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 …
Pick of the Day: St. Patrick’s Day Downtown
File Photo of Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert and Henderson City Council Member Mary Emma Evans at last year’s St. Patrick’s Day Chili Cook-off. The Henderson Police Department’s Lt. Irvin Robinson stands in the background.
Weekend open line
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.
Friday’s 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.
Memo on thefts of city property
What follows is a memo from Interim City Manager Jerry Moss to the Mayor and Henderson City Council regarding the investigation into the thefts of city property by city employees:
Moss asks council for support
Interim City Manager Jerry Moss sought support from the city council at Wednesday night’s meeting regarding the Use of City Vehicles policy he authored as well as the investigation into thefts by city employees he initiated two weeks ago.
Memo on vehicle use policy
The following is a memorandum from Interim City Manager Jerry Moss to members of the Henderson City Council and the Mayor regarding the policy on the use of city vehicles to be enacted on May 1, 2006:
Thursday’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 …
Public hearings galore at city council
Here is the City Council agenda for this evening’s meeting:
Milestones: Planet of the Bureaucrats, Part IV
Ok, after two months I’ve finally come to admit it to myself: I am never going to finish this. So much for my experiment in episodic parody. So let me just give you the punch line and anyone who likes can fill in the details.
Wednesday’s open line
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 …
Zoning advocates strike back
It looked as if it was going to be an another evening of the anti-zoning protests that characterized the last County Commission meeting.
Tuesday’s open line
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.
Girl scout cookies still available
The Girl Scout cookie sale is over, but there are troops that still have cookies available. If anyone would like more cookies, please call the Vance County office at (252) 438-8103.
Western loop debate will continue
Here is the agenda for the Vance County Board of Commissioner’s meeting tonight:
Monday’s open line
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 …
SBI asked to probe city thefts
The following press release was received from the office of Interim City Manager Jerry Moss:
Weekend open line
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.
Friday’s open line
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.
Thursday’s open line
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 …