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ROCKY MOUNT - Twin County Community Pride, Inc. is accepting nominations for the Class of 2024 of people, living or deceased, whose impact on Edgecombe or Nash counties has been notable. "By recognizing these individuals, the Twin County Hall of Fame stimulates an interest in and an appreciation for the value of the history of this community and its citizens," a press release states.

NASHVILLE - The remaining two lots in Nashville's Business Center are changing hands.
Lot 4 has been chosen as the site for BuildLabs' first U.S. manufacturing facility.
Lot 3 is being handed over to Nash County in exchange for the county to build a 40,000 square foot shell building there.
ACDi Manufacturing occupies Lot 1 and Atlantic Natural Foods is on Lot 2.

Nash County Public Schools logo has a new, more modern look: introduced today, the new logo uses blue and green colors, with a prominent capital "N" superimposed over a silhouette the shape of Nash County.
Heather Louise Finch, NCPS Executive Director of Communications, Planning and Engagement, said the rebranded logo would be officially launched July 1 during the demerger transition phase.

NASHVILLE - Approximately $6 million in capital improvement requests have been trimmed to $1.8 as part of the projected Nash County FY 2025 budget, with the three most costly recommendations a network server and storage solution, a replacement ambulance and detention facility capital.
Jonathan Boone, Deputy County Manager, went over capital requests and recommendations at the April 11 commissioners' budget session, held at the Ag Center, focusing those 'shortlisted' to be included in the current draft budget.

It's not Mr. Peabody's coal train that John Prine sang about hauling it away, but the logging trucks on my road have sure been giving it their best effort.
Starting every morning around six, the heavy machinery cranks up, buzzing, grinding and then an earth-shaking crash that we can feel in the house.
The large acreage that was thick woods my entire life has been erased. The pines well over a half century old that blocked cell phones, satellite and high-speed internet over the last 20 years are gone. Logging trucks have parked in the road, in the curb, muddled the highway, torn up the already soft road shoulders.

Dear Editor: With all sincerity, looking back over my professional career that has spanned more than half a century, I can say that a highlight, great privilege, and an honor on the highest level was my brief tenure as the executive director of the Nash County Cultural Center that ushered in the Nash County Arts Council roughly a quarter of a century ago. At that time, for a few months. I traveled from my home in Pamlico County to my second home, Nashville, one day per week to promote the arts and the sustainability of the Nash County Cultural Center.

This photo is from The Nashville Graphic "Lincke" archives of a busy day at Nashville's Train Depot. Part of the depot was later moved and now serves as the Nashville Community Center of Alston Street.

Nashville Elementary students celebrated Science Day recently. Pictured above, Joe'Nyiah Whitney sits with a Nash UNC Health worker while learning about CPR and the use of defibrillating units.

While talking about current events recently regarding Israel, Robbie and I recalled a miniseries from twenty years ago. It was called Revelations. The show's title had an "s" on the end of the name as opposed to the last book of the Bible - Revelation.
The show questioned whether we were living in the last days. It followed a scientist's struggle between the logic of science (which offers proof) and the illogic of faith (which the Bible described as substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen). Hebrews 11:1

Our agenda, our definition of what a good God should give us, is a life that is comfortable, pleasurable, and predictable; one in which there's lots of human affirmation and an absence of suffering. But consider God's agenda, as it's revealed in the following passages:

Welcome to Bob and Cindy Pike who joined the Red Oak Baptist Church family!
The Women in Action missions group at Red Oak Baptist Church met at the church on Tuesday, April 9. They learned about what WMU groups around the country are doing to reach out to others, prayed for missionaries with birthdays that day, and learned about the Singermans who serve as International Mission Board missionaries in Uganda.

North Carolina Wesleyan University President, Dr. Evan D. Duff, along with Art Curator, Jan Sullivan Volz, and President of Bob Ross Inc., Joan Kowalski, announced that more of Bob Ross' famous original paintings are set to adorn the walls of The Mims Gallery at The Dunn Center this upcoming holiday season.
Bob Ross Bringing Back the JOY will be on display in the Mims Gallery of The Dunn Center, located on the beautiful NC Wesleyan University campus, from Monday, December 2, 2024 through Monday, January 13, 2025.

H&H Constructors of Fayetteville, LLC to David Jonathan Vallette; Walnut Cove Subdivision, Phase 2, Lot 23; $300,000
Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady and Willie Grady to Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady Revocable Trust and Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady; Lot 5, Block A
Eastern Carolina Development Company of Rocky Mount, Inc. to Indra Alapati and Anish Doddapaneni; Greystone North Subdivision, Block A, Lot 1

Renovation/alteration; 5923 Harvest Ridge Rd., Battleboro; Donald Poland; $28,000
New single family dwelling; 700 Harrison Rd., Nashville; Mark Lucero; $242,064.67
Repair; 3320 Macedonia Rd., Spring Hope; Timothy Land; $10,000
Detached accessory structure; 4668 Ashley Dr., Battleboro; David English; $38,000

The Rocky Mount Debu-ette Club has announced its 2024 seniors.
The organization consists of young women in grades ninth through twelfth who volunteer together in the community. They become community leaders while developing lifelong friendships during four years of service.

RED OAK -- Recent poor weather has brought with it some winds of change in the Big East Conference girls soccer standings.
That's because the Northern Nash Lady Knights, with their rebuilding work apparently complete, have started to breeze past their league foes -- even perennial powerhouse Southern Nash.

BUNN -- It took just 21 hours for the rematch of the 'Game of the Year' in the Big East Conference to be played -- and that brought a few key intangibles into play.
With rain in the forecast for last Thursday, Round Two of the Bunn-Northern Nash baseball showdown was moved up one day -- and the first game of the series had been staged Tuesday, with host Northern Nash rallying from a huge deficit to force extra innings before finally earning the tough victory in the bottom of the 11th stanza of action.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The North Carolina Wesleyan University baseball program welcomed back the 1989 & 1999 National Championship teams back to Bauer Field for the 25 and 35-year reunions on April 5.
Led by Head Coach Mike Fox, the 1989 Battling Bishop baseball squad brought home NCWU's first National Championship when Wesleyan defeated California State-Stanislaus by an 8-7 score on June 4, 1989 at Muzzy Field in Bristol, Connecticut.

FRANKLIN COUNTY -- The first Big East Conference boys golf match after Spring Break culminated in the same result as all of the previous ones this spring -- with the Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jackets taking first place in the overall team standings.
Roanoke Rapids, also the defending league champion, saw its margin of victory drop, but the Yellow Jackets still got the job done by finishing with 347 team strokes to take the 18-hole competition last Wednesday at The River Golf Course near Bunn.