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Nash County Public Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the second semester of the 2020 -2021 school year. The following students at MB Hubbard Elementary School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

Nash County Public Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the second semester of the 2020 -2021 school year. The following students at Tar River Academy made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

ROCKY MOUNT -- One eye on the present and one eye on the future.
That's the strategy most high school football coaches -- including Nash Central's Chris Lee -- are taking toward the abbreviated Spring 2021 season.
Certainly, all schools want to be successful right now, but many coaches are using this season as a way to effectively springboard into the Fall 2021 campaign.

Rocky Mount High School players celebrate a score during last Thursday night's non-conference road football victory against Nash Central at The Dawg Pound.

Nash Central's Timothy Holiday tries to secure the football for the Bulldogs during last Thursday night's home football meeting with the Rocky Mount Gryphons.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Even in an abbreviated season, high school sports teams can experience their share of ups and downs.
Just ask the Nash Central Bulldogs' boys soccer squad, which has gone two up and two down to date during its six-match schedule.
All of NCHS' slated matches are of the Eastern Plains Conference variety, and the Bulldogs kicked things off on February 17 with a road setback at North Johnston.

RALEIGH -- It's not often that two coaches who attended the same high school face off against one another while performing their managerial duties at the collegiate level.
But that was the case last Tuesday when Billy Godwin's UNC-Greensboro Spartans traveled to Raleigh to take on Elliott Avent's North Carolina State Wolfpack on the baseball diamond at Doak Field at Dail Park.

RED OAK -- Southern Nash delivered a pair of second-half goals en route to defeating homestanding Northern Nash by a 2-0 margin on Monday in Big East Conference boys soccer action.
Jose Nunez scored the first goal for the Firebirds off an assist from Lelyn Herndon.

PINETOPS -- Many high schools around the state did something they had not done in over 400 days at some point last week, including the four public high schools in Nash County.
Kicking off a high school football game was something that was a major uncertainty just a few short months ago.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Rocky Mount High School's record in the Big East Conference boys soccer standings is nothing short of deceiving during the abbreviated Winter 2021 campaign.
The Gryphons have been competitive with just about every squad in the Big East, but have had difficulty finding the back of the net.

Six year old injured in shooting

NCSO investigates shooting