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Governor Roy Cooper announced on Friday that North Carolina K-12 public schools will continue remote learning through the end of the 2019-2020 school year. Cooper was joined by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson and the Chair of the State Board of Education Eric Davis for the announcement.

Nashville is reporting 10 of the county's total 81 COVID-19 cases as of Friday afternoon, the Nash County Health Department reported.
The health department is releasing cases by zip code each Friday.
Rocky Mount continues to report the highest number of cases, with a total of 53 cases. Of those, 40 are reported in the 27803 zip code while 13 are being reported in the 27804 and 27878 zip codes of Rocky Mount and Sharpsburg.

Governor Roy Cooper is extending the stay-at-home order for North Carolina residents through May 8.
Cooper issued Executive Order 135 on Thursday afternoon, which extended closure of restaurants for dine-in service and bars as well as closure of other close-contact businesses.
Cooper also shared a three-phase plan for how the state would be slowly lifting restrictions once certain data points were met.

A pharmaceutical company will be the first tenant to locate in the West Nashville Commerce Park on Cooke Road.
The North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority recently approved 17 grant requests to local governments totalling over $6.5 million. The Town of Nashville was one recipient of the grants, receiving $250,000 to support the reuse of the 10,000 square-foot building where Asterra Labs plans to locate.

The Town of Nashville is looking for a new planning director.
Julie Spriggs will wrap up her time with the town on May 8. Spriggs has taken a planner II position with the Town of Rolesville.
"It's a little closer to where I live," Spriggs said.

Nash County Senior Services Director Michele McKnight is facing charges of financial card fraud and embezzlement.
McKnight was arrested on Monday, April 20 and released on the same day. She received a $5,000 secured bond.
According to warrants obtained, McKnight used a county-issued credit card to buy personal items off of Amazon. The value of the property purchased was over $3,500.

Nash County has seen over a dozen new cases of the COVID-19 virus since Friday.
Nash County Health Director Bill Hill reported on Tuesday that there were now 72 confirmed positive cases of the Coronavirus, or COVID-19.
"We had a fairly active weekend," Hill reported.
Of those 72, 12 have recovered, 53 are isolated and five are in the hospital.

Local residents are finding creative ways to follow social distancing recommendations while celebrating family traditions such as birthdays.
Pictured above, Clara Danforth of Nashville celebrates her 13th birthday visiting her grandmother, Betty Cochrane. The two spent time together though separated by a glass door.

Church on the Rise in Nashville is planning to build a playground at the corner of Washington and Barnes Streets.
The church recently had the large building on the corner torn down to make way for the playground.
Planning Director Juile Spriggs said the church got a demo permit to tear the building down, which had sat vacant for years.

North Carolina Wesleyan College's spring commencement ceremony was originally scheduled for April 25. With ongoing concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College announced on March 23 that the ceremony would be postponed until December 5, 2020. Graduate candidates for April, August, and December will be able to participate in the December 2020 ceremony.

As we head into a month of "lockdown" over COVID-19, Coronavirus, Chinese virus, or whatever else you want to call it, it seems the general population is getting ... um, restless.
That's to be expected. We are an on-the-move society. Everyone is busy all the time.