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NASHVILLE -- The Town of Nashville Recreation Department is currently accepting registration for the following summer camp events:
• A Disc Golf Camp will be held June 22 from 9-11 a.m. at Glover Park. Registration deadline is May 29.
• A Tennis Camp is scheduled for June 18 from 9-11 a.m. at Stony Creek Environmental Park. Registration deadline is May 29.
• A Summer Jam will be held July 13 from 9-11 a.m. at the Nashville Elementary School Gymnasium. Registration deadline is May 29.

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated Nash County Parks and Recreation Department Youth Baseball and Softball Scores:

NASH COUNTY -- Wilson Fike's run through the Big East Conference tennis standings was reflected when the league released its annual All-Conference Team for the 2016 boys court campaign.
Fike's Lee Matthews was tabbed as the Big East Coach of the Year, while three of his performers made all-conference -- John Gliarmis, Walker Gliarmis and Sunny Sandhu.

RALEIGH -- The No. 13-ranked North Carolina State University baseball squad defeated No. 17 North Carolina 10-1 to capture the series on Saturday at home in Atlantic Coast Conference action at Doak Field at Dail Park on the NC State campus.
The Wolfpack (34-18, 15-13 ACC) took a 1-0 lead in the second when Brock Deatherage scored on a wild pitch following his leadoff triple.
Preston Palmeiro homered in the third to open a 3-0 lead. North Carolina (34-21, 13-17) scored its lone run in the fourth before NC State added two more in the bottom half.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The Wesley Men Yankees outlasted the Hester & Tucker Phillies 11-10 in Monday night Rocky Mount Rec little league action in a game with all the ear-markings of a softball game at the company picnic.
Yankee bell-cow Mason Pilgreen smashed three home runs and batted in 7 while teammates Carson Ashman and Danny O'Brien collected 3 hits apiece, with one of O'Briens coming via the longball route.

NASH COUNTY -- Here are recent Nash County Parks and Recreation Department Spring Soccer Scores:

(L to R) Northern Nash's Coleman Cherry and South Johnston's Jacob Gonzalez pace each other in the Boys 1600 Race during last Friday's action at the Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships, which were held at Aggie Stadium in Greensboro.

(L to R) Nash Central High School's Teonna Hill takes a handoff from teammate Michaela Nelms as part of the Girls 800 Relay at last Friday's Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships at Irwin Belk Track at Aggie Stadium in Greensboro.

Southern Nash High School senior Brittney Wooten (front, center) recently signed a letter-of-intent to join the cheerleading program at North Carolina Wesleyan College, which is located in Rocky Mount.

Members of the Nash Central High School Girls 1600 Relay Team pose after winning first place at the Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships, which were held last Friday at Aggie Stadium on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. Pictured are (l to r) Coach Juan Jackson, Kiera Ausby, T'Keyah Macklin, Teonna Hill, Michaela Nelms and Coach Kyle Bain.

The Town of Nashville is looking at new ways to bring in revenues to the town's coffers but is limited due to cuts in revenues by the General Assembly
Town Council met last Thursday for a budget work session with Town Manager Hank Raper, who went over the various revenues the town is projected to receive in the coming fiscal year.
As presented, revenues totalled around $5.5 million, compared to the current budget of $4.9 million.

Spring Hope Police are still searching for one suspect involved in a shooting on May 12 but have arrested three others.
According to police, on May 12, around 8:40 p.m., a vehicle occupied by several subjects drove to 416 West Nash Street in Spring Hope and fired eight to 10 times from the vehicle, striking two men who were standing in the doorway.
Investigation revealed that earlier that day, there was a confrontation between 29-year-old Jamie Lynn Nye, of Spring Hope, and someone at the residence.

North Carolina has lost 243 service members in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
On Saturday, local residents paid tribute to those men and women by walking or running one mile for each fallen soldier.
Each mile represented a North Carolina soldier, whose name and information was placed on an American flag runners carried for a mile.
Once the mile was finished, the fallen soldier's name was read.

