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Last week's Nashville Graphic carried coverage of the Northern Nash High School Boys Basketball team winning the 6A state championship - the first time since 1968.
Though I'm a Southern Nash High School alumna, I was extremely excited for the Northern Nash Knights when word came they had won. I anxiously awaited for that text to roll in from our folks covering the game. When the phone dinged and I opened the text to see "WE WON!!" -- I couldn't help but to jump out my seat to do a little victory dance myself.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on June 20, 1968 of a worm farm, owned and operated by Ellis Nelms of Nashville. Nelms raised red wigglers. In this photo, Bertha Silver aids Nelms by counting the worms as she puts them in boxes for sale to area fisherman.

NASHVILLE - The fate of shipping container usage and sales in the town of Nashville may be decided at a March 30 special-called meeting of the town council after the matter was bumped from the agenda at the council's March 18th meeting. A public hearing on the ordinance had been planned for that date.
The item was continued because the two council members present at the March 18th meeting - Bill Lumpp and Kate Burns- wanted the full council to be involved in any decision-making, according to Randy Lansing, town manager, who was asked after the meeting the reason for the continuance.

NASHVILLE- A Bailey farmer is working to grow a petition to protect Nash County farmland land while calling for a moratorium on building until current ordinance is revised.
Joseph Bailey spoke at the March 2 Nash County commissioners meeting about the community petition, which he said was growing online and currently had 239 verified signatures.

NASHVILLE- Based on Nashville's growing population numbers, it may qualify for almost half the funding for a brand-new ladder truck for the Nashville Fire Department- and so council members have approved a resolution to authorize a grant application.
Meeting during a special called meeting March 12th, council members figuratively put pen to paper to apply for a federal share of $1,043,900, or 55% of what would be needed to buy a 2027 Pierce Enforcer 107' PUC Aerial Ladder truck.

NASHVILLE - A consultant conditionally hired by the town to apply for grant money to replace or rehabilitate four low-income homes has had successful "fishing," with the town notified that it will receive a $950,000 grant award from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
Ben Jones with Faltor Consulting Company, who submitted a grant application on behalf of the town last summer after working with town personnel to identify suitable properties, appeared before the town council at its March 18th meeting.

NASHVILLE - The annual State of Nash County address, given by Marvin Arrington, board of commissioners' chair March 2, focused on four areas: Capital Projects, Public Safety, Health & Human Services, and Economic Development.
Delivered in the format of an 8-minute county-produced video, Arrington's address focused on major projects and accomplishments from 2025 that Arrington said will "continue positioning Nash County for long-term success."

Nash County Public Schools has announced that Amelia Nieves, a senior at Nash Central High School, has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is one of the most competitive and distinguished scholarships awarded by any university in the United States.

Nashville Methodist Church is preparing to host a spiritual journey unlike any other in the area.
The church will offer "Stations of the Cross" Monday, March 30 through Wednesday, April 1 from 1 until 7 p.m., Thursday, April 2 from 1 until 5 p.m. and on Friday, April 3 from 6:30 until 8:30 a.m. and from 1 until 5 p.m. The event is open to the public.
This is the second year the church has hosted "Stations of the Cross" but the first year that the event will be offered up to the community.

"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." (Philippians 1:21)
As a child, I was terrified of death. I lost my mother when I was seven years old. So death was not just a figment of my imagination. I saw its sting and I understood how it could tear a family apart.
I still fear death, largely because I continue to view it through the eyes of that seven-year old that lost his mother.

It has been said that everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die to go there. As Jesus approaches His appointment with death on a Roman cross, he has an encounter with two sisters whose brother has become sick and has died. Jesus has been very close to Martha, Mary, and Lazarus.
John 11:1-6 ESV
[1] Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

In the winter of 1947, a young shepherd discovered a cave containing clay jars filled with ancient scrolled manuscripts. It turns out that what he had found was one of eleven caves used as an ancient library by the Jewish sect known as the Essenes. These caves were located in an isolated desert community known as Khirbet Qumran. Over the next several years, more than a thousand scrolls were discovered in the network of caves, and they were collectively designated The Dead Sea Scrolls. No less than two hundred of the scrolls were copies of works canonized in the Hebrew and Aramaic Old Testament.

Three nurses who are members of the Eastern North Carolina Nurse Honor Guard spoke at the Coopers Ruritan Club March meeting. This group honors nurses who have passed away or are in Hospice. They gave a demonstration of how one of these memorials is performed as well as the history of the organization. If anyone would like more information about having this service for a deceased nurses funeral or memorial, please contact Tabatha Hall,MSN, RN at 252-847-9633

Larceny misdemeanor reported at 10261 Camp Charles Rd., Bailey on 2/25/26
Motor vehicle theft, all other vehicles; breaking and entering felony/non-force/larceny reported at 11011 Pace Rd., Bailey on 2/28/26
Obtain property by false pretense; recovered property reported at 11834 Salem School Rd., Whitakers on 2/25/26
Possession drug paraphernalia (not marijuana); simple possession schedule II controlled substance reported at 234 W. Washington St., Nashville on 2/26/26

Carrying concealed weapon reported at Red Oak Rd/Eastern Ave on 3/15/26
Larceny, credit card; financial transaction card fraud reported at 479 W. Washington St., Nashville on 3/15/26
Larceny, misdemeanor reported at 700 E. Washington St., Nashville on 3/20/26
DWI; Driving while license revoked, not impaired revoked reported at N NC 58/Taylors Store Rd., Nashville on 3/21/26