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Officials with the Nash County Health Department say rumors of residents continuing to work in local retail stores with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) are unfounded.
Deputy Health Director Trey Wright said anyone that is even tested for the virus has to immediately go into isolation until results come back.
Wright added that many large retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, have their own emergency operations centers as well as protocols to follow for incidents like this.

A large amount of methamphetamine was seized on Thursday during a traffic stop.
Members of the Nash County Sheriff's Office Governor's Highway Safety Team conducted a traffic stop on March 26 on I-95. The vehicle was occupied by a male and female and was traveling from New York to Rocky Mount.

A non-support of an illegitimate child was reported on 3/17/20
A seat belt violation was reported on 3/16/20
A driving while license revoked not impaired was reported on 3/16/20

My family worked in the yard on Saturday.
It was a nice day. Warm, but not hot.
It's still early enough in the season that weeds and poison oak aren't everywhere, although the ants seem to be back in force for the third year.
We mostly worked in what used to be the chicken and goat pastures on our small country plot. It brought back some good memories.

The Town of Nashville recently allowed the county to take over field athletics for its parks and recreation program. Since that time, there's been a lot of back and forth about what will come out of the program now but nothing has actually been done.
Now, the leader and only full-time staff member of the department is leaving. I'm a bit worried if anything will come of recreation at this point.

This week brings even tighter restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19. The entire state is under a mandatory stay at home order as of 5 p.m. Monday, March 30th.
Essential businesses listed in the order may still operate. You're not completely confined to your home. You can still leave your home to get food, medicine or other essential needs.

This photo was submitted by Mildred Granny Barwick.
She is pictured with her Sunbeams at Camp York, S.C.
Ms. Barwick said the photo may have been taken in the late 60s. She listed some of the names including Angela Stokes, Wendy Colbert, Shannon Lancaster, Gerotte Colbert, and Melissa.

A message from Pastor Gene Whitehouse of Peachtree Baptist Church. It doesn't matter what we think about the coronavirus. But it matters forever what God thinks. He is not silent about what he thinks. Scarcely a page in the Bible is irrelevant for this crisis.
Our thoughts and voice are like grass. God's thoughts are like granite. "The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever" (1 Peter 1:24-25). God's words in these times are not only true and wise; they are also precious and sweet.

It's spring! A time of change from bare trees to trees with bright green leaves. Bushes giving way to colorful azalea blooms with bees buzzing around. Of course, grass is now green and growing as well!
Even during this time of change in our lifestyles with this virus, there are still ways to continue to appreciate the beauty and hope of spring.

My adult daughter texted me this week and said, "I think the Lord is coming back". I replied, "All of this is in the Bible; and the Bible says it's going to get worse. I pray that all of my children's hearts are ready, or will be, before it's too late."
Did you ever think it could get any worse than it is today? What's going on has literally separated families from each other. How can you profess to be a Christian and not see satan's fingerprints all over what is happening?

Recently, I heard author Lacey Finn Borgo, a Christian author and teacher, speak and I was struck by her remarks concerning our imaginations. She noted that adults often inform her that they no longer have an imagination or that they simply do not imagine any longer. To which she replied, well what is worry then? Is worry not our imagination imagining the worst...and don't you worry - therefore, don't you imagine?
Whoa.

School staff have been working hard behind the scenes at Coopers Elementary School, Southern Nash Middle School and Southern Nash High School. Thank you so much for your efforts to keep students supplied with lessons needed while learning from home.
Kingdom International Church is live-streaming their Wednesday night and Sunday morning services on Facebook and You Tube. KIC Aftershock youth pastors Grant McGlothlin and Josh Reason are also live-streaming on Wednesday nights at 7 pm on the KI Aftershock Facebook page.

When I was younger, all throughout elementary school I would go to summer camps.
These camps would range to ones about cooking, golf, art and softball.
I wasn't sure of which activity would be the one that I fell in love with, if there would even be one at all.
I think this all changed for me when I went to my first Ladybird Softball Camp held at Southern Nash High School.

At first when I heard that the season was delayed, I didn't believe it.
I just couldn't mentally process that my senior season might be cut short.
I remember hearing that season was delayed until April 6 and I really didn't think anything of it -- it hadn't sunk in yet and all I knew was that it was Game Day the next day.

It is said, "Oh you'll get 'em next time" or "there will be more games".
Well, eventually, there are no more games and it has come to an end.
Normally, this end is thought out and you are celebrated and congratulated on all your great accomplishments.
There is that natural flow to the season from beginning to end, and you get that sense of closure as you finish high schoo land look toward what is to come.

I'm Kamden Johnson of Northern Nash High School -- my spring sport was Track and Field.
I've been doing this since my freshman year, I honestly used to hate track to begin with and used to ask myself 'Why am I here?'.
Over time, the sport really grew on me and I think it was really because of my teammates and how I started to become better at it.
What really solidified my love for it was when we won the Class 3-A East Regionals my sophomore year and finished sixth as a team in the state.

Through two Class 3-A Big East Conference matches, our golf team at Northern Nash High School had already performed above expectations.
With four seniors on the team, and many different younger players that brought lots of talent to the course, I was extremely excited to see how the season would unfold four our group of guys, and around the rest of the conference.
However, we had no clue what was in store.

The Nash-Rocky Mount School System is set to receive $582,022 in assistance to help with COVID-19 related issues. The State Board of Education (SBE) and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) will establish a new $50 million flexible allotment for public school units to address COVID-19-related expenses.

Nash County is now reporting nine cases of Coronavirus.
Nash County Health Director Bill Hill was notified of two additional positive cases on Monday night and one case Tuesday morning.
Two of the individuals are hospitalized outside of the county and one is isolated at home.
"Some of these are related," Hill said.