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By: CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent
NASH COUNTY -- Here is a look at this Friday’s upcoming prep football games:
ELM CITY -- After losing out to Mother Nature two weekends ago, staff, drivers, crews and fans filed into County Line Raceway last Saturday for a night sure to be packed full of hot racing action.
The first feature, the Super Stock 4 cylinder division, would have teammates Andy Ross and Kent Wright on the front row.
Southern Nash’s Moises Gonzalez (left) speeds through the midfield during last Thursday’s road soccer showdown against the Bunn Wildcats.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
BUNN -- It rained on Bunn’s season-opening football parade last Friday night.
Again and again and again.
The Wildcats seemed to have problems with the poor weather last Friday -- and the talented Rocky Mount Gryphons didn’t help matters, either.
ZEBULON -- James Avery and Tim Gustafson combined on Carolina’s first shutout in over two months, dealing a 2-0 defeat over the Jacksonville Suns at Five County Stadium on Sunday night in a Class AA Southern League baseball event.
Nash Central’s Greg Arrington (center) hangs on to the football while being tackled during the Bulldogs’ home victory Monday night against traditional gridiron power Tarboro.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Some Nash-Rocky Mount students will see new bell times as they enter the 2011-2012 school year.
According to Mark Strickland, Nash-Rocky Mount Schools Special Assistant for Auxiliary Services, the time adjustments will greatly increase transportation efficiency and maintain maximum service levels for students.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Family, friends and fellow veterans gathered at the Rocky Mount Veterans Memorial at Jack Laughery Park on Monday morning to pay tribute to Joe Wilson, who served his country for three years in the United States Navy.
The Joint Veterans Committee honors a deceased veteran from Nash or Edgecombe County each month with a flag raising at the park. Wilson passed away in December 2010.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
It was around two years ago that Reverend Thomas Green realized local clergy and law enforcement didn’t know one another. Soon after, local pastors, law enforcement officials and business owners began meeting to see what they could do to give citizens in the Twin Counties a better quality of life.
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Nashville Police held a DWI checkpoint on Saturday night that resulted in 47 people being charged.
Officer Phillip Spivey said the checkpoint was one of two the department tries to hold each year.
“We try to do two a year,” Spivey said. “Usually we try to have one the first part of the year and one the latter part of the year.”
By: Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Twenty-three celebrities made their way to Rocky Mount on Friday and Saturday to support the fourth annual Phil Ford Golf Classic.
The event kicked off on Friday night with a Gala, which honored Danny Talbott. Talbott was a three-sport athlete at Rocky Mount Senior High School who led each of his teams to a 4-A State Championship. Talbott went on to play for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Nashville Scouts from Troop 76 came out to Nashville Elementary on Saturday morning to clean up the grounds around the mobile units. Pictured in the above photo, Samuel Smith cleans leaves off the roof of one of the mobile units.
Timothy Michael Dean - 8/2/2011 - charged with violation of a domestic violence protective order
Anna Katherine Wall - 8/3/2011 - charged with simple possession of a schedule II controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce
Phillip Batchelor - 8/9/2011 - charged with larceny
Funeral services for Shirley Faithful Creekmore, age 71, were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at Cornerstone Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Gerald Parker officiating. Burial followed at Rocky Mount Memorial Park.
Louis Joseph “Bud” Heffner, II, 75 died Saturday, August 13, 2011. He was born March 8, 1936 in Erie, PA son of the late Louis J. and Erna Wiedeman Heffner. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Charles Heffner.
Carl Shelton Briggs, age 74 of Rocky Mount passed away August 13, 2011 in the Nash General Hospital.
Mattie Ruth Pridgen Williams, 81, of Rocky Mount, died Thursday, August 11, 2011, at Nash General Hospital. She was born in Nash County, June 16, 1930, daughter of the late Ben and Pearl Narron Pridgen.
Minnie Davis Adams Winstead, age 87 passed away August 10, 2011 at her home in Sharpsburg.
Skip Moss, 62, passed away at his home on Wednesday, August 10, 2011.
Victoria P. Johnson age 86 passed away on Friday, August 12, 2011 at Nash General Hospital. She was born February 8, 1925 to the late Roscoe and Cuzzie Pope of Johnston County.
WHITAKERS – Mae B. Rudd, 85, of Whitakers, died on Thursday, August 11, 2011 at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount. Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m., on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at Morning Star Church of Christ in Rocky Mount.
ROCKY MOUNT - Katie Vivian Jenkins, 75, of Rocky Mount, died on Saturday, August 6, 2011, at South Village Nursing Center in Rocky Mount.
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK- William Watson Hines, III, 83, formerly of Rocky Mount died August 2, 2011. Funeral Services were Friday, August 12 at Mount Pisgah Presbyterian Church at 11 a.m. Rev. Raymond Privott officiated.
HYATTSVILLE – Lauretta Jean Battle Porter, 52, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and formerly of Rocky Mount, died on Wednesday, August 3, 2011.
ROCKY MOUNT - Mary Louise McKinnon, 61, of Rocky Mount, died on Saturday, August 6, 2011, at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.
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