Today is Cliché Day — any way you slice it, a minor and obscure occasion. While the ostensible purpose is to encourage our verbal banalities, it might also be stretched to stereotypes. Such as the cliché that men in particular are enchanted by sandwiches. If true, then today has double meaning, as it’s National Sandwich Day. This date was chosen in honor of the birthday in 1718 of John Montagu, the fourht Earl of Sandwich, and the purported inventor of …
Henderson License Plate Agency Focuses on Customer Service, Office to undergo two-day training sessions
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles will close its Henderson license plate agency on Tuesday, November 4 and Wednesday, November 5 to conduct customer service training. NCDMV is currently holding statewide customer service training courses for all office locations. The Vance County-based agency will reopen on Thursday, November 6 at 8:30 a.m. Agencies located in the immediate area will remain open to provide vehicle registration services. The following locations will be open during the training: Louisburg …
Trick or Treat Downtown Henderson and City of Henderson
Kids 12 and under, in costume, be sure to come to downtown Henderson, NC tonight, October 31st, 2014 for Trick or Treating at your local businesses along Garnett Street. From 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm downtown will be filled with hundreds of kids and parents for a safe Halloween Trick or Treat. Participating businesses will have an orange flyer in their window. Be sure you take a few minutes after your session to visit a downtown restaurant and have a …
Vance County Board of Commissioners Meeting Monday November 3rd, 2014
Download the full packet here: 20141103_vcboc_agenda_packet Invocation Pastor Brenda Peace-Jenkins,Greater Little Zion Holiness Church 1. Appointment 6:00 p.m. Porcha Brooks, Tax OfficeBusiness Personal Property Late List Appeal 2. Public Hearing 6:15 p.m. Rezoning Request #RZ1410-1NC Hwy 39 South 3. Public Comments (for those registered to speak by 5:45 p.m. – speakers are limited to five minutes) 4. Water District Boarda. Water Planning Committee Report 5. Committee Reports and Recommendationsa. Human Resources Committeeb. Recreation Ad Hoc Committeec. Planning/Environmental Committee 6. Finance …
Vance County Regional Farmers Market Winter Hours Begin November 1
Beginning 11/1/2014 the VCRFM will operate under their Fall/Winter Schedule: The Farmers market will be open on SATURDAYS ONLY: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Also check out the latest flyer for What’s at the Market: What’s at the Market 11.1.14-1
Friday / Weekend Open Lines
There’s an excellent chance that today is an occasion deeply revered by young children and the nation’s candy makers. According to ancient Celtic tradition, Halloween — the evening before All Saints Day — is a time of haunting by ghosts. Halloween has come a long way from pagan practices to “trick or treat!” Today’s prank and costume-filled observance goes back about a century in the U.K., and giving the disguised young visitors to the doorstep some candies has been a …
VGCC Scholarship endowed in memory of Hubert Gooch
A longtime educator and community leader will continue to make a difference in the lives of local students, through a new Vance-Granville Community College scholarship established in his memory. The family of Hubert L. Gooch Jr. of Oxford, who died in March, recently created a new scholarship through the VGCC Endowment Fund. In awarding the Hubert L. Gooch Jr. Memorial Academic Achievement Scholarship, preference will be given to students who are residents of Granville County. Gooch was a 1953 graduate …
Vance County Water Planning Committee Meeting November 3rd, 2014
Vance County’s Water Planning Committee is scheduled to meet Monday, November 3rd at 12:00 noon in the County Manager’s Administrative Conference Room. The purpose is to discuss water project matters.
