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I've been back in the Graphic office for the past two weeks and my boys have had to come with me.
Since they are homeschooled now, they've been getting their schoolwork done while I work on things at the office.
Being back at the office sure has made me reminisce.
I left the office in March 2020 when COVID came on the scene.

JAYCEE AWARD - This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic January 22, 1980. Charles Taylor (center), of Nashville, received the Nashville Jaycees Senator Award during a meeting at Birchwood Country Club.

Ann Williams (at left) was the winner of the 2022 It Pays to Shop Local contest, which was sponsored by Nashville's Chamber of Commerce. As part of the contest, participants who shop with a chamber member send in their receipts from Thanksgiving to mid-December and are entered into a drawing for $500. Williams is pictured with Jill Boone, at right, of Jody's of Nashville.

Edgecombe Community College Surgical Technology students completed the Surgical Technology degree program in December and gathered for their pinning ceremony. Pictured (L-R) is Cassidy Ingram, Sandra Rivera, Tasha Vaughn and Jeannette McDaniel. All of the graduates have passed the National Board for Surgical Technologists and Surgical Assistants Certification Exam and are working as surgical technologists in local healthcare facilities.

The primary call for every believer in Christ is not about doing for Jesus, but the primary calling IS to be with Jesus.
For the first few weeks or months, marriage is able to function on the fuel of romantic feelings.
But sooner or later we come to the realization that marriage is not only enjoying, but enduring.
There must be the transition from romance to routine.

"But I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members." (Romans 7:23)
Do you ever have those times when you can't believe what you just said - or worse yet - what you just did? Sure you have.
We all know there's no such thing as a perfect Christian.

Three local residents have been named to the Fall 2022 President's and Dean's List at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). The fall terms run from September to December.

"At that point the fight was on."
That's how Nash County Deputy Shelby Smith described in courtroom testimony last week the Interstate 95 altercation that led to her partner being shot two years ago.
"I was shooting Ford while Ford was shooting my partner," Smith told the jury about defendant Jarred Ford and fellow deputy Tommy Toney of Spring Hope.

Nash deputies say they captured an out-of-state fugitive when his stolen car ran out of gas on Interstate 95 and he tried to runaway.
Demetrius Malachi Thomas, 19 of Rural Hall, faces charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, possession of a stolen firearm, resisting an officer and violating probation. He received a $50,000 bond.

A retired Rocky Mount police officer stands accused of drug running as result of a multi-agency investigation, according to authorities.
Linc Oshea Brooks, 52, faces charges of trafficking in cocaine by possession and transportation; maintaining a vehicle for narcotics; and obstructing, resisting and delaying a public officer. He received a $275,000 bond.