Students in the early childhood education department at Vance-Granville Community College are part of a partnership the college has formed with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. VGCC is one of four community colleges in the state currently collaborating with the child development institute to implement a project called Supporting Change and Reform in Preservice Teaching in North Carolina, abbreviated as SCRIPT-NC.
On Monday evening, the Vance County Board of Education approved a resolution deeding L.B. Yancey Elementary School to Vance County to serve as collateral for a $2 million loan, which will be used to make needed renovations to several schools.
Reward money is being offered for information solving any of five investigation cases announced recently by the Henderson-Vance Crime Stoppers Association.
Arrests, citation reports from the Henderson Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff's Office.
Roles were reversed when the students in the Culinary Club at Mariam Boyd Elementary School prepared dinner for their parents. The young people, all fifth-graders, spent the better part of one afternoon during the last week of school chopping, mixing and cooking the fixings for a healthful and tasty meal.
Jasmine Sade Hargrove, a 22-year-old from Henderson, appeared in federal court Monday facing drug charges linked to a criminal gang. Federal agents and Henderson police have been investigating the gang activity since October 2011.
Henderson native Dr. Michael Elam has been named Roanoke-Chowan Community College’s next president and is scheduled to assume the position in the coming weeks.
The Henderson-Vance Safe Kids Coalition sponsors a free child passenger safety seat clinic from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Great Beginnings Christian Childcare, 905 Americal Road.
Arrests, citation reports from the Henderson Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff's Office.
Henderson police are investigating a non-life threatening shooting that happened Saturday.
