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The Nashville Chamber of Commerce presented a local real estate company with the business of the year award and upcoming college freshmen with scholarships at its annual meeting last Thursday.
The meeting was held July 21 at Elks Lodge 1038 in Nashville.

A groundbreaking was held Tuesday for the new state-of-the-art animal shelter coming to Nash County.
Nash County Pet Connection Center will be located at 3656 Eastern Avenue between Nashville and Rocky Mount. It will be adjacent to Nash Community College near the roundabout.

St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church is providing children with a weekly summer feeding and reading program until August 12. The program is held every Monday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children recently rode horses as part of the enrichment portion of the program which allows them to explore new activities and develop new skills. Horses were provided by Ross City Buffalo Soldiers, a horse riding club located in Nash County.

The Town of Nashville is continuing its work to remove abandoned or derelict homes.
Last year, four homes and one accessory building were demolished under the direction of Code Enforcement Officer Shawn Lucas, who was hired last March. The homes were removed through the town's demolition process for abandoned/derelict homes.

After a 30-year tenure in municipal law enforcement, Nashville Police Department Chief Anthony Puckett is retiring.
Puckett started as a police chief for the Nashville Police Department in 2019. Before then, he held various roles at different agencies including as a police chief for the Spring Hope Police Department, a sergeant at Wake Forest Police Department and a corporal at the Rocky Mount Police Department.

Several intersections in Nash County will be converted into all-way stops.
The N.C. Department of Transportation awarded this week a $580,000 contract to Highway Traffic Control Inc. of Durham to install all-ways stops over a dozen locations in Division 4 including the following intersections in Nash County:

Nashville Police Department Captain J.T. Winstead has been promoted to serve as the town's new Chief of Police.
Winstead will be replacing current police chief Anthony Puckett once he retires on August 1. He was selected by Nashville Town Manager Randy Lansing.
Winstead's law enforcement career began in 2002 when he completed Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) at Nash Community College.

Nashville Police Chief Anthony Puckett (right) shakes hands with Captain John Thomas Winstead who has been named Nashville's new police chief as of August 1st upon Puckett's retirement.

Two women who hold pivotal roles in Nash County earned an esteemed statewide award.
Deputy Elizabeth Cahoon of the Nash County Sheriff's Office and Crystal Wright, district chief and paramedic at Nash County Emergency Services EMS division, were honored at the American Legion state annual convention held at the North Raleigh Hilton in June.

Daquan Cook rides a horse during the St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church Summer Feeding, Summer Reading Program.

Nashville Chamber of Commerce President Mary Grace Daughtridge (right) presents Samantha Puckett with a $500 scholarship.

The other day in the grocery store, a woman was walking towards me with a pen and piece of paper in her hand, so naturally I prepared to sign an autograph for her -- obviously, she was in my loyal army of Soapbox-reading fans.
She stopped and looked thoughtfully at me.

I'm going to rewind back to a column I wrote in 2010 regarding the Nash County Animal Shelter.
We reported in 2009 a high euthanization rate at the shelter reaching 85 percent. The shelter had limited space with absolutely no one advocating or working on its behalf to encourage adoptions or rescues. The year prior 2,661 animals had been euthanized.