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A windfall of nearly ten thousand dollars will be pouring into Nash County's coffers specifically for use to combat the opioid epidemic, and county officials are beginning the planning process of how to spend it.
The money will be Nash County's share of $1.5 billion awarded to North Carolina over the next eighteen years, 85% of which is earmarked to go to local governments, while the remaining 15% will go to the state.

A homemade pipe bomb found by the side of a Nashville street Monday evening was safely detonated and Nashville Police are investigating to find out who might have put it there, and why.
Deputy Police Chief David Boykin told The Graphic that the initial call came in around 5:30 p.m. from an individual who lived in the neighborhood of S. Creek Drive and S. 1st street reporting what appeared to be a pipe bomb.

A 30-year-veteran of the Nash County Sheriff's Office has retired, garnering not only multiple accolades from his department but a much-coveted gubernatorial award.
Lt. William Murphy was honored with a well-attended ceremony at the Nash County Courthouse Oct. 2, receiving a shadowbox of multiple badges and patches earned through different jobs in the Sheriff's Office as well as the Long Leaf Pine Award.

Plans for the demerger of Nash and Edgecombe County Schools are "99.9% done," according to Nash County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Steve Ellis, with the next steps a presentation to the Nash County Board of Commissioners Oct. 9 and a joint meeting of the four boards planned Oct. 16.
"The numbers are in (the Plan of Transfer) now," Ellis told members of the Nash Board of Education at their Oct. 2 meeting. Ellis said the document would be presented to county commissioners next week.

A contested mayoral race and four people seeking town council positions will be featured in the upcoming Nashville Town Council Candidate Forum, to be held at 7 p.m. October 10 at the Nashville Town Council Chambers located at 114 W. Church Street.
The candidates are running for seats in the upcoming November election.
The public is invited to the event, which is presented by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and moderated by Chamber President Cliff Joyner.

Nash County is short school bus drivers and multiple training obstacles are preventing drivers from getting behind the wheel. In addition, some current drivers are having to do as many as three routes and there is a serious lack of subs.
"When a driver is out, we don't have any one to call," said Michael Baier, Director of Transportation at a NCPS Committee meeting Sept. 25.
Baier opened with statistics comparing 2023 personnel to 2018.

Heavy rains carried by Tropical Storm Ophelia Sept. 23 proved to be too much for Nashville's lowest-lying manhole to contain, resulting in a discharge of untreated wastewater on that date near 802 South Creek Drive.
A notice posted on the Nashville Town website said that approximately 870 gallons flowed from the wastewater collection system, discharging into an unnamed tributary of the Peppermint Branch.

A grant-funded study of Hazardous Materials Commodity Flow through Nash and Edgecombe Counties shows that the vast majority of tractor-trailer and tanker trucks passing through are not marked with placards, despite the possibility that they could be carrying hazardous materials.
A lack of this kind of information in the event of an accident could prove deadly to first responders, who could be unwittingly be exposed.

The Town of Spring Hope is accepting applications now for a vacant seat on the Board of Commissioners, created by the September resignation of Tony Jeffreys.
Town officials had the option of filling Jeffreys' vacancy by appointment or leaving the seat empty until the next scheduled election, but voted Oct. 2 to begin a search for candidates.
Jeffreys, who was elected in November of 2021, submitted his letter of resignation to the town on Sept. 8.