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NASHVILLE - In the interests of school safety, and because elementary schools in Nash County do not have Evolv weapons detection systems installed, public school officials are instituting random 'wanding' checks of ten percent of elementary school students, beginning September 9.
Leondus Farrow, Asst. Superintendent, shared the news at the Aug. 29 meeting of a Nash County Public Schools committee meeting, saying that hand-held metal detector wands had been purchased for each elementary school to be used for random screenings of three student groups: walkers, bus riders and car riders.

NASHVILLE ‑ A Nashville couple are due in Nash district court Sept. 5 to answer truancy charges relating to two children kept out of school.
Elizabeth Ann Ferrell, 34, and Jason Morrow Smith,36, both of 6405 Land Road, Nashville, are each charged with two counts of violating the school attendance law relating to compulsory attendance.
Two children named in court records attend Coopers Elementary and Southern Nash Middle School.

Possession controlled substance prison/jail premises reported at 100 N. Boddie St., Nashville on 8/19/24
Resisting arrest/hinder and delay; damage to personal property reported at 10516 W. NC 97, Middlesex on 8/22/24
Warrant service reported at 1100 S. NC 581, Spring Hope on 8/20/24
Possession with intent to sell/deliver marijuana at 1108 instrument Dr., Rocky Mount on 8/21/24

INCIDENTS
Death investigation at 1117 Crescent Meadows Dr., Nashville on 8/19/24
Larceny misdemeanor; conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor; obtain property by false pretense reported at 1205 Eastern Ave., Nashville on 8/19/24
Driving while license revoked; DWI reported at mile marker 460 US 64 W., Nashville

Spring Hope downtown development board members have lined up the first two actors in their sights to immortalize in the town's planned 'Walk of Fame,' tentatively planned to be placed on the sidewalk on Main Street from S. Ash to Pine Street.
Frankie Muniz and Violette Beane both star in "Renner," a sci-fi thriller directed by Robert Rippberger and produced by Spring Hope's Ascent Studios. The film is scheduled for release this coming October 28, according to filmmaker Devin Keaton, who is a member of the DDB.

My wife told me a story several years ago, which took the form of a modern-day parable.
Jesus often relied on parables in the Bible to compare something in everyday life to a spiritual truth. However, many of us have trouble applying them in today's world because we don't belong to the culture for which they were written. In other words, the importance of the spiritual truth is easily misunderstood - if not lost altogether - because we can't relate to the everyday example to which Jesus compares it.

Every time you read scripture, it is like reading it for the first time. The word of God is pregnant with truth to be discovered. Hebrews 4:12 says, "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." The Bible is the living word of God.
In this 17th stanza of Psalm 119, the psalmist declares another truth about scripture.

Two of Nash County's neighbors, Edgecombe and Wilson Counties, are adding new manufacturing plants which should bring over 1,000 new jobs to the region.
Natron Energy, a global leader in sodium-ion battery technology, has selected Kingsboro, outside Tarboro, as the site for its first Gigafactory in the United States. The company plans to invest nearly $1.4 billion in Edgecombe County and provide approximately 1,062 new jobs with salaries averaging about $64,000.
"North Carolina's momentum in the clean energy economy reaches epic proportions with this news," said N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper.

A story that ran in last week's Nashville Graphic, "Nash saw 24 traffic fatalities last year," contained an error. In the story section entitled "One Crash's Effects" that detailed testimony from Stephanie Ronan about a 2018 accident involving her and an impaired driver, it was incorrectly reported that the impaired driver had been charged with 'alleged DWI', and that the charge had been thrown out.