download the added material that was posted today. It is regarding information from the Public Safety Committee, and information regarding Disposal of Tax Foreclosed County-Owned Property. A few headlines caught my eye Tuesday regarding solar energy.  As you know, Semprius is working …

Articles released Monday on the newswire continue to show poor economic conditions.  The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record.  The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday.  The median net worth of households headed by someone 65 or older was $170,494. That is 42 …