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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.
NASHVILLE – State Representative and Rocky Mount businessman Bill Daughtridge kicked off his campaign for State Treasurer at a fundraising event at Rose Hill Conference Center. The campaign set a fundraising record in this kick-off event by raising more money in a single event than any Republican candidate has ever raised for the Treasurer's race in the history of North Carolina.
Charles Rodney Jones III "C.J.", born on April 2, 1998, died on March 8, 2007 at Duke Children's Hospital.
ROCKY MOUNT – Eloise Romaine Nickson (Nixon) Bryant, 62, died March 4, 2007. A funeral service was held on March 10 at Gethsemane Baptist Church in Bunn. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Leo "Rat" Debro, 63, died Sunday, March 4, 2007. A funeral service was held March 11 at the Richardson Funeral Home chapel with Prophetess Wilhelmenia Foster officiating.
HOLLISTER – Betty Lou Lynch, 89, died Wednesday, March 7, 2007. A funeral service was held March 12 at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
By: By Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Two youths were singled out at this year's annual Youth of Year event held by the Boys and Girls Club but at this year's event, everyone was deemed a winner.
The two singled out, Tyana Thomas and William Bynum, represent just what the Boys and Girls Club means to youth in Nash and Edgecombe Counties.
I'll be honest — I've stopped more than one conversation/debate over evolution and creation with one question:
"If evolution is a true theory, and we all evolved from monkeys, then how is it we still have monkeys?"
Not once have I pulled that ace card and not at least drawn a pause from my foes in the argument. Often, I'll be accused of "oversimplifying" things or "not really understanding science or evolution," but no one has yet to really come back with a fact-based answer.
By: Letter to the Editor:
Why is it that a local school principal has kicked children out of school, some of them as young as 6 years old? These children began the school year while living in Nash County, but then their parents moved to another county two to three months before the school year ends.
Sunshine Week is upon us and newspapers everywhere are spreading the news that what your government is doing is public information. That's right. You, as a citizen, have a right to know what your government is doing. It's not only your right, it's the law.
By: By Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Sixteen girls will compete in the First Annual Princess of Nash County Pageant Sunday, March 18 at Birchwood Country Club.
The pageant will begin at 2:00 p.m. Entry is $5.00.
Months of hard work for 22 outstanding high school juniors will come to an end on Sunday, March 18 when Rocky Mount's Junior Miss for 2008 is selected.
The program begins at 2 p.m. at the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of North Carolina Wesleyan College. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased from any contestant or at the door.
American agriculture is responsible for providing the necessities of everyday life ... food, fiber, clothing and even fuel. That's the message of National Ag Day, which is celebrated March 21, 2007. Producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America will gather to celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture on this first day of spring.
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