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The Nashville Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen Award winner and Junior Achievement Award recipient will be presented at Nash Arts Center, downtown Nashville, on April 23, 2026. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. The program begins at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
This year's keynote speaker is Sandy Hall, District Extension Director, NC Cooperative Extension.
Hall's 27-year career with NC Cooperative Extension has been guided by the 4-H motto, "To Make the Best Better."

NASHVILLE - In an attempt to boost water availability to the central part of Nash County, as well as to the NC 97 Industrial Park, commissioners have approved a new water supply well and pump house to the tune of $1.7 million dollars.
As reported by Jonathan Boone, Deputy County Manager at the April 6 county commissioners' meeting, bids were opened for the Central Nash Water System Water Supply Well project at the end of February, with the recommendation that the work go to Sanford Contractors, Inc.

SANDY CROSS- The economic power of Agriculture, and of Nash County's Sweetpotato industry in particular, were main focal points of the annual Nash County Farm Bureau Legislative Breakfast.
Held at the Leggett Farm headquarters on Sandy Cross Road at 8 a.m. March 26th, the breakfast event attracted a host of federal, state and county lawmakers in addition to local farmers and ag supporters.

NASHVILLE- "Nash County 9-1-1: what is the address of your emergency?"
It could be a matter of life and death: someone's not breathing or is choking.
Someone could be badly injured in an accident or having a seizure.
There could be an overdose or a suicide.

NASHVILLE - A conditional rezoning request to allow development of a 12-lot subdivision on the southwest side of Robertson Road, Spring Hope, has failed to get county approval.
The Vision Homes at Robertson subdivision, proposed on about 11 acres, would have included two new public road rights-of-way, with none having driveway access to Robertson Road.

BAILEY - Top Nash County lawmakers got their first gander at what could end up in the new fiscal year budget Tuesday, as figures came out hot and heavy for everything from a new EMS station to utility increases to suggested new positions.
Meeting at the Mount Pleasant Community Building in Bailey for an approximately six hour meeting, county commissioners got hefty binders to take for study prior to the actual budget presentation planned in May.

The Master Gardener plant sale is Saturday, April 25 from 9 a.m. - noon at the Nash County Ag Center, 1006 Eastern Ave., Nashville. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Nash County Arboretum.
The event will offer plants from local nurseries and Master Gardener grown. Plants include perennials, roses, shrubs, trees, native plants, vegetable plants and herbs.