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ROCKY MOUNT - Vice-President J.D. Vance paid a visit to Rocky Mount last week, both to support President Trump's policies and to stump for district GOP candidates. Also speaking were Laurie Buckhout, who is running for a second time against Congressman Don Davis for the 1st Congressional District seat, and Michael Whatley, who is running for Thom Tillis' seat in the U.S. Senate against former NC Governor Roy Cooper.
Vance, an Ohio native and former US Congressman, first attempted to connect with the 100-plus North Carolina audience present at the Rocky Mount Mills venue by talking up his time spent in NC during his Marine Corps training.

NASHVILLE - A shooting involving multiple adults, two guns, and a juvenile girl who was shot in a leg outside a Nashville laundromat Sunday is under investigation by the Nashville Police Department. One woman has been arrested, and the injured girl has been released from a medical center.
According to a March 16 NPD press release, Michelle Murphy, 53, of 1116 Crescent Meadows Drive, Nashville, has been booked into the Nash Detention Center on a $1,000 bond. She was charged with Misdemeanor Assault Inflicting Serious Injury.

The Eastern Carolina 4-H Livestock Show and Sale Alumni Association hosted Tri-County Ag Day on March 7th to educate the public about animal agriculture and raise funds for 4-H members in Nash, Edgecombe and Halifax counties. Pictured above, Tatum Mills of Nashville shows in Junior Steer Showmanship, finishing 2nd. Graphic photo by Nancy West-Brake

RED OAK - After several months of consideration, public hearings, one neighborhood meeting and back-and-forth action with the planning board, Red Oak's town council has approved conditional rezoning for a 67-lot planned subdivision south of E. Castalia Road.
The 98-acre parcel, planned to house the "Doughtie Subdivision," is currently zoned Agricultural but the application by developer Marvin Shearin requested a change to RM, or Residential mix.

SPRING HOPE - The Downtown Development Board in Spring Hope, which was to lose two of its five members after Pam Brandley and Steven Brumfield were elected as commissioners, is still in limbo about both membership and operations, as members have still not weighed in about a proposed related ordinance.

MOMEYER - Now that Momeyer has officially adopted a town seal, town leaders are looking into trademark protection for it.
Will Funderburg, Mayor, addressing the matter at the March 9 town meeting under new business, ran the idea by town council members who generally agreed to inquire about the process from town attorney Scott McKellar.