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Enter WTZQ’s Take Back Your Summer contest!
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Tom Orr Book Fundraising Effort
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Henderson County July 4 Festivities
July 4 @ 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Lightning
- Operation 'Good, Bad & Ugly' sweeps 41 into jail on drug trafficking charges July 2, 2022Law officers arrested 41 suspected drug dealers or drug buyers and declared seven “drug houses closed for business” after the culmination of a massive six-month investigation code-named “the Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
- Chamber, Stonecroft break ground on senior living facility on S. Allen Road July 1, 2022FLAT ROCK — Local officials celebrated Stonecroft’s groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, June 29.
- County joins beaver management assistance program July 1, 2022Henderson County has entered into a cooperative agreement with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assist landowners who experience damage from nuisance beavers.
- Dave Cooley, chamber executive in 7 cities across the South, dies at age 93 July 1, 2022David William "Dave" Cooley, a Hendersonville native who served as the top Chamber of Commerce executive in Hendersonville; Anderson, S.C.; Greenville, S.C.; Jacksonville, Florida; Dallas; Washington, D.C.; Spartanburg, S.C.; and Memphis, where he served twice and his last stop before his retirement in 1995, died Sunday, June 26, at age 93. He passed away peacefully […]
- New assistant superintendent named to replace retiring Dr. Frye July 1, 2022
- New drive-thru Starbucks, C-store that's 'more than a gas station' coming to town July 1, 2022
NCNN
- Updated Coronavirus Information March 12, 2020Updated coronavirus information from state health officials. https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/public-health/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-response-north-carolina Updated coronavirus information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html Updated coronavirus information from Johns Hopkins https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Today in History
- U.S. warship downs Iranian passenger jet February 9, 2010In the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes shoots down an Iranian passenger jet that it mistakes for a hostile Iranian fighter aircraft. Two missiles were fired from the American warship—the aircraft was hit, and all 290 people aboard were killed. The attack came near the end of the ...
- Battle of Gettysburg ends November 24, 2009July 3, 1863: On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end. In June 1863, following his masterful victory at the Battle of ...