Youngsville News

The Spring 2010 semester at Vance-Granville Community College begins on Jan. 6, 2010, but college officials advise students to apply and register for classes as early as possible, starting in November.

Clearwater Group,a Raleigh-based design-build company, has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Theft. Tammy Lindeman, 44, of 37 W. Main St., Apt. C, reported to Youngsville Borough police that someone took her prescribed Darvocet medication from her apartment sometime over the weekend.

Warren County Judge Maureen Skerda accepted pleas from the following defendants Friday during plea court proceedings: Brandon C. Dean, 146 Second St., Youngsville, guilty to highest rate of alcohol and careless driving; general impairment, turning movements and required signals and restraint systems charges were not prosecuted.

The school won a second place prize of $2,500 in a video contest. A check wil be given Friday at the Raleigh Big Lots store.

The Town of Tarboro will be spending less money for a more spectacular fireworks show this year for its Fourth of July celebration Saturday.

An organization that helps feed hundreds of families in need in the Wake Forest area is going through some tough times of its own.

About 100 Wake Electric customers in the Wake Forest, Rolesville and Youngsville area will begin testing a home energy management system through the Internet.

If you happen to be driving around Youngsville, N.C., and see a long-haired blond guy doing yard work, and he looks a lot like country star Jason Michael Carroll, chances are it will be him.

Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the two U.S. builders of big line-haul locomotives for the rail freight industry, tapped Michael P. O'Donnell to come in as its executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Jason Michael Carroll, who grew up on a tobacco farm in Youngsville, N.C., has a Top 20 hit with "Where I'm From." "The essence of the song is that we're in this together," Rodney Atkins, who played at Merriweather Post Pavilion last year, says of "These Are My People." Buy Photo Justin Moore filmed the "Small Town USA" video in Poyen, Ark., ...

State and local government agencies in North Carolina and Virginia are working with local citizens in each county to identify the best location for a Trail Concept along the SEHSR corridor.

President Clinton and Wake Forest mom Tonya Peele will appear on the Rachael Ray show this Thursday to talk about the childhood obesity epidemic and the work of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is in the process of contracting out work from its $838 million share of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.