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NINTH GRADE - A/B HONOR ROLL
Estrella Benitez-Zamora and Cameron Mathis

WJH, LLC to Janelle Andrikia Johnson; 1173 Manor Drive, Rocky Mount; $269,000
Barnes Land Corporation to CMH Homes, Inc.; 10.56 acres and 42.04 acres; $980,000
Amanda R. Patterson to Jacqueline Barnes and Eddie Taylor; Section 2, Red Oak Hills Subdivision, Lot 58

Members of the Nash County Senior Center prepared stockings prior to the holiday. Pictured above, Gladys Butler scoops a snack for a stocking.

A 72-year-old Sandy Cross grandmother accused of murdering and abusing one of her grandchildren in February will be returning to court in March, possibly to face the death penalty.
Patricia Ann Ricks of 5073 Dutchman Road, Nashville, is charged with first degree murder and felony child abuse inflicting serious injury in the case of 8-year-old Christal Neveah Lane, who was pronounced dead on arrival at Nash UNC Health Care Hospital on Feb. 2, 2023.

NASH COUNTY - A cavalcade of 18 cruisers, trucks and cars wound their way from Nashville to Sharpsburg Dec. 22 with sirens and lights ablaze on route to the first stop of the annual Sheriff's Christmas, a giving event whereby the Nash County Sheriff's Office delivers food, toys or supplies to selected families and the elderly.
"NCSO has been doing this since Sheriff Stone came into office, with the first year being 2015," said Sgt. Macie Hasty of the NCSO Investigations Division.

RED OAK - Red Oak resident Wayne Tamberelli, a PA at Nashville's PrimaryCare Urgent Care, used to write poetry when he was twelve, but never realized that a novel would be in his future. But it was, and it is: The Lady In the Window was just released Dec. 1.
Tamberelli, an upstate New York native who moved to North Carolina in 1977, said he had written on and off in the past, including filling a manila folder with poems and limericks while in middle school...

Nashville's police and fire departments continued their holiday tradition of taking local kids shopping. Pictured above, Nathan Kawaykla, 5, shops with Nashville Police Lt. C. Shockley.

NASHVILLE - The Town of Nashville has a new human resources director, after having been without one for several months.
Trey Sanderson of Rocky Mount, Pastor at Nashville's Rise Church, was hired Dec. 18 to fill the vacancy left when former HR Director Matt Joyner was fired in October after a September suspension over a personnel issue.