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The Nashville Blooming Festival is seeking design entries for its 2024 event. The deadline to submit entries is Feb. 23.
The festival, organized by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, traditionally holds a contest for each year's t-shirt design. The contest is open to all Nash County residents, no age restriction.

MOMEYER - Momeyer, and surrounding areas, will say goodbye to a long-time legend this week. Nash County's oldest cowboy, Demo Hartsell Tant, passed away at the age of 102 Sunday, February 11, 2024.
Tant earned the name as the Momeyer Cowboy due to his musical talent and his many cowboy hats. During an interview with The Graphic in 2021, Tant said it was John Bass who gave him the nick-name.

A former church property in the Elm City area will be transforming into a trailer sales business after a conditional rezoning request was approved by Nash Commissioners.
Two lots totaling 7.09 acres at 9149 East NC-97, owned by the former Cornerstone Community Church, will be rezoned from the designated residential/agriculture area to a general commercial condition zone to accommodate "The Trailer Shop," which will be moving from its current location at 2440 N. Church Street, Rocky Mount.

I thought our last vacation required some complicated planning-- after all, it was to a foreign country (Florida). This trip is for five adults to Europe and as best I can tell, we will be the first family of five people to ever go.
This conclusion was drawn when I started looking for hotels. In the good old USA, we have all kinds of chains with suites and rooms that can have two queen beds or two doubles.

Mr. Demo Tant, 102, passed away Sunday. Mr. Tant, fondly known as The Momeyer Cowboy, was branded as such due to his huge inventory of cowboy hats and guitars.
Tant touted a long career in photography, owning a studio in Raleigh. In addition to his passion for photography, he loved music and was a gifted songwriter of many lyrics which most likely are tucked away in a plethora of books at his home.

This photo was originally published in The Nashville Graphic on July 13, 1967. New officer of the then newly-organized Philadelphia Ruritan Club were installed at the Philadelphia Community Clubhouse.

RED OAK - Following state finalization of remediation plans for the Red Oak landfill, town officials are starting to wonder about the extent and costs of mandated maintenance.
NCDEQ released a fourteen-page report in January dictating remediation plan steps and goals, including clearance of trees, relocating toxic waste, grading in anticipation of cover system placement and amending topsoil to provide a growing medium for a sustainable vegetative cover.

A Wilson man is in jail after his arrest in Battleboro on four charges of sex crimes against children.
Jorge Martinez, of 5003 Upland Game Road, Wilson, is charged with two counts of the class B Felony, First Degree Statutory Sexual Offense involving two pre-pubescent children, and with two counts of the Class F Felony, Taking Indecent Liberties with children. The same children were reportedly involved in both charges.

INCIDENTS
DWLR not impaired rev; possession marijuana less than 1/2 ounce; open container after consuming; CCW (gun); expired registration card/tag reported at 100 East Evans Dr., Nashville on 2/7/24
Fail maintain lane control; DWI reported at E Washington St./S. First St., Nashville on 2/10/24

Larceny felony reported at 12959 S NC 231, Middlesex on 2/8/24
Larceny felony reported at 234 W. Washington St., Nashville on 2/5/24
DWI reported at 301/Mill Branch Rd., Sharpsburg on 2/5/24

Age: 74
Education:
AAS Accounting and Business Administration

Age: 59
Education: AS/AA - Daytona Beach CC, BS - Florida State University, MS -University of Oklahoma, no prior elected offices, Aquatics Instructor- water aerobics/swimming, Lifeguard - Rocky Mount Senior Center.

Age: 38
Education:
Bachelor of Science in computer information systems, N.C. Wesleyan University

Age: 62
Education:
BS, James Madison University; MMAS, US Army Command and General Staff College; MS, Webster University.

Age: 49
Education:
B.S. Business and Technologies - East Carolina University. Dean's List & Cum Laude, A.A. Education; Pitt Community College, Phi Kappa Phi - Honor Society; Pettibon Institute - Spinal Biomechanics Technician

It wasn't your usual scene at a Morehead City diner: a gaggle of thirteen women, giggling amidst the purple and green glitz of Mardi Gras finery with mask and headdress feathers blowing the in breeze. Meeting at the Banks Grill, the group was planning their conquest of a New Bern Mardi Gras parade February 10. Right in the middle of them was Carla Bissette of Spring Hope.
The name of the group? "Love The Hussies."

"Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so." (James 3:10)
Robbie and I were recently watching the evening news. Our 6 year old grandson, Easton, was playing a video game on his iPad. A presidential candidate was answering questions. He used the word "hell". Easton put his iPad down immediately and said, "Do they not understand that children listen to the news, too"?

In the late 1800s, a small church in Mayfield County, Kentucky, had two deacons who hated each other. One Sunday, one of those deacons nailed a small wooden peg to the back wall for the pastor to hang his hat. When the other deacon saw the peg, he was outraged that he had not been consulted. An argument ensued, and the members took sides. The church split was called the Anti-Peg Baptist Church.

Meals on Wheels of Rocky Mount announced a recent grant received from the DeLeon Carter Foundation to support the Meals on Wheels Frozen Food Program. This program provides frozen meals to seniors in crisis situations and seniors on the Meals on Wheels waiting list. The grant will enable Meals on Wheels to provide over 1000 meals to these seniors in need.

Come see the Kingdom Heirs in concert at Red Oak Baptist Church on Saturday, Feb. 17! Doors open at 1 p.m. and concert begins at 2 pm in the Family Life Center. A love offering will be received.
The Baptist Men will have their monthly breakfast meeting on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 8:30 a.m.

Rum-Clarke Properties, LLC to Osman Mehuljic and Mirzeta Mehuljic; 1005 West Thomas Street, Rocky Mount; $85,000
POP Homes-RDU, LLC to Jessica Thorpe; 3780 Josiah Court, Nashville; $297,000
Marc L. Hagle and Sharon Hagle to the Marc and Sharon Hagle Charitable Operating Foundation, Marc Hagle, Sharon Hagle and Ed Moss; 1.62 acres

Curtis Dean, 4951 Debnam Rd., Zebulon; renovation/alteration; $16,000
Travis Temple, 4314 Massengale Rd., Whitakers; detached accessory; $31,629.88
Keith Price, 10667 W. Old Spring Hope Rd., Spring Hope; addition (covered); $41,250

ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Central has two final steps to climb in order to sweep the Class 2-A portion of the Big East Conference girls basketball standings when the Lady Bulldogs hosted Bunn last Friday night at the NCHS Gymnasium.
Consider Part One done as Coach Terri Cash's young squad soared to a 50-14 triumph over the Ladycats in Big East hoops action.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Chris Lee couldn't have asked for a better Dynamic Duo than Javaris Jones and Isaiah Draughn to rebuild his Nash Central High School football program following the COVID-19 pandemic.
That building process culminated this fall with the Bulldogs' best-ever season as Lee's club went 11-3 while reaching the quarterfinals of the Class 2-A State Playoffs for the first time.

FRANKLINTON -- The Franklinton High School Gymnasium was the spot last Friday for further determination of the Big East Conference boys and girls basketball standings -- and both squads in the lead took yet another positive step toward clinching their respective crowns.
Defending boys champion Northern Nash wrapped up no worse than a tie for the top spot heading into the final two games with a convincing 72-52 triumph over homestanding Franklinton High School.