There's several new faces at Nash County Cooperative Extension.
Extension Director Sandy Hall said two new agents, an administrative assistant and an intern are ready to serve the citizens and youth of Nash County.
Colby Griffin is the latest hire for the organization. Griffin started in his new role as horticulture agent on June 1.

President Joe Biden speaks at Nash Community College during his visit to Nash County last week.

President Joe Biden paid a visit to Nash Community College late last week to tout a strengthening U.S. job market.
"A manufacturing innovation boom is happening all across America, not just in North Carolina," Biden told a small crowd allowed access to the event. His visit was carried live on multiple television channels in eastern North Carolina.

A former library director has returned to the role at H.D. Cooley Library.
The Town of Nashville recently announced the appointment of Brian Booth as its new library director.
Booth will begin his duties on June 27.

Red Oak is searching for a new town clerk and Tracy Shearin resigned last week.
"She did a good job while she was here, but now she's gone and we're looking for a new one," Mayor Levell Langley told The Graphic earlier this week.
Shearin served as town clerk since July 2017. She spent a brief time as deputy clerk beginning in January of that year before accepting the top administrator job after the retirement of Carolyn Briggs, who served as clerk for a quarter of a century.

Over 1,000 Nash County Public Schools seniors turned their tassels last week during graduation ceremonies at local high schools. Northern Nash High School and Southern Nash High School graduation ceremonies were held Friday, June 9 while Rocky Mount High School and Nash Central High Schools hosted ceremonies on Saturday, June 10. Ceremonies were held for the Early College High School and Center for Industry, Technology and Innovation (CITI) High School on Thursday, May 18 while Tar River Academy hosted its ceremony on Friday, June 9.

Rick Winstead, co-owner of Key Printing, Inc. in Nashville, passed away June 7 at the age of 67.
Rick, and his college roommate at Chowan College Craig Glasgow, opened Key Printing in 1989 in a small office on Barnes Street in Nashville.
The duo quickly outgrew the small office and constructed the existing facility at West Washington Street in 1993 stepping out on faith filling the building with state of the art printing equipment.

The Nash County Board of Education will be reduced to seven members aligned with county commissioner districts with the passing of Senate Bill 248.
The new law directs the change when the demerger of Nash and Rocky Mount schools is complete and students living in the city are sent to schools in either Nash or Edgecombe counties depending on which side of the city they live.

The Momeyer Town Council has passed a nearly doubled budget for the coming fiscal year with a lot of money set aside for legal fees.
"After two months of discussion, the budget we have is sufficient," said Mayor Kenneth Parker.
The $150,689 2023-24 budget has nearly doubled over the 2022-23 fiscal year. Increases include a 50 cent per hour raise for Town Clerk Sheila Alford among other expenses.

A Nashville man has been named in connection to a federal fraud case.
Alpheus Brewer is accused by the federal government of cheating senior citizens out of a total of $143,000, according to a civil complaint filed recently in federal district court by Michael Easley Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Authorities accuse a Castalia man of recently kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Dwight Rashon Manning, 21, faces charges of assault by strangulation, first-degree kidnapping, resisting a public officer and assault on a government official. He received a $100,000 bond.

A fire of unknown origin was reported on 6/9/23 at 10335 W Old Spring Hope Road, Spring Hope
A warrant service was reported on 6/7/23 at 1205 Eastern Avenue, Nashville
A felony larceny was reported on 6/6/23 at 12566 South Street, Whitakers

INCIDENTS
A damage to real property, misdemeanor hit and run and failure to stop was reported on 6/10/23 at 818 Birchwood Drive
A larceny by an employee was reported on 6/7/23 at 1205 Eastern Avenue

If you grew up in church, you know the story of Jonah. God asked him to go to Nineveh, a city of 120,000, to help him save them from their own wickedness.
Like most of us, when we run from what we think is trouble, we often go somewhere we think we cannot be found. So, too did Jonah. He refused to obey God, went to Joppa, and boarded a ship to take to Tarshish, a place where he thought God would never find him.

"And it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, that when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray." LUKE 11:1
The disciples had been with Christ and seen Him pray. They had learned to understand something of the connection between His wondrous life in public, and His secret life of prayer.

Congratulations to Jackson Ennis, Chase McIntyre, and McKenzie McIntyre who were baptized Sunday, June 11 at Red Oak Baptist Church!
Please be in prayer for the youth and chaperones who traveled to Louisville, KY on Sunday, June 11 to spend the week at MFUGE! The missions camp will be held at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The group will return home on Saturday, June 17.

