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The 1978 Sanitation Workers Strike was memorialized on Saturday, Sept. 7 at the BTW Community Center in the City of Rocky Mount with a historical highway marker commemorating the time from July 10 to Sept. 25, 1978 when Rocky Mount city sanitation workers led a successful community struggle against racial injustice in defense of co-worker Alexander "Preacher" Evans.

The Rocky Mount Railroad Museum organization recently received a plaque for the upcoming Rocky Mount Railroad Museum during the June meeting held at the Braswell Memorial Library.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Southern Nash senior veteran Elisabeth Collie is considered the favorite to claim the Big East Conference Girls Golf Individual Championship this fall -- and for good reason.
Collie has been a four-year standout for the Ladybirds and is coming off a second-place overall finish last season.

The Nash-Rocky Mount School System is one of nine districts in the State of North Carolina with over 50 percent of its schools identifying as low-performing schools.
Results of the state's annual School Performance Grade Accountability Measurement were released last week.
For the fifth straight year, the school system remains a low-performing district.

The Town of Nashville is close to hiring a new finance director for the town after the person previously chosen for the job resigned.
The town announced in March it had selected Nashville native Russell Langley, 24, to serve as an Assistant Finance Director under Interim Finance Director Melonie Bryan. The plan was for Bryan to train Langley for the role until he was ready to take over permanently.

Hurricane Dorian didn't pack the punch anticipated for the Nash County region but it did give the Town of Nashville a chance to try out its newest Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
The town's police and fire departments worked together to create the new center, which is located in the joint police/fore complex.

An alleged drive by shooting left a 7 year-old girl with gun shot injuries Thursday evening.
Around 7:30 p.m., the Nash County Sheriff's Office responded to the 2000 block of Old White Oak Road in reference to a drive by shooting that just occurred. When units arrived on scene, they discovered that a 7 year-old female child, who had been in the living room of the home had been shot during the incident.

A contract was awarded on Monday for security system improvements to the Nash County Detention Center.
Nash County Commissioners agreed to award a contract to Johnson Controls for $182,500.
Jonathan Boone, Director of Public Utilities and Facilities, presented the request for proposals to commissioners on Monday during the board's regular meeting.

My Sister's House will soon go back to having two offices, one in Nashville and one in Tarboro.
Emily Lemus, Executive Director for the organization, said the services offered by the Family Justice Center will be discontinued, effective September 30. With that change, My Sister's House will move staff out of the Rocky Mount offices, which housed the Family Justice Center.

Nashville's Chamber of Commerce will host a Candidate Forum on September 24 for candidates vying for seats on Nashville's Town Council.
The forum is slated for Tuesday, September 24 at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers at Cooley Library.
Municipal elections will be held for all municipalities except for Rocky Mount on November 5. Rocky Mount will hold a separate election on October 8.

Spring Hope Police are investigating an arson at the Spring Hope Community Park.
Police and fire personnel responded to a fire in the bathroom facilities at the Community Park on McLean Street around 12:15 p.m.
The fire was reportedly started in a trash can in the women's restroom, Thomas Gillespie, Recreation Director for Nash County, told Nash County Commissioners on Monday.

A narcotics investigation led to two men being charged with trafficking heroin.
Members of the Nash County Sheriff's Office Platoon B and the Tar River Regional Drug Task Force were following up on a narcotics investigation on Saturday, August 31 at 2700 N Wesleyan Boulevard, Rocky Mount.

The Rocky Mount Police Department have made an arrest in a homicide that happened last month on Nancys Circle.
The department's Homicide Unit, along with the U.S. Marshall's Task Force, arrested Willie Leevon George, Jr., 30, in Fayetteville on Saturday, September 7.
George was charged with first degree murder for the shooting death of Jamal "Jamie" Nicholson, 26.