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NASHVILLE - Carl Ernest Jacobs, 81 died Wednesday, March 14, 2007. He was born in Waco, Texas, January 21, 1926 son of the late Ernest Jacobs and Annie Baines Jacobs.
ROCKY MOUNT - Leroy Murray, 86, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family and loved ones on Friday, March 16, 2007. He was born March 3, 1921 in Nash County, son of Matthew Andrew and Elizabeth Savage Murray. Leroy was a retired postal clerk and an avid golfer until he became disabled with Parkinson's disease. Leroy served in the US Army Air Force during World War II flying fifty missions over Europe in a B 17 Flying Fortress. Leroy was also a faithful member of Calvary Baptist Church, active until his illness confined him to his home.
By: By Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A single-vehicle accident left a Raleigh man dead and another injured after a pickup truck ran off the road and into a tree.
Twenty-six-year-old Johnnie Junior Bass, 26, of Raleigh was traveling south on Taylor's Store Road Friday morning when his pick-up truck ran off the road and struck a tree.
By: By Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
A 31-year-old woman was apprehended last week and charged with multiple counts of breaking and entering after a tip from Twin County Crime Stoppers led authories to her.
A three-day course designed to give animal cruelty investigators information on acceptable treatment of horses will be held May 7-9 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The early registration deadline for the course is April 1.
t always seems to happen this time of year.
Just as winter starts to break, we get a glimpse of spring and my birthday pops up on the horizon, I get a couple of big signals that I am getting old.
Of course, I always say there's only one alternative to getting old, so none of you who happen to be alive at the time you read this column should complain. And in my case, I've not even gotten to the age where people put up the "Lordy, Lordy" signs.
Life comes and goes, just like that, and you're left wondering what just hit you.
Last Monday night, I received a phone call that will inevitably change my life. My best friend, who was only 26 years old, was dead.
By: Special to the Graphic / By Charlie Tyson, County Extension Director
Nash agriculture is healthy! Increased energy costs and commodity prices are pushing this industry to reposition itself.
Our local tobacco acreage has expanded 48 percent since deregulation replaced the old quota and price support system in 2005. Better known as the tobacco quota buyout, deregulation caused a significant reduction in leaf prices, making Nash tobacco even more sought after.
CULLOWHEE – A Spring Hope woman is among the 1,634 students who have been named to the Western Carolina University dean's list for the fall semester 2006.
The following students were winners in the 2007 Science Fair held recently at Nash Central Middle School.
Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan has announced that 3,180 undergraduate students earned Dean's List honors and 1,091 students were named to the Chancellor's List at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the Fall 2006 semester.
By: By Michele A. Cruz, Graphic Correspondent
NASHVILLE — The Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (N-RMS) board unanimously approved the 2007-08 current expense and capital outlay budgets as presented by N-RMS Finance Officer Susan Blackwell in their work session Monday night and will make an official vote on it at their next meeting. With continuation and expansion, the recommended local current expense budget totals $26,740,337, which is $859,653 less than last year. The proposed capital outlay budget totals $2,089,041, up $83,000 from last year.
The Rocky Mount Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Inc. will present 20 young women in its 34th Jabberwock. Featured in the finale will be these girls displaying their talents in song, dance and drama. The highlights of this event will be the crowning of one of these girls as "Miss Jabberwock."
By: By Charles Alston, Graphic Correspondent
ROCKY MOUNT - SouthWest Edgecombe's girls basketball team did the NEW 6 3-A Conference proud with its run to the NCHSAA 3-A state championship game.
But with the end of the Lady Cougars' season came the end of the basketball action for the Twin County area. Once the season ends, All-Conference basketball teams are released, and Nash County was well represented on the league's most honored squads.
By: By Geoff Neville, Graphic Sportswriter
RED OAK - Northern Nash's strong start to the 2007 girls soccer season has continued into NEW-6 Conference action.
Monday at home, the Lady Knights rolled to a 6-0 decision over winless league rival Southern Nash.
Joe McCarthy's Northern Nash club controlled play in the first half, but was only able to send home a pair of goals.
ELIZABETH CITY - The Elizabeth City State University football coaching staff will host its annual spring coaches' clinic March 24 at 9 a.m.
The clinic will be held in conjunction with ECU's spring football practice and will be held at the Caldwell Fieldhouse on the ECSU campus.
GREENVILLE - Shane Mathews struck out seven of the 11 batters he faced in 2 2/3 innings and picked up his first win of the season as No. 25 East Carolina completed the doubleheader sweep of Michigan 3-2 in 12 innings last Saturday inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
By: By Charles Alston, Graphic Correspondent
WILSON - Nash Central baseball fans have been waiting for junior Alex Pearce to break out.
He gave signs last Tuesday that he might be on the verge of doing just that.
By: By Mike Williams, Graphic Correspondent
ROCKY MOUNT - One thing was certain recently when Fayetteville Academy traveled to Rocky Mount Academy for an afternoon high school baseball game.
That certainty was that the Eagles would claim a win.
By: By Charles Alston, Graphic Correspondent
TARBORO - When the heavenly smell of grilled hamburgers with onions drift sin the spring night air over Municipal Stadium for four straight nights, you know what time of the year it is.
By: By Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
NASHVILLE – A space needs study was presented to county commissioners during a recessed meeting on Friday.
Ann Collier, of Oakley Collier Architects, P.A., presented the space study to the board, indicating space needs for the Sheriff's Department, Courthouse and Senior Center. As part of the study, Collier met with county employees from each location to determine what the future needs were. From that information, Nash County's Space Utilization Study was formed.
By: By Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
RED OAK – The Town of Red Oak will commission the Wooten Company to perform a feasibility study on whether a sewer system is possible in town, the board decided at their meeting last Monday night.
Gary Hartong and Chris Thomson, of the Wooten Company, came before the board to discuss the feasibility study. The board, along with Hartong and Thomson, previously met to discuss the possibility of getting sewer services for Red Oak citizens.
Cedar Grove Elementary students celebrated Read Across America Day Friday, March 2 by honoring Dr. Seuss. Pictured above, students show off their best Cat in the Hat attire.
By: By Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
SPRING HOPE – Parties and other extracurricular events held at the Spaulding Center gymnasium have gotten out of hand, a concerned Spring Hope resident said during the board's meeting Monday night.
Spc. Ryan D. Russell, 20, of Elm City, was killed Monday, March 5 in Baqubah, Iraq when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near his unit. Also killed were Spc. Blake Harris, 22, of Pueblo, Colo. and Pvt. Barry W. Mayo, 21, of Ecru, Miss. Russell joined the military in October 2004 as a health care specialist. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Calvary Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He was deployed to Iraq in October of 2006. His decorations include a National Defense Service Medal, a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, an Army Service Ribbon and a Combat Medic Badge.
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