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NASHVILLE- Three babies died of unknown causes in Nash County last year, with local health educators working to ramp up safe-sleep education and resource access as a result.
Liz Lord, Interim Nash County Health Director, also chairs the county's Local Child Fatality Prevention Team (LCFPT), and shared the results of the annual LCFPT report with those attending the most recent meeting of the Health and Human Services Committee.

NASHVILLE - What many are calling the largest crowd to attend the annual Nashville Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen Awards Ceremony over the last few years thronged Nash Arts Thursday night, April 23rd, to celebrate all those who give of their time to volunteer for good causes.
"You are the reason Nashville is the community it is today," said Sandy Hall, guest speaker, to those assembled after she asked anyone who had ever volunteered to raise a hand.

SPRING HOPE - Spring Hope museum recently unveiled its newest season exhibit, "Stagecoach to Depot: The History of Spring Hope," which will be on display through November.
An open house and reception for the 2026 opening of the exhibit was held Sunday, April 19. About 40 people turned out for the event, which included refreshments, punch and musical entertainment consisting of gentle guitar strumming by regulars Michael Boone and Tim Renfrow.

NASHVILLE - What began with the theft and recovery of an automotive scanner ended up with a Nashville house boarded up as unfit to live in and the arrest of two men for selling drugs.
Terrence Frederick Cooke, 57, of 841 Brooklyn Blvd, Nashville, along with 19-year-old Dawood Matthew Bush, who lived with Cooke in Nashville but also had a Woodmeadow Drive address in Rocky Mount, were charged with multiple drug-related felonies April 17th.

ROCKY MOUNT - The local chapter of the Blue Knights, the law enforcement motorcycle club composed of present and former officers and deputies, including military, is playing host to potentially more than a thousand of their brethren this weekend; the Regional Mason-Dixon conference, consisting of members from NC, VA, WV, TN, MD, KY and DE, is rolling into Rocky Mount.

ROCKY MOUNT- The Volunteer Appreciation Dinner 2026 held by the Down East Radio Reading Service, (DERRS) Inc., April 14th at North Carolina Wesleyan University was spent celebrating both volunteer readers and their vision-impaired clients.
"It's all about understanding the clients," said Brigadier General Arnold Gordon-Bray, retired, DERRS Chairman.
Two clients, Jack Bynum of Tarboro and Larry Herring of Battleboro, were program speakers.

Sandy Hall (left) presents the Nashville Chamber of Commerce 2026 Junior Achievement award to Corbin Clark.