The Butner-Creedmoor News
Money will not be returned to CVFD
By Amanda Dixon | March 18, 2024
After strongly debating the issue, the Creedmoor City Board of Commissioners rejected a proposal to return $23,000 the Creedmoor Volunteer Fire Department paid for the apron and driveway repair repaving project at the fire station. The fire department, a nonprofit entity, entered into a contact with the city, and those...
Agency offers guidance as animal encounters increase in spring
For the Butner-Creedmoor News | March 18, 2024
March 19 marked the beginning of spring, and critters have begun emerging from their winter slumbers and started producing offspring. The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is offering guidance for occasions when you encounter various wildlife as they become more visible this time of year. Black bears Black bears emerge from...
Durham Community Land Trustees, The Conservation Fund offer fellowship
For the Butner-Creedmoor News | March 15, 2024
March 22 is the deadline to apply for a new fellowship designed for people interested in conservation and community action. Durham Community Land Trustees has formed a pioneering partnership with The Conservation Fund, which is introducing the Urban Conservation and Community Fellowship Program. This initiative aims to identify talented individuals...
Chamber honors Knott as 2023 John Penn Citizen of the Year
For the Butner-Creedmoor News | March 15, 2024
The 2023 John Penn Citizen of the Year award was presented to Crawford Knott at the Granville County Chamber of Commerce’s 82nd Annual Membership Meeting and Banquet March 11. More than 220 Chamber members of the turned out for the event, which was sponsored by Granville Health System and held...
Invincible? Maybe not
By Amanda Dixon
amanda@butnercreedmoornews.com | 919-424-1785 | March 15, 2024
I often think I am invincible doing this job and have worked long and hard hours to try to bring the best possible local news to our community. Many people have called me stubborn, hard-headed and even stupid as I have struggled alone to do this job. Even my editor...
Falls Lake girls basketball knocked out of NCHSAA tournament despite 30-point double-double by Thompson
By: Joey Ellsworth
Jellsworth@wakeweekly.com | March 11, 2024
Falls Lake High School girls basketball's 11-game win streak and NCHSAA tournament run ended on March 8, when they fell 68-59 to East Bladen. The Firebirds made it to the...
South Granville shuts out Falls Lake Academy
By Reggie Ponder
editor@wakeweekly.com | 252-202-8366 | March 11, 2024
South Granville’s baseball team overwhelmed Falls Lake Academy 11-0 in a non-conference contest March 8. The Firebirds hosted the matchup at Granville Athletic Park in Oxford. South Granville’s early season...
Emerson Thompson and Falls Lake rolling through tournament competition
By Joey Ellsworth
jellsworth@wakeweekly.com | March 6, 2024
On March 5, the Falls Lake High School girls basketball team defeated Chatham Central 54-47 in round three of the NCHSAA tournament. The No. 1 seeded Firebirds are now one...
Winners still flirt with swing voters
March 18, 2024
Carolina Journal’s first post-primary survey is out. It shows our state’s 2024 general elections will be, as usual, quite competitive. That’s not to say North Carolina’s electorate is perfectly purple....
NC’s legislative majority embraces unfiltered extremism
March 18, 2024
For decades, political operatives crafted their parties’ strategies according to the delicate tenets of the median voter theorem. The protocol was to prune and adjust controversial positions until the party’s...
Why no Poole’s in ‘Roadside Eateries’?
March 18, 2024
“I can’t find Poole’s in the revised edition of ‘North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners and Barbecue Joints.’ What happened?” It is the first complaint...
Invincible? Maybe not
March 15, 2024
I often think I am invincible doing this job and have worked long and hard hours to try to bring the best possible local news to our community. Many people...
Mental health forum slated
February 13, 2024
One does not need to be a trained medical professional to recognize our communities, county, state, and nation are in a mental health and substance abuse crisis. In 2019, suicide...
Here we go again!
December 26, 2023
First there is the Granville landfill proposal that will surely put Granville behind the 8-ball if approved, now seems yet one more project may be looming over Granville residents, as ...