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NASHVILLE - In order to keep up with town growth, Nashville leaders say the town needs a larger police station, a town hall addition, and potentially a rebuilt Fire Station #1.
Those projects, only now in the conceptual stage, came up in discussion at the Feb. 18 town council session while council members were considering a "wish list" to give to Senator Lisa Barnes and House Rep. Allen Chesser before the next state budget session.

NASHVILLE - The person found dead last Thursday at the abandoned W.L. Greene School in Nashville has been identified as 61-year-old Debbie Allen, and her case has been re-classified from a suspicious death to a homicide.
A press release issued Monday, February 23rd by the Nashville Police Department confirmed Allen's identity at 10 a.m. while stating that "there is no ongoing threat to the community as we believe this was an isolated incident."

NASHVILLE - A conditional rezoning request by Braswell Family Farms to turn a residential home into professional office space has met with public pushback, and also failed to get support at the planning board level.
The town planning board voted unanimously to recommend denial for Braswell's request at its Feb. 24th meeting, but the matter is due to come up for town council review March 3rd.

NASHVILLE - The retirement of longtime Nash Health Director Bill Hill has left not one, but several gaping holes in county leadership.
While Liz Lord, former Deputy Health Director, has taken the reins as Interim Health Director, another position that Hill held- Health and Human Services Director- has been vacant- until now.
Appointed as new Health and Human Services Director at the Feb. 19 Consolidated Human Services Board meeting was Tia Foula, Asst. Nash County Manager.

NASHVILLE - Two new proposed subdivisions in Spring Hope - one on Southern Nash High Road and other on W. Old Spring Hope Road - are both requesting rezoning approval and will come before Nash County commissioners for consideration in March .

NASHVILLE- Conditions at Glover Park are going to be quite a bit brighter, with music and announcements during games better, as a result of planned improvements this year to both lighting and the press box.
Thomas Gillespie, Nash County Parks & Recreation Director, accompanied by Nashville's Parks and Rec Director, Koy Worrell, laid out plans at the Feb. 18 town council meeting, with Worrell asking the council to approve both the plans and their financing.

NASHVILLE - Yet another attempt to get conditional rezoning to allow the expansion of a Bailey subdivision has failed at the county planning board level,with the project attorney asking to postpone commissioner review until April 6.
C.T. Williams, developer of Williams Run Section 2, Phase 2, subdivision, which proposes 76 new residential lots on about 72 acres north of Strickland Road, presented a familiar-looking request to the planning board at the Feb. 16 meeting.

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NASHVILLE - Nash County has received three recent grants from the state, each earmarked for improvements to the new Nash County Recreation Center, the town of Whitakers, and Southern Nash High School.

NASHVILLE- Delinquent taxes uncollected for 2025 stand at over $145,000, characterizing one council member to call the number "unreal."
Larry Taylor, councilman, made the comment during the Feb. 18 council meeting, at which time the council approved publishing the list of unpaid taxes, including parcel and owner name, in The Graphic during the first week of March.

Demolition started last week on Wilson Mall, a.k.a, Parkwood Mall.
After years of vacancy, dereliction and decay, the city finally started tearing down what had become an eyesore and community hazard. Most folks in the Tri-County area at least 40 years of age remember when this mall was a major shopping and gathering place.
I remember when it was an "open air" mall -- now trendy again, sort of -- and a place where my mama and most every other adult I knew liked to shop.

One day last summer, I grabbed Nancy to take her around some of the areas in Nashville she had not yet had a chance to become acquainted - being that upon her arrival here at The Graphic she hit the ground running and it's been non-stop ever since.
One of the neighborhoods I drove through explaining to her the rich history was the many streets that wind around the former school house, W.L. Greene.
As we drove up and down each and every street, I shared with her the story about Ms. Atsie Boddie's home where she operated a neighborhood candy store for children.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on May 23, 1968. The Girls' Auxiliary of Elm Grove Baptist Church held its coronation service with the theme "The World in our Hearts."

"Jesus died for the remission of our sins."
We've all heard it repeatedly in our churches and Sunday school classes. But what does the Bible mean by saying that our sins have been remitted? When we remit a payment, that means we send it away. Yet we all know from personal experience that Christian living does not bring an end to sin. Sinning doesn't just go away!
Several translations of the Bible substitute the word "forgiveness" for remission. I agree that our sins are forgiven when we come to a saving knowledge of Christ, but I'm not sure the word forgiveness fully embraces what remission really means.

Over the last several articles, we have looked at the popularity of hallucination theories as a possible explanation of what happened to Jesus after the crucifixion. We began the entire discussion by accepting Bart Ehrman's straightforward statement, "either Jesus really appeared to his disciples . . . or they were seeing things," as true. To help possibly answer Ehrman's question, we presented several reasons why hallucination theories, as a possible explanation of what happened to Jesus after the crucifixion, are implausible. Finally, we concluded that since it seems highly implausible that the disciples were "seeing things," it is more reasonable to believe that Jesus actually appeared to His disciples; otherwise, He should have been found safely in His tomb.

Congratulations to Brandon and Megan Driver on the birth of their daughter, Lily Green Driver, on February 15! Proud big sister, Emma, and big brother, Landon. Proud grandmother, Jean McIntyre.
Several from Red Oak Baptist Church attended the Your Choice Resource Center's Celebrate Life Banquet on Thursday, Feb. 19 at Englewood Baptist Church.
The Area Wide WMU Spring Meeting will be on Monday, March 9 at West Edgecombe Baptist Church. Meeting will begin at 10 a.m.

Peachtree Baptist Church in Spring Hope will host its first annual Classics Car Show on Saturday, March 28th from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the field directly behind the church (3523 N. NC 581, Spring Hope).
Registration is open for classic cars (1990 and earlier) right up to show day at the registration table. Registrations may also be mailed to PO Box 579, Spring Hope, NC 27882 with a check in the amount of $20 payable to Peachtree Baptist Church.

Sheila Ann Johnson, Sheila Tomlinson and Sheila Ann Tomlinson to Sheila Ann Johnson and Harry Stanley Johnson; 9066 Fox Run Road, Bailey
Frederic E. Privette to 39 South Properties, LLC; Big Woods Subdivision, Lot 1
Ryial Constain Mills, Courtney Mills Ervin, The Margaret Mills Trust, Courtney Mills Ervin, Archie Ervin, Archie Wilson Ervin, Christopher K. Mills and Anita Petteway Mills to Jeffery Constain Mills; 210 and 212 West Franklin Street, Spring Hope, 7654 Ash Street, 602 First Street, Spring Hope, 4410 Macedonia Road, Spring Hope,

Assault on child under 12 reported at L.A. Green Farm Rd., Whitakers on 2/19/26
Identity fraud reported at 105 Drake St., Nashville on 2/16/26
Assault on law enforcement officer; assault-simple; assault with deadly weapon with inflicting serious injury reported at 10942 West St., Whitakers on 2/19/26
Resisting arrest/hinder and delay; possession with intent manufacture/sell/deliver schedule II controlled substance; possession schedule II controlled substance - felony reported at 11486 Aderson R., Spring Hope on 2/19/26