NASH COUNTY - The student dress code policy for students in Nash County Public Schools has been revised, with a draft copy sent to the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for approval after an OCR investigation into events at Nash Central High School in September 2022.
The administration for NCHS at that time were Principal Victor Ward, Assistant Principal Cheryl Iannucci and Assistant Principal Brandi Deans.

NASHVILLE - A proposed tree removal project from a town owned lot at 506 S. Boddie Street was chopped short in a unanimous vote by Nashville Town Council members after a plea by Nashville Tree Board Chairman Donald Street.
Town Manager Randy Lansing recommended that the town accept a low bid of $11,500 to remove 17 "very large" pine trees from the lot that police and fire use for parking emergency vehicles, trailers, and equipment for rapid deployment.

RED OAK - The Town of Red Oak has passed a resolution to "adopt" displaced Scouts, who showed up en masse at the Town Council meeting Nov. 13 to plead their case.
Red Oak Boy Scouts from Troop 16 and Cub Scouts from Pack 16 lined the walls of the Town Hall, with Cub Scout Weston Strickland leading recitation of the Scout Law and Boy Scout Tyler Pierce giving the Scout Oath.

Pictured above, workers complete final touches in one of two day rooms in phase one of the Nash County Detention Center.

NASHVILLE - Phase One of the new Nash County Detention Center is nearly completed, with inmate occupation expected before the end of 2023 or in January of 2024.
Deputy County Manager Jonathan Boone, who was involved in the new jail from a design perspective, took county officials and the media on a tour of the facility Nov. 14.

The Town of Spring Hope has received $3 million in state funds to address problems with its aging water infrastructure, with Mayor Kyle Pritchard crediting to NC House District 25 Representative Allen Chesser, Majority Leader Rep. John Bell and State Senator Lisa Barnes.
"We've had no major capital improvement money on some of this in decades," Pritchard said, explaining that some of the materials used in Spring Hope's underground water systems were breaking down from age, such as terracotta from the 1920s and iron from the 1950s and 1960s.

Shop local, shop often is the focus of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce's annual "It PAYS to SHOP Local" campaign.
The chamber launches the contest each year at Thanksgiving encouraging people to patronize chamber members. When shopping with a chamber member, you can send a copy of your receipt to the chamber and each receipt will be entered into a drawing for $500 the week of Christmas. Receipts can be texted to 252-459-4050, emailed to nashvillencchamber@gmail.com or mailed to PO Box 1003, Nashville, NC, 27856.

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NASHVILLE - Local farmers were celebrated while the keynote speaker addressed the unwelcome elephant in the room - the loss of farmland -at the annual 2023 Farm to City Week Breakfast, held Nov. 14 at the Nash County Ag Center at 1006 Eastern Avenue, Nashville.
Speaker Dr. Antoine J. Alston, Associate Dean of the College of Ag & Environ Sciences, N.S. A&T State University, and a graduate of Northern Nash High School, said when he graduated from Northern Nash in 1993, Nash County had had 52,000 farms.

A man described as mentally disabled and accused of felony child abuse involving a four-month-old baby had his case elevated to Nash County Supreme Court last week after medical records for the child were obtained by subpoena.
32-year-old Raheem Ramone Arrieta, who had a home address listed as 14745 NC Hwy 33 in Whitakers but was also described in court records as homeless, was arrested in Nashville June 4, 2023, for an alleged assault on a child that reportedly occurred on or about the time period from Sept. 2 to Sept. 5, 2022.

Parks and Rec employees Kim Barnes and Chris Aycock unwrap the root ball of a Southern Magnolia during planting on the First Street Extension.

Nashville Parks and Rec personnel got their hands dirty on Arbor Day, Nov. 8, planting ten trees along a strip of town land and multiple fruit trees at Nashville Elementary School.
Two mature Southern Magnolias, five Eastern Red Buds, and three Red Maples were planted Wednesday, fittingly, on First Street Extension property between E. Elm Street and Cedar Street, under the supervision of Tree Board member Lee McCollum.

As Nash County Public School officials await approval by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights of their revised student dress code, part of the code that pertains to school uniforms has also come under discussion.
Currently, four schools in the NCPS system have students in uniform: Fairview Elementary (K-2), DS Johnson Elementary (3-5), Baskerville Elementary (K-5) and MB Hubbard (K-5).

Assault on a female; damage to real property; misdemeanor breaking and entering reported at 1187 First Street Ext. on 11/05/23
Motor vehicle theft reported at 1426 Wiley Rd., Spring Hope
Felony breaking and/or entering reported at 1528 Harrison Rd. on 11/11/23

ARRESTS
Angel Taylor charged with larceny by employee on 11/14/23
La'Dric Laderick charged with DWLR not impaired revoked; DWI on 11/14/23

Nash Central High School students volunteer at the Oak Level Ruritan Club chicken plate sale.

