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WILSON -- Under new coach Todd Brewer, the Southern Nash Firebirds opened their 2015 baseball season last Saturday with a 15-3 setback against D.H. Conley as part of the Tobs Varsity Classic at Fleming Stadium.
Southern led 1-0 after the top of the first stanza as Kendall Parker delivered a leadoff single and eventually scored off an RBI from Blake Boyd.

CHAPEL HILL -- Listed is this weekend’s schedule for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s State Basketball Championships:

ZEBULON -- The Carolina Mudcats, the Class A Advanced affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, will host their annual National Anthem tryouts on Saturday, March 28 beginning at 9 a.m. at Five County Stadium.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. on the third base side of Five County Stadium.
This open audition event will run until noon.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Four North Carolina Wesleyan College Battling Bishop athetic squads were in action on Sunday afternoon, all of which involved USA South Conference competition.
The Battling Bishop men’s and women’s tennis teams opened up league play with a pair of dominating wins at Averett University.

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated scores from the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department’s Youth Basketball Tournament:

RALEIGH -- North Carolina State University’s baseball squad set a school record by turning six double plays, and kept the hit parade going to clinch the series, blowing past Clemson 14-6 on Sunday at Doak Field at Dail Park on the NCSU campus.
The series win marks the first time NC State (9-4, 2-1 ACC) has ever won four of the last five series with Clemson (8-6, 1-2).

Nash County Commissioners began budget preparations on Monday during an all day work session.
The work session included requests from department heads as well as a presentation from Nash Community College.
Requests from department heads totalled just over $3 million. Most department heads requested additional personnel, including five positions in social services and two in the sheriff’s department.

The board of Nash UNC Health Care was given mixed news at its most recent board meeting on March 5. On the one hand, the hospital was honored as one of the top 25 best hospitals in the state. On the other, the hospital was recently downgraded on the Standard and Poor’s Index.
The good news is good indeed. In the March issue of Business North Carolina magazine, Nash UNC Health Care was selected as the 20th Best Hospital in the State.

The Nashville Chamber of Commerce named James A. Ervin, Sr. as its  2015 Distinguished Citizen during the 24th annual awards ceremony held at Nash Arts Thursday night.
James A. Ervin, Sr. was born in Rocky Mount. He grew up in Edgecombe County  and has been married to his wife, Rachel, for 48 years. They have two sons, James A. Ervin, Jr. and John David Ervin.

Governor Pat McCrory has nominated B.W. Collier to serve as the director of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
Collier, a Nashville resident, was appointed as the acting director on August 7, 2014 and sworn in on August 11.
The SBI director is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the General Assembly for an eight-year term.
“The SBI has made tremendous progress under B.W. Collier’s leadership in a very short period of time,” Governor McCrory said.

“We are in something of a gold rush in North Carolina,” commented Nathan Rogers, a San Francisco developer who testified at one of two quasi-judicial hearings regarding approval of two new solar farms in Nash County. The hearings took place as part of the regular County Commissioners meeting held on March 2.
According to Nash County Planning Director Nancy Nixon, the county currently has approved another 12-15 conditional use permits for potential solar farms.

Nashville’s Business and Professional Women (BPW) hosted its 37th annual Elsie Clark Memorial Opry on Friday night at Nash Arts. Several musicians took to the stage to perform a mix of country and  bluegrass music. The annual event is a fundraiser for scholarships the BPW gives each  year. Pictured above, Meredith Davis and Jamie Pridgen perform at the 2015 Elsie Clark Memorial Opry held in Nashville Friday night.

NASHVILLE - Vernell Harris, 64, passed away on Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

Billie Murray, of Spring Hope, 78 passed away on Monday, March 9, 2015.

Willie Thomas Dortch, Sr., 81, of Rocky Mount, died on March 4, 2015.

Donnie Astor Jones, Jr., of Rocky Mount, died on March 9, 2015.

Sanjuana Gamerz Navejar, 50, of Nashville,  passed on March 2, 2015.

Ventura Sanchez Aguilera, 36, of Tarboro, passed away Sunday, March 1, 2015.

Ana Marlen Cruz Franco, 28, of  Tarboro,   passed away  on Saturday, February 28, 2015.

Marjorie Taylor Harris, age 84 of Nashville, passed away on March 3, 2015.

Nora Price Boone, age 85, died on Saturday, March 7, 2015. She was born in Nash County,  on August 4, 1929 to the late John Belton Price and the late Annie Proctor Price. Besides her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Howard Boone; her great-granddaughter, Anna Riley Davis; her brothers, John, Marvin, Harvey and Clarence Price; and her sisters, Ruby Keel and Frances Tolson.

Lawrence Thomas (L.T.) Phillips, age 91, passed away Saturday, March 7, 2015. He was born in Bolivia, NC on June 18, 1923 to the late Berry Roger Phillips and Mary Denton Phillips. L.T. was predeceased by his former wife, Betty Gibson Phillips, six sisters and three brothers.

Watson “Sonny” Newberry Sherrod, Jr., 86, passed away on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Tarboro. He was born on February 6, 1929 in Enfield,   to Watson and Ruth Wood Sherrod. He married May Holton in 1958 in Wilmington.

John (“Jack”) Arrington Philips, Jr., passed away on Wednesday, March 4, 2015. He was born in Rocky Mount on June 22, 1935. He was the son of the late John Arrington Philips, Sr. and Winifred Phoebe Green. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ann Adkins Philips.

Amy Dunn Harvey, 44, passed away March 7, 2015. She was born in Nash County on August 24, 1970.