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By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A five percent increase in water rates from the City of Rocky Mount will be passed on to Nashville residents.
Town Manager Preston Mitchell told Nashville’s Board during a budget work session last week that the increase was something the town expected and was driven by the increase of gas and electric rates.
“We were expecting this,” Mitchell said. “It relates to an operational increase.”
By: Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Castalia commissioners met in a special called session last Tuesday to begin a lengthy discussion of budget priorities for the coming year. The focus on Tuesday was on the recreation budget, which primarily affects the income and expenditures for the annual Fourth of July celebration.
Due to the need to tighten the town’s budget as a result of lessening income projections, Mayor Ellene Leonard suggested that the town cut funding for the current year’s Fourth of July celebration and reduce future funding by half.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Bailey Commissioner Timothy Johnson will be sworn in on Friday, May 31 as the town’s mayor.
Johnson was unanimously appointed by commissioners on Monday, May 20. His appointment comes after Mayor Owen Strickland announced his resignation last month. Strickland cited “personal reasons” as why he was resigning.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Close to one million soldiers have paid the ultimate price in their service to America. Those soldiers were remembered on Sunday evening in a special Memorial Day ceremony at Forest Hills Cemetery in Nashville.
Larry Womack, Commander of the American Legion Post 110, who sponsors the annual ceremony, said Memorial Day was a day to remember those whose lives had been lost. (Pictured): Raven Carpenter, pausing for prayer during a service to honor veterans at the cemetery. (Photo contributed)
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nash County Commissioners will consider approval of the 2013-2014 Fiscal Year budget on Monday, June 3 but at least two commissioners have said they cannot support a budget that shows an increase.
The $88.4 million proposed budget is a 3.5 percent increase from the current year’s adopted budget and .7 percent increase from this year’s revised budget.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A Spring Hope woman says her dog is being wrongly accused of being vicious and loud.
Brenda Yanez said claims made against her and her dog at a Spring Hope Board meeting are wrong.
Earlier this month, two Spring Hope residents came before the board to complain about Yanez’s dog, Achilles. Nancy Perry said Achilles was constantly getting loose and running around the neighborhood. Perry also said the dog had attacked a child and had also came after her husband, who is in a wheelchair.
ROCKY MOUNT ––Walter C. “Bay-Bay” Battle, 65, died May 20, 2013. Funeral service were Saturday, May 25, 2013 at Stokes Mortuary Chapel at 1 pm.
ROCKY MOUNT –– Cecilia Amanda Puddy, 44, of Rocky Mount, died on Monday, May 20, 2013.
ROCKY MOUNT ––Angela Denise Allen, 47, of Rocky Mount, died on Friday, May 24, 2013.
ROCKY MOUNT –– Shirley A. Goldston, 67, of Rocky Mount, died on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.
ROCKY MOUNT –– Irene Evans, 78, of Rocky Mount, died on Tuesday, May 22, 2013.
GREENSBORO –– Lamont Maurice Warren, 44, of Greensboro, died on Sunday, May 19, 2013.
ROCKY MOUNT ––Carolyn Janet Johnson, 63, of Rocky Mount, died on Thursday, May 23, 2013.
ROCKY MOUNT –– Joseph Orion Boone, 85, of Rocky Mount, died on Sunday, May 19, 2013.
ENFIELD ––Henry Orvis Arrington, 88, of Enfield, died on Sunday, May 26, 2013 at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.
Brice Sylvester Poland, Sr., 81, passed away Saturday, May 25, 2013. He was born November 15, 1931 in Nash County to the late James Elmer and Lessie Winstead Poland.
Colonel “Matt” Matthew Bales, 50, passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. He was born August 4, 1962 in Kanawa County, West Virginia. He is preceded in death by his father, Byron Genon Bales,Sr., a sister, Tracy Bales and a brother Tony Bales.
Rosetta Cooley, 90 of Middlesex, passed away on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
Lawrence Steve Williams, 64 passed away Thursday, May 23, 2013.
Paul Eugene Ball, 88, passed away on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Paul was born in Gallipolis, Ohio on January 24, 1925 to the late Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and Ethel Ball.
Betty Ruth Turner, 77, passed away on Thursday, May 23, 2013.
Cheryl Johnson, 68, passed away on Thursday, May 23, 2013.
ROCKY MOUNT – Robert Charles Arnold, Jr., 75, died Sunday, May 26, 2013, born July 12, 1937, in Cooperstown, NY, son of the late Robert C. Arnold, Sr. and Frances Johnson Arnold. He was preceded in death by his mother, Frances J. Arnold: brothers, Richard Arnold, Sr., Frederick C. Arnold and father, Robert C. Arnold, Sr. and Betty J. Arnold (wife of 50 years.)
Robert L Minor, age 80, passed away on May 23, 2013. A memorial service was held Monday, May 27, 2013 at Lakeside Baptist Church in Rocky Mount.
Susan Dare Mason Medley, age 52, passed away Thursday, May 23, 2013.
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