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Nashville’s Town Council met with state legislators  Monday morning to discuss several issues of concern.
Council members meet each year with legislators prior to them going back into session to share any concerns or issues facing Nashville.
Monday’s breakfast meeting was held at The Nashville Exchange and was attended by Representatives Jeff Collins and Bobbie Richardson.

Cornerstone Funeral Home and Cremations in Nashville, locally owned and operated by Daniel Moss, opened its doors in 2007. The business started with three employees. Today, Moss employees nine full-time and 10 part-time people and with the recent addition of an on-site, state-of-the art crematory and a banquet hall, he has made close to a $2.75 million investment in Nashville between the two facilities.

Nash County authorities searched for hours on Friday night for a plane that was reported to have crashed in a rural area of the county.
According to Chris Bissette, Nash County Deputy Fire Marshal, at least two 911 calls came in around 6 p.m. of a plane that had crashed around the Sykes Road and West Castalia Road area.

Elizabeth Valentine Fuller, age 85, passed away peacefully, Wednesday, February 26, 2014.

NASHVILLE - Elizabeth Valentine Fuller, age 85, passed away peacefully Wednesday, February 26, 2014.  

Several from Red Oak Baptist Church attended the Pregnancy Care Center’s Celebrate Life Banquet on Thursday, February 20 at Englewood Baptist Church.
Red Oak Baptist Church held a Groundbreaking Ceremony for the new Family Life Center on Sunday, February 23.

Nashville’s Chamber of Commerce will announce its 2014 Distinguished Citizen Award recipient next Thursday night at Nash Arts.
The annual Distinguished Citizen event is scheduled for March 6 at 7:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 7 p.m. prior to the ceremony which will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Elaine Corbett, Chamber President, said the Distinguished Citizen event is one the Chamber always looks forward to.

A Nashville man is facing multiple counts of indecent liberties with a child and statutory sexual offense in Nash and Carteret Counties.
The Nash County Sheriff’s Office arrested 69-year-old James Preston Peele, of Mt. Zion Church Road, Nashville on February 17 after being contacted last month in reference to a sexual assault.

Descendants of Singleton Langley and members of the community gathered at Sandy Cross United Methodist Church Saturday morning to pay homage to a Civil War soldier who was also one of the founding fathers of the church.
Singleton Langley, along with G.D. Langley, Redmond Wells, and Blueford Williams are noted as the founders of Sandy Cross United Methodist Church. Singleton, a Confederate  soldier, is buried in the church cemetery and was honored during a memorial service Saturday morning at which his great-great-great-grandson, Clay Batchelor, unveiled a stone commemorating Langley’s service during the Civil War.

A Spring Hope man has filed to run for the Nash County Clerk of Court seat currently held by Rachel Joyner.
Tripp Finch filed on Monday morning at the Nash County Board of Elections.
Finch, a Republican, said he decided to run because he felt like it was time for his generation to take responsibility.
“I am running because I think it is time that my generation step up and start taking responsibility for leadership in this county,” Finch said.

Nash County Commissioners met on Monday to hear budget requests from each department as part of the board’s annual budget retreat.
The meeting was the first step in Nash County Manager Zee Lamb putting together the county’s budget. Commissioners heard requests from Nash Community College and Nash-Rocky Mount Schools last Monday.

A Nash County educator was recently recognized for her efforts teaching conservation.
Rachel Owens, a teacher at Nash Central High School was named the 2013 Conservation Teacher of the Year by the North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation District.
The Teacher of the Year award recognizes the conservation education efforts of North Carolina teachers.

SPRING HOPE –– Dorothy D.Williams, age 93, passed away Tuesday, February 18, 2014.

NASHVILLE - Charles Abernathy Pridgen, 91, passed away Wednesday, February 19, 2014.

HALIFAX - SGT. James Arthur Parker, 78, passed away February 8, 2014.

NASHVILLE –– Thomas Outlaw, Jr., 68, passed away Sunday, February, 23, 2014.  He was born January 14, 1946 in Nash County to the late Thomas and Mavis Gay Outlaw.

WHITAKERS - Funeral services for Michael Ray Thomas, 55, who died on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, will take place Thursday, February 27, at 2 p.m. at Social Union Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Hilliardston Cemetery.

ROCKY MOUNT –– Louvenia Hendricks Lynch, 88, of Rocky Mount, passed away on Monday, February 17, 2014 at Kindred Healthcare in Rocky Mount.

Nashville –– Robert “Bob” Edwin Funkhouser, 69, passed away suddenly on Friday, February 21, 2014. Bob was born in Ramsey County, MN to the late David and Lucille Hoffman Funkhouser.

ROCKY MOUNT –– Ellis “Pluty” Davis, 68, of Rocky Mount, passed away on Friday, February 14, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.

ROCKY MOUNT –– Rudolph Allen, 72, of Rocky Mount, passed away on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 in Rocky Mount.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY –- Bobbie Earl Davis, 75, of Newark, New Jersey and formerly of Nash County, passed away Sunday, February 16, 2014.

ROCKY MOUNT –– Eddie Cherry, Jr., 80, of Rocky Mount, passed away Thursday, February 20, 2014 in Rocky Mount.

Samuel Joseph Drake, 61, passed away Saturday, February 22, 2014. Sammy was born in Nash County to the late William Joseph and Elaine Manning Drake.

Timothy Lee Hardy, 64, passed away Thursday, February 20, 2014. He was born April 27, 1949 to the late Leo Gleason Hardy and Vivian Raby Marks.