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RALEIGH -- Kyle Prairie, Director of Ticket Sales for the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, has announced changes to season ticket pricing and incentives for the 2012-13 season at PNC Arena.
The Hurricanes will reduce costs for full-season tickets in several areas of the arena for the 2012-13 season.
The popular $9.99 FanZone will add six new sections, spanning from section 308 to 320.
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. -- No. 29 East Carolina University (11-3) scored four runs with two outs in the second inning and added a pair in the last two frames to claim the 2012 DRASH Alabama Baseball Classic Title by defeating No. 20 Louisville (10-4) Sunday afternoon 9-4 at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.
ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY EAGLES SOAR ON THE HARDWOOD. Rocky Mount Academy enjoyed an amazing 2011-12 boys basketball campaign that was capped off by a first-place finish at the Eastern Plains Independent Conference Tournament. The Eagles went 19-4 overall and 9-1 in the EPIC. RMA was successful by playing strong defense -- allowing just 42 points per game.
By: CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent
NASH COUNTY -- Nash County athletes dominated the 2011-12 Big East Conference All-Conference Basketball teams, which were released Monday.
On the boys’ list, Big East regular season and tournament champion Rocky Mount (27-3) led the way with three players selected.
ROCKY MOUNT -- Junior catcher Tyler Clark drove in the game-tying run in the 9th and game-winning run in the 11th to lift his North Carolina Wesleyan College baseball team to a 2-1 upset of #23 Shenandoah on Sunday afternoon at Bauer Field.
By: CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent
CHAPEL HILL -- Rocky Mount’s boys’ basketball team ran into little trouble en route to the NCHSAA 3-A State Championship title game last Saturday evening with Hickory.
In its previous five state playoff games, it had won them by an average of 14 points.
RALEIGH -- Freshman Logan Jernigan utterly silenced No. 10 Georgia Tech, no-hitting the Jackets through six innings and tying a career-high with nine strikeouts, as North Carolina State University took the series-deciding game from Tech 8-3 Sunday at Doak Field at Dail Park.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The Town of Spring Hope has almost met its match for a park grant the town received last year, after commissioners unanimously agreed Monday night to put all the money it received from the sale of a garbage truck towards the match.
The Town of Spring Hope received a $110,000 grant last May to renovate its park.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Legislators visited Nashville on Friday morning to meet with Nashville Town Council members and discuss issues of concern.
Several issues, both local and state, were brought before Representative Jeff Collins and Senator Buck Newton during the meeting, which is held every year prior to the state’s budget session.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Attorney General Roy Cooper returned home to his roots last week to kick-off the 2012 campaign season.
Cooper celebrated his filing for re-election last Tuesday evening at the Cooley Manor in Nashville. Cooper is originally from Nashville and started his career at his family’s law firm, Fields and Cooper, after he graduated from law school.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A Nashville man has added his name to the list of those seeking a seat to the Nash County Commissioners District Four seat.
Gerald Lee “Jerry” Harris, a Democrat, of Golfers Lane, Nashville, filed last Wednesday, February 29, which was the last day of filing for the primary elections.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A bundle of nerves.
That’s how Shirley House described herself last Thursday night as she was recognized as Nashville’s Distinguished Citizen.
“I was so shocked my knees began to knock,” House said. “I got scared, I got nervous and my knees were just shaking.”
By: Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Thomas E. Myers, Jr. (“Tem” Myers) was the only person to express interest in filling the District 5 school board seat which will be vacated by Gregory Camp at the end of April. School Superintendent Anthony Jackson announced at Monday’s school board meeting on March 5 that the lone applicant will be interviewed at 6:00 p.m. on March 12 in a public session.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nash County Commissioners approved a resolution on Monday that expresses their support for a chicken processing plant and its related facilities to locate at the southern end of the county.
Nash County has been courting Sanderson Farms for over a year to locate on a piece of property off of Highway 97, near the intersection of Highway 58.
It’s USDA’s goal to ensure that CRP addresses Nash County’s most critical resource issueS.
CRP is an important program for protecting our most environmentally sensitive lands from erosion and sedimentation, and for ensuring the sustainability of groundwater, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams in Nash County.
Nash County Relay for Life is preparing for its annual Survivor Dinner and is looking for survivors.
A Survivor Social will be held on Saturday, March 17 from 5 until 7 p.m. at Rock Creek Baptist Church in Nashville.
By: Michele A. Cruz, Graphic Correspondent
Proposed school calendars for 2012-13 and 2013-14 were approved unanimously by the Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (NRMS) board at their work session last week.
Board members had repeatedly pointed out that the end of the first semester for next school year might make more sense if it were moved to January 17 instead of January 16 — in part, to give teachers a few days between semesters.
SPRING HOPE –– Robert Alton “Bobby” Tant,Jr., age 60, died Monday, March 5,2012 at his residence.
ROCKY MOUNT - Belinda Powell, 58, of Rocky Mount, died on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham.
Melvin Jackson King, age 79, passed away Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Born in Currituck County on July 16, 1932, he was the son of the late William Arthur King and Maggie Wilcox King. He was also preceded in death by his son, Stanley Ray King and grandson, Jackson Braswell King.
Bobby Louis Griffin, 77, passed away on March 01, 2012. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, a sister, his wife, Janet Griffin, and son-in-law Glenn Proctor.
ROCKY MOUNT –– Grady Lee Blackmon, age 86, passed away Monday, March 05, 2012. Born in Clanton, Alabama on June 19, 1925, he was the son of the late Otis Lee Blackmon and Vallie Alred Blackmon. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Alberta Taylor Blackmon.
SHARPSBURG - Michael “Bruce” Coley, age 55, passed away Thursday, March 01, 2012. Born in Nash County on August 07, 1956, he was the son of late James Edward Coley Sr. and Annie Ezzell Coley.
Edith E. Howard, age 71 of Spring Hope, passed away on February 29, 2012.
Coopers Fire & Rescue, along with the Bulldog Brigade, is once again hosting its annual St. Baldrick’s event to help fight childhood cancer on Saturday, March 17 from 3-7 p.m. at Coopers Vounteer Fire & Rescue Department on 3628 Volunteer Road, just south of Sandy Cross.
And once again the community is receiving its official Double Dog Dare to help! You raise a little money and barbers will shave your head.
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