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Nashville’s Town Council turned down a rezoning request on Tuesday night, after tabling the request for 30 days to get more information.
Dozens of citizens attended the meeting and have made their feelings known that they were against the rezoning of property across from Kerr Drug.

A Nashville father and son were arrested last week for pirating movies and music.
A joint investigation between the Nash County Sheriff’s Office, Nashville Police Department and NC State Bureau of Investigation, along with the Secretary of State’s Office, led to a search warrant being executed at 214 E Sixth Street in Nashville on March 20.

Nash County’s Board of Commissioners recently awarded a contract to update the county’s Parks and Recreation Master Plan.
The original plan is 10 years old and to receive Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF) money, must be updated.
The initial plan was adopted by Nash County’s Board of Commissioners in October 2004.

A sport growing in popularity will soon have a course at Nashville’s Glover Park.
A nine-hole disc golf course is scheduled to be complete at the end of April, Jim Glover, Nashville Parks and Recreation Director, said.
The course has been a wish list item for a few years, Glover said, and thanks to Bryan Braswell, has become a reality.

Coopers Cub Scouts Troop 37 held its annual Pinewood Derby on Saturday, March 29 at the Scout Bunkhouse on Volunteer Road.
Each first, second and first place den winner received a trophy and then an overall first, second and third place winner was awarded as well.

Local law enforcement officers will trade in their badges for baseball bats on April 12 as they face off with the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team.
Three games will played on Saturday, April 12 at Glover Park in Nashville. The Rocky Mount Police Department, Nash County Sheriff’s Office and North Carolina State Highway Patrol Women’s All Stars will all play the Wounded Warriors Amputee Softball Team.

Middlesex Commissioners met last Tuesday afternoon to begin work on the budget process.
Mayor and Town Administrator LuHarvey Lewis said the meeting was just the initial one to get input from the board before actual work began on the budget.
Lewis went over a list of items with the board, including tax rates, sanitation rates, and park and public building improvements.

BEST IN SHOW: Bronson Harrell

BEARS - Pictured (L-R) is: Mason Deal (second place), Reagan Davis (first place) and Isaac Dayton (third place).

WEBELOS - Pictured (L-R) is: Mason Baker (first place), Sam Warren (second place) and David Lopez (third place).

Author/Artist Dawn Deanna Wilson will facilitate Creating Memorable Characters, a hands-on workshop for beginner to intermediate writers (even the secret ones) in Winterville on April 5.
Bring a notebook, pen, and prepare to create unforgettable characters.  The workshop will be held at The Coffee Shack, 168 Beacon Drive in Winterville on Saturday, April 5, 2014 from 10-12:30.

Nash County Farm Bureau and NC Cooperative Extension hosted Nash County Safety Day at the Agriculture Center on March 19. The day featured presentations on Fire Safety, Agromedicine, Chemical Safety, Tractor/UTV Safety, Vision and Hearing Safety, Chainsaw Safety, a Fatal Driving Course as well as several others. Around 35 attended the presentations. Pictured above, Tanya Heath, Livestock Agent for Nash/Edgecombe Counties, shows a jar of chemicals during a presentation on chemical safety.

Tobey Worthington, Mu Chapter President, was a winner in Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) Society International Contest. 
Participants had to submit ideas on how they were involved in strengthening their chapters.  Worthington’s involvement was to increase communication by e-mail, snail mail, telephone calls, and text messages.  She also sends a note to members who have missed several meetings, to let the person know they were missed.

Nash Arts will welcome singers Connie Dover and Skip Gorman in concert on Saturday, April 12 at 7 p.m.
For over two decades, Connie Dover has been collecting and recording arrangements of the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland and the American West at her studio in North Kansas City, Missouri. She sings in fluent Irish, Scots Gaelic, French and Latin. She has performed around the world and has been a featured guest on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and NPR’s Weekend Edition and Thistle and Shamrock.

Sunday school began at 9:45 at Beulah Church of Christ followed by church services at 10:45. As we look around on Sunday morning we begin to realize how many of our members (*former members) have passed away in the past few years.

Municipal residents will be charged a $25 convenience center fee starting July 1, Nash County Commissioners decided on Monday.
Commissioners first discussed the issue last month at a work session. Commissioners looked at three options that would help keep the county’s utility fund solvent. Two of the options created a fee for municipal residents to use the county’s convenience centers.

At its work session March 6, the Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (NRMS) board approved the administration’s recommendation to switch janitorial firms as it begins the transition to outsource custodial services in April this year. This cuts into an existing contract NRMS has with its current custodian management company, which is in effect until June 2015.

Nashville’s Town Council is hoping the development of an industrial park will bump up the date for phase one of a proposed connector road.
The Highway 58 Connector is a southern bypass that is proposed to start on Western Avenue and connect South of Cockrell’s Crossroads on Highway 58. The connector is meant to detour larger truck traffic from Downtown Nashville and instead give truck drivers another, faster route.

A former teacher, coach and the last surviving charter member of the Coopers Ruritan Club served as the guest speaker at the club’s 62nd anniversary celebration last week.
David Cooke shared his memories of teaching at Coopers High School and the Coopers Ruritan Club forming at the club’s annual meeting last Thursday evening. The meeting was a special one, as the club was celebrating 62 years.

The Nashville Graphic is introducing officers of the Nashville Police Department each month as part of an “Officer Spotlight” series.  The articles are featured the last Wednesday of each month  to help Nashville residents get to know the officers who protect and serve their communities.

Plans are underway for the Sixth Annual Ladies Luncheon and this year’s location will be a newly constructed home in Timber Creek.
The luncheon is a major fundraiser held each year by the Friends of the Harold D. Cooley Library. It first began in 2007 and has been held each year since, with the exception of 2012, when the event was not held. This year’s event is set for Saturday, April 26 from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.

INCIDENTS
No operator’s license, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana on prison/jail premises and possession of marijuana was reported on 3/19/14 on E. Highway 64 on Ramp at Highway 58
A driving while impaired was reported on 3/20/14 on W Washington Street, near Alston Street

A breaking, entering and larceny of a residence was reported on 3/18/14 at 7555 S NC 58
A breaking, entering and larceny of a residence and injury to personal property was reported on 3/18/14 at 6524 West Mount Road
A possession of tobacco by an inmate was reported on 3/19/14 at 222 W Washington Street

NASHVILLE - Joe Braswell Vick, passed away on March 21, 2014. He was a lifelong resident of Nashville. Joe was born November 5, 1940 in Nash County, to Ruby Whitley Vick and Johnnie Glenn Vick, Sr. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Johnnie Glenn Vick, Jr.