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Bill Tyson has worked at Central Carolina Community College for 28 years, the last nine as provost over the college's Harnett County operations.

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John-Kevin Frazee, formerly of Dunn, graduated from Central Carolina Community College's Laser and Photonics Technology program in 2011. He now works for Synoptics, a division of Northrop Grumman. The college's Harnett County Campus has the only LPT program at a North Carolina community college and is one of only about a dozen in the nation to train students on high-power lasers. Its graduates are in great demand.

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A 50,200-square-foot Central Carolina Community College Health Sciences Building is under construction in Brightwater Science and Technology Campus, in Lillington. The facility, scheduled to open in fall 2013, will provide state-of-the-art training in the healthcare field.

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Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college's West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 23, 2008. Taking part were (from left) the Rev. George Walton, pastor of Olivia Presbyterian Church, who gave the invocation; Harnett County Commissioner Dan Andrews; Dr. Bud Marchant, president of CCCC; county commissioners Teddy Byrd (behind Marchant), Beatrice Bailey Hill and Tim McNeill; Bobby Powell, CCCC Board of Trustees chairman; and Bill Tyson, Harnett County provost. The 8,500-square-foot Center, located in the Western Harnett Industrial Park, is the college's first permanent facility in the western area of the county.

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Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college's West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 23, 2008. The 8,500-square-foot Center, located in the Western Harnett Industrial Park, is the college's first permanent facility in the western area of the county.