FRONT PAGE

NASHVILLE - Reflecting what was said to be happening "across the state," Nash County Public School officials are grappling with statistics that show a growing number of students having to be hospitalized - sometimes involuntarily - for mental health issues, particularly for the threat of suicide.
"We're having a mental health crisis with our youth and there's a lot higher rate of suicidality that I've ever seen before. Unfortunately, there is information on how to kill, hurt yourself online," said Jeannie Kerr, who works in Student Support Services and Operations. Kerr made a presentation to board of education members at their Oct. 26th committee meetings, apparently having made the same presentation recently to school principals.

It was a night of upsets in multiple Nash County races November 3rd as two incumbent state legislators- Allen Chesser and Lisa Barnes - as well as incumbents District Attorney Jeff Marsigli and Linda Thorne, Nash County Clerk of Superior Court- all lost their seats to challengers on Election Day, 2026.

If the 2026 Elections were a fishing tournament, the four big fish- Roy Cooper, Michael Whatley, Don Davis and Laurie Buckhout- were the ones everybody was watching.
With almost 99% of state precincts reporting in just before midnight, Roy Cooper and Don Davis, both democrats, won the federal seats they were swimming after: Nashville native son and former NC Governor Cooper was declared the winner of a U.S. Senate seat over republican Michael Whatley.

MIDDLESEX - Family members, school officials and students at Southern Nash High School are having to deal with the aftermath of a fatal accident Tuesday that took the life of one of their own: a 14-year-old girl who was hit by a truck while attempting to board a school bus north of Middlesex.
According to Nash County 9-1-1 information, a person called at 5:48 a.m. to report the accident.
Information provided to The Graphic about the accident location varied, with one source reporting it as south of Bryant Road on Winters Road and another source reporting it as on Bryant Road south of Hoyt Road.

NASHVILLE - The Nash Senior Center will be closed in November and December due to planned renovations. The temporary closure will be related to center expansion, begun last November. Work is about to wrap up on the new addition, transitioning to renovations in the older building.
"While the closure is an inconvenience for the participants, closing the building and relocating the programming to other locations was deemed to be the safest approach to complete this work and to do so as efficiently as possible.

SPRING HOPE - The town of Spring Hope has landed a $776,500 grant to launch a flood warning and pedestrian safety project, with 80% of the costs being paid for by a federal award.
Mayor Kyle Pritchard went into details at the Nov. 2nd town meeting, with all present fully aware that the project was in response to last year's flash flooding fatalities on Highway 581 south of town.