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State lawmakers are continuing to work on a compromise to keep the Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System in tact.
After failed negotiations between Nash and Edgecombe County Commissioners, the issue of undoing a 1992 bill that created the Nash-Rocky Mount School System was initially sent to the General Assembly.
That bill proposed to separate the school system down county lines and change the funding formula for the schools.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools will introduce a dual language immersion program to four elementary schools beginning in the 2017-2018 school year.
Dual language immersion programs are a form of education where students, both native and non-native English speakers, are taught literacy in two languages. The goal of the dual language program is that by the end of fifth grade, all students in the program are proficient in English, proficient in the target language and at or above grade level academic benchmarks.

Over 900 Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools' seniors received diplomas in four ceremonies held throughout the day on Saturday.
Ceremonies were held at Northern Nash High School, Nash Central High School, Southern Nash High School and Rocky Mount High School on Saturday, June 11. Nash-Rocky Mount Early College High School seniors graduated on Thursday, May 26 while Tar River Academy students graduated on Friday, June 10.
Northern Nash High School kicked off the day of graduations, as 231 graduates crossed the stage and turned tassels in front of family, friends, teachers and district administrators.

Nashville's Town Council approved a budget amendment last week that adds the final section to the town's ongoing Walkable Community Project.
The budget amendment was for $17,200 and would add sidewalk at Waffle House that would run just before the Nash Crossing Development, Nashville Planning Director Brian Hassell said.
Hassell added that the developers of Nash Crossing would be responsible for putting in the remaining sidewalk, from the bridge to the development.

Nashville Police Officers are now equipped to better handle the growing heroin epidemic.
Officers now carry Narcan, a medication that blocks the effects of opioids, especially in an overdose. On Friday, officers received training in the use of Narcan from Nash County EMS Program Manager Dale Griffin.
Griffin said close to 300 law enforcement officers, fire fighters and EMS workers are now trained in the use of Narcan.

Two organizations benefitted from the generosity of the NC Association of Black High School Alumni.
The Wilson 360 Anti bullying program received a $1,000 donation from the alumni association and the Nashville Boys and Girls Club received a donation of supplies and toys, worth $1,000 from Joan Jackson-Barnes, the Presdient of the NC Association of Black High School Alumni.
Robert Smith, CEO of the Wilson 360 Anti-bullying program, and Boris Ashford, Director of the Nashville Boys and Girls Club, accepted the donations.

Residents of Nash County are steadily working to build awareness around the rising occurrences of gang related activity and the epidemic of opiate addiction and overdoses.
Members of several area churches came together recently at Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville to attend a drugs and gangs seminar hosted by the HOPE Organization (Helping Our People Excel.)