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Wednesday, June 3 from 2 until 6 p.m. at Arlington Baptist, 1500 Bethlehem Road, Rocky Mount
Tuesday, June 9 from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at Edgecombe Community College, 225 Tarboro Street, Rocky Mount
Tuesday, June 9 from 3:30 until 6:30 p.m. at the Harrison Family YMCA, 1000 Independence Drive, Rocky Mount
Tuesday, June 9 from 10:15 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Lowes, 700 North Wesleyan Boulevard, Rocky Mount

Bobby Lewis, Gracie Couch and Gertie Lewis of Rocky Mount, attended the 59th state convention of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association in Hickory, North Carolina, May 5 through 7.
NARFE is the largest association of federal employees and retirees and is the only organization dedicated to protecting their earned health and retirement benefits. At the convention, delegates elected new state officers and Area Vice Presidents who will lead and guide NC NARFE for the next year.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will host nine public forums across the state in June to discuss deer management in North Carolina. These forums will utilize an interactive approach to share information and gain feedback from deer hunters and others about their preferences for deer management in North Carolina.
A forum is scheduled for June 11 from 7 until 9 p.m. at Nash Community College.

The highest achieving 111 high school seniors from across Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools came together Tuesday night, May 19, 2015 to celebrate 13 years of hard work along their journey of excellence. Dr. Anthony Jackson, Superintendent of Schools, congratulated the students on their many achievements, but especially for being in the top ten percent of their graduating class and maintaining high standards of academic excellence throughout each of their school years.
"Excellence is a journey, a journey that requires commitment, creativity, hard work, dedication, collaboration and determination.

NASH COUNTY -- Wilson Fike controlled the proceedings during the regular season portion of the Big East Conference baseball slate -- so it was no surprise that the Demons swept the league's top awards for the 2015 campaign.
Fike, the regular season champ in the Big East, featured the Conference Player of the Year in D.J. Daniels, who also stars as a quarterback for the Golden Demons' football squad.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Golf can be a difficult sport to master -- or enjoy when a round isn't going as planned.
But fun -- and playing for a good cause -- was the main part of last Friday's Sixth Annual O.D. Moore Scholarship Fund Benefit Golf Tournament.
The event, which was held for the third consecutive year at Belmont Lake Golf and Country Club, was part of three days of festivities overseen by the Nash Central High School Alumni Association.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Central High School added a bit of a twist to its 2015 Spring Sports Athletic Awards Ceremony last Thursday.
In addition to honoring some of the school's top athletes, NCHS also inducted the initial class into its Athletics Hall of Fame.
"It was something that has been talked about,'' said NC Athletic Director Michael Mosley. "It was pretty much something we needed to do.
"The school is 13 years old now, and it was time to start honoring some of these people. I talked with the booster club about it and mentioned it to the coaches -- we decided to go through with it.''

ELM CITY -- A perfect spring day greeted fans and teams as they arrived at Elm City's County Line Raceway on May 16.
The weekly racing series featured five divisions of racing action were on the action packed schedule and the fans would not leave disappointed.
The Super Stock Four Cylinder was the first division to take to the track in their first special event of the season paying $600 to the victor. Hunter Bailey would be the fastest qualifier turning the 3/8ths mile clay oval in 17.206 seconds.

GREENSBORO -- The annual North Carolina Coaches Association's East-West All-Star Girls Basketball Game will be played July 20 at the Greensboro Coliseum.
The contest will be held as part of a doubleheader with the boys event. Tickets will be available at the gate.
Durham Hillside's Ovester Grays will coach the East Team, while Bunker Hill's Randy Jones will be in charge of the West Team.
Rosters for the showdown are as follows:

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated Nash County Parks & Recreation Spring Baseball & Softball Scores:

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated Nash County Parks and Recreation Department Spring Youth Soccer League Scores from recent action:

WILMINGTON, DEL. -- The Carolina Mudcats suffered their ninth consecutive loss after falling 10-2 to the host Wilmington Blue Rocks on Sunday night in a Class A Carolina League baseball event.
Reliever Mauricio Cabrera allowed six earned runs on four hits while recording just one out in the loss.
The loss extended Carolina's losing streak to nine straight games. The skid is their longest losing streak since they 11 straight in 2010.

MASON, OHIO -- North Carolina Wesleyan College's Robert Kjellberg and Sebastian Sikh fell just short in their bid for the program's first NCAA D-III National Championship last Saturday, dropping a three-set heartbreaker to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the doubles title match.
Earlier in the day, the Bishop duo downed Chris Krimbill and Louis Stuerke of Case Western 6-3, 6-3 to earn a chance at the crown.
Wesleyan's pair then faced Joe Dorn and Warren Wood of top-ranked National Champion C-M-S for the title.

