The Nashville Graphic

Nash County Sheriff's Office warns of tax season scams (relevance: 100%, date: Jan 22, 2025)
NASHVILLE - With IRS tax season comes an increase in IRS phone scams, so the Nash County Sheriff's Office is urging extra caution to prevent scammers from taking money, identities and peace of mind.
January is prime season for scammers who fake being IRS agents, according to Sgt. Kevin Bissette, a NCSO Detective.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR (relevance: 47.6%, date: Apr 18, 2006)

Stateline.org (relevance: 40.1%)
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FRONT PAGE (relevance: 35.2%)
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Nashville man sentenced four years for COVID fraud (relevance: 25.3%, date: Jan 22, 2025)
RALEIGH - A Nashville man was sentenced to 48 months in prison, and three years of supervised release, for orchestrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain emergency rental assistance designated for households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 12, 2024, Joe Lewis Jefferson, age 50, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of failure to file a tax return. As part of the judgment, Jefferson was also ordered to pay $323,824 in criminal restitution to the U.S. Department of Treasury.

Detention officers attacked by inmates (relevance: 24.1%, date: Jan 22, 2025)
NASHVILLE - With three detention officers being hurt in inmate attacks in as many weeks at the Nash County Detention Facility, the situation worsened by a shortage of detention officers and presence of multiple violent inmates, Nash commissioners have authorized a temporary move to allow off-duty sheriff's deputies to fill in at the jail.

Locals honor MLK, Jr. (relevance: 22.7%, date: Jan 22, 2025)
NASHVILLE - Close to 300 people gathered for fellowship, food and a shared sense of purpose Monday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration. The annual event is hosted by the Willing Workers Club of Nashville in partnership with the Nash County Democratic Cluster Precincts. The gathering ran from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the O.D. Moore Building at 808 S. Alston Street.

New land plan proposed for Spring Hope (relevance: 16.6%, date: Jan 22, 2025)
SPRING HOPE - A new comprehensive land use plan may be in the works for the town of Spring Hope, with town planners saying the amount of growth, both planned and anticipated, calls for one.
"Honestly, we're experiencing a ton of growth in the ETJ (Extraterritorial jurisdiction)," said Andrew DeIonno, town manager, at the Jan. 16 planning board meeting. Spring Hope's ETJ extends for one mile outside town limits.

40 Years of The Graphic hasn't been enough (relevance: 13.9%, date: Jan 22, 2025)
I was going through yet another container of things from my late parents' house recently. Inside one was a cartoon drawn by a former Nashville Graphic staffer that pictured me losing newspaper-filled mailbags on Boddie Street out of the back of a pickup truck.
That death trap and environmental hazard had no tailgate or much of a floorboard. It took a lot of revving in the alley and standing on the clutch at a certain angle to prevent a choke-off, the worst humiliation for a teenage male in the 1980s.

TCI Works seeks more workplace options (relevance: 10.9%, date: Jan 22, 2025)
ROCKY MOUNT - TCI Works, a company that enhances the lives of disabled or disadvantaged people in Nash and Edgecombe counties, has four "wish list" goals for 2025: to find more businesses where their clients can help with hand assembly work; to find more businesses who will allow their clients to do job-shadowing; to expand their day program with more participants; and to be allowed into Nash County public schools to offer training and job placement assistance to students who are soon to graduate.

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