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By: Jo Anne Cooper, Graphic Publisher
Dollar General, which is currently located in the Spring Hope Commons Shopping Center, plans to build a 9,000 square foot stand-alone store on the corner of E. Nash Street and S. Louisburg Road at 702 E. Nash Street.
A house now stands on the site which formerly housed a day care. However, the property was rezoned back to residential (R-15) in 2006.
By: Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Castalia commissioners voted unanimously to close a street that the town had forgotten that it owned. The street, referred to as Middle Street in official surveys, extends from Main Street toward the Loop Road. The decision was made at the last town meeting on Tuesday, January 3.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A Nash County road will undergo a name change to honor a fallen soldier, Nash County Commissioners agreed on Monday.
Thompson Road, which sits on the edge of Nash County at the Wilson County line, will be changed to Staff Sergeant Lucas Jr. Road.
ARRESTS
Justin Lane Davis - 12/29/2011 - charged with driving while intoxicated
Anthony Rickshaun Wilder - 1/1/2011 - charged with assault on a female and resisting a public officer
Jose Morates - 1/7/2012 - charged with simple affray
SPRING HOPE – Barrett Lovell Pulley, age 45 of Spring Hope passed away on January 1, 2012.
James Nicholas Lewis, age 94 passed away January 2, 2012. He was born, the eldest of four boys, on September 13, 1917 in Spring Hope to the late James Edwin and Sophie Daughtridge Lewis.
Kenchion Earl Pittman, 96, passed away Thursday, January 5, 2012. Earl was born in Nash County on October 13, 1915 to the late John Robert and Hattie Barnes Pittman. In addition to his parents, Earl was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Garvey Pittman, and his son, Melvyn Earl Pittman.
Willie Bernell Boswell, 69, AKA as Billy, and Chief, passed away Tuesday, January 3, 2012. He was born on July 4, 1942 in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was the son of the late Bernell Boswell and Thelma Kathleen Brantley Boswell Mace. In addition to his parents, he was preceeded in death by one brother Bobby G. Boswell.
ROCKY MOUNT – Joey Derek Squire, 24, of Rocky Mount, died on Monday, January 2, 2011, at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill.
ROCKY MOUNT- Kelvin Earl Johnson, 37, died January 2, 2012. Funeral services will be Wednesday at St. John AME Church at 12:30 p.m. with the Rev. James Marvin Williams officiating. Private Burial will be at Pine View Cemetery.
Ralph Whitehurst, 82, passed away Saturday, January 7, 2012.
WHITAKERS – Howard Lee Cooper, 58, of Whitakers died on Saturday, January 7, 2012.
ROCKY MOUNT – Retha Thorne Walker, 81, of Rocky Mount, died on Friday, January 6, 2012, at Heritage Hospital in Tarboro.
Olivia Richardson, age 81, passed away Friday, January 1, 2012. Services will be held Friday, January 13, 2012 at 4 p.m. from the Richardson Funeral Home Chapel in Nashville with the Rev. Terry Stample officiating.
The unemployment rate for Nash and Edgecombe Counties may see an increase in March, as over 400 employees of RBC Bank will lose their jobs, effective March 16.
PNC Financial Services Groups filed a notice on Friday with the North Carolina Department of Commerce, under the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employees to provide 60 days notice of covered plant closing and mass layoffs.
The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons has granted three-year accreditation with commendation to the Nash Cancer Treatment Center of Nash Health Care. The CoC is a consortium of professional organizations dedicated to improving survival rates and quality of life for cancer patients through standard-setting, prevention, research, education, and the monitoring of comprehensive, quality care.
The shot kicked off the rim, took a funky bounce and came down – right into the hands of my favorite red-head. He never stopped looking up, bent those skinny little white knees, jumped and released the ball up. It took a nanosecond.
The ball hit front rim, side room and dropped through the basket.
This week, many of you will read the words in this space and not understand them. That’s because you didn’t know my Uncle Ralph.
It’s hard to really explain who Uncle Ralph is in this small space. Typically, each week as I sit down to write my column, I struggle with words to fill the entire space. But this week, I had no trouble with my word count. My only trouble was putting the right words into this space.
By: Letters to the Editor:
There are many among us who are complaining that our citizens are either incapable or unable to get a Voter Identification Card. What do they see is wrong with our citizens? Are they lazy? Are they unable to get off their fat behinds? Are they mentally incapable of understanding the voting process? Are they so inept that they are unable to go to the Board of Elections to obtain the free Voter Identification cards?
By: A PICTORIAL LOOK INTO THE PAST
KEARNS SWINGS – This photo originally published in The Graphic July 7, 1966. William Kearns of the Lions Club Little League team takes a swing at the ball during a game against the J.A. Leonard team.
By: Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education presented several awards Monday. Fifteen schools were presented awards for recognition by the NC Department of Public Instruction for successful implementation of the Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) program. Other schools were recognized for their success in the recent United Way fund drive.
In honor of Diversity Month, Detroit Free Press Columnist Rochelle Riley will present a Communications and Empowerment workshop for Nash Community College students on February 8, 2012 from 9am-11:30am in the NCC Business & Industry Center Brown Auditorium. The workshop will focus on career planning and skills that enhance job performance, workplace relationships and interactions between managers and employees.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil K. (Pete) Hinton celebrated their sixty-first anniversary December 31, 2011 along with family and friends at the home of Art and Karen Vick. Pete and Joyce were married in 1950. They have one son, Tracy.
Civilian Meghann R. Brink, a 2011 graduate of Southern Nash High School, Bailey, recently enlisted in the United States Navy under the Delayed Entry Program at Navy Recruiting District, Raleigh.
The program allows recruits to enter the Navy and take up to one year to complete prior commitments such as high school.
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