VGCC Child Care kids learn about Fire Safety
Children enrolled in the Child Care Center on Vance-Granville Community College’s Main Campus recently learned about fire safety and fire trucks as part of October’s observance as Fire Prevention Month. Special guests at the center in October were, pictured above (from left), Captain Bryant Williams of Vance County Emergency Services and Battalion Chief Tim Twisdale of the Henderson Fire Department. The firefighters discussed the “stop, drop and roll” technique and what to do in case of a fire at home. …
“Girls Raised in the South” Coming to JPAC
LOUISBURG – On Friday, November 14, Louisburg College’s Allen de Hart Concert Series will present “G.R.I.T.S.”(Girls Raised In The South): The Musical. This is a full production journey that will take you to and through the heart of the South. It’s four women, four generations and four different views. It’s your mother, your sister, your Grandma, your best friend. It’s sweet tea, collard greens, fresh tomatoes and banana puddin’. It’s stories you’ll recognize and tales from the past. It’s country …
DuPont Forest planning November timber harvest
CEDAR MOUNTAIN – DuPont State Recreational Forest will be harvesting timber in November on 35 acres near the Conservation Road and Lake Julia Dam Road and on 25 acres near Joanna Road. The start date for the work is dependent on the weather, but there will be periodic trail closures as well as forestry equipment in the woods and on DuPont’s roads. Lake Summit Road, which runs from Lake Julia to the airstrip area, will likely be closed in early …
$8.5 million expansion gives N.C. Zoo’s polar bears more room to roam
The N.C. Zoo in Asheboro opened its newly expanded polar bear exhibit last week. More than three years in construction, landscaping and animal introductions, the $8.5 million habitat triples the size of the zoo’s polar bear exhibit and features greatly increased land space for the bears as well as a stream flowing through its center. State-of-the-art educational graphics and interactive computers tell the story of polar bears and their threatened status in the wild due to the loss of ice …
North Carolina Weekend
For the week of Oct. 30 on North Carolina Weekend, tour the Duplin County Veterans Museum in Warsaw and then explore the new outside park. Admire a range of artists during the Orange County Studio Tour. Go nuts at the Pecan Harvest Festival in Whiteville. Fulfill your need for (little) speed at Ho-b Max in Durham. And enjoy the Taste of the Mint at the Mint Museum in Charlotte. (Please note: listings are subject to change.) North Carolina Weekend is …
Thursday Open Line
A technological breakthrough that has led to remarkable changes in American and global society occurred 45 years ago today … or yesterday, depending on your point of reference. While Americans in the Eastern and Central time zones entered October 30, 1969, it was around 10:30 p.m. Pacific time on October 29 that the first connection was made on what would become the Internet. The first two computers linked were at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford Research …
Vance County Regional Farmers Market Advisory Board Meeting November 6th, 2014
The Vance County Regional Farmers Market Advisory Board will meet Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Vance County Regional Farmers Market, 210 Southpark Dr. Henderson, NC. The meeting is open to the public.
VGCC to hold Business Technologies Fair
Vance-Granville Community College will hold a “Business Technologies Fair” on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the Civic Center on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County. From 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., area high schools will bring groups of students to the event. Parents of high school students are welcome to attend with their children. Members of the general public, including VGCC students, are invited to attend anytime from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Attendees will learn about VGCC’s programs that …
VGCC now enrolling students for new Criminal Justice Cohort program
Vance-Granville Community College’s Criminal Justice Technology program is again offering an innovative approach to help certified law enforcement officers earn a two-year degree in a little more than a year. Starting in January, officers will be given a chance to complete an Associate in Applied Science Degree in Criminal Justice through a series of hybrid classes. Most classes will meet on the VGCC Main Campus for just one night a week, with other class work being done online, said Andrea …
Christmas With The Embers December 5th, 2014
The Henderson Vance Chamber of Commerce presents its annual Christmas Concert with the Embers featuring Craig Woolard on December 5th, 2014 at 7pm in the Civic Center at Vance Granville Community College in Henderson, NC. Tickets are $10.00 for Adults, and $5.00 for children. Tickets can be purchased at the Chamber of Commerce. (We also have adult tickets at Dataforge for sale. This year, come early to browse local vendor booths selling holiday gifts just in time for the season! …
Attorney General Roy Cooper: Scammers are selling government documents at inflated prices
North Carolinians are receiving official-looking flyers that appear, at first glance, to be from the government. The flyers contain information about property they own including the address, the year the house was built, and its square footage. Recipients of the flyers are urged to purchase a copy of the deed to their property. A “Please Respond By” date is prominently displayed on the flyer and is always just a few days away. Record Transfer Services, the California-based company behind the …
Henderson Man Receives Federal Sentence
Wayne Elliott Hubbard, 27, 127 Granite Street, Henderson was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina today. Hubbard received a 42 month sentence after pleading guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The investigation into this matter was handled by members of the Henderson Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The joint investigation into violent crime and heroin trafficking is …