More than 40 teams had helped move Granville within about $50,000 of the 2013 goal before Friday's big event began.

Students at New Hope Elementary in Henderson are crossing the finish line of a program that’s been preparing them for their End Of Grade tests, which begin next week. Race to the EOG tests, a hands-on interactive program incorporating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, has allowed students in grades three, four, and five to build their own carbon dioxide cartridge drag cars.

The Henderson City Council is slated to receive the city’s fiscal year 2014 budget Monday during a special called session at City Hall. The administrative staff work on the budget continues through the weekend, according to City Manager Ray Griffin, adding that it will be a tight schedule to make the 6 p.m. deadline Monday.

An Oxford man serving a three-year federal supervised release order that ended a national bomb-threat enterprise case has been charged by his mother on threat and vandalism charges.

Arrests, citation reports from the Henderson Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff's Office.

A Henderson family of eight was displaced by a house fire on Charles Street that also prompted evacuation of Henderson Middle School near the end of the school day Thursday.

The J.F. Webb High School track will feel the footprints of hundreds of participants in Relay for Life this weekend.

Arrests, citation reports from the Henderson Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff's Office.

Five down, one to go in Granville County for the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments. Albeit with provisional conditions.

Three of the five largest amounts for a one-time assessment from the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments have been approved.