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NCPS to host hands-on Career & Technical Education Showcase at NCC (relevance: 66.7%, date: Feb 5, 2025)
ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash County Public Schools (NCPS) invites all students and their families to the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Showcase: Map Your Journey: Discovering Educational Pathways to Careers. The showcase, hosted in partnership with Nash Community College and area business partners, offers an evening of hands-on career exploration. The event will take place Thursday, Feb. 13, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Nash Community College's Brown Auditorium.
"We are excited to invite all NCPS stakeholders to our showcase," Superintendent Dr. Steve Ellis said.

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Peachtree Hills subdivision rezoning denied (relevance: 33.3%, date: Feb 5, 2025)
NASHVILLE - A rezoning request for a new, 72-lot subdivision on Peachtree Hills Road, Spring Hope, was turned down by Nash commissioners Feb. 3, but does not preclude the possibility of a somewhat smaller, scaled-down version at the same location, as permitted under current zoning.
L.D. Land Holdings LLC, the current owner of about 129 acres near the Franklin County line on both sides of Peachtree Hills Road and along the south side of Savage Road, requested conditional rezoning from A1 to RA30 for higher-density, single family homes.

Ripe Revival plans tabled for second time (relevance: 33.3%, date: Feb 5, 2025)
NASHVILLE - For the second time in two months, the Nashville town council has voted to table a decision on rezoning two chunks of land off Cooke Road in the light of heavy local opposition to proposed land improvements for a Ripe Revival food processing and educational complex.
The council voted unanimously Feb. 4 to table while asking two requests of Will Kornegay, Ripe Revival founder and CEO: for more research to be done about how to mitigate potential biohazard risks to a nearby poultry farm and for Kornegay to address potential issues of noise and light pollution from a planned outdoor amphitheater at the complex.

NASH COUNTY DEED TRANSFERS (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 5, 2025)
Julian B. Gassaway III, Astrid B. Gassaway, Daniel G. Gassaway, Pamela R. Gassaway, Jane Gassaway Ayers and George Douglas Ayers Jr. to Linda E. Fisher; 45.9 acres; $370,000
Kristen Marie Ivory and Andrew J. Ivory to Raymond McElheny and Dianne McElheny; Village Square Subdivision, Block A, Lot 9
Willie Mae Avent to Gloria Avent-Kindred, Gloria Avent Kindred; .715 acres

State honors Fisher as Ambassador of Agriculture (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 5, 2025)
ROCKY MOUNT - Red Oak native and longtime Agriculture advocate Bobby Jo Fisher was honored with the top award from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, "The Ambassador of Agriculture," during the second annual Agriculture Forum Jan. 29 at Nash Community College.
Steve Troxler, North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner and keynote speaker for the event, said Fisher deserved recognition for his "lifelong commitment to Nash County, to agriculture in the regional, and as Chairman of the Nash County Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors for 35 years."

Grandmother gets life in prison without parole (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 5, 2025)
NASHVILLE - Patricia Ann Ricks, 72, of 5073 Dutchman Road, Nashville, charged with first-degree murder in the Feb. 7, 2023 death of her granddaughter, 8-year-old Christal Neveah Lane, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Appearing Jan. 31 in Nash County Superior Court, Ricks entered an Alford plea, essentially entering a guilty plea while maintaining innocence similar to a plea of "no contest," which allows a defendant to bypass a trial and go straight to sentencing.

MICHAEL SHANE VICK (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

WILMER BAINES (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

TAMMIE REANA-E BATCHELOR (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

MARTHA ANN WOODRUFF TEMPLE (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

WILLIAM FRANKLIN LONG, JR. (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

ROBERT "RUNT" EDWARD COLLINS (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

MICHAEL RAY JOYNER, JR. (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

JULIUS ARTIS, "JOE BO" SILVER (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

KENNETH LEE SPIVEY SR. (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

RETHELLA RICHARDSON BOOTHE (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

LINDA SPEIGHT DAVIS (relevance: 16.7%, date: Feb 4, 2025)

Church Events Calendar (relevance: 16.7%, date: Apr 26, 2006)