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NASHVILLE- Nash County's one landfill, a disposal site for construction and demolition debris, is expanding, with a $52,000 change order approved last month to cover stormwater erosion and control issues on one active cell.
Mike Phillips, Public Utilities and Facilities Director, appeared during a special called meeting of Nash commissioners March 24, briefly outlining what had changed in the contract with Shamrock Construction & Remediation, LLC.

Nashville Parks and Recreation held its annual Eggciting Saturday last weekend featuring an egg hunt, the Easter Bunny and activities. Pictured above, McKinley McGriff holds a bucket showing the number of eggs found.

SPRING HOPE - The town's long-unused community building may be too far gone in mold and moisture issues to save, so town leaders are looking into costs for demolition while considering other uses for the land.
Andrew DeIonno, Town Manager, went over the results of an engineering report recently done on the property, located at 104 Community Street and on the same triangular 0.84-acre parcel of town-owned land occupied by the Spring Hope Historical Museum.

SANDY CROSS - Nash County needs to conserve its farmland, help and recognize its farmers, and needs to do it before Nash ends up like Wake County: those were concerns heard at the fourth Legislative and Elected Officials Appreciation Breakfast.
Sponsored by the Nash County Farm Bureau and held inside a neat warehouse belonging to the Leggett Farming Partnership on April 10th, the event drew a large mixed crowd of farmers, cooperative extension agents, FFA students, county commissioners, college and school board leaders, state legislators and Farm Bureau personnel, among others.

Nashville's Farmers Market opened for the season last Friday featuring local vendors, food trucks, and live entertainment. Pictured above, Hope Edwards of M&H Farms bags produce for customer Shannon Brown of Nashville.

NASHVILLE - The town of Nashville is still playing some catch-up with its audit practices, but based on current practice, fiscal year 2025 should be a different story.
Hunter Wiseman, who presented the town's audit results at the April 8 town council meeting, was complimentary of Tressa Rudd, Finance Director.
"Everyone knows... that the last two fiscal year audits have been late, but Tressa and her staff have done a really good job of helping us to try to get through these audits and I think this puts us in a really good position for fiscal year 2025 to have an on-time audit," Wiseman said.

NASHVILLE - One of the state's oldest family-owned and operated funeral homes is returning to its roots in Nashville, with the announcement coming seven years after fire destroyed the business at 204 N. Alston Street.
Richardson Funeral Home, which opened in Nashville in 1918 only to suffer a fire one hundred years later, is "planning to come back in the near future," according to Tabitha Richardson, who shared the news with the Nashville town council at their April 8 meeting.

Nashville's Chamber of Commerce has announced applications are open for education scholarships.
Funds are raised for the scholarships when chamber members renew memberships and choose to contribute additional funds which go towards a scholarship fund. Those businesses also get their logo put on the chamber's website.
Multiple $500 scholarships will be presented to graduating seniors who apply.

Our son Kent just turned 20 and left those teenage hoodlum years in a cloud of dust. He was never much of a miscreant, but he and his brother Lowell did things like try to talk me into letting them build a moonshine still once.
We are now down to one teenager at our house: Lowell. And that kid, the one I used to call The Spare when he was acting up, becomes an adult in just a couple of weeks. Times are changing.

I'm constantly looking at the calendar these days in complete denial that we're quickly approaching the month of May. I recall being warned how fast time will fly by with every birthday. Nothing prepares us for time slipping by so fast you're confused as to which holiday is next!
May is coming at us fast which means the Blooming Festival is breathing down the necks of those of us who plan for months for the big event. Many of us are, I guess what you consider, veterans of the planning process.

To the editor: I am writing in reference to an editorial titled "Nash County desperately needs a cat TNR program," printed in the April 10, 2025 edition. I agree totally with this article. If you are not familiar with the TNR program, it's a Trap, Neuter and Release program, which would in itself slow down and evidently stop the overpopulation we have in Nash County.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on May 7, 1964.

Kori Williams is all smiles while visiting with the Easter Bunny at the Nashville Recreation Center Saturday. Graphic photo by Jo Anne Cooper

Arivia Thorne poses for a photo with the Easter Bunny.

Pictured is the Micajah Pettaway-Halifax Resolves Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Presentation of Wreath. Left to right: Linda Hardy, Edith Whitby, Helen Sharpe, Regent Carol Ludwig, and Gina Walker. Next year - as America begins the celebration of its 250th birthday, the folks of Halifax are upping their game. In April 2026, Halifax Resolves Day will be celebrated from April 12-14 at the Historic Halifax State Historic Site.

ROCKY MOUNT - The Rocky Mount Rotary Club has announced the return of Tackle The Tar, a 5K obstacle course, on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at the Rocky Mount Sports Complex. The event is expected to bring over 800 runners from 60 North Carolina cities and many other states.
Tackle The Tar raises scholarship funds to send students residing in Nash and Edgecombe counties to attend one of the three local colleges - Nash Community College, Edgecombe Community College, and N.C. Wesleyan University.

ROCKY MOUNT - UNC Health Nash has begun the next step in the construction process, bringing key updates to parking, traffic flow, and hospital access. Construction began mid-March on the new hospital tower requiring the temporary closure of the current Nash General Hospital tower's main entrance, and the opening of a new temporary entrance for patients and visitors. There will be clear signage and parking attendants to assist drivers with the new traffic patterns.

Less than three weeks after the annual Nash County Republican party convention, three of the leaders elected as Executive Committee officers, including its Chairman, have resigned.
Mark Edwards, re-elected chair to begin his 9th 2-year term, emailed the Executive Committee April 11 to let them know he was stepping down, effective that day.
Pam Mullen, re-elected Treasurer, has also resigned.

The Easter Story is a story of hope. In spite of the trials that Christians face, we always have hope because of what happened at Easter.
No one understood the hope that the Cross offers more than the Apostle Peter. He was one of Christ's most trusted disciples and often served as spokesman for the group. Yet, when Christ told his disciples that they would scatter like sheep at the first sign of trouble, Peter defiantly declared, "Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will". (Matthew 26:33)

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Everyone's invited to attend the Easter services at Red Oak Baptist Church! A Maundy Thursday Communion Experience will be held in the family life center on April 17 at 6:30 p.m. Then The Community Easter Sunrise Service will be held at the front of Red Oak Baptist Church near the sanctuary at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast served following the service at 8:00 a.m. Life Groups (Sunday School) will begin at 9:45 a.m. The Celebration of Easter Service will be at 11:00 a.m.
Red Oak Baptist Church is currently participating in the Food Roundup for the Baptist Children's Homes of NC