NASH COUNTY -- Here is the schedule for the 2011-12 College Football Bowl Season:
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
NASH COUNTY -- Judging by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s latest findings, the Class 3-A Big East Conference will be around in its current at least through 2017.
That’s what the league member schools want -- and those plans should be finalized next spring by the NCHSAA.
HENDERSON -- Rocky Mount Academy’s swim team traveled to the Aycock Recreation Center in Vance County last Tuesday for the second meet of the 2011-12 season.
The Lady Eagles took first place in the team standings, while the Eagles claimed the No. 3 position.
The girls victory was the first in school history for a multi-squad event in Henderson.
Mebane’s Jake Christman runs into the end zone for the game-winning 2-point conversion as part of last Saturday’s victory over Nash County in the SWAC Football Tournament Semifinals.
ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Central’s girls squad picked right up where it left off from last year during the inaugural 2011-12 Big East Conference Swim Meet last Monday at the Harrison Family YMCA.
The Lady Bulldogs collected 113 total points to outdistance second-place Wilson Fike, which closed with 70 markers.
RALEIGH -- Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, has announced that Kirk Muller has been named the team’s new head coach.
Muller had been serving as the head coach of the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League.
By:
CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent
ROCKY MOUNT --Nash Central’s varsity basketball teams got off on the right foot last Tuesday evening in their season openers against visiting Class 2-A member North Johnston.
The Bulldogs’ girls team got a career-high 31 points from junior Timyra Staton en route to beating the Lady Panthers 59-29.
CHAPEL HILL -- Listed are last Friday’s results and this weekend’s Championship Schedule for the 2011 North Carolina High School Athletic Association State Football Playoffs:
STANHOPE -- Two-time defending champion Nash County will return to the gridiron this Saturday for the semifinals of the Statewide Athletics Committee Football Tournament.
Nash County will tangle with Mebane at 1 p.m. at Firebird Stadium on the campus of Southern Nash High School.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
ROCKY MOUNT -- The list of Nash County girls soccer standouts who have had the opportunity to compete on the college isn’t a long one -- but Lydia Hunt can be counted on as a proud member.
Hunt, who excelled during her prep career at Nash Central High School, had the chance to continue her pitch heroics at North Carolina Wesleyan College -- and she readily embraced the chance.
GREENVILLE -- Two junior college players and 10 high school seniors have committed to play baseball at East Carolina University in 2013, head baseball coach Billy Godwin announced today.
The latest group of standouts will enroll at ECU in the fall of 2012 and will take the diamond for the Pirates in 2013.
After a beautiful time of Thanksgiving celebration, Peachtree folks gathered for worship on Sunday. It was the first Sunday of Advent. The readers of the devotional for the Advent candle were Ricky and Dianne Tucker. The candle of “Hope” was lit by Ricky.
“Think boldly” Nash County farmers and producers! At least that’s the approach you’ll want to take when the next Farm Bill is written.
As a general rule, Farm Bills are 5 years in length. A new Farm Bill is scheduled to begin October 2012, covering FY 2013 through September 2017. So as the U.S. Congress writes the next Farm Bill, I suggest these major components boldly be at the center.
By:
Michele A. Cruz, Graphic Correspondent
The Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (NRMS) student attendance zones will be redrawn to take effect in the 2013-14 school year due to reduce overcrowded schools.
The board approved the recommendations of the administration at their meeting last Monday night, which sets in motion the work of Operations Research and Education Laboratory (ORED) to provide assistance in creating attendance zones according to the system’s goals.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The Town of Nashville is partnering with local businesses to try and bring outsiders to Downtown Nashville.
The town’s planning department is working with businesses in downtown on a Downtown Market Expansion Advertising Cooperative. Businesses met with Nashville Planning Director Gene Foxworth late last month to discuss the initiative.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Ward Drug Company of Nashville will soon transfer its prescription business to CVS Pharmacy and change its name to Ward Specialty Pharmacy.
Ward Drug Owner Gary Glisson said the change is mainly the result of market pressures.
“It was not necessarily competition from big box retailers as much as it was forced, or coerced, mail order prescriptions and changes in Medicare Part D that are coming,” Glisson said.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nash-Rocky Mount Schools will continue to face budget challenges in the upcoming year, Superintendent Dr. Anthony Jackson told Nash County Commissioners at a joint meeting last Tuesday evening.
The joint meeting between Nash County Commissioners and the Nash-Rocky Mount School Board has become an annual occurrence, to allow for better communication between the boards.
• Nash Arts Center presents its annual version of “A Christmas Carol” beginning Thursday, December 1 at 8 p.m., and December 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. as well as on Sunday, December 4 at 3:30 p.m. Call 459-4734 for more information.
Charles Clarence Odom, 81, passed away Wednesday, November 23, 2011. He was born in Nash County on April 8, 1930 to the late Willie Clyde and Anna Joyner Odom. He was preceded in death by three brothers, Marvin Odom, Clyde Odom, and Horace Odom.
ELM CITY - Murdie Leigh Boone Murray, 92, passed away on Friday November 25, 2011. She was born April 2, 1919 in Nash County. Murdie was preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Wallace Harold Murray and her son, Frank Harold Murray.
NASHVILLE - Edith Parham Williams, 92, passed away, Friday, November 25, 2011. She was born September 10, 1919 in Nash County. She was the daughter of the late Clyde and Mamie Harris Parham. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie “W.T.” Thurston Williams, a daughter, Lisa W. West, four brother’s William Thomas, Edward Lee, Forest & Buddy Parham and two sisters, Annie Belle Miller and Louise Leonard.
ROCKY MOUNT – William Anthony Cherry, 38, of Rocky Mount, died on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.
ROCKY MOUNT – Ruth Roland Wilson, 82, of Rocky Mount, died on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.
ROCKY MOUNT - Alton “Buddy” Eugene Wood, 96, born March 27, 1915 in Nash County, passed away Monday November 21, 2011. Alton was the son of the late Ernest and Letha Bradshaw Wood. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ruth M. Wood, daughter, Bonnie Wood Carson, sisters, Carolyn Wood Moss and Alma Wood Langley, brother, Lewis Clifton Wood.
James Edward Hardee, Sr., 82, passed away Monday, November 28, 2011. James was born in Edgecombe County on April 19, 1929. He was the son of the late Charles B. Hardee Sr. and Ethel H. Hardee. He was preceded in death by a brother, Charles B. Hardee Jr.
