Category: Quick hits

As we contemplate a long solo overnight drive to New York and back again this weekend, we’ve been thinking about high-speed rail. How will it change life in Henderson? How will it benefit our community? What changes must we make? Your thoughts on this or any other topic are welcome on our open line.

We’d hoped to bring you a story on last night’s city council meeting, but technical difficulties and general fatigue got in the way. Let’s just say it was pretty routine. We’re disappointed that we haven’t heard from Miles yet this week. If any potential columnists want to step up to the bat, now is your time to shine! With that, the spotlight is yours.

We’re sorry that we missed Friday’s open line, but we were busy at the hospital getting X-rayed and such. There is a service outage scheduled for midnight Saturday so that we can resolve some service issues with AOL users on the site. We hope to be up and running just as soon as the technicians resolve the problem. As always, we appreciate your patronage and your patience.

It’s a slow day in terms of meetings in city government. It’s reader’s choice for topics today, so choose your target and fire at will.

The FAIR Committee will meet today at 3:00 p.m at City Hall. The Land Planning Committee will meet at 4:00 p.m. at City Hall. We’re sorry for the lateness of the open line. Report card time is a pretty crazy time for us. How about y’all?

It’s a quiet day today in terms of city and county government. For those of you who have elementary- or middle school-aged children, don’t forget that today is report card day. With that, the floor is yours.

The Public Works Committee is scheduled to meet at 9:00 a.m. at City Hall. Also, today is the first day of spring. We hope everyone had a restful weekend. We’ve been hard at work getting ready for report cards which will be issued to elementary and middle school students on March 21. Some schools may ask that you pick up your student’s report card, so don’t forget to give your student that bare-bulb-and-rubber-hose treatment if they are not forthcoming with …

Don’t forget the St. Patrick’s Day festivities downtown, especially the Chili Cook-off beginning at noon. See the other headline for more details. We’re following the zoning debate here on Home in Henderson with a great deal of interest. Without taking sides, we wonder if the county were to pass zoning if it would bring city and county governments into closer alignment in terms of common issues and needs. What do you think? Let us know on our weekend open line.

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. Erin go bragh! The bits and pieces of the fifteen days we spent in Ireland are some of the finest flashes of memory of our life. Got a St. Paddy’s Day story to share? Tell yours on today’s open line.

The Public Utilites Committee will meet at 4:00 p.m. at City Hall. We were very surprised by yesterday’s city council meeting on a number of fronts. We were amazed that no one spoke at the public hearing regarding the Amortization Ordinance, and we were frankly shocked that there was no debate regarding the city’s new vehicle use policy. Was it because the meeting was on Wednesday, or was it the full moon, or some combination of the two? Let your …

We’re delighted to welcome back our favorite (and only) columnist to Home in Henderson. We look forward to seeing his regular column on Mondays, well, regularly. We hear he’s got something special planned next week. If anyone has any feedback from the Community Forum put on by Vance County Schools yesterday at Henderson Middle, please feel free to post it below. We’re interested to hear how it it went. Don’t forget that the city council will meet tonight at 7:00 …

There will be a Community Forum on Education at 7:00 p.m. at Henderson Middle School held by Vance County Schools. There was some pretty strong support at last night’s County Commission meeting for county-wide zoning. What are your thoughts? Give us your opinion on this or anything else that strikes your fancy.

The Public Works Committee is scheduled to meet at 9:00 a.m. in the City Hall conference room. The Search and Transition Committee is slated to have its regular meeting at 4:00 p.m. in the same location, but it is unclear if that has been happening lately. The Vance County Board of Commissioners will meet today in their chambers in the old courthouse at 6:00 p.m. There are lots of goings on in our city and county, what with the pending …

We apologize for the tardiness of the open line. Occasionally we have to do paying work on the weekend. It looks like the election season is heating up early, at least here on Home in Henderson. Let your thoughts be known on your candidate or anything else that’s on your mind.

If your planning to send the kids to school this morning, don’t. Today is a teacher workday. Yesterday was the end of the nine-week grading period for elementary and middle schools. Report cards will be issued on March 21. The microphone is yours. Choose your topic and have at.

The Vance and Warren County Chapter of the Autism Society of North Carolina will have a meeting this evening at 6:30 p.m. at Chick-fil-A on Dabney Drive to discuss the establishment of a local support group. Beverly White is the county contact for the organization and can be reached at 252.438.6634. A frequent commentor here on Home in Henderson has suggested that we talk about traffic today. Where is traffic good in Henderson and where is it bad? In the …

The Land Planning and Development Committee will meet at 4:00 p.m. in the City Hall conference room. Today’s open line discussion question comes to us from a frequent commentor: Should sex education in school begin and end with “abstinence until marriage” and, if not, how much should be taught? Should prophylactic aspects be included? Who should be charged with providing sex education? Let us know your thoughts on this or any other topic on our open line.

We’re wondering here at Home in Henderson why more groups and individuals don’t take advantage of our offer to post meeting times, announcements, press releases, or other information in our open line or under its own headline. So little is free in this world. If you have something you’d like the world to know, send it to us here. Have a super day!