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Dear Editor: The CSX/NC DOT Carolina Connector puts Rocky Mount and Edgecombe County in the logistics spotlight.
Interest continues to build in the intermodal facility on Old Battleboro Road as we approach opening day in early October. Since its announcement in April 2019, The Carolina Connector has been on the radar of shippers and businesses all across the US.

Dear Editor:
Peace be with you. Anyone knows me know that I am a faithful walker. I walk at dark-thirty (that is a real time) every morning. This morning while on my stroll this big white truck pulls to the side and this guy jumps out.

This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic on September 21, 1988. Sandy Cross United Methodist Church's Rev. Jimmy Reavis was dressed as John Wesley Sunday as part of the John Wesley Day celebration.

CMH Homes, Inc. to Chester Voorhis; 9677 Old Middlesex Road, Middlesex; $270,000
Billy's Home Service, Inc. to Peacemakers of Rocky Mount, Inc.; properrty along Davis Street
Campbell University and Campbell University Inc. to Benjamin Wilson; lot MB 43; $48,000

Commercial Building Permits
Rachel Taylor, 3635 N Halifax Rd; sign; $25,000
Norris Morgan, 117 W. Church St; renovation/alteration; $2,300

Aiden Narron and Lewis Turner were on hand to offer information about Coopers Boy Scout Pack #37 at the Coopers Fire and Rescue Community Day on Saturday.

Coopers volunteer firefighter Jarrett Moss assists Carson Hyde with the youth obstacle course at the firehouse.

Aryana Rivera, 7, is all smiles while enjoying all of the festivities during the community day event.

We recently had Patriot Day to honor those who lost their lives during the 9/11 attacks. Everyone's minds were flooded with memories from that awful day and the following weeks.
After 9/11/01, Americans began thinking a lot about God. Church attendance was up dramatically as were the sale of Bibles. It seemed that the battle between good and evil reached the very soul of man.

A wake-up call for the Lord's Church - this is what our world desperately needs! As I ponder many things this morning and reflect on my past Sunday's sermon, I'm particularly interested in some questions that arise for me from the text this morning, Mark 2:1-12.
The story is very familiar to church attendees and there is not much I can say that you haven't heard. Perhaps that is why I write, to provoke our thinking. Maybe it's time for change.

The Baptist Men of Red Oak Baptist enjoyed their monthly breakfast meeting on Sunday, September 19.
The North Carolina Mission Offering will continue through the month of September at Red Oak Baptist Church. This offering supports the work of Baptist Men and disaster relief as well as many other ministries throughout the state.

The church suffers from many attacks.
This is a present reality that will undoubtedly exist until Christ returns.
The attacks, however, that seem to get the most attention oftentimes are the attacks that the church should come to expect.

Southern Nash High School's Isidro Romero (middle) tries to squeeze between two Bunn defenders during last Wednesday's Big East Conference boys soccer showdown.

Southern Nash's Raul Nunez (right) holds off a Bunn defender during last Wednesday afternoon's Big East Conference matchup at the SNHS Soccer Complex in Stanhope.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The opening football game of the split-classification duels in the Big East Conference proved to be much more competitive than some observers had predicted.
According to those prognosticators, Class 3-A titan Rocky Mount was supposed to have little difficulty with 2-A Bunn in last Thursday's league kickoff for both clubs.

Rocky Mount High School quarterback Stephone Jones releases a pass while being chased by Bunn's LB Bolden during last Thursday's football contest.

Rocky Mount High School's Da'marhjae Mitchell tries to hang on to the ball while being tackled during last Thursday night's home conference decision against the Bunn Wildcats.

Southern Nash's Sammy Gandy (with ball) attempts to surge past a Nash Cental defender during last Friday's Big East Conference football matchup.

Nash Central High School veteran Justus Staten speeds away for a touchdown for the Bulldogs during last Friday night's Big East Conference game versus Southern Nash.

WASHINGTON -- After a gut-wrenching loss to D.H. Conley just one week prior, the Northern Nash Knights closed out non-conference football play last Friday night with a commanding 69-36 win over the Washington Pam Pack.
Northern Nash did so after a strange week, consisting of a last-minute scheduling change, and a positive COVID-19 test result that fortunately did not further itself through the program.

ROCKY MOUNT -- If Trey Sumler enjoys the same kind of success as a coach that he did during his playing days, then the Nash Central High School boys basketball program has an extremely promising future.
Regarded as the top boys hoops player in school history, Sumler is returning to the NCHS campus -- this time as Central's head coach.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The North Carolina Wesleyan College football program hosted its third straight home game to start the season on Saturday and fell 32-7 to Brevard College in the Bishops' USA South Conference opener.
The Bishops got off to a good start, stopping Brevard on fourth-and-goal from the 1 to get a goal-line stand in the first quarter, but then gave up a safety on the next play to go down 2-0 early.

RALEIGH -- Last Saturday night proved to be a time to remember for members -- both past and present -- of the Southern Nash High School football program.
That's when a trio of former Firebirds were on the field at Carter-Finley Stadium when the Furman Paladins visited the North Carolina State University Wolfpack for a non-conference college football showdown.

RED OAK -- A throw-in is often viewed as a pedestrian play, but it paid huge dividends twice for the Franklinton Red Rams during their road boys soccer meeting Monday at Big East Conference rival Northern Nash.
The unbeaten Red Rams scored on two occasions off throw-ins early in the match and never looked back en route to defeating the Fighting Knights by a 6-1 margin at the NNHS Soccer Complex.

(L to R) Northern Nash's Paul Mboumien and Franklinton's Ryan Martinez race toward the ball during Monday evening's Big East Conference contest at the NNHS Soccer Field in Red Oak.