The Oak Level Ruritan Club got plenty of help with its annual fall BBQ Chicken Plate sale Oct. 27, with assistance from 11 Nash Central High School honor students and two school counselors.
"It's a hard job, and the kids worked the line and did a great job," Club President Kaye Boone said, adding that the students also "jumped around outside with signs" promoting the plate sale and assisted with a raffle.

The Coopers Ruritan Club, described by member Peggy Winstead as "small but powerful," held its Appreciation Banquet Nov. 16 at the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Elm City, with a crowd of fifty celebrating the installation of new officers and the presentation of multiple awards.
The club, in its 71st year, is one of only three local Ruritan Clubs along with Oak Level and Momeyer "that still cooks," and cook they did, with Vice-President John Sprague carving a roast and serving the dinner along with a line of helpful hands.

Students at Northern Nash got to practice living on a budget - at least, on paper - during a "Real Money. Real World" workshop Oct. 27 staffed by NC Cooperative Extension agents from Nash and Edgecombe Counties along with local volunteers from Farm Bureau and Nash County Soil & Water.
Held in Ms. Chrisola Ham's Family & Consumer Science classroom, several classes finished up a four-week study program in which they were randomly assigned careers with monthly incomes and then had to decide how to spend it for housing, transportation, communication, child care, clothing, and insurance, among other life necessities.

Results are in for Livestock Winners at the 2023 State Fair in Cattle, Goats, Sheep and Hogs.
AJ Strickland of Middlesex took top honors with Grand Champion Bull, Grand Champion Tenderlean Cow/Calf and Champion Junior Bull in the Piedmontese Open division of Open Beef Cattle, while Larry Strickland had the Grand Champion Tenderlean Bull.

NINTH GRADE - A HONOR ROLL
Angel Alexander, Perla Aranda-Barrera, Nekayla Avent, Ty Bragg, Allisson Cantu Yanez, Cassidy Chafin, Brilee Deal, McKenzie Hardy, Benjamin Hart, Isaiah Hunter-Gray, Kailyn Ireland, Ethan Jones, Quion Jones, Francesca Vidurrizaga and Tyler Whitley

THIRD GRADE - A/B HONOR ROLL
Skylar Barron, Jesslynn Bass, Ellah Brantley, Mi'Lani Bulluck, Emmelene Burns, Chase Cotten, Samuel Crews, Alexander Cunnington, Arianna Dancy, Sarah Dorsey, Kayden Foster, London Frazier, Brinley Hester, Bingi Hicks, Jabari Hicks, Joy Johnson, Aubrey Jones, Miller Joyner, Alicia Olivera, Jamir Powell, Ramiah Roach, Kagen Sload, Alexander Staton, Tra'Miyah Staton, Jasper Valentine, Tessamarie Vidal, Aiden Walston, Kaiden Whitaker and Jayce Williams

SIXTH GRADE - A HONOR ROLL
Ulises Alvarez Huerta, Emma Bissette, Charles Creech, William Hale, Elliana Hart, Sareen Hasan, Chloe Holcombe, Danielle Mbonde, Kaci McDaniel, Nia Rose McNeal, Ryder Shearin, August Vester, Phoebe Vester and Hannah Walker

In 2004, I was the Durham County Manager in Durham, North Carolina. I had over 2,000 employees and oversaw a budget of over $600 million dollars.
One morning, I arrived at my office at 7:30 for another stress-filled day. As the morning wore on, I began to experience shortness of breath and tightness in my chest. I couldn't believe it. Could it be a heart attack?

When someone orders us to do something, or imposes an obligation, it is natural for us to ask two questions. The first question is, "Why should I?" and the second is, "Who says so?" The why and the authority behind the mandate are very important to the question of forgiveness.
To answer the question of why we should be forgiving people, let us look briefly at the teaching of Jesus in the New Testament. In Matthew's gospel, we read this account:

NINTH GRADE - A HONOR ROLL
Aiden Cobb and Jesse Smith
NINTH GRADE - A/B HONOR ROLL
Taylor Blandin, Emory Griffis, Ashton Narron, Omar Shehadeh, Nasir Taybron and Jada Walker

Morgan Richardson of Nashville has been named to Southern New Hampshire University's (SNHU) Summer 2023 President's List. The summer terms run from May to August.

Approximately 1,000 fourth graders from twelve schools got a field trip to the Nash County Farmers Market in Rocky Mount Nov. 1-3rd to experience "4-H Annual Agriculture Heritage Days," courtesy of the NC Cooperative Extension office in Nashville.
County Extension Director Sandy Hall said the event has been a tradition for at least twenty-five years.

