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ROCKY MOUNT - Nearly 40 Nash County youth participated in this year's 89th annual Eastern Carolina 4-H Livestock Show and Sale, held April 6-8 at the East Carolina Agriculture & Education Center on Kingsboro Road, Rocky Mount. Also competing were youth from Edgecombe and Halifax Counties.
Nash County results are as follows:

NASHVILLE- As a result of collaborative local research on how to best use Opioid Settlement funding, Nash County will be paying for two mental health clinicians to work in Nash County Public Schools.
Tia Foula, Assistant Nash County manager, presented commissioners with a resolution Monday to release $700,000 total over the next four years to pay to hire two clinicians to offer behavioral health supports for school-aged youth.

ROCKY MOUNT- A ten-year-old Nash County boy is being praised by the Nash County Sheriff's Office for his responsible actions concerning the discovery of a loaded firearm in his bookbag.
The boy, whose name has not been released, a student at M.B. Hubbard Elementary School, "noticed his bookbag was heavier than normal" when he got on his schoolbus April 29th. Upon unzipping his bag, the student found a Diamondback DB9, subcompact 9 mm pistol, which was loaded but not chambered.

MOMEYER- While formal planning has not yet begun for the town of Momeyer's FY 27 budget, a standby generator for the town hall has already been mentioned-again.
"According to FEMA, we've already done this," said Will Funderburg, Mayor, who brought up the generator as a potential new line item to be considered.
Speaking at the April 13 town council meeting under an agenda item, "preliminary budget discussion," Funderburg noted that town officials were on record in 2015, 2020 and even last year as discussing the need for a generator.

NASHVILLE - A March 14 shooting incident outside a Nashville laundromat in which a girl was shot in the leg has resulted in additional charges against a girl and a second adult woman.
Initially charged was 53-year-old Michelle Murphy of Crescent Meadows Drive, Nashville, but now charged is Murphy's daughter, 33-year-old Kiahira Reshona Murphy as well as the unnamed 15-year-old girl.

"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the day approaching." (Hebrews 10:25)
Robbie and I became members of a wonderful church last Sunday. After caring for her mom for a long period of time, we were finally able to commit to attending church on a regular basis. We had been visiting there for several months. We love the pastor, the sermons, the music, and the people. We even found a Sunday School class with about 50 others which we really enjoy.

Is Christianity just a copycat religion? Many critics answer, "Yes," and argue that much of the Old Testament is nothing more than rewritings of Ancient Near Eastern myth. One particular reason they answer yes is that the biblical story of the Great Flood in Genesis is not the original story, they say, but is, in fact, a copy of the much older flood tale from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. Sure enough, The Epic of Gilgamesh, written in about 1800 BC, predates the Genesis account by some 1,000 years! Not only that, the similarities between the Genesis flood story and the Gilgamesh flood story are striking:

Women in Action of Red Oak Baptist Church hosted a Missions Celebration on Tuesday, April 28 at the church. The theme was Go Fish! based on the verse in Matthew 4:19 which reads, "Come follow me', Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." Ladies enjoyed delicious fried chicken supper with sides and desserts.
Following the meal, our speaker, Donna Upchurch, shared with the group about her missions trips to Jamaica.

From left : Trey Mills, for Best Steer award; Jessiyah Taylor, for Best Sheep; Barrett Vandemark for Best Meat Goat; Reed Crunsenberry for Best Swine. At right is Linda Fisher, representing the Nash County Farm Bureau. The highest placing animal in the 4-H Show & Sale that was born and raised in the county is selected as the award winner.