After over a year of construction, Nash Health Care is celebrating its new, $25 million dollar Nash Women's Center.
The center held its opening events earlier this month but just recently celebrated its first baby, who was born at the new women's center this week.
The baby, Seleim Hasson Eldessouky, was born on Monday, May 23 at 11:14 a.m. The hospital reports both baby and mother are happy and healthy.
The 47,048 square foot facility includes six labor and delivery suites, 16 mother-baby postpartum rooms, a room for cesarean sections, 12 private special-care nursery rooms, free Wi-Fi and a themed gift shop.

Nash and Edgecombe County Commissioners came back to the table on Monday afternoon and somewhat agreed to a deal to keep the Nash-Rocky Mount School System in tact.
The meeting was a last minute effort to keep legislation from being approved that would split the school system along county lines. Nash County Commissioners unanimously voted for the split but since the vote, some commissioners have had a change of heart and asked the board to consider a final attempt at a compromise with Edgecombe County.

Renny Taylor has a passion for teaching youth about the history of our country.
That passion earned him the title of History Teacher of the Year by the North Carolina Sons of the American Revolution.
The award is presented to history teachers who actively address the history of the American Revolutionary era and whose educational efforts exceed and excel above current, accepted, curriculum requirements.

Construction on expansion plans for Nash County's Courthouse/Sheriff's Office is slated to begin at the end of the year but demolition could start as early as June.
Derek Hawkes, Nash County Public Facilities and Utilities Director, said engineers for the project are in the process of finishing up design plans. He added that permits are anticipated to be submitted in July.
"We're shooting for bidding out the project come early September," Hawkes said.

Nashville Firefighters and Nash County EMS workers had a close call last week, while responding to a motor vehicle accident on Highway 64.
Nash County 9-1-1 received a call about a motor vehicle accident on Highway 64 around 1 a.m. on May 18. The accident occurred around the 459 mile marker and Nashville's Fire Department responded, along with Nash County EMS and Momeyer Fire and Rescue.
Upon arrival, one vehicle was found off the roadway with an uninjured occupant, who refused care or treatment.

Nashville's Cooley Library will host a book signing for Tillie Bell on Friday, June 3 from 4 until 6 p.m.
Bell will be reading excerpts from her book, "Down Memory Lane: Midst the Morning Glories and Maypops."
This is the second book Bell has written.
Bell wrote her first book, "Prayer Patterns, A Collection," in 2012.

Sometimes I wonder who the people are that let their pets die at the Shelter. The ones who allow their dogs to roam at will because, after all, "they are in the county." There are some dogs that stick close to home. But many are looking for love in all the wrong places like many of the strays that arrive at the Shelter. That can be fixed with the spay or neuter! And we all know the only safe cat is an indoor cat! We all see too many that didn't make it, scattered like trash along the side of the roads. Sometimes they starve, because after all dogs rely on us. Really sad, isn't it?

It seems reports of my demise were ... actually, not that far off.
I'm sure Nashville Graphic readers have been close to ripping their loincloths and screaming at the sky each week as my mug and column failed to appear on this page. That is because a major organ was removed from my body and replaced with another one.
After a lifetime of incredibly blessed health, especially for a (cough) husky man, in 2015 I survived a bout with sepsis, which either caused or made clear that I had Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), a condition that is affecting more and more Americans every year. You can have it and not even know it.

In just a few more days, my first born will be five years old. Five! I can't believe it.
My emotions will be all over the place this week because he's not only turning five, he's graduating from pre-school, which means he'll be starting kindergarten in August.
It's almost impossible to take in the past five years. It seems like yesterday Corbin came into this world.

This photo originally published in The Graphic on Thursday, June 16, 1966. Members of the kindergarten class at the Nashville Baptist Church are pictured with teacher Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson (center) assistant, Catherine Strickland and Rev. Joe Lister.

Dear Editor: The decades of the 1950s and the 1980s share quite a bit in common.
Both periods were known for "baby booms." During the 1950s of course, America experienced the massive post World War II baby boom. There's been nothing like it before or since. It was an epic period in our history that went on and on and on. So many babies! So, so many babies. In similar fashion, although on a much smaller scale, the 1980s were another decade of babies arriving by the bunches.

N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors recently conducted a month long sweep at gas stations across the state looking for credit card skimmers. Inspectors visited 972 stations in 12 counties and checked 8,567 dispensers. The inspectors found three skimming devices. The devices were found in Mecklenburg and Nash counties.
Thieves can install credit card skimmers at the pump.