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Peachtree Baptist Church in Spring Hope will host its first annual Classics Car Show on Saturday, March 28th from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the field directly behind the church (3523 N. NC 581, Spring Hope).
Registration is open for classic cars (1990 and earlier) right up to show day at the registration table. Registrations may also be mailed to PO Box 579, Spring Hope, NC 27882 with a check in the amount of $20 payable to Peachtree Baptist Church.

Sheila Ann Johnson, Sheila Tomlinson and Sheila Ann Tomlinson to Sheila Ann Johnson and Harry Stanley Johnson; 9066 Fox Run Road, Bailey
Frederic E. Privette to 39 South Properties, LLC; Big Woods Subdivision, Lot 1
Ryial Constain Mills, Courtney Mills Ervin, The Margaret Mills Trust, Courtney Mills Ervin, Archie Ervin, Archie Wilson Ervin, Christopher K. Mills and Anita Petteway Mills to Jeffery Constain Mills; 210 and 212 West Franklin Street, Spring Hope, 7654 Ash Street, 602 First Street, Spring Hope, 4410 Macedonia Road, Spring Hope,

Assault on child under 12 reported at L.A. Green Farm Rd., Whitakers on 2/19/26
Identity fraud reported at 105 Drake St., Nashville on 2/16/26
Assault on law enforcement officer; assault-simple; assault with deadly weapon with inflicting serious injury reported at 10942 West St., Whitakers on 2/19/26
Resisting arrest/hinder and delay; possession with intent manufacture/sell/deliver schedule II controlled substance; possession schedule II controlled substance - felony reported at 11486 Aderson R., Spring Hope on 2/19/26

On February 19, 2026, at 4:09 pm. officers with the Nashville Police Department conducted proactive patrol operations and routine security checks throughout the town. During a security check of the abandoned W.L. Greene School, located at the intersection of Sixth Street and Brake Street, officers discovered a deceased individual on the premises.
Investigators are currently working to confirm the positive identification of the deceased. Investigators are considering this a suspicious death investigation.

Irregularities in voter registration forms - including some for Nash County voters- have kicked off an investigation by the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE).
"Voter registration applications turned into county boards of elections are missing required voter information or include inaccurate information, such as a wrong date of birth or a voter identification number different from what's on file in the state election system. It is a Class I felony to falsify a voter registration form," states a NCSBE Feb. 13 press release.

NASHVILLE - In order to provide itself and landowners continued insurance protection from flooding, the town of Nashville is updating its flood damage prevention ordinance.
Parts of Nashville fall within a "flood plain" from either Stoney Creek or Sapony Creek, particularly lower W. Washington Street including "Dos Hermanos, McDonalds, Sheetz, Bojangles, all that," said Randy Lansing, town manager, at the Jan. 20 planning board meeting.

Bill Hill (right) is honored with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine during Monday's county commissioners meeting. Hill is retiring after nearly a half of a century of service as Nash County's health director. Pictured left is Dr. Mike Johnson, long-time Health and Human Services Board Chair, who presented the award to Hill.

SPRING HOPE - You can lead a horse to water, but if it's in Spring Hope, you might find a rock in the well and low water pressure from not enough wells- or water towers - online.
Public Works Director Bobby Ball gave a public works update at the Feb. 9 board of commissioners meeting.
"I know everybody's frustrated with it and I am too because I've been dealing with it," Ball said, summarizing the current low-pressure status as stemming from two wells that were no longer producing like they should.

NASHVILLE - Bill Hill, retiring Nash County Health Director, was honored for his nearly half a century of service Monday, receiving a surprise in the process: indoctrination into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
Credited as the longest serving health director in state history, and guiding the county through "significant health challenges, including the HIV/AIDs epidemic, Hurricane Floyd, SARS, Ebola, Zika and Covid-19," Hill's tenure also included statewide initiatives such as universal childhood vaccinations, bioterrorism preparedness and responses to the opioid crisis and mental health challenges.

NASHVILLE - A question of alleged misinformation about the Nash County Detention Center is causing differences of opinion between Nash County commissioners, prompting one request for the county to issue a 'fact check' in response.
Jerry Barnes, Nash County commissioner candidate, placed a full-page political ad in last week's Nashville Graphic. Included in the ad were claims about a 2020 letter from L.R. Kimball, an architectural and engineering firm which then declined to bid on recommended jail improvements; about current and projected jail costs, and about reduced jail capacity.

The nomination deadline is March 13 for the Nashville Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen and Junior Achievement awards
Nominations can be emailed to nashvillencchamber@gmail.com, mailed to Nashville Chamber of Commerce, Distinguished Citizen Committee, PO Box 1003, Nashville, NC 27856 or dropped off at The Nashville Graphic, 203 W. Washington Street, Nashville.
The Distinguished Citizen Award is presented to a citizen or business person from the Nashville area who strives to make the community a better place.

NASHVILLE - As part of the town's ongoing efforts to align inconsistent zoning use with up-to-date rezoning, a collection of four parcels being used by Braswell Milling has been rezoned into one lump under Conditional Zoning Non-Residential Industrial (CZNRI).
Shawn Lucas, Planning Director, requested and received council approval Feb. 3 for the rezoning action, which came up last year but was withdrawn in order to resurface in the form of a conditional rezoning request.

SPRING HOPE - In an attempt to gain better control over incoming subdivision requests, Spring Hope is working to re-establish a Technical Review Committee. In addition, commissioners are considering a policy change about the distinction between major and minor subdivisions.

My George Washington bobblehead stands among the greats on an old desk in our home office -- he's flanked by Winston Churchill, Edgar Allan Poe, Ron Francis and J.D. Martinez.
I finally broke down and decided to try an audiobook -- more on that in a future column -- and my first selection was Ron Chernow's biography of Washington. It's a pretty thick listen and even after a week the app says I have 40 hours left. I'm not sure what to make of that.

A paid political advertisement in last week's Graphic has prompted a bit of dialogue regarding the Nash County Detention Center expansion project.
As with all political ads, we attempt to make sure the content is as factual as possible, however, election season traditionally brings out all sorts of opinions and controversial topics to the forefront.
If you're checking your mailbox these days, you're most likely seeing a ton of political mail which, in my opinion, isn't even being reviewed much less fact checked.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on April 11, 1968. Twelve students represented Northern Nash High School at the 14th annual Future Business Leaders Convention held in Durham.

RED OAK - The town of Red Oak is sprucing up its streetlights and also adding new Christmas light decorations.
A contract was approved with Pike for light replacements along Red Oak Battleboro Road, with one new pole and span installed. A key change is that the new lights will be LED, which town officials hope "will make a big difference" in the town's lighting bills.