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NASHVILLE - Nash County residents have spoken about what they want to see for Parks and Recreation: more money invested into facilities such as a large centralized district park including an indoor center, walking trails along Stoney Creek, and access to the Tar River and aquatics programs.
Nash commissioners heard about these and other goals during a presentation Jan. 6 about the 10-year Parks & Recreation Master Plan, with the presenter, Nate Halubka of McGill Associates, appearing in tandem with Thomas Gillespie, Parks and Recreation Director.

RED OAK - Future plans for Red Oak's Ennis Park may be the topic of future meetings, with one town resident asking for planning details and asking to meet with councilmen to discuss ideas.
Tom Rawlings spoke during the public input session of the Jan. 13 town council meeting, asking what the town's "strategic initiatives" were for the park this year and over the next three to five years.

NASHVILLE - The top brass in the Nashville Fire Department are proud of their men, and showed it publicly with recognitions at the Jan. 7 meeting of the Nashville town council. AID TO WESTERN NC Jason Edwards, Assistant Chief, spoke about deploying men to western NC in October of 2024 to assist in an NC Emergency Management call-up, reporting that NFD sent a four-man team to Hot Springs for a week, where they worked in "not very good living conditions," according to Chris Joyner, Public Safety Director.

NASHVILLE - In response to a petition for annexation by Nash County Public Schools, the town of Nashville is considering annexation of Nash Central Middle School (NCMS), located at 1638 S. First Street.
Owned by the Nash County Board of Education, NCMS occupies 28.63 acres surrounded by town land, including the sizeable Cardinal Woods subdivision and Glover Park. The school is already hooked into town water and sewer.

NASHVILLE - Nashville town officials are hopeful that airing grievances over recyclable pickup issues might be resolved, taking the opportunity to lay out multiple issues with a GFL company rep at the Jan. 7 town council meeting.
Pat Luce, Government Contracts Manager for GFL, the company responsible for recycling pickup up in Nashville, attempted to make a presentation at the council meeting but the bulk of his presentation, a four-minute video from the Sonoco Recycling Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Raleigh, unexpectedly had no sound and Luce was unable to narrate much about its content.

ROCKY MOUNT- Much like a truck that takes a few tries to get started in cold weather, the Nash County Public Schools' Board of Education had to keep pushing the starter button before conducting its first meeting of 2025: it took three sets of tied votes and a recess to come up with who would be Vice-Chair.
Meeting at Rocky Mount High School in order to accommodate a larger crowd, the board's first order of business was to elect a Chair and Vice-chair for the year.
Steve Ellis, Superintendent, conducted nominations for Chair, with Franklin Lamm and LaShawnda Washington, 2024 Chair, both nominated.

Nashville Elementary students Nicholas Bridgers (4th grade), Andrew Creech (4th grade), and Ayden Mills (3rd grade) perform on drums as students entered the gym for the Sing-a-long.

SPRING HOPE - "If you build it, they will come"- not exactly the Field of Dreams, but possibly the old "Boy Scout Hut" on McLean Street in Spring Hope; instead of building a ballfield, an American Legion post is asking town permission to renovate the dilapidated building in hopes of re-starting a Scout troop there as well as having a meeting place for themselves.
Dicky Bass, American Legion Post 91 Commander, made the request at the Jan. 6 Spring Hope Board of Commissioners' meeting.