Warren County News

Warren County Board of Elections Director Debbie Formyduval says municipal elections are just as hectic as the general election was in 2008.

WARRENTON a ' As Veterans Day approaches, the thoughts of many in the community turn to the contributions the men and women of the armed forces have made to the freedoms enjoyed by Americans.

At their regular monthly meeting Monday, the Warren County Commissioners adopted an Energy Plan designed to "improve the efficient use and conservation of energy and water at all of its facilities," as stated in the Executive Summary of the plan.

The United Way of Vance County, which helps support agencies in Warren County, will kick off the Warren County campaign with food and street collections on Friday.

Al Woodlief has won re-election to his mayoral seat in Oxford while Danny Currin, Calvin "C.J." Harris Jr., Ron Bullock and Jackie Sergent have won the four seats up for election on the Oxford City Commission.

Dispatch Publisher James Edwards, who is this yeara s campaign chairman for the United Way of Vance County, made a fundraising pitch at City Hall.

The Department of Social Services in both Vance and Warren counties will be taking applications Nov.

WARRENTON a ' Jonathan Lester Reams, 20, of 117 Marshall St. in Warrenton, was arrested on Sept.

The stunning fall colors will be the perfect backdrop for the Warrenton Harvest Market Festival on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the courthouse square.

Section 8 housing has gotten a bad reputation. Those were the words of Sharon Sneed, of Franklin-Vance-Warren Opportunity, to the City Council in an informational talk about the Section 8 program at a council work session on Monday.

An education advocate is joining North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue's staff as her director of outreach to constituent and religious groups.

WARRENTON a ' Janet Kay Maynard, 66, of 714 Baltimore Road, died Tuesday in a tractor accident.

Warren County North Carolina has more students attending rural schools than all but one state in the country.

Tri-County schools last month received the results from the 2008-09 SAT tests, with scores declining in Warren County, rising in Granville, and improving in Vance albeit with a much smaller number of Vance County students taking the exam compared to the prior academic year.

Time was, people took their lives in their hands to walk across U.S. 1, the highway that served as Main Street for countless towns along the East Coast.

An early morning fire destroyed a grocery store in southern Warren County on Friday.

Nursing home named after civil rights icon from Durham is closed by the state BY WILLIAM F. WEST : The [Henderson] Daily Dispatch Jul 19, 2009 SOUL CITY -- The state has closed the Floyd B. McKissick Sr.

"An elder statesman of American letters." What North Carolina writer comes to your mind when you read those words? These are the words a New York Times reviewer of Reynolds Price's new book, "Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back," used to describe Price.

Here in the seat of one of North Carolina's poorest counties, the mansions tower over Main Street.

Homeowners just outside Warrenton have learned to live with a strong odor that is permeating from the sewer.