Recent Articles

NASHVILLE - A 60-year-old Sandy Cross man has been arrested and jailed under charges of sexual crimes against two minors.
Louis Joseph Dreyfus of 2200 Sandy Cross Road, Nashville, was named in a July 31 news release from the Nash County Sheriff's Office, which stated he was charged with four counts of Felony Sex Office (G.S. 14-27.29) and four counts of Indecent Liberties with Children (G.S. 14-2-2.1), also a Felony.

John Parker of Nashville shows a 10-pound canteloupe freshly picked from his garden Monday morning. Parker said he gardens letting nature take its course rather than adding fertilizers. Parker was featured in The Nashville Graphic in 1995 featuring a model house he built to resemble his childhood home.

An Agri-science Home school Course will be offered beginning Aug. 22 at the Nash County Agriculture Center. The cost is $30 per student. Supplies are included in the fee.
The 12-week agriscience course is open to rising 8th-12 graders. The course will provide a hands on learning experience for homeschool students that have an interest in learning about crop science, animal care and plant science from the Nash County Extension Agriculture Team.

N.C. Cooperative Extension - Nash County is hosting a school supply drive at the Nash County Agriculture Center, 1006 Eastern Avenue, #102, Nashville through Aug. 19, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Items needed include backpacks, pens, pencils, paper, notebooks, folders, glue sticks, Kleenex, headphones/earbuds, colored pencils, highlighters, binders, markers, crayons, erasers, kid scissors, sanitizer, pencil boxes/pouches.

NASHVILLE - A Nashville granddad is continuing a family tradition by taking his grandsons with him on the road to learn the art of farriery, also known as horseshoeing or blacksmith work.
Johnny Shook, who has been doing his job for thirty years or so, originally took his daughter Jessica Ezzell with him from barn to barn when Jessica was two or three years old instead of taking her to daycare.

The 2024 Summer Olympics are well underway. It is truly amazing to watch those athletes who have trained endlessly over their entire lives to become outstanding participants. You would never see me in one of those events. I do well not to fall while I walk!
Years ago, my wife and I tried to walk most days at our neighborhood high school track. There we noticed something different about the early morning crowd. They walk slower than the evening crowd. Why?

For two weeks, i have been preaching from Matthew 5:13-16. It's a really challenging text. I have learned that Jesus' words to the disciples are not a command, rather they are indicative of a disciple's life.
In Matthew 5:14-16, Jesus compares his followers to light, saying we "are the light of the world," unable to be hidden. No one puts a lamp under a bowl because a lamp is designed to help people see in dark places.

Please be in prayer for the children and chaperones this week who are at missions camp at Camp Caraway!
Crayons are still being collected at Red Oak Baptist Church for Banner Bears. They are asking for the 24 count boxes. Crayons, along with coloring books and teddy bears, are included in Bear Bundles. Bundles are given to abused or hurting children in tragic situations. See Linda Sheets for details and check out the website at www.bannerbears.org.

North Carolina District VIII (Daughters of the American Revolution) held their annual meeting, Wednesday, July 17th, at the Walnut Creek Country Club in Goldsboro. Attending from the Micajah Pettaway-Halifax Resolves Chapter (Rocky Mount) were, left to right, Linda Shepherd, Regent Carol Ludwig, Linda Hardy, Edith Whitby, Past Regent Laura Earp and Meg Cooke

ROCKY MOUNT - A state investigation is underway into the death of a 19-year city of Rocky Mount employee, Trace Christman, reportedly electrocuted Sunday evening at the Tar River Water Treatment Plant at 4489 Leaston Road, Rocky Mount.
Bryant Fisher, Nash 9-1-1 Director, said the call came in at 5:54 p.m. July 21 that a subject had received an electric shock. Nash EMS responded, as did the Nash County Sheriff's Office, West Mount Fire Department, Coopers Fire/Rescue Department, Nash County Fire Marshall's Office and Rocky Mount Fire Department.

NASHVILLE - Nashville town officials have adopted an amended public comment policy which includes a reversal of a prior policy rule: a public comment period will no longer be held during special "called" meetings unless authorized by the Mayor.
This is the third time that Nashville's policy has been changed in the last seven years.

NASHVILLE - Nashville's newest business is filling a niche, according to the man behind it; Hasan Hasan, the owner of Global Pack & Ship, said he got the idea because the town needed the services it offers.
"People have had to go to Rocky Mount just to send something by UPS or Fed Ex, or just to make copies, get office supplies or get something laminated," Hasan said. "I live here, so I got a sense for what was needed."

NASHVILLE - Twenty new hires into Nash County public schools, including two Assistant Principals, are one result of a special called meeting of the Board of Education Monday, July 22.
The brief 12 p.m. meeting was held virtually and recorded in two separate segments, accessible on You Tube, before and after a closed session for which Chris Bissette, board member, motioned to do so under several permitted state statutes, including "to prevent disclosure of confidential personnel files..."

ROCKY MOUNT - The new Rocky Mount-Wilson Regional Airport Director, Josh Pusser, really likes where he works; compared with other local airports, he says, it has a huge runway which gives it flexibility and a good balance of businesses. It also has a lineup of people waiting for hangar space.
Occupying over 500 acres and with its main entrance along NC-97, RWI, which regularly houses about forty private planes, pulls about 50% of its business from corporate planes. Those can be really big if they fly cargo; the biggest Pusser has seen is a 737, which can carry up to 23 tons of freight.

Nashville's Farmers Market has an extra fun-filled day planned Friday, July 26th from 3:00 p.m. -8:30 p.m.
Local vendors will open at 3 p.m. featuring all of the local favorites including fresh produce, local meats, farm fresh eggs, baked goods, garden plants, cut flowers, crafts, coffee, dairy products and more.

A tiny piece of land may have a big impact on visitors to Nashville, if its planned use for a monument-style welcome sign is put into place.
Michael Hurt with Hurt LLC, the owner of the Nashville Junction, has donated a 0.15 acre of land at the corner of Barnes Street and Western Avenue adjacent to the Fuel Doc to the town, which was accepted by the town council at their July 16 meeting.