Editorials

After spending time in Costco and at a professional baseball game this week, many of society's important needs have come to light.
In the interest of public service and the greater good, Soap Box Staff will soon offer a new workshop: How to Walk and Stand in Line in Public.
Many of us learned these valuable skills in elementary school. Several of my teachers who were personal friends with Abraham Lincoln drilled this into us at bathroom breaks and on cafeteria trips.

Nash County, possibly in partnership with the Town of Nashville, may consider revitalizing the W.L. Greene School campus into low-income housing. The conversations have begun, however there's a lot to be studied and considered.
I've noticed, across the nation, private developers are purchasing old malls and school houses for the purpose of revamping the structures into senior living apartments and even small medical centers - which makes absolutely good sense.

William Turner was born March 4, 1752 in Virginia and passed away December 30, 1843 in Nash County. He was a Private in the American Revolutionary War.
While a resident of Nash County, NC, he enlisted in June, 1778, and served as private until April or May, 1779, in Captain William Lewis' company and in Captain John Baker's company in Colonel Hogan's Third North Carolina Regiment (This would be James Hogun/Hogan of Halifax County. He has a North Carolina Historical marker near Hobgood.)

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on September 2, 1976. Southern Nash football coach Spencer White goes over some of the fine points of the wishbone with his probable starters in the backfield before playing against Saratoga Central.