The Henderson City Council doesn’t figure to be talking late into the night again Monday, but it will have to face some of the same issues that kept it busy past 11 p.m. this past Monday.
Every council meeting to start with forum
Monday’s first-of-its-kind forum on the city audit won’t be the last chance for the public to speak before a regular City Council meeting.
Planning for amortization continues
The Henderson Planning Board has a short agenda that includes a long-term concern for its meeting Monday afternoon.
Top Democrat to talk to farmers
Vance County farmers will have two chances next week to talk to the U.S. House’s top Democrat on farm issues, as long as they’re willing to do some driving.
Advisory board possible for police
The Vance County Coalition Against Violence is pushing ahead with plans for a citizens advisory board to the Henderson Police Department, with the hope of addressing and avoiding complaints about the conduct of officers.
Anti-violence Faith Summit to be one day
The Vance County Coalition Against Violence’s Faith Summit will be a one-day affair instead of a full weekend, Sheila Kingsberry-Burt reported to the group during its weekly meeting at the Gateway Center on Thursday night.
Attitudes still confound cleanup committee
The Clean Up Henderson Committee has cleaned streets, cleared overgrown lots, removed junk cars, bulldozed abandoned houses, and drawn the attention of federal agencies and Congress. But Wednesday morning’s regular meeting of the 2-year-old committee revealed that the group still has a long way to go in changing city residents’ attitudes.
Opinion: We need something radical in middle school
Warren County’s consideration of moving sixth-graders back to elementary school and ninth-graders to middle school, as reported recently by The Daily Dispatch, got us thinking about Vance County Schools’ struggles with the middle schools.
Group is working toward crime solutions
When you get people such as City Manager Eric Williams, Police Chief Glen Allen, Sheriff R. Thomas Breedlove, Assistant District Attorney Quon Bridges, Schools Superintendent Norm Shearin, school board member Margaret Ellis, City Council member Lonnie Davis, Team Vance director Marolyn Rasheed, real estate magnate Cliff Rogers and local NAACP head James Green around one table, you know something serious is happening. Throw in church leaders, juvenile justice officials, and representatives of an assortment of other local agencies that deal …
SBI won’t probe city police
The State Bureau of Investigation has officially refused to conduct a probe of the Henderson Police Department.
Beckford Drive, I-85 set for federal funds
It’s not often that contact with the federal government brings instant gratification, but that’s what happened for the city of Henderson this week.
Opinion: Crime group sets example for development
Vance County, it seems, has developed two basic ways to address its problems. Let’s call them the Embassy Endeavor and the Cleanup Concept.
Happy birthday to reading’s cool cat
Erin Ellerman dangled the perfect bait to hook 35 preschoolers thirsting for knowledge, fun and a few catchy rhymes.
Opinion: Forum meaningless without follow-up
Monday’s public forum with a hundred or so people crowding in before the Henderson City Council was a rousing success in many ways.
Idaho Timber neighbors try to clear the air
A straightforward rezoning request turned the Henderson City Council into an almost powerless grievance board Monday night.
Satterwhite plays on Williams’ team
Hey, we at HomeinHenderson.com and City Manager Eric Williams have something in common (aside from the dark circles under our eyes after working at the Municipal Building past 11:30 Monday night): legal representation. Toward the end of a night of meetings that featured many questions and some direct criticisms aimed at him, Williams notified the City Council, Mayor Clem Seifert and City Attorney John Zollicoffer that he has hired Henderson lawyer Michael Satterwhite to handle any issues related to his …
Council rejects sanitation refund
The Henderson City Council voted Monday night not to refund any more money to a Vance County man who says he overpaid his water bill for 18 years.
Granite Street traffic request hits stop sign
Beth Gister’s quest to make her block safer produced a petition and a city policy but no satisfaction, and 11 months after she first made her request for a lower speed limit on Granite Street, she’s back where she started, needing to get her neighbors to sign a petition.
The sound of missing money
We’ll have to watch the city government closely in the coming months while the management and council try to figure out what happened to the non-Embassy portion of the drop in the general fund balance and how to boost that balance again. Perhaps one clue was in the hands of Assistant City Manager Mark Warren (sitting in for an ill City Clerk Dianne White) after he sweated out the recording of nearly six hours of council meetings Monday night. He …
Embassy survives eruption of ire
Embassy Square was the side show that took center stage during the Henderson City Council’s public forum on its 2004 audit Monday evening.