Over 700 students graduated from Bob Jones University Friday, May 5.
In addition to 570 students earning bachelor's degrees, 94 students received master's degrees and 58 students received associate degrees. Three candidates earned doctorate degrees.

Nash County residents were among those who recently graduated from Appalachian State University.
Graduates include Hannah Danielle Grant, of Nashville, who received a Master of Social Work in Social Work, Elizabeth Carol Lamm, of Spring Hope, who received a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, Jasmine Lisette Salazar, of Bailey, who received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Elizabeth Gray Strickland, of Whitakers, who received a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Technology.

Due to a press issue some pages of June 8th edition were omitted. We are publishing deed transfers from the June 8th edition in addition to this week's transfers. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.

BUILDING PERMIT
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Tim Glasgow; 3600 Eastern Avenue; sign; $7,000
Steve May; 6685 US 64A; addition; $90,000

Due to a press issue some pages of June 8th edition were omitted. We are publishing building permist from the June 8th edition in addition to this week's transfers. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.

I remember as a young Baptist after church was over, the preacher would block the main exit and everyone had to shake his hand before being allowed to leave.
This seemed like it took hours. One reason for this is that "a certain age group" felt compelled to answer comments like "Good to see you today" by listing every single physical ailment they had, might have, or wanted to have in the coming week.

Thursday mornings are a beast around here.
Many people assume we still print these newspaper pages here in our office. Due to the rapid change of technology and expenses in the early 90s, we - like many other newspapers - made the decision to print our paper at a separate facility. We quickly found after crunching the numbers it was more feasible to farm out the printing.

This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic on May 25, 1972. The four athletes pictured placed third in the 880-yard relay in the state meet. Pictured (kneeling) Larry Hines and (standing) Jack Freeman, Tomas Eley and Frank Cooper. All but Eley also ran on the 880-yard relay team that placed second in the Junior Olympics in Greenville.

SOUTHERN NASH HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER STAR CHARLOTTE BENSON

NASH COUNTY -- By any standard, it's difficult to debate against that assessment that this was one of the greatest-ever girls high school soccer seasons in Nash County.
Southern Nash, Northern Nash and Nash Central, despite playing in the difficult Big East Conference, teamed up to register a combined 47-17-1 record between the school.

NORTHERN NASH HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR STANDOUT DANNY O'BRIEN

RED OAK -- A left-handed hitting, power-bat catcher known just as much for his defensive work as his offensive mastery.
From a college recruiting standpoint, what's not to like?
Which is exactly when Northern Nash senior star backstop Danny O'Brien received interest from so many next-level schools before deciding to star close to home and ink a deal with Louisburg College, a National Junior College Athletic Association titan located in Franklin County.

SOUTHERN NASH HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE PITCHER ANNA DICKINSON

NASH COUNTY -- A new old rivalry rebloomed on the Nash County softball scene this spring between Nash Central and Southern Nash -- and it resulted in quite the finish in the always-strong Big East Conference.
Southern has proven to be a model of consistency of the past three decades, but they were joined on the county throne by Central's mini-dynasty 10 years ago.

NORTHERN NASH HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR SHORTSTOP BRYSON JENKINS

RED OAK -- Few are the occasions when a Northern Nash High School standout has earned a prestigious spot on the North Carolina Baseball Coaches Association Class 3-A All-State Baseball Team -- let alone two in the same year.
But this spring provided many reasons to celebrate on the diamond at NN as the Fighting Knights repeated as the Big East Conference Champions before making a strong run to the Elite Eight of the Class 3-A State Playoffs.

NASH COUNTY -- Ric Yarbrough has enjoyed the good fortune of playing under some of the area's top basketball coaches, and he's taken lessons from all of them and stored them away for future reference.
For Yarbrough, that future is now as the Bunn High School graduate and Franklinton native has been on an upward swing in the coaching profession on the high school, AAU and collegiate levels.

ZEBULON - Kay-Lan Nicasia hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, Quinton Low had a double in the fifth and Shane Smith struck out three over a scoreless inning in relief, but the Fayetteville Woodpeckers homered three times while defeating the homestanding Carolina Mudcats for the sixth straight game 6-3 on Sunday afternoon at Five County Stadium.