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CASTALIA - An accident involving an overturned dump truck carrying asphalt April 4 in Castalia has resulted in a clean-up by a Haz Mat company.
The truck, driven by Johnny Ray Thorne and owned by Battles Trucking, Rocky Mount, had reportedly been doing asphalt work for Barnhill Contracting in the Castalia area when it overturned along a roadbank near 6733 Taylors Gin Road at about 11:30 a.m.

MOMEYER - Town of Momeyer vanity license plate tags, a revived custom since the town incorporated in the 1990s but with history stretching back to the 1950s, are now available for free to town residents who come in showing valid vehicle registrations that verify town taxes paid to Momeyer.
Anyone else who wants one, Council members decided April 8, will have to pay $15, including residents who live in the town's ETJ, or extra-territorial jurisdiction.
The town is on its third 100-unit batch of plates, which previously sold for $4.30, but officials noted that the plates have become collectors' items.

NASHVILLE - Farmers and legislators broke bread together at the 3rd annual Nash County Farm Bureau Legislative Breakfast April 4, achieving the goal of having time to build relationships. Close to fifty attended the event, with keynote speakers Lynda Loveland, Farm Bureau Public Policy Director, and Jay Boyette, Commodities Director.

On April 20, 1999, there was a horrific massacre at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. Two angry young men took the lives of 12 students and 1 teacher.
In all the sadness surrounding this awful day, there came forth an amazing story about a young 17 year-old junior named Cassie Bernall.
"Do you believe in God", one of the young gunmen asked. Cassie calmly answered, "I believe in God."

When the second World War ended in 1945, four Japanese soldiers who had been left on the Filipino island of Lubang refused to believe that the war was over. Even though the outside world tried to contact them by dropping leaflets, letters and photographs on the island, they thought that the Allied forces were just trying to trick them.
And so they spent year after year huddling together in the jungle, living on bananas and mangoes.

The youth and children of Red Oak Baptist Church are selling tickets for a Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser on Saturday, May 4. Dinner will be 5:30 pm - 7:30 p.m. in the Family Life Center and is eat-in only. Meal will include spaghetti, bread, salad, tea or water. Tickets are $10 each and must be presented at the dinner. All proceeds will support the youth and children attending summer missions camps.
A parent/child dedication will be held on Sunday, May 12 at Red Oak Baptist Church during the morning worship at 11 a.m.

Jeanette H. Glasgow to 360 Forest Products, Inc.; 17 acres
Timothy Leonard to Kelly Anne Smith and William Edward Smith; Whitley Crossing, Phase 2, Lot 16; $350,000
Eva Vivas Olea to Feliciano Martinez Urioso and Maria Del Rosario Rivera Ramirez
Melvin Ray Edmondson to Ernestine E. Edmondson; three tracts

Addition, 9942 Beaver Dam Rd., Middlesex; Denise Vliet; $14,000
Detached accessory structure, 6061 Strickland Rd., Bailey; Christopher Martin; $27,000
New single family dwelling, 7750 Michelle Rd., Rocky Mount; D.R. Horton, Inc.; $192,238
New single family dwelling, 7652 Michelle Rd., Rocky Mount; D.R. Horton, Inc.; $192,238

Just one year ago, I wrote about my son hitting 18 and becoming a legal adult.
I remember when I turned that age, it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.
Kent dove into 18 headfirst, getting a real-life quasi-government job in his last summer as a "kid." He had to go away for a month for training and boy did he get a rude awakening.

I heard some rumblings this week about something that caused my long-time newspaper instincts to stand at high alert.
We recently reported Nash County is studying the options of expanding the Nash County Senior Center.
The anticipated price tag to expand the senior center and make needed repairs to the Nash Arts Center facility is expected to reach $4 million. From what I understand, the much needed repairs at Nash Arts was estimated to be over $1 million.

This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic on September 13, 1973. Mrs. Rachel Joyner (left) Clerk of Nash County Superior Court, was pictured administering the oath of office to the three-member Jury Commission.

NASHVILLE - 'Growing pains' for the town of Nashville mean anticipated needs for more personnel and more programs- and a new property has presented itself that just may have some of the answers. A public hearing is set at 7 p.m., April 16, as part of the Town Council meeting, regarding a purchase contract for 981 Old White Road, former site of the Fellowship Church of Nashville.

Substitute Trustee Services, Inc., Shanessa N. Guidry and Paul Michael Guidry II to Navy Federal Credit Union and Jackie Biggs; 1348 Franklin Street, Rocky Mount
CMH Homes, Inc. to Julia Lynne Calhoun and Jesse Daedalus Calhoun; Section 8, Creekside Manor, Lot 39; $235,000
CT Williams Corporation to Williams Run Homeowners Association, Inc.; final plat of Williams Run
James Leonard Dozier Jr., Clarence Harper Dozier and Alma Jeanette Oakley Dozier to City of Rocky Mount; 21.66 acres

NASHVILLE - Platinum-selling national country music recording artist Easton Corbin will headline the 2024 Nashville Blooming Festival.
Corbin, known for his baritone voice and unique blend of modern and traditional country music, boasts many top singles including well-known number one singles "A Little More Country Than That" and "Roll With It."
Influenced by many of the iconic country music singers including Merle Haggard and Hank Williams, Corbin has graced stages across the country for more than a decade.