ROCKY MOUNT -- North Carolina Wesleyan’s volleyball team split a pair of USA South matches on Saturday at Everett Gym, suffering a 3-0 loss to Shenandoah before rebounding to sweep Peace by the same score later in the evening.
Prior to the Peace match, the Battling Bishops and head coach Robin Pietryk honored the two senior members of this year’s squad: Holly Deaver and Mackenzie Tingle.
Nashville Hornet Tarod Brown (center) celebrates after his team recorded a safety during last Saturday’s junior varsity football matchup against homestanding Wilson Boys and Girls Club in Eastern North Carolina Football League action.
NASH COUNTY -- Listed are last weekend’s team results and goal scorers from the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department’s Fall Soccer Season:
STANHOPE -- It was a perfect fall day as the Nash County Firebirds hosted WYU-The Spot Warriors for an Eastern North Carolina Football League matchup at Firebird Stadium on the campus of Southern Nash High School.
Here is a look at each contest:
ELM CITY -- Spectators, crews, drivers and staff could not have asked for more perfect weather as everyone filed into County Line Raceway last Saturday for a night of hot racing action.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
ROCKY MOUNT -- Earlier in the season, Southern Nash boys soccer coach John Matthews wasn’t thrilled about his club’s inconsistent play against non-league foes.
That trend quickly changed for the Firebirds once they kicked off the Big East Conference portion of their schedule.
GRYPHONS GO UP AGAINST FRANKLINTON. The Rocky Mount Gryphons stepped out of Big East Conference boys soccer action last Thursday afternoon to meet the Franklinton Red Rams at the RM Soccer Complex. The clubs tied 2-2 in the matchup, marking the second time FHS and RM have played to an equalizer this season. In the above photo, Rocky Mount’s Garrett Webb heads a throw-in while being defended by Franklinton’s Layne Lanham.
Southern Nash’s Rachel Bissette attacks the par-5 No. 2 hole at The River Golf and Country Club during Monday’s Big East Conference links showdown in Franklin County.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Rocky Mount Police are looking for a 17-year-old boy responsible for the shooting death of a Nashville man at the Nightlife Bar and Grill on Friday night.
According to police reports, police were called to the Nightlife Bar and Grill at 821 Country Club Road in Rocky Mount around 2 a.m. in reference to a fight between 24-year-old Ryan Craig Bobbitt and multiple suspects.
Thousands of people came out to take part in the 40th Annual Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1. Festival goers were greeted with cool but nice weather for events on both days. The festivities ended with fireworks. Pictured above, three-year-old Sissy Williams (at left), of Rocky Mount has her face painted by Jennifer DiPilato on Saturday.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nash County Commissioners will try out a new meeting schedule beginning in 2012, commissioners decided at their regular meeting on Monday morning.
Commissioner Wayne Outlaw brought up the new meeting time, suggesting that the board meet at a later time to allow more citizens the chance to attend meetings.
By:
Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
Red Oak Commissioners voted Monday to file an official challenge with the US Census Bureau regarding the 2010 Census Data. Mayor Alfred Wester said Monday that he had pursued inquires at the State level and had been referred to the Census Bureau for challenge information.
“I talked to the folks in Washington D.C.,” Wester said, “and they explained that we could challenge, but unless the figures were really wrong, we would have to pay the costs, which could be several thousand dollars.”
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The Town of Nashville recently received news that it had been awarded a Parks and Recreation Trust Fund Grant to assist in developing the Stony Creek Environmental Park.
The park, which is where the old Glover Park was located behind Bojangles, will feature a multipurpose field with lights, tennis courts, boardwalk trail, paddle trail and creek access, a Hope Blooms garden, amphitheater, playground and parking area.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Eight months after losing her husband to lung cancer, Judy Major was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Major, of Rocky Mount, said the diagnoses obviously added to an already difficult year and was even harder to accept because she had just had her annual mammogram.
“I had had a mammogram six weeks prior and they did not find anything,” Major said.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
The SPCA Alliance of NC rescued two severely neglected dogs in Rocky Mount over the weekend and is offering a reward for information that can help locate the people responsible.
Shelley Milburn, a Nashville resident and President of the SPCA, said she was contacted on Saturday about some matted dogs that needed rescue. The dogs were discovered at Sunset Park by men playing disc golf.
ARRESTS
Alexa Regina Lee - 9/28/11 - charged with hit and run stop property damage and failure to report an accident
Veronica Dale Harris - 9/26/2011 - charged with credit card theft, larceny, all other larceny, and fraud by credit card, automated teller machine
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Jessica Flores has joined the Nash County Clerk of Court staff as a Deputy Clerk.
Flores, a Nash County resident, started in early September and is of Hispanic/Latino heritage, which will allow The Clerk of Court’s Office to better assist the Hispanic population.
We had a good attendance at Beulah on Sunday. There were several visitors and we pray we will see them regular. Sunday school began at 9:45 followed by church services at 11:00. Beginning next Sunday, the first Sunday in October, church services will begin at 10:45. Sunday school will still begin at 9:45.
Today was Homecoming at Mt. Zion. A day we look forward to every year. We had 95 in Sunday school including two visitors. Welcome to everyone. Betsy Coppedge taught my Sunday school class lesson. We enjoyed a lesson from Proverbs on using wisdom in everyday life and in personal relationships. Robert Tyner was acting superintendent in the absence of Bob Watkins.
Peachtree folks gathered on Sunday morning to celebrate 202 years of serving the Lord on the same site. It was a wonderful day as people came to worship; to remember those who have passed on; to renew acquaintances; to share a bountiful meal. Pastor Whitehouse read letters of greeting from several former pastors.
John Drew Stanley, 16, passed away Saturday, September 24, 2011. He was born February 26, 1995 in Wake County, son of William Drew and Teri Leggett Stanley.
SHARPSBURG – Annie Lee Daniel Alston, 92, of Sharpsburg, passed away on Thursday, September 15, 2011, at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.
ROCKY MOUNT – Shirley Jean Bynum, 73, of Rocky Mount, died on Friday, September 16, 2011, at Wilson Medical Center in Wilson.
Margie Snipes Rice, 87, passed away on Friday, September 23, 2011. She was born September 24, 1923 in Wilson County.
Doris Proctor Rose Davis, age 75 of Rocky Mount passed away September 24, 2011 in Nash General Hospital.
