Creedmoor News

"Money poisons you when you've got it," British author D.H. Lawrence writes in his 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, "and starves you when you haven't." There may be no better quote to describe the tension in public debates over the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," for extracting natural gas from shale deposits.

Contributed photos/VGCC Participants start the inaugural VGCC Earth Day Fun Run/Walk in the courtyard on the college's Main Campus.

BY DAWN BAUMGARTNER VAUGHAN dvaughan@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6563 WILTON - In the Granville County community of Wilton, there's a church that planted roots when colonists were still under England's rule.

South Branch Library is busier than ever, and the meeting room is seeing more use than ever.

Granville Early College High School, which is operated as a partnership between Granville County Schools and Vance-Granville Community College, was recently cited for its success in dropout prevention in reports from the North Carolina State Board of Education and the N.C. New Schools Project.