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NASH COUNTY -- Given the competitiveness of the league, it's difficult for a school to claim the Wells Fargo Cup Championship in the Big East Conference -- let alone two years in a row.
But Southern Nash reached that lofty goal during the 2022-23 school year as the Firebirds repeated their Wells Fargo Cup overall crown.

STANHOPE -- Southern Nash's Dynamic Duo morphed into a Tremendous Trio this spring as part of yet another dynamic girls soccer season.
Certainly, SN's long-time, one-two punch of scoring whizzes Amber Patterson and Charlotte Benson delivered as expected, teaming up for 78 goals and 32 assists while helping the Ladybirds to a 20-4 overall record that included a Big East Conference Championship repeat, along with a journey to the second round of the Class 3-A State Playoffs.

ZEBULON -- Kay-Lan Nicasia drove in a run with a RBI triple in the ninth, Luke Adams went 2-for-3 with two runs and Logan Henderson totaled a career-high nine strikeouts, but the visiting Lynchburg Hillcats survived a late Carolina Mudcats' rally while escaping with a 4-3 victory in front of a paid crowd of 6,017 on Tuesday night at Five County Stadium.

NASHVILLE -- The 2023 Girls Basketball Team at Nashville Elementary started its season in January. The club was made up of three fourth-grade students and 13 fifth-grade students in addition to one team manager.
The head coach was Beth Brantley, a fifth-grade teacher, and the assistant coach is Gregory Perkins, the boys coach and school custodian. The team had practices every Tuesday and Thursday from January to April after school, in addition to games every Saturday during the month of March.

A local physician has launched her own practice to offer the small town charm of a family doctor in Nashville.
Dr. Shandal Emmanuel will head Primary Care and Urgent Care of Nashville when it opens next month on West Nashville Drive behind Bojangles and across from Ribeyes Steakhouse. A grand opening is set tentatively for July 17.

On Father's Day, an idea dawned on me for a self-help book that is sure to make millions or at least dozens of dollars and one Soapbox column, if not more.
If you're thinking I'm a little late on this topic -- seeing as how Father's Day was last weekend -- that is just how my life goes.
We're hardly ever to church on time. I took 36 semesters off before deciding to go to graduate school. My wife Kristi is just as bad -- all three of her babies were late deliveries.