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ZEBULON -- The Carolina Mudcats have announced that individual game tickets for all 2020 regular season home dates are now on sale online at carolinamudcats.com. Single game tickets begin at just $8.00 for the upcoming 30th anniversary season of baseball at Five County Stadium.
Individual tickets for adults will range this season from $14.00 for premium level seats, $11.00 for box seats and $8.00 for general admission seats.

The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education will consider a recommendation at their next meeting to build a new elementary school on the current Red Oak Elementary School property.
Cumming Corporation presented two site selection options during an ad-hoc new construction committee meeting on Tuesday evening.

Nash County Commissioners said last week that they won't fund a new elementary school until the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education agrees to include them in the process.
Commissioners made the announcement following a meeting in closed session last Tuesday.

A national search for the next leader of the Nash-Rocky Mount School System ended on Tuesday with the hiring of a candidate just one county over.
Dr. Steve Ellis was selected as the superintendent of the school system in a 6-5 vote on Tuesday evening during a special called meeting.
Ellis currently serves as a special assistant to the superintendent for Wilson County Schools.

Nashville's Town Council heard departmental wants and needs on Monday during an all-day budget retreat.
Town council meets each year to look at and discuss departmental needs before the budget is put together.
Personnel needs were expressed by public safety departments.

Nash County Commissioners last week gave approval for the county's recreation and senior services department to assume the responsibility of programming youth and adult athletics for the Town of Nashville.
The action follows approval from Nashville's Town Council earlier this month.

Nash Arts will welcome Nash County native Will West to its stage on Saturday, February 1.
West grew up on the Tar River Reservoir, attending Coopers Elementary and graduating in 1995 from Southern Nash High School.
West taught himself how to play guitar at 11 years old. Music was a big part of his life, as his father was a fiddle player.

Two Bailey men were arrested last week for trafficking cocaine.
The Nash County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit, Criminal Investigations Division and Patrol Platoon B were following up on an ongoing narcotics investigation on January 17 on Maudis Road in Bailey.

INCIDENTS
A warrant served was reported on 1/25/20
A larceny after a breaking and entering was reported on 1/20/20 at 203 Hearthstone Drive

A traffic stop was reported on 1/19/20 at US 301 and 64
A breaking and entering and damage to property was reported on 1/19/20 at 7308 Taylors Store Road
A breaking and entering was reported on 1/19/20 at 3530 Wagon Wheel Road

Nash County Planning and Inspections issued the following building permits from January 20 through 24.

The town board of Castalia held a special called meeting Tuesday to discuss and ultimately decide how to respond to a letter the town received from Sharon Edmunson, the Fiscal Management Director of the State and Local Government Finance Division of the NC Department of State Treasurer.

There were several visitors at the regular meeting of the town board of Red Oak this month, including Robbie Davis, Chairman of the Nash County Board of Commissioners. The meeting was brief, and toward the end, Davis gave a short update on the water system construction, which remains on schedule. There was no old business.

A Nashville man was killed in a single-car accident on Highway 64 Wednesday morning.
According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, 23-year-old Jeffery Tyler Coleman was traveling westbound on Highway 64, just 2.4 miles west of Nashville, when his vehicle went off the roadway to the left, hit the ditch and continued on until hitting trees and coming to a rest.