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The Henderson City Council’s first budget session of the year on revenues came up with one potentially lucrative source of new money for the city: a tax on people who stay in hotels in the city.

The HomeinHenderson.com staff took a road trip to Chapel Hill on Sunday to see one of Vance County’s favorite sons, Matt Ellington, play ball for the University of North Carolina.

Henderson’s recycling program is a failure.

The 10th annual Storytelling Festival at the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library didn’t lack for much Thursday night.

Freshman Democratic Rep. Michael Wray lives in a county that’s light on tobacco farming, Northampton, but he has a grasp on the importance of the golden leaf in Vance County.

Henderson’s idea of raising the threshold for junked cars is so good that other towns are following suit.

Samuel Smith delivered his most emotional and most critical demand for money from the City Council on Monday night, but he walked away no richer for the effort.

Downtown merchants will have to wait awhile to see fresh pavement on Garnett Street.

The Vance Aquatics Club Barracudas splash into their summer session this afternoon, beginning practice for the Durham Summer Swim League season.

The Henderson City Council went into its budget meetings this past week asking department heads to present their needs and looking between the lines for ways to save money and boost the anemic fund balance. Out of the dozen presentations, exactly one department head offered suggestions to save real money. And council members responded with nothing but criticism.

Our Internet host is in the middle of a server switch, and we at HomeinHenderson.com are suffering the moving pains. Since late last week, we have experienced vanishing stories, e-mail interruptions and complete outages (we couldn’t get to the site most of Monday). We apologize for the inconvenience and for the resulting backlog in getting the news to you. It will take us a few days to catch up on some of the stories we’re working on. We appreciate your …

Vance County’s unemployment rate drifted higher in February but remained below last year’s level and stayed out of the top five in the state.

Mini Majestic Miss Kerr Lake Sterling Adams, left, and Tiny Miss Kerr Lake Lawson Adams help bring youth to the Embassy Square construction ceremony Friday. Much of the talk at the Embassy Square construction celebration Friday was about children, and more than a few children were in the crowd of several hundred people to hear the message of Henderson’s future.

It’s time at last for Henderson to stop embarrassing itself by touting the annual rankings of small towns in Site Selection magazine.

Confusion has prevented Henderson from collecting any money in civil penalties for code violations since the City Council authorized such fines last May. Now two council members say they will have to revisit the ordinance to clarify the intent and streamline the process.

Beryle Lewis, a social worker for the foster care office at the Vance County Department of Social Services, donates a pint of blood at the Henderson Operations & Service Center on Wednesday afternoon. She tries to give every two months but said this donation was her first in four months. Rick Norwood didn’t get quite the turnout he hoped for Wednesday, but Vance County’s Red Cross director got something special during the blood drive at the Henderson Operations & Service …

An 8 percent sales tax is not a concept that thrills us, and we were caught off-guard when we heard of Board of Education Chairman Tommy Riddle’s idea to use that tax to finance the school system’s serious facility needs.

Special federal aid for what ails Henderson has come to an abrupt end, although the city can look to the federal government for help in winning state support.

Vance County Schools’ makeup day for the St. Patrick’s Day snowfall is set for Wednesday, May 25, pending Board of Education approval.