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Northern Nash High School running back Dywhaun Mitchell explodes for yardage for the Fighting Knights during last Friday night's home victory against the Wilson Fike Golden Demons at historic Death Valley in Red Oak.

ROCKY MOUNT -- A whopping 98 total points in just two games.
Needless to say, it's been quite a positive start to the season for the Nash Central High School football squad.
Not that this was unexpected, as the Bulldogs return several key starters -- especially in the backfield -- from last year's club, which reached the third round of the Class 2-A State Playoffs for the second consecutive campaign.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Central and Franklinton tangled last Thursday in an early-season girls tennis matchup loaded with implications for the Big East Conference standings.
Central was able to secure a 7-2 decision over the Lady Rams at the NCHS Courts.
The Lady Bulldogs improved to 1-1 on the campaign, while Franklinton slipped to 0-3.

STANHOPE -- Southern Nash improved to 2-0 while South Granville dropped to 0-2 with the Firebirds winning 42-0 at their home field last Friday in non-conference prep football action.
South Granville had the ball first and had to punt.

ZEBULON -- Blayberg Diaz extended his hitting streak to 10 games and Jahder Areinamo went 2-for-4, but Columbia's Trevor Werner homered twice and drove in five runs while leading the Fireflies to a 9-0 rout of the homestanding Carolina Mudcats in Sunday's series finale at Five County Stadium.
The Fireflies (26-28, 61-58) scored four two-out runs in the first before adding four more runs in the fifth and one in the seventh en route to the 9-0 shutout victory.

RALEIGH -- The Centennial Authority, owners of PNC Arena, and Gale Force Sports and Entertainment, L.L.C. have announced today the signing of a 20-year lease extension with the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes.
The newly signed lease states that the Hurricanes will occupy PNC Arena through the 2043-44 NHL season.

Local authorities have charged a city couple with having drugs and guns in their home within reach of two children.
Marcus Lucas, 46, and Denisha Carter, 39, of Rocky Mount, face charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen firearm, trafficking cocaine, possession of marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for controlled substances and possession of drug paraphernalia. Lucas received a $250,000 bond; Carter received a $50,000 bond.

The sense of dread settled in on me last Thursday.
That's because on Friday, we moved our middle child into his college dorm room.
I should have been mentally prepared. We went through this with his older sister five years ago.
I was fine during her last couple of months as a high school senior, simply a proud dad at graduation, then excited for her immediate future.

A former Nashville resident has been named as the new President/CEO of Carolinas Gateway Partnership.
The Carolinas Gateway Partnership's Board of Directors named Robert B. Pike (Bob) as its new President/CEO, effective September 1, 2023. Pike succeeds E. Norris Tolson, who has led the Partnership for the past seven years. Tolson will remain with the organization for an interim period as he assists with the transitioning of leadership and the overseeing of special ongoing projects.

A small band of Nash County residents continue to call for the firing of top social workers in the aftermath of a child's death earlier this year.
Castalia resident Laura Bartholomew is circulating a petition with 133 signatures calling for the firing of Nash County Department of Social Services Director Amy Pridgen-Hamlett, Deputy Director Shea Neal and Program Administrator Kimberly Nicholson.

Something never seen before has been planted and is growing in Red Oak: an entirely new educational culture at the new Red Oak Elementary School. A ribbon-cutting to celebrate its grand opening was held at the school Tuesday afternoon, with a packed media center full of faculty, staff, community members, parents and students.
After more than two years of construction, the squeaky-clean 102,000 square foot building that houses Red Oak Elementary is complete and ready for Open House August 24th from 11-1 and 4-6 p.m, to be followed by the first day of school August 28.

An employee of a local propane company died Monday when a tank exploded on a customer's tobacco farm.
Francis Earl Johnson Jr., 25, of Louisburg, worked as a delivery truck driver for L. H. Dickens & Son, a Franklin County based low pressure gas supplier.
At approximately 11 a.m. Johnson was at a property located at 16628 Red Bud Road in Castalia, said Chief Deputy Allen Wilson with the Nash County Sheriff's Office.

Volunteers at the Nash County and Southern Nash Senior Centers have served over 14,000 meals to 57 clients over the past year through the Meals on Wheels program. Those volunteers, along with others who help with senior center programming, were recognized last week at the senior center's Volunteer Appreciation Social.
The theme for this year's event was "volunteers plant seeds that grow forever."