Candidate: Vernon J. Bryant
Office sought: One of three at-large seats on the Halifax County Board of Commissioners
Current position: Retired from the state Department of Public Safety as a community corrections manager
Tourism spending in Halifax County increased 1.34 percent over the previous year.
The three members of the Halifax County Board of Elections will have pay back a total of $4,725 after commissioners deadlocked on forgiving what administration called an over-compensation in their stipends.
An expansion of the Halifax County Jail is off the table after commissioners today decided the project was too cost prohibitive and would most likely mean a tax increase of 7 cents when maintenance and operating costs were factored in.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission sees no need for a no-wake zone on Poe Creek, a letter sent to Halifax County Attorney Glynn Rollins said.
Halifax County commissioners this evening accepted the jail expansion project bid of a Durham-based construction company.
The Halifax County Sheriff's Office was the recipient of a gift from a longtime friend.
About 24 miles of a proposed 550-mile natural gas pipeline will run through Halifax County, Dominion power officials told commissioners today.
The chair of the Coalition for Education and Economic Security today asked Halifax County commissioners to re-evaluate their funding priority of schools across the county.
Halifax County Board of Commissioners Chairman James Pierce was right in his assessment of the school situation during the chamber's State of Our Community luncheon Thursday.