NASH COUNTY -- A limited number of spots are still available for a bus trip to a Women's World Cup Soccer match in late June in Ottawa, Canada.
Southern Nash soccer coach Kurt Bienias is helping organize the journey, which will include tickets to a quarterfinal match that is expected to feature the United States.
Cost is $400 per person. Covered in the price is charter bus transportation, three night's lodging, breakfast buffets and tours of the amazing cities of Ottawa and Montreal.

George Gray likes the look of a shot during last Friday's O.D. Moore Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament, which was held at Belmont Lakes Golf and Country Club in Rocky Mount.

This approach from Rosa Sherk helped her foursome claim a birdie on this hole at the O.D. Moore Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament last Friday at Belmont Lakes GC.

SECOND-PLACE HEROICS. (L to R) North Carolina Wesleyan College's Robert Kjellberg and Sebastian Sikh took second place in doubles at the recent NCAA Division III National Championships in Ohio.

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Photojournalism Department recently produced a documentary film on the lives of local Kyokushin Karate instructor Kenny Buffaloe and his son/student Christian Buffaloe.
The documentary film focused on Kenny Buffaloe's 40-year-career in Kyokushin Karate, his direct training under Shihan Oyama, a famous grand master from Japan, his martial arts work with youth in the public school systems, 4-H, recreation departments, and YMCA's in North Carolina and Virginia since 1980.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Brian Carter went 2-3 with two RBI and teammate Mason Pilgreen stroked a 2-run triple that spearheaded a 5-run third inning as the Wesley Men Yankees avenged an early season loss to the Western Sizzlin' DiamondBacks, downing their fellow League foe 7-1 in last Wednesday's Rocky Mount Little League action at the RCMT Sports Complex.
Carter and Pilgreen received yeoman support from a trio of 12-year-olds, Trent Lewis, Maliq Nicholson and Matthew Hill, as the Yankee triumvirate amassed 7 hits among them.

Two traffic stops within a week led Nash County Sheriff's Deputies to charge four individuals with drug trafficking.
On Tuesday, Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone stopped a rolling meth lab.
Stone stopped the driver of the Ford Explorer, Freeman Cotton, Jr., for a traffic violation. Stone stopped the vehicle on US 64 Westbound, just after the Nash Community College exit. A duffle bag was sitting in the back seat and contained the ingredients to make methamphetamine. Crystal methamphetamine was also found in the vehicle.

Two teachers at Coopers Elementary School have found a creative way to encourage, and teach, their students.
Lindsey Brannan and Amy Moore joined forces this school year to start a garden on vacant grounds at the school.
Brannan, a kindergarten teacher, said she had done gardens in the past with her students and since it was her first year at Coopers Elementary School, she was hoping to do the same. She had heard that Amy Moore, a fourth grade teacher, had done gardens with students in the past so Brannan asked Moore if she'd help start a garden.

Nashville town officials are excited to see dirt being moved around on the 50 acres of land across from McDonalds, now known as Nash Crossing Subdivision.
The property is owned by Stallings Oil Company. Very little activity has been seen on the property since Nashville's Town Council approved a rezoning of the entire property in 2013 to B-1 General Business.
The property consists of three parcels of land across from Evans Drive, where the McDonalds is located. The plat shows nine lots on the property.

Bob Simpson, member of Nashville's American Legion Post 110, places an American Flag upon the grave of Jesse Lee Smith. Smith was drafted into the US Army in 1952 and served two years of active duty in Fairbanks, Alaska during the Korean War. He served eight years in the NC National Guard and was a member of Post 110. The Legion will hold a Memorial Day Service Sunday, May 24 at 6 p.m. at Forest Hill Cemetery in Nashville honoring deceased veterans.

A motion to increase the property tax rate failed at a budget meeting in Castalia Thursday night. Commissioners met for a preliminary budget workshop reviewing several items including taxes, the Waste Industries contract and employee benefits.
Angie Elliot, the Town Clerk, emphasized that the meeting was a "work session only," and that the committee would have to have another workshop to complete and finalize the budget.

Nashville's Police Department is making plans for its third annual National Night Out.
This year's event is set for August 4 and will include several changes, according to Nashville Community Services Officer Jennifer Bull.
One change is the location. This year's event will be held at Glover Park instead of the Stoney Creek Environmental Park.
Bull said the change in location was due to the event growing so much.
"We need a bigger area," she said.