Nash County officially placed a portrait of Judge Quentin T. Sumner at the Nash County Courthouse. Sumner's is first portrait displayed in new Superior Courtroom. Sumner retired Oct. 31 2022 at age 72 as Nash County's resident senior Superior Court Judge after presiding 39 years.

Middlesex police officers are looking forward to Christmas holiday shopping, especially since they are known to play with children and toys in Wal-Mart's toy aisle. Not just any children, and not just any toys, though; the children from Middlesex Elementary School who are selected to take part in Shop With A Cop, made possible this year by a check in the amount of $625 presented recently to Middlesex Elementary by Middlesex Police Chief Joe Amos.

Nashville
11/28/2023: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Nash County Senior Center, 103 N. Alston Street

The Nashville Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for grand opening day at A Touch of the Father's Love in Momeyer.

"It's good to be Home!" was the opening statement by April Baker last week during the official grand opening of A Touch of the Father's Love in the former location of Bass Brothers Grocery in Momeyer.
Baker is the founder and director of the ministry whose mission has been to fight hunger since its birth in 2012.

William Russell Spivey II and Joyce Edwards Spivey to Priscilla Joyner and Shawn Banks; 201 South Englewood Drive, Rocky Mount
Tressell Homes, LLC to Richard H. Minor; 1.318 acres and 1.319 acres in Mannings Township
Bennie M. Jefferson, Bennie H. Jefferson and Dianne S. Stallings to Myra Atkinson Whitlock; 3000 Amherst Road, Rocky Mount

Building Permit Commercial
Nick Kraft, 9377 N US 301; renovation/alteration; $400,000
Joshua Curtis, 6474 Deans St; sign; $24,000
Nash County Public Schools, 3170 Red Oak Battleboro Rd.; new construction; $87,000

Thanksgiving and Christmas have always been my favorite holidays.
And, I've offended many -- mostly close family members -- by insisting both are independent. That means slowing down on those Christmas decorations before Turkey Day.
My mama could barely wait until the passing of Halloween before the tree and all the other trimmings came out of the attic.

Though it sounds like a science-fiction movie, it seems to me we may be quickly headed to an all-virtual experience for primary care.
Just recently, I've been told of in-hospital consults being done virtually. I guess small non-life threatening, or acute issues, can be handled in this fashion, but one of these consults was for a psychiatric evaluation which, in my opinion, should be an in-person visit.
Paying careful attention lately, I've noticed that major companies such as Amazon is now advertising on-demand virtual care under their newly created Amazon Clinic.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on Dec. 3, 1959. LaRue Griffin and J.E. McLin were marking items at the Nashville Dollar Store for a town-wide holiday merchant event. Sixty-four years later, Nashville merchants are preparing for Shop Small Saturday which is Nov. 25th.

GIVE HIM SIX. Nash Central's James Rodgers scored six touchdowns for the Bulldogs during last Friday's home playoff win versus Hertford County.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Central and Hertford County have combined for 1,233 points this fall -- so a high-scoring outcome was expected when the clubs met last Friday in the third round of the Class 2-A State Playoffs at The Dawg Pound on the NCHS campus.
But nobody could have anticipated this.

LAURINBURG -- Not this time -- that was the main focal point taken from Northern Nash's wild 45-44 decision over Scotland last Friday night in the third round of the Class 3-A State Football Playoffs.
Two years ago, the Fighting Knights fell to Scotland in postseason when the Scots were able to convert a touchdown in the closing seconds.

WILSON -- Barton College has a long history of recruiting successful student-athletes from the area -- and several of them are currently starring for the Bulldogs in an array of sports.
But that cooperation was fostered long before now -- even back when the school was known as Atlantic Christian.

ROCKY MOUNT -- An opposing coach offered the most pertinent assessment of Maci Worrells, stating that the Nash Central softball superstar 'could excel at pretty much every position on the field'.
And that's not even discussing Worrells' greatest fast-pitch strength -- her amazing, powerful bat.

NASH COUNTY -- From a team perspective, the Big East Conference volleyball scene was much-improved this fall as Northern Nash, Southern Nash and Bunn made great strides with their respective programs -- and Nash Central was able to maintain a level of success despite losing a strong graduating class from the year before.
That said, nobody in the league was able to touch the Franklinton Lady Rams -- a trend that is now three seasons old and shows no sign of slowing down.

NASH COUNTY -- Here are last week's results and this Friday night's fourth-round quarterfinals schedule for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association's Class 2-A and 3-A State Football Playoffs:

NASH COUNTY -- What a way to go out -- that was the theme of the Big East Conference competitors at the recent Class 3-A State Cross County Championships in Kernersville.
In the boys event, Northern Nash capped off one of its greatest seasons in school history -- and there have been many -- by taking eight place overall in the team standings.