CLOSING CEREMONY. Action was abundant last Saturday morning as the Nash-Halifax Swim League held its annual championship meet at the Harrison Family YMCA Pool in Rocky Mount. Among the numerous competitors at the event were (above) Nash Rec’s Grahson Williams.
CLOSING CEREMONY. Action was abundant last Saturday morning as the Nash-Halifax Swim League held its annual championship meet at the Harrison Family YMCA Pool in Rocky Mount. Among the numerous competitors at the event were (above) Nash Rec’s Zachary Richardson.
YAY TEAM! (L to R) Nash Rec swimmers Anna King, Leah King and Carla New encourage a teammate during last Thursday evening’s road swim meet at rival Birchwood Country Club in Nashville.
DETERMINATION. Birchwood Country Club’s Franklin Davis won’t be denied in his quest to reach the finish line during last Thursday’s home swim meet against backyard rival Nash Rec.
ROCKY MOUNT -- North Carolina Wesleyan College head football coach Jeff Filkovski has finalized his coaching staff for the upcoming season, putting together a staff with a variety coaching experience that spans every facet of the game.
END OF THE LINE. Nash Central and homestanding Birchwood CC met last Thursday evening in the final Nash-Halifax Swim League meet of the regular season. Among the competitors were (above) Nash Rec’s Kara King.
END OF THE LINE. Nash Central and homestanding Birchwood CC met last Thursday evening in the final Nash-Halifax Swim League meet of the regular season. Among the competitors were (above) Birchwood’s Logan Hassell and Amanda Coats.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
ROCKY MOUNT -- Randy Raper had plenty of reasons to select Nash Central’s Jarod Richardson to the East roster for the annual North Carolina Coaches Association East-West All-Star Football Game.
Raper, the former coach at Wilson Hunt, is now in charge of the program at Northern Nash.
When Raper was at Hunt, he saw plenty of Richardson in Big East Conference gridiron action.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- While attending an Offense-Defense Football Camp this summer, D’Marko Brown, 16, of Nashville, was named an Offense-Defense All-American and invited to participate in the 8th-annual Offense-Defense Bowl Week.
The festivities will take place as part of the annual Citrus Bowl college football contest in Orlando, Fla.
WILMINGTON, DEL. -- The Carolina Mudcats held the Wilmington Blue Rocks to four hits in a 1-0 win on Sunday night at Frawley Stadium in a Class A Carolina League baseball matchup.
Cody Anderson, Josh Martin and Rob Nixon combined on the shutout as the Mudcats (20-15, 43-62) won for the seventh time in eight games.
NASH COUNTY -- Kyokushin Karate instructor Kenny Buffaloe and his son/student Christian Buffaloe recently appeared in a segment on P.B.S. TV network’s highly popular series “North Carolina Now”.
They did several Kyokushin Karate demonstrations showing Basics, conditioning, pad work, full contact sparring, and fighting techniques and combinations.
As part of their July 16 business session, members of PFLAG Rocky Mount issued the following statement on recent rulings of the United States Supreme Court regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Proposition 8:
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Rec and Westridge have staged some fierce pool battles over the years, and last Thursday’s reunion proved to be no different.
Visiting Nash Rec kept its hope for an undefeated regular season alive by besting Westridge 465-306 in Nash-Halifax Swim League action.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Wayne Deal will serve as Nash County’s Interim Manager, Nash County Commissioners unanimously agreed last week.
Commissioners met in closed session for over 30 minutes last Wednesday inside the media center at Rocky Mount High School to discuss who would replace Bob Murphy, who served as County Manager for 12 years.
Filing for municipal elections has ended and over 40 have filed for seats on Nash County Municipal Boards.
Filing ended at 12 noon on Friday, July 19, with nine filing on that day.
A host of seats are up for grabs in this municipal election, including the mayor’s spot in seven towns.
In Middlesex, three have filed for the mayor’s seat, including incumbent LuHarvey Lewis and Commissioner Dale Bachmann.
By:
Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Nash- Rocky Mount School Superintendent Anthony Jackson spoke at the school board retreat on Monday, outlining the changes and challenges that he foresaw for the coming school year. The six hour retreat was held at the Rocky Mount Middle School on July 22.
“The school system is changing; the landscape is shifting,” Jackson said in his introductory remarks.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Middle schoolers had the opportunity to become engineers for a week at the annual NC State Engineering Summer Program at NC Wesleyan College.
The students were from five North Carolina counties, including Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson, Halifax and Northhampton and included a mix of boys and girls.
Nashville’s Police Department is encouraging citizens to come out and take part in the first annual National Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, August 6 from 6 until 8 p.m.
National Night Out is an annual event designed to strengthen the community by encouraging citizens to engage in stronger relationships with each other and with their law enforcement partners.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nash County Commissioners will have the opportunity to endorse the Twin Counties Vision and Strategic Plan at their next regular meeting.
Commissioners met with Edgecombe County Commissioners and Rocky Mount City Council members last week to listen to a presentation on the plan, which was presented by the co-chairs of the Community Partners Coalition.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nash County Commissioner Robbie Davis feels a bill being proposed in the House should be a statewide bill to allow counties the option to assume responsibility for construction, improvement, ownership, and acquisition of public school property.
The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education doesn’t agree.
Leacy Ann Silver, 68, passed away on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. She was born August 28, 1944 to the late Elliott and Juanita Lynch Evans. Leacy was also preceded in death by three brothers, Jerry “Pete” Lynch, Arthur Evans, and Elton “Bland” Evans and one grandson, Tylan Silver.
Christopher (Chris) Ray Helton, 23, passed away July 16, 2013. He was born January 15, 1990, in Charlottesville, VA but lived the majority of his life in Nash County.
Richard “Lee” Hagan of Nashville passed away on July 17, 2013 at UNC Memorial Hospital. He was born on November 22, 1970.
Norman Cornelius Winstead, 83, passed away, Sunday, July 21, 2013. He was born September 5, 1929 in Nash County to the late, Dempsey Richard and Rhoda Lindsey Winstead. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by brothers, Melton, Otha, Russell, Leaston, John, Horace and Cleveland Winstead.
