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NASH COUNTY -- Here are updated Nash County Parks & Recreation Department Futsal Scores:

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated Nash County Parks & Recreation Basketball Scores:

GOLDSBORO -- Add another accomplishment to J. Enid Drake's Hall of Fame coaching career.
Already a member of the Halls of Fame for Louisburg College and the National Junior College Athletic Conference, Drake was enshrined earlier this month as part of the 44th Class of the George Whitfield Hall of Fame.
The prestigious group featured 21 inductees, including Drake and University of North Carolina legend and Rocky Mount High School alum Phil Ford.

Northern Nash's Jahlia Williams makes her way into the paint during the Lady Knights' home conquest last Friday night against league opponent Wilson Hunt High School.

Northern Nash's Keyonte Cherry (with ball) takes the baseline during last Friday's home triumph against the Wilson Hunt Lady Warriors.

Northern Nash's Darius Spragley (right) paced the Knights in scoring during last Friday's important Big East Conference win over Wilson Hunt.

Nashville Elementary School requested the Town of Nashville get on board with its plans to build a new playground at the school.
Nashville Elementary Principal Quintin Mangano, along with several students from the school, attended Tuesday night's meeting to discuss their plans with council members.
Mangano told council members the school was hoping to develop an annual 5K run which would raise money to help with the playground.

Several concerned citizens were present at Red Oak's regular town board meeting Monday. Last month, the board unanimously decided to begin collecting bids for the demolition of the old dormitory, located across from Red Oak Elementary. At the January meeting, Mayor Pro Temp Levell Langley commented, "That is too much liability sitting there right now."

To keep the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alive, everyone has to do their part.
That was the challenge issued by Dr. William T. Wright on Sunday afternoon at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Banquet, sponsored by Nashville's Willing Workers.
The event was slated to be held on Sunday, January 17 but was postponed due to inclement weather.

Sunlight Partners will have to wait the required time to reapply for a rezoning that would allow the group to construct a solar farm on Old Bailey Highway, Nashville's Planning Board decided last Wednesday night.
Sunlight Partners requested a rezoning at 1139 Old Bailey Highway in October. The property is in Nashville's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction.
Sunlight Partners wants to put a solar farm energy generating facility on the property, which is 37 acres. The solar farm would be 25 acres.

A 355-acre solar farm was approved on Monday morning by Nash County Commissioners.
Commissioners approved a conditional use permit for the solar farm, which will be located on the east side of Frazier Road between NC Highway 231 and Old Nash Road.
The petition was submitted by Gerry Dudzik, who represents Carolina Solar Energy as well as Richard Brantley on behalf of the property owner, E. Brantley, LLC.

Nash County Relay for Life is keeping off its Relay season on Saturday with a mini version of its annual event.
A mini Relay for Life will be held on Saturday, February 6 at Golden East Mall from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Barbara Gill, who serves on the Relay for Life Committee, said the mini event will feature several teams who will be selling a variety of items.
"It's like the real Relay but on a much smaller scale," Gill said.

Students at Cedar Grove Elementary School received a visit from a Rocky Mount dentist on Friday as part of a national program that provides dental services to under served children.
Around half of the school's 220 students participated in a pre-screening on Friday by Dr. Frank Courts, a pediatric dentist in Rocky Mount.
The visit is part of the national program, "Give Kids a Smile," which was launched with the American Dental Association in 2003 through the partnership of organizations and volunteers to provide services to under served children.

The Nashville Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for this year's Distinguished Citizen.
Nominees do not have to be a chamber member nor does the nominating individual or group. The nominee should be a citizen or business person from the Nashville area and should be a person who strives to make our community a better place for all.
The winner of this award will be honored at the annual awards ceremony on March 3, 2015 at the Nash Arts Center in downtown Nashville.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools continues to make progress on its District Improvement Plan.
The Board of Education received updates on two of the plan's goals on Monday at the board's regular meeting.
The plan was put together in response to the school system being deemed a low-performing district.
Low performing districts are any district where the majority of schools are deemed low performing.

Jenny Braswell of Braswell Writing and Development Services made a presentation to the town board of Castalia during their regular monthly meeting Tuesday, offering her services to the town for 6 months at no cost.
A native of Castalia, Braswell has experience in economic, non-profit, and work-force development. She is launching a program called the NC Crossroads Initiative, an opportunity to "work with and represent and advocate for the town." As Braswell explained, "The beginning of this idea came when I was working at the NC Rural Center - in their Rural Economic Development Institute Program.

A Nashville woman was killed last week after a head-on collission in the Sandy Cross area.
According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, 54-year-old Kim Eggers Page, of Nashville, was traveling north on NC 58, north of West Mount Drive near Nashville, when she crossed the center line and collided with another vehicle, driven by Cynthia Harrison Wilkins, 55, of Rocky Mount.
Page was killed in the accident.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools has announced its make-up plan for school days missed due to inclement weather on January 22 and January 25.
The make-up day for January 22 for traditional schools is March 7 while the make-up day for January 25 is June 8.
The make-up day for January 22 for the Nash-Rocky Mount Early College is May 20 while the make-up day for January 25 is May 23.
The primary goal of the make-up plan is to ensure all students recover critical instructional time lost during the inclement weather days.

Dear Editor,
We are all grateful for the service of local firefighters and other first responders, but we seldom take the time to thank them for their service. Our volunteer firefighters are dedicated, hard-working, selfless, and brave men and women. Volunteer firefighters make countless calls for all types of help regardless of the time of day or night.

This photo was found in The Graphic's May 26, 1981 archives. Members of Den 1, Pack 76 of the Nashville Boy Scouts passed out information on Nashville's Community Watch program.

A breaking, entering and larceny was reported on 1/24/16 at 7589 North Frazier Road
A call for service was reported on 1/25/16 at 7771 US 264A
A larceny of a firearm was reported on 1/25/16 at 4628 Macedonia Road
A misdemeanor was reported on 1/26/16 at 463 Lee Lane

INCIDENTS
A larceny was reported on 1/25/16 at Wal-Mart, 1205 Eastern Avenue
A possession of an open container of alcohol in the passenger area of a vehicle and driving while impaired was reported on 1/26/16 in the parking lot of L&L #14, 479 W Washington Street

Nash County Planning and Inspections issued the following building permits from January 25 through 29.

An employee at Boddie Noell Enterprises was arrested last week and charged with embezzlement.
Ted Polensky, 48, of Plantation Drive, Battleboro, was charged following an investigation that began in November. Polensky was the Director of Loss Prevention at Boddie Noell Enterprises. He had been employed at the company for nine years.
The Nash County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division charged Polensky with 15 counts of embezzling totalling over $1,000.

A Florida man was charged in an accident that blocked lanes on I-95 on Sunday morning.
Nash County Troopers responded to an accident around 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, January 31 on I-95 Northbound, near the 132 mile-marker.
According to investigators, a tractor trailer driven by Kevin Eugene Ellis, 31, of Middleburg, Florida, was traveling north on I-95 when his vehicle veered into the grass median. Ellis overcorrected, which caused the tractor trailer to jackknife and overturn. As a result, both northbound lanes were blocked for around an hour.