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ROCKY MOUNT - The Nash County area is growing so rapidly along with the rest of North Carolina, that Duke Energy anticipates peak load growth by 2030 will be eight times what was projected just two years ago.
Beth Townsend, Local Government and Community Relations Manager for Duke Energy, hosted a key leader update at Nash Community College March 26 to speak on the work being done to modernize the electric grid "as we prepare for the energy demands of a growing and vibrant regional and state," as Townsend put it.

Two years ahead of schedule, the number of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) in the state have surpassed 80,000, a goal set by Governor Roy Cooper for 2025. Cooper made the announcement March 28, citing 80,000 ZEV registrations recorded in November of 2023.
Cooper signed an executive order 80 in 2018, calling for state agencies to set "specific, firm and ambitious goals to decrease emissions" and to increase the number of ZEVs registered in North Carolina.

CASTALIA - Castalia Commissioners began work on the upcoming 2024-2025 budget at a special meeting last Tuesday.
The budget is projected to increase by a little over $25,000, from $232,200 to $257,573.
"This is just a projected figure that we think we will take in," Mayor James Alston said. "This is a projected figure we think we can live with."

ROCKY MOUNT - Twin County Community Pride, Inc. is accepting nominations for the Class of 2024 of people, living or deceased, whose impact on Edgecombe or Nash counties has been notable. "By recognizing these individuals, the Twin County Hall of Fame stimulates an interest in and an appreciation for the value of the history of this community and its citizens," a press release states.

NASHVILLE - The remaining two lots in Nashville's Business Center are changing hands.
Lot 4 has been chosen as the site for BuildLabs' first U.S. manufacturing facility.
Lot 3 is being handed over to Nash County in exchange for the county to build a 40,000 square foot shell building there.
ACDi Manufacturing occupies Lot 1 and Atlantic Natural Foods is on Lot 2.

Nash County Public Schools logo has a new, more modern look: introduced today, the new logo uses blue and green colors, with a prominent capital "N" superimposed over a silhouette the shape of Nash County.
Heather Louise Finch, NCPS Executive Director of Communications, Planning and Engagement, said the rebranded logo would be officially launched July 1 during the demerger transition phase.

NASHVILLE - Approximately $6 million in capital improvement requests have been trimmed to $1.8 as part of the projected Nash County FY 2025 budget, with the three most costly recommendations a network server and storage solution, a replacement ambulance and detention facility capital.
Jonathan Boone, Deputy County Manager, went over capital requests and recommendations at the April 11 commissioners' budget session, held at the Ag Center, focusing those 'shortlisted' to be included in the current draft budget.

It's not Mr. Peabody's coal train that John Prine sang about hauling it away, but the logging trucks on my road have sure been giving it their best effort.
Starting every morning around six, the heavy machinery cranks up, buzzing, grinding and then an earth-shaking crash that we can feel in the house.
The large acreage that was thick woods my entire life has been erased. The pines well over a half century old that blocked cell phones, satellite and high-speed internet over the last 20 years are gone. Logging trucks have parked in the road, in the curb, muddled the highway, torn up the already soft road shoulders.

Dear Editor: With all sincerity, looking back over my professional career that has spanned more than half a century, I can say that a highlight, great privilege, and an honor on the highest level was my brief tenure as the executive director of the Nash County Cultural Center that ushered in the Nash County Arts Council roughly a quarter of a century ago. At that time, for a few months. I traveled from my home in Pamlico County to my second home, Nashville, one day per week to promote the arts and the sustainability of the Nash County Cultural Center.

This photo is from The Nashville Graphic "Lincke" archives of a busy day at Nashville's Train Depot. Part of the depot was later moved and now serves as the Nashville Community Center of Alston Street.

Nashville Elementary students celebrated Science Day recently. Pictured above, Joe'Nyiah Whitney sits with a Nash UNC Health worker while learning about CPR and the use of defibrillating units.

While talking about current events recently regarding Israel, Robbie and I recalled a miniseries from twenty years ago. It was called Revelations. The show's title had an "s" on the end of the name as opposed to the last book of the Bible - Revelation.
The show questioned whether we were living in the last days. It followed a scientist's struggle between the logic of science (which offers proof) and the illogic of faith (which the Bible described as substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen). Hebrews 11:1

Our agenda, our definition of what a good God should give us, is a life that is comfortable, pleasurable, and predictable; one in which there's lots of human affirmation and an absence of suffering. But consider God's agenda, as it's revealed in the following passages:

Welcome to Bob and Cindy Pike who joined the Red Oak Baptist Church family!
The Women in Action missions group at Red Oak Baptist Church met at the church on Tuesday, April 9. They learned about what WMU groups around the country are doing to reach out to others, prayed for missionaries with birthdays that day, and learned about the Singermans who serve as International Mission Board missionaries in Uganda.

North Carolina Wesleyan University President, Dr. Evan D. Duff, along with Art Curator, Jan Sullivan Volz, and President of Bob Ross Inc., Joan Kowalski, announced that more of Bob Ross' famous original paintings are set to adorn the walls of The Mims Gallery at The Dunn Center this upcoming holiday season.
Bob Ross Bringing Back the JOY will be on display in the Mims Gallery of The Dunn Center, located on the beautiful NC Wesleyan University campus, from Monday, December 2, 2024 through Monday, January 13, 2025.

H&H Constructors of Fayetteville, LLC to David Jonathan Vallette; Walnut Cove Subdivision, Phase 2, Lot 23; $300,000
Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady and Willie Grady to Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady Revocable Trust and Pamela Joyce Anderson Grady; Lot 5, Block A
Eastern Carolina Development Company of Rocky Mount, Inc. to Indra Alapati and Anish Doddapaneni; Greystone North Subdivision, Block A, Lot 1

Renovation/alteration; 5923 Harvest Ridge Rd., Battleboro; Donald Poland; $28,000
New single family dwelling; 700 Harrison Rd., Nashville; Mark Lucero; $242,064.67
Repair; 3320 Macedonia Rd., Spring Hope; Timothy Land; $10,000
Detached accessory structure; 4668 Ashley Dr., Battleboro; David English; $38,000

The Rocky Mount Debu-ette Club has announced its 2024 seniors.
The organization consists of young women in grades ninth through twelfth who volunteer together in the community. They become community leaders while developing lifelong friendships during four years of service.

RED OAK -- Recent poor weather has brought with it some winds of change in the Big East Conference girls soccer standings.
That's because the Northern Nash Lady Knights, with their rebuilding work apparently complete, have started to breeze past their league foes -- even perennial powerhouse Southern Nash.