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Travis Silver and Ariyon Powell crafted a unique idea in school to sell smoothies. They learned how to make that idea a reality last week during the Fourth Annual Teen Entrepreneurial Summer Camp.
The camp is designed to introduce participants to entrepreneurship using fun and exciting activities. Teens analyze their community, identified unmet opportunities for providing products and services, complete research, and learn how to write business plans during the camp, which spanned over two weeks.

RED OAK -- Northern Nash High School's much-anticipated cross country season will begin Aug. 15 with an event at Swansboro.
Once again, the Knights and Lady Knights will host the Big East Championship (Oct. 19) and the Class 3-A East Regional Championship (Oct. 29) at the Red Oak Middle School Course.
Northern Nash, coached by Jeff Dodrill, will feature the following schedule:

Nash County's Home Health Agency has moved out of its Nashville location into a new location in Rocky Mount. Soon, the building in Nashville will be demolished to make way for an expansion of the Nash County Courthouse.
According to Dawn Hall, who works with capital projects with Nash County, bids for demolition of the building will be awarded this week. Abatement of hazardous materials will follow and contractors are anticipated to begin demolition around August 15.

The lobby of the new Continuing Education Building at Nash Community College has been named in honor of a local organization and the two children who started it all.
The West Mount Ruritan Club celebrated the new Duke K.I.D.S. Lobby at Nash Community College last week and instead of conducting regular business, members had a chance to tour the new Continuing Education Facility.

The Nash County Sheriff's Office is looking for a Nashville man suspected of taking indecent liberties with his stepdaughter.
Detectives investigated a report of indecent liberties on Friday, July 22 on the 5100 block of Old Bailey Highway in Nashville. The report involved a 37-year-old man and his juvenile stepdaughter.
According to a press release, the initial report indicated that the indecent liberties had occurred on Saturday, July 16.

Nash County residents got a little insight into the lives of a police officer during a community forum held on Saturday at Nash Community College.
The forum was hosted by the Nash County Sheriff's Office and was held to address recent events involving law enforcement officers around the country.
Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone and NC Highway Patrol Trooper Clee Atkinson were the primary presenters during the forum, which included simulated traffic stops, videos and a question answer session.

A Bailey woman has been charged with statutory rape of a 15-year-old boy in Nash County.
According to Chief Deputy Brandon Medina, of the Nash County Sheriff's Office, Dakita Joyce Wright, 28, was arrested and charged with statutory rape of a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Medina said the incident was reported by the legal guardian of the child, who lives in Spring Hope. The incident also reportedly occured in Nash County.

Nashville's Police Department will host its Fourth annual National Night Out on Tuesday, August 2 at Glover Park.
National Night Out is a national event held to strengthen police-community partnerships and also to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness. Though the event is in its 33rd year nationwide, Nashville's Police Department started hosting events four years ago. The event is held each year on the first Tuesday of August.

A Nashville native recently returned home to celebrate her first book being published.
Tyechia White held her first book signing on Saturday at Nash Central Middle School. White's mother, Pearl White, is a teacher at the school and helped get the book signing set up.
But prior to Saturday, White spent the week reading the book, "I Didn't Leave Because of You," to students participating in Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools' Summer Reading Program.

Five of the six Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education members whose seats are up for grabs in November's elections have filed for re-election.
Evelyn Bulluck, Richard Jenkins, William Sharpe, Franklin Lamm and Doneva Chavis-Battle have all filed for another term as members of the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education.
The District 11 seat is also up for grabs and so far, Ann Edge, who serves District 11, has not filed for re-election.

I'm going to go ahead right now and make a suggestion for our area's new best friend, CSX. Readers and the company can thank me later.
Call Jim Lauderdale and book him for your grand opening, or groundbreaking or whatever big event will happen when that blessed (pronounced bless-ED) new terminal coming soon on the Nash-Edgecombe county border.
Last week, when the announcement came down that the railroad company would be bringing much needed -- and high paying -- jobs to the area, I immediately thought of Lauderdale's classic song from 2006, "Where They Turn Around."

The world has been an interesting place lately. I say interesting but really, that's not even the word I'm looking for.
Nonetheless, it's been a bit disappointing to turn on the news lately because it seems like there is something disheartening on every channel.
Law enforcement officers have really been under scrutiny lately and some are paying for it with their lives.
Of course, on the other spectrum, there are people being killed by law enforcement officers, which is causing some unrest in cities across the United States.

Dear Editor: I wanted to express my sincere gratitude to all of you who were a vital part of our quest to bring the CSX Intermodal Hub to Eastern North Carolina. I know some of you in Johnston County are disappointed Johnston County was not selected. But as we started this journey more than seven months ago, our top priority was always to convince CSX that Eastern North Carolina both welcomes and needs this major economic development accelerator.

Dear Editor: The shooter in Dallas, who took the lives of five police officers, had served in the army reserve until only recently. The gunman had been trained as a soldier. He was in the reserves from 2009-2015 and actually deployed to Afghanistan in 2014.
It was there that he got into trouble with the army having been the subject of an investigation involved sexual harassment of a female soldier.

SUMMER CHAT -- This photo was found in The Graphic's 1966 archives. We're pretty sure it was taken sometime in the summer of 1966 and the location of the photo looks to be at the old ball field behind Nashville Elementary. Maybe our readers will recognize some local faces!

A Middlesex man was sentenced to 18 months in prison in federal court last week.
Harold Devon Scarboro, 25, was sentenced by United States District Judge Terrence R. Boyle to 18 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release.

A breaking, entering and larceny was reported on 7/17/16 at 10421 Smith Road
A damage to personal property was reported on 7/17/16 on W Castalia Road
A domestic and damage to personal property was reported on 7/17/16 at 11621 Cedar Lake Drive
A breaking, entering and larceny was reported on 7/18/16 at 7921 Red Oak Battleboro Road

INCIDENTS
A possession of controlled substance, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia was reported on 7/19/16 at Breelove Road and N. First Street
An obtaining controlled substance by fraud was reported on 7/21/16 at CVS, 101 W Washington Street
A damage to real property (vandalism) and breaking and entering a place of religious worship was reported on 7/23/16 at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 904 S Alston Street