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MILLINGTON, Tenn. - Petty Officer 2nd Class Dalton Brown, a native of Rocky Mount, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106, which operates the U.S. Navy's F/A-18 Super Hornet, nicknamed the "Rhino."
Brown is a 2016 graduate of Northern Nash High School.
The skills and values needed to succeed in the Navy are similar to those found in Rocky Mount.

ZEBULON - A shortage of homeless shelters and the needs of the homeless, particularly families and children, are driving factors for a Food Pantry located in Zebulon. Operating out of the Hand of God Church Ministries at 1300 Mack Todd Road, on the Nash County side of Zebulon, the organization's actual name is Progressive Team Works Outreach Food Pantry.

ROCKY MOUNT- The 12th annual "Scripture Run," held April 12th by the Shenandoah Baptist Church, attracted more than 50 motorcycle riders along with cars, raising an all-time grand total of $12,500 to send 18 church youth to camp.
Starting with a prayer circle at 9 a.m. at the church, located on Shenandoah Drive off highway 97 south of Rocky Mount, the event involved a ride lasting about an hour and a half, with stops to hear scripture read by youth members at Twin County Honda, Harpers Nursery, and Cycle Max in Wilson.

NASHVILLE- A new, 24-lot subdivision proposed outside Whitakers has been approved by the Nash County Planning Board, with the next step the preparation of construction plans including the creation of one new road and a partial conversion of a private roadway into a public one.
The property, consisting of eight adjacent tracts of land on 35 acres owned by Jerry Packer, Donna Packer and Worth Packer on the west side of Straight Gate Road, northeast of the town of Red Oak, already has a private access easement named John Wadford Lane providing access to several manufactured homes on adjacent lots.

The Nash County 4-H Sew What Club recently made chemo bags for cancer patients. The club donated the bags to Sally Jones, COSS County Administrative Assistant for Nash County Cooperative Extension. Jones serves on the NC Cooperative Extension Administrative Professionals Association and the organization wanted to do a community service project. Jones suggested a project that helped cancer patients because that cause is special to her. Jones reached out to Jane Tyson, Sew What Club Leader, to see if they could help with anything and it was decided to make chemo bags.

NASH COUNTY -- Baseball season in the area is entering its final stages of the regular season with Nash Central recently making waves around the county.
The Bulldogs have won six of their last eight games, most recently a 9-6 victory over Roanoke Rapids on Tuesday night with the team's spurt highlighted by a 9-5 win over Bunn on April 8, a loss that was the Wildcats' first of the year.
Central ended Bunn's 15-game win streak that stretched throughout the course of the season as well as its 10-0 mark in conference play, doing so in dramatic fashion.

CHAPEL HILL -- The North Carolina High School Athletic Association has announced locations for its 2025 Spring Sports Championships at premier venues across the state.
The Men's Tennis Individual State Championships will be the first championship event of the spring, held May 9-10.
The 1A Championships will be at Cary Tennis Park, 2A at Ting Park in Holly Springs, 3A at Burlington Tennis Center, and 4A at Millbrook Exchange Tennis Center in North Raleigh.

RED OAK -- The undefeated Southern Nash Ladybirds remain the team to beat on the softball diamond around Nash County, with Southern's decisive 23-3 victory over county rival Northern Nash on Tuesday night pushing the club to a flawless 17-0 on the year.
The Ladybirds hosted Ayden-Grifton on Wednesday night and will wrap up their regular season campaign on today at Franklinton, who Southern faced earlier this year and defeated 11-0.

STANHOPE -- Two of Southern Nash High School's all-time greatest softball teams on same field? It's not possible, is it?
Maybe only in a video game, but that was the case last Thursday when Southern Nash honored the players from its 1995 State Championship Team between games of the current undefeated club's doubleheader against Rocky Mount at Ladybird Field.
Players were introduced to the crowd and were presented with T-shirt -- all the while 'catching up' on life but still remembering those special times.

STANHOPE -- In addition to his limitless academic and athletic attributes, there is one underrated intangible that makes Southern Nash High School a special place.
That's the fact that Southern has seen its share of fascinating, extroverted, everybody-is-my-friend storytellers -- and some of them were on stage last Saturday for the Inaugural Southern Nash Athletics Hall of Fame Ceremony at the historic SNHS Gymnasium.
But even some of those sage and savvy conversationalists were reduced to tears and silence due to the gravity of the moment when they approached the speaking podium.

Charlotte Burns, daughter of Kevin and Kate Burns of Nashville, has been awarded this year's Ann MacPherson Weaver Memorial Scholarship at Rocky Mount Academy. Currently an 8th grader at Nash Central Middle School, she will attend RMA in the fall on a full-tuition scholarship, valued at nearly $56,000 over four years.

NASHVILLE - A small field of dark blue pinwheels planted in front of the Nash County Administration Building flicker and sparkle in the breeze, but there is no sign to mark why they're there: to bring awareness to Child Abuse Prevention Month, a national observance in April.
Blue is the chosen color, selected in 1989 when a Virginian grandmother tied one to her car to honor her grandson, who died from abuse. The blue color represents bruises and injuries often inflicted on abused children.