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By: CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent
ROCKY MOUNT -- Every Friday night in the Big East Conference is a big football night, and this Friday will be no different.
As for Nash County’s league schools, Southern Nash and Rocky Mount will hit the road, while a major county battle will take place in the Dawg Pound.
NASH COUNTY -- Here are updated Fall Season soccer results from the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department:
ROCKY MOUNT -- The women’s soccer team of North Carolina Wesleyan College created several scoring opportunities on Sunday afternoon, but the Bishops were unable to break through against Emory & Henry as the Wasps posted a 3-0 shutout at Scalf Field.
Nashville’s Kendrick Bell (with ball) picks up yardage during last Saturday morning’s home varsity football meeting versus Nash County.
Crews contracted through the NC Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will begin their last round to pick up storm-related debris starting on Monday, October 10.
Crews have been removing debris from state maintained roads in counties affected by Hurricane Irene since early September. Starting on Monday, October 10, crews will begin their last round of debris pick-up in Edgecombe, Nash, Wayne and Wilson Counties.
ROCKY MOUNT – Rosa Lee Tillman, 59, of Rocky Mount, died on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, at Atlantic Medical Center in Atlanta, GA.
ROCKY MOUNT – William Henry “Peter Rabbit” Simms, 67, of Rocky Mount, died on Thursday, September 29, 2011.
NASHVILLE - Funeral services for James Bernard Copeland, 60, who died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, were Sept. 30 at 1 p.m. at the Union Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. James Wesley Parks officiating. Burial followed in the Oakland Cemetery.
HOLLISTER - Funeral services for Ethel Lynch Gaskins, 79, who died on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, were Sept. 30, at Pine Chapel Baptist Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
Shannon Christina Farrow Booth, age 34, of Rocky Mount, passed away Saturday, October 1, 2011 at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville, NC.
Lena Mae Harrison Joyner, 93, passed away September 27, 2011. She was the daughter of the late William Seth Harrison and Irene Brag Harrison of Elm City, was born January 23, 1918. Lena Mae was married to the late Lancy R. Joyner. Her surviving family includes her son, Lancy Ray Joyner, Jr. and wife, Louise, and daughter Ava J. Bass and her husband, Johnny Bass; four randchildren; three great-grandchildren.
Melvin Shelton Leggett, age 79, passed away Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Born in Beaufort County on August 24, 1932, he was the son of the late John David “J.D.” Leggett and Lucy Lilley Leggett. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Jenkins Leggett and wife, Gladys Willis Crank Leggett.
By: Graphic photos by Amanda Clark
Pumpkin Queen Pamela Brooke Pearson
A Sudan Clown tosses a football to a parade watcher during Saturday’s Pumpkin Festival Parade.
The Sudan Hillbillies were on hand for this year’s 40th Annual Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival.
With my wife, and children No. 1 and No. 3 out of town, my mom took sympathy on child No. 2 and me. She offered to feed us on the second night of being on our own.
Maybe we looked sad.
So, when I rolled in from Greenville – tired, bleary-eyed and facing another long night of grad school homework – Mom met me at the door.
You’ll notice the front page of The Graphic will turn a little “pink” over the next few weeks while also featuring some pretty special ladies from our community.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and The Graphic is again publishing stories each week of local breast cancer survivors to encourage more awareness of this horrible disease.
This weekend, I came across a photo of something that I could not at first identify. It looked like two disgusting blobs of something.
Later on, I discovered these blobs were dogs.
A group of men discovered the two dogs while at sunset park playing a friendly game of disc golf. The men didn’t realize what they were looking at either until they got a little closer.
By: A PICTORIAL LOOK INTO THE PAST
This photo was originally published in The Graphic March 4, 1976. These sixth, seventh and eighth graders won awards in the Nashville Optimist Club’s annual oratorical contest. Pictured (left to right) are Clarence Walker, third place winner; Alton Walker, second place; John Thomas, first place; Jackie Whitehead, first place; Pam Jones, second place; and Debra Mangum, third place.
Two Wilson men were arrested in the parking lot of Food Lion on Friday morning for trafficking cocaine.
According to a press release from the Nash County Sheriff’s Office, the Narcotics Division received information that two men would be coming to the Food Lion parking lot at Highway 97 and Halifax Road outside of Rocky Mount with cocaine.
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