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RED OAK -- The town council voted this week to approve an increase for off duty deputies patrolling within the municipality.
Mayor Levell Langley said he isn't thrilled with a $10 an hour hike, bringing the hourly pay to $40 for deputies working in town.
"It gives me a little heartburn," Langley said during Monday's town meeting.

SPRING HOPE -- A practically defunct board in Spring Hope has materialized from obscurity to rubber stamp plans to move the town's library.
The move is necessitated by the town's goal to renovate the building that currently houses the library to create an event center using an $800,000 rural transformation grant from the state.

The past five years have been a turning point for the 19th-century Galatia African Methodist Episcopal Church as it undergoes a process of restoration, rebuilding, and redemption both structurally and congregationally.
Galatia's roots began in 1870 when the Rev. L.B. Clark organized brush arbor church meetings.

NASHVILLE - The Town of Nashville is looking at another avenue to keep citizens informed.
The town will soon introduce a "Talking Nashville" Podcast, which will keep citizens informed of what's happening in and around Nashville.
The bi-weekly podcast was introduced to Nashville's Town Council last month by Code Enforcement Officer Shawn Lucas.

Local authorities are warning of scammers who pretend to be law enforcement officials.
"The Sheriff's Office, nor any other law enforcement agency, will call you and tell you that you have a warrant or missed jury duty or whatever, and require you to pay money in the form of prepaid debit cards, PayPal, Bitcoin, gift cards or whatever.

NASHVILLE - Questions remain as to why a young girl who died of a severe beating last week wasn't removed from the home of her grandmother, arrested in her death, after a previous beating that left the child unrecognizable.
Christal Lane, 8, died Feb. 7 of blunt force trauma to the head, according to an arrest warrant for 72-year-old Patricia Ann Ricks.

With his fourth book on sale now and decades of newspaper columns under his belt, Michael Brantley is a household name in Nashville.
"A Southern Season: Rural Stories" with stories about growing up in Nash County is on sale wherever books are sold.
Brantley, 53, is an assistant professor at Barton College in Wilson. He has been a professional writer since he began working at The Graphic at 15.

Pictured above (L-R): Prom Queen Doris Lucas and King William Long pose together during Monday evening's prom at the Gardens of Nashville, a retirement and assisted living facility on Eastern Avenue in Nashville. The prom is held annually around Valentine's Day. Contributed photo

A certain scent permeates throughout professor Michael Brantley's office. Perhaps it's the aging books furnishing the shelved alcove along the wall, or the creaky wooden paneling that holds it all together. Maybe it's just Brantley. The cause doesn't matter, but the story it tells is important. This is the smell of knowledge and curiosity, mixed with a hint of mischief -- an ode to a man who's made a life out of spinning yarns.

Rocky Mount Police discovered a firearm on a six-year-old boy at Fairview Elementary School on Tuesday.
A Rocky Mount Police School Resource Officer was notified by administrators at Fairview Elementary School around 10:47 a.m. that a juvenile was in possession of a firearm.
A preliminary investigation by the officer revealed that a six-year-old boy had an unloaded 9mm handgun in his backpack.

THIRD GRADE - A/B HONOR ROLL
Luke Barwick, Penelope Bass, Calvin Bullock, Joseph Cooper, Alice Currier, Bradley Edwards, Connor Egan, Ethan Hawkins, Abigail Knight, Faith Knox, Leilana Little, Liam Long, Poppy Taylor, Alyssa Torres and Makhii Waring

Chick-Fil-A has announced it will soon be offering a chicken sandwich made out of cauliflower.
I don't remember reading about this in Revelation, but I swear it might be a sign of the end times.
There is a verse in Ecclesiastes about eating your food with gladness. Biting into what I thought, was a chicken sandwich and getting cauliflower is not gladness.

I wrote a story last week on Nashville's Police Department wanting to put their officers in Nashville Elementary School. Nashville Police Chief J.T. Winstead seemed a bit irritated with school officials because the school system didn't bother to include Nashville's Police Department in the conversation about school resource officers in the schools, specifically Nashville Elementary.

GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL NOMINEES - This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic Thursday, March 5, 1970. Six Southern Nash students were selected as nominees to the Governor's School. Four of the six are pictured. Pictured (L-R): Charles McCallister, Debbie Barnes, Rhonda Dummit and Jennifer Bass.

A Nash County Farm Service Agency employee was recently recognized as the "Employee of the Quarter."
USDA Farm Service Agency employee Hattie Alston was recognized as the District #6 Employee of the Quarter for the 4th quarter of 2022.
Alston became employed with the Nash County FSA Office on April 7, 2014, as a Program Technician. She was promoted to Farm Loan Analyst in